19-09-2014, 08:30 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:I watched Whitey on CNN tonight (its airing again right now). If you have any interest in criminal justice at all you should invest an hour in watching this one. It is soundly critical of FBI / DOJ, the way they handle and protect informants, and exposes widespread corruption, wholesale manufaturing of paper "evidence", exposes the lies they tell the Judicial Branch and the victims they are supposed to be protecting. It is quite reminiscent of many of the topics we discuss here with respect to JFK and other assassinations and thier coverups, the relationship between law enforcement and organized crime from Hoover forward (which certainly played a part in Iran/Contra), and the lies about surveillance that the FBI told then (and if we believe Snowden, that practice is still continuing today under the guise of "parallel investigations")
Although the show is just about Bolger, you can see the seams and flaws in the law enforcement. Let's hope this signals a greater interest in MSM about exposing corruption and deceit. Let's give the show a big audience to give MSM a reason to take up more such stories.
I guess cops have always been corrupt and dishonest, but these days it seems to be almost a requirement to get along. It's the same here in the UK too. My default setting is that I would now never trust a cop unless, or until, it was proved to me they were straight and honest and trying to do the right thing.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14