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This 'not snitching' BS is all smoke and mirrors

posted 10 years ago by jgroub
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He had an opportunity to tell the Headmaster what he saw without and promises or bribes. He was sitting there, with George, and the Headmaster came right out and asked him what he saw. "I couldn't say."

What a load of horsesh!t. You people are arguing about honor and integrity. If he were an honorable person, he would just tell immediately upon being asked. End of story.

And the "bribe" as you people call it wasn't a bribe at all. The Headmaster said that he had ALREADY told Harvard, "This is our guy - the free ride." Charlie had that in the bag already. There was no quid pro quo here.

And Frank, oh, great warrior Frank, he of all people, with his military background, should have realized that. That's not snitching. That's called being a witness. Without witnesses coming forward and telling what they know, out entire justice collapses.

The rest is just coffeehouse bullsh!t.

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

[–] fearless2003 8 years ago

Yeah, this was one stupid movie. This 'don't snitch' crap is childish BS. If no-one snitched, criminals would never get caught. Rapists would go free, murderers would go free.

What honor is there for protecting weasels, criminals... Charlie was a scumbag who was too scared to do the right thing. Or maybe he was just too stupid and thought he was being honorable.

[–] Prophet_muhammad_578 8 years ago

Snitches get stitches

[–] trippycheez (37) 10 months ago

Charlie isn't following ordinary rules or pursuing justice in the legal sense. He has his own sense of honor, which includes not informing on his peers, even when he doesn't really like them and it means he himself will go down hard. Maybe it is foolish but it's his own old-fashioned moral code and he stands by it. That's why Slade says something like "I don't know whether Charlie is right or wrong here, but the boy has integrity."