Witness protection programme

johnnycarrick · 31-01-2013 09:37PM #1

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 · 31-01-2013 09:38PM

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

Tombi! · 31-01-2013 09:39PM

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

31-01-2013 09:41PM

Can my name be Max Power?

My name is URL · 31-01-2013 09:43PM

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

Noel Kinsella · 31-01-2013 09:46PM

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 · 31-01-2013 09:48PM

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 · 31-01-2013 09:56PM

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 · 31-01-2013 09:56PM

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 · 31-01-2013 09:58PM

Would I have to change my username?

Duckworth_Luas · 31-01-2013 09:58PM

Henry Hill wrote:

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

:pac:

johnnycarrick · 31-01-2013 10:04PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:05PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:07PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:07PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:08PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:10PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:13PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Would I have to change my username?

Yes, how does Nurse Bollockmena sound ?

Pottler · 31-01-2013 10:14PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:15PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:17PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:17PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:19PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:25PM

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

Where To · 31-01-2013 10:30PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:30PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:31PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:32PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:37PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:40PM

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 · 31-01-2013 10:45PM

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.

Witness protection programme

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