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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.
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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
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Might I suggest that your suspicion should be directed less at the individual civil servants, who are generally good hardworking people, and more at the institutional practices that permit the bad ones to thrive, and directly, or indirectly, reward the corruption.
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James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
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David Guyatt Wrote: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.
You would think that people like this would eventually realise that what they do is cumulative, and in the long run, it supports treason.
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Drew Phipps Wrote:Might I suggest that your suspicion should be directed less at the individual civil servants, who are generally good hardworking people, and more at the institutional practices that permit the bad ones to thrive, and directly, or indirectly, reward the corruption.
I tend to agree Drew, although there are plenty of individual cops who aren't trustworthy and many who are a lot worse that that. And I speak as someone who has cop friends, so I do understand the pressures put on them. Hence my point about being cynical of them unless or until they prove themselves to have integrity and honesty...
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
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Judith Exner said in the Thames TV series 'Crime Inc.' (on the mafia in the US) that there was no difference between the 'good' guys, meaning law and apparently legitimate politicians, and the 'bad' guys, the mafia; paraphrasing, "an unbroken line between the two", Ep4 I think.
Martin Luther King - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Albert Camus - "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion".
Douglas MacArthur — "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
Albert Camus - "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
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Peter Lance's book Cover Up shows a good example of a similar lapsing of FBI interests with those of the mafia in the case of Ramsey Yusef and the information behind the shoot down of TWA Flight 800. The New York FBI office's attempt to cover up its tolerance of mafia murder caused them to bury information that could have prevented 9-11.
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