Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Hopelessly tainted

One of my favorite cop movies is Prince of the City, a 1981 film starring Treat Williams that explores police corruption and the price paid for trying to come clean.

I won't go into the details here (see the movie!), but one thing that really stood out was the characterization of most of the federal prosecutors as overly ambitious bullies; for my money, they were more repugnant than the corrupt cops and even some of the actual criminals. The movie has come to the fore of my recollections lately due to the execrable behavior of a host of partisan hacks now carrying badges for the FBI and the Department of Justice and actively engaged in the ongoing witch hunt that is pretty clearly trying to bring down Donald Trump's presidency. Contrasted with the treatment these same investigators gave Hillary Clinton and her gang, the whole process is even more revolting.

Mueller must go.

BTW, one of the reasons I support Trump is because of the kind of enemies he's making.



(Image gratefully lifted from Veeshir the Ferocious).

2 comments:

Mike_W said...

Speaking of great old films, I've watched a few really entertaining 50's films lately, two of them featuring Ben Casey(Vince Edwards),acting totally out of character - City of Fear and Murder by Contract; and another starring Eli Wallach - The Lineup.

Great to time-travel back to 1950's U.S.A. and check out fashions, cars, street scenes, etc., etc.

RebeccaH said...

I absolutely love the image.