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10-22-2018, 10:15 AM
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 ⋆Bunnylord⋆ Poster Rank:49 HAVE YANNI SPAY OR NEUTERED! Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 30,389
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The Beauty Of The Wire
This is from the second season of The Wire. It's the season with the human trafficking subplot--the dozen or so girls that suffocate in a shipping container. It's about 4 minutes long. I love this though, because it shows so well how one little corrupt cog in the law enforcement machine can, and does everyday, cost someone their life. And it shows it all happening in parallel, over the brief time it takes a few people to drive a few blocks and walk to the end of a pier. Although, I also love it because of how poignantly it demolishes the goto pro law enforcement argument that 'They aren't all bad'. Who cares about the good ones, when the bad ones can just bypass or erase all their good works. |
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11-02-2018, 01:33 PM
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 My Rank: PRIVATE FIRST CLASS Poster Rank:3664 I'm a meat popsicle Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 91 Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Quoted: 22 Post(s)
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Re: The Beauty Of The Wire
To go along with your point: The myth of "the few bad apples" is just that. A myth. Just like the equally mythical "majority of good cops." The supposed majority of good cops will circle the wagons to defend the few bad apples just as quickly as they will another of the mythical majority. They all play as a team. They stand by one another. If I aid another person in a murder, or a robbery, or any other crime, I am also guilty. Either as a coconspirator or an accessory. Yet the police stand by and defend the "few bad apples" in their midst until it is impossible to defend them anymore. No. If you stand by and watch evil and do nothing to stop it when it is in your power to stop, you are no less guilty. The mythical "majority of good cops" stand by and watch and even defend the "few bad apples" because hey, he's one of us. Until that supposed majority of good cops stand up, pount their fingers and say "That's them. Those are the bad apples." Then they are all bad apples. Unless the good cops stop protecting, and actively work to get rid of the bad cops, they are all bad cops. |
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11-16-2018, 09:09 AM
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Re: The Beauty Of The Wire
Very well put--all of it, but this part I like most. My Apples are just guaranteed anomalies--symptoms. Your majority though, is the perpetual disease machine that facilitates the sickness, and then fortifies barriers around it.
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