Witness protection programme

johnnycarrick

If you could enter the Witness protection programme would you?
A new life, new passport, job, mortgage paid; but you can never go back to your old life, family and friends. It would be a chance to start again, leaving everything from the past behind. But would you miss your old life too much and want out?

DazMarz

Depends on what I had done that would mean I had to leave my old life behind.

Tombi!

I don't think it'd work for me.
Anywhere I go, all I'd here is "that's a bleedin' skanger from Dublin".

Can my name be Max Power?

My name is URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioYJNjFBs24

Noel Kinsella

You could always do what Sammy (the bull) Gravano did and enter the witness protection programme (he ratted on John Gotti) and then get re-arrested for selling drugs LOL smart or what :-)

Czarcasm

I wouldn't want to anyway, I'd feel like a prisoner more than a protected witness.

Imagine you could never aspire to be successful in your field or that you could never put yourself above the parapet for fear of your identity being discovered?

Imagine then too if you had children that had to go into the program with you- social networking surely must be a nightmare for whoever controls the witness protection program.

There's far too many negatives for me definitely that outweigh a sedentary life in the suburbs and never being allowed to make something of yourself.

I'd sooner take the risk of keeping the life I have now and being shot on my front doorstep, than live a life constantly looking over my shoulder and having to live somebody else's idea of an "ideal" life.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Noel Kinsella wrote: »

You could always do what Sammy (the bull) Gravano did and enter the witness protection programme (he ratted on John Gotti) and then get re-arrested for selling drugs LOL smart or what :-)

Nasty bit of work, he admitted to something like 17 mob hits to get the deal. I was happy when the jackass got himself caught again, although if it was up to me I just would have informed the Gotti/Gambino family where he was instead. :pac:

branie

From Goodfellas

And that's the hardest part. Today everything is different; there's no action... have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody... get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

dr.bollocko

Would I have to change my username?

Duckworth_Luas

Henry Hill wrote:

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be .... on a Witness Protection Program!

:pac:

johnnycarrick

Noel Kinsella wrote: »

You could always do what Sammy (the bull) Gravano did and enter the witness protection programme (he ratted on John Gotti) and then get re-arrested for selling drugs LOL smart or what :-)

The funny thing is a high percentage of those entering the programme end up committing crimes and get caught. Many are former criminals not just witnesses, and they find it hard to leave their old criminal life behind for good. The cover of anonymity, and a new identity is abused.

Chucken

DazMarz wrote: »

Depends on what I had done that would mean I had to leave my old life behind.

You would have been a witness to a crime!

DEFTLEFTHAND

johnnycarrick wrote: »

The funny thing is a high percentage of those entering the programme end up committing crimes and get caught. Many are former criminals not just witnesses, and they find it hard to leave their old criminal life behind for good. The cover of anonymity, and a new identity is abused.

Yeah, Henry Hill himself was another criminal turned informer who was kicked out of the programme for re offending.

Ted_YNWA

johnnycarrick wrote: »

If you could enter the Witness protection programme would you?
A new life, new passport, job, mortgage paid; but you can never go back to your old life, family and friends. It would be a chance to start again, leaving everything from the past behind. But would you miss your old life too much and want out?

How do you know i'm not already?

Where To

johnnycarrick wrote: »

If you could enter the Witness protection programme would you?
A new life, new passport, job, mortgage paid; but you can never go back to your old life, family and friends. It would be a chance to start again, leaving everything from the past behind. But would you miss your old life too much and want out?

You can do all those things on your own, no need for WPP

Pottler

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Nasty bit of work, he admitted to something like 17 mob hits to get the deal. I was happy when the jackass got himself caught again, although if it was up to me I just would have informed the Gotti/Gambino family where he was instead. :pac:

They knew anyway. Him and Roy DeMeo were psycopathic killers, there wasn't exactly a queue forming to be the one sent to kill him.

mattjack

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Would I have to change my username?

Yes, how does Nurse Bollockmena sound ?

