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Originally Posted by Talventaivas
The first thing that came to mind was "Lando Griffin." The narc being shot is really a shame though... in fact, the entire tactic is a shame, but then you have to think that most of them are just doing their job. It's the bureau above them that causes it, and prohibition of course.
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I always hear this about cops, whether they're throwing people in jail for smoking cannabis or busting kids in their dorm rooms and pouring out MY FUCKING HENNESSEY, and I just have to say: even though they're just following orders, that doesn't make them morally immune from what they're doing. That excuse didn't work for the Nazi concentration camp guards, it doesn't work for drug cops. They should just request to work on something else within their department that isn't socially destructive.
EDIT: I don't mean to equate the genuine evil of the Final Solution with the inbred bureaucratic stupidity of the Drug War, I was just saying that the defense used by the functionaries of both just doesn't fly.
Also, a drug cop CAN be forgiven if he atones for his sins, like Barry Cooper with his 'never get busted again' haha