Norm, funny you should ask, as I was just watching it after seeing your link on twitter. I believe I have seen it before, as it looks familiar, but it’s been a long time, and I can’t remember if I watched all 8 in the series, though it would be strange if I didn’t, since the episode and a half I’ve watched / re-watched are excellent. Thanks for reminding me of this.

Have you seen this series??

http://youtu.be/R-TeGrv32Ig

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There’s another youtube video of him speaking where he really does come across as a burned out hippie spouting incomprehensible poetry. On the topic at hand I thought the second and third of his three points were quite lucid, and explained why he personally as a lawyer wouldn’t represent a snitch. On the first point, he made clear that this is the advice he’d give to his son or to people in general, and that as a lawyer he couldn’t and wouldn’t tell a client he should go to prison or kill himself before becoming a snitch. I posted these videos primarily because they passionately express the truth that, while physical freedom is a great good and prison a great evil, it is far better to suffer evil than to do evil.

Yeah, I mean what would Serra think of a cop who courageously “snitches” on another cop who plants evidence, etc.? I think what distinguishes disgraceful “snitching” as opposed to courageous whistle-blowing is whether the snitch / whistle-blower does what he does to save his own butt. I think it’s safe to say that no “snitch” in the classic sense is snitching because he’s come to see the errors of his and his co-criminals’ ways and now wants to make amends to society. Note that the client Serra described talking to at the jail was thinking about snitching on somebody the client described as his “best friend.”

Interesting, though.