Pottler

branie wrote: »

From Goodfellas

And that's the hardest part. Today everything is different; there's no action... have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody... get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

There's the rub. Hard to go back to following the rules and being nice to people if your usual answer is a belt of a baseball bat. The desire to use the bat never goes away either, it's like a smoker quitting, they always feel like a cigarette when they're under pressure.

johnnycarrick

Where To wrote: »

You can do all those things on your own, no need for WPP

New name on your (real) passport?
Mortgage paid for life?
No you can't!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Pottler wrote: »

They knew anyway. Him and Roy DeMeo were psycopathic killers, there wasn't exactly a queue forming to be the one sent to kill him.

They did take out DeMeo and dismantle his crew once he became a liability though.

Maybe with the Bull it would been have hard to do anything because the cop's attention would obviously focus back to them. Also after John Sr went to prison the Gambino family began to fall apart under his son.

dienbienphu

Its actually very easy to obtain a new identity and you don't have to join the witness protection programme to do it. However, it is illegal and very immoral but everything has its price

Pinklady11

There is many a stressful day when I would love to leave it all behind a start a new life!

But in reality I probably wouldn't last 5 minutes...I'm a homebird and love familiarity. I don't deal with change very well.

TheUsual

Any way to get the t-shirt and baseball cap on the CIA website ?

Where To

johnnycarrick wrote: »

New name on your (real) passport?
Mortgage paid for life?
No you can't!

You can change your name by deed poll. If you're going to do the rest you won't be too about a mortgage.

3ndahalfof6

Yes I would, but the conditions would be I keep my maiden name and I would be able to see my family when ever I felt like they need to be protected,, that is all.

triple-M

johnnycarrick wrote: »

If you could enter the Witness protection programme would you?
A new life, new passport, job, mortgage paid; but you can never go back to your old life, family and friends. It would be a chance to start again, leaving everything from the past behind. But would you miss your old life too much and want out?

where do i sign?

Pottler

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

Yes I would, but the conditions would be I keep my maiden name and I would be able to see my family when ever I felt like they need to be protected,, that is all.

that's not a given even if you're not in a WPP.

3ndahalfof6

Pottler wrote: »

that's not a given even if you're not in a WPP.

So I will subject, WPP is now WPS, now we can speak and tell, no remorse, that is all.

Pottler

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

So I will subject, WPP is now WPS, now we can speak and tell, no remorse, that is all.

It can't be all, cos I have no idea what that ^ means

3ndahalfof6

Pottler wrote: »

It can't be all, cos I have no idea what that ^ means

You let them decide, or you decide for yourself, who wins, that is all.

Pottler

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

You let them decide, or you decide for yourself, who wins, that is all.

Will you ever knock off the cryptic stuff:D I've no idea what that ^ means either. FFS, it's thursday, I'm knackered, you'll have to spell it out.

3ndahalfof6

Pottler wrote: »

Will you ever knock off the cryptic stuff:D I've no idea what that ^ means either. FFS, it's thursday, I'm knackered, you'll have to spell it out.

The swans follw the seagull but only in base football, if the trawler is out to sea land means nothing unless you are wearing LEVI'S.

Pottler

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

The swans follw the seagull but only in base football, if the trawler is out to sea land means nothing unless you are wearing LEVI'S.

Oh, right. Why didn't you just say that in the first place?

3ndahalfof6

Pottler wrote: »

Oh, right. Why didn't you just say that in the first place?

I did, that is all.

3ndahalfof6

Pottler wrote: »

Oh, right. Why didn't you just say that in the first place?

Eyes closed wide, that is all.

Pottler

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

Eyes closed wide, that is all.

Good man lads.

The_Gatsby

dienbienphu wrote: »

Its actually very easy to obtain a new identity and you don't have to join the witness protection programme to do it. However, it is illegal and very immoral but everything has its price

Just out of interest...how? Or are you talking about Breaking Bad?

Pottler

The_Gatsby wrote: »

Just out of interest...how? Or are you talking about Breaking Bad?

Was just discussing this at work today, usually involves using the identity of a child who died at birth/shortly after, our generall opinion was that it was too scummy for words, but there you go.

johnnycarrick

I wonder if you would be able to tell new partners your are on the programme or not?
I suppose they would have to know anyway, for their own safety.