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[JRV]

EP, it was cop vs. drug dealer, not cop vs. bully. But if I follow, you're asking what if it was cop vs., say, organized crime. The Mob. Not the Marching Owl Band of my alma mater (residents of Houston and environs, like Spring, will get that) but Mob as in The Grandfather.

The Mob is a group of people headed by a ruthless, cold-blooded leader who punishes rivals and disloyalty within or outside his gang by killing, torturing, killing family members, terrorizing, or any other brutal means. Moreover, in our hypothetical Mob, most Mob members are not volunteers. They are innocents. Members only by virtue of the misfortune of being born in Mob Leader's territory. And, oh yeah, the Mob just might have WMDs.

(OK, the Mob isn't a great choice, but if I could build an analogy as well as Kynn, my blog would've been quoted instead of his. Just go with me on this.)

The analogy holds. Mob Leader is still a bad, bad man, and the cop is still wrong for killing him.

Thank you, next contestant please!

PS - I hate smilies...but y'all are witnesses to my first-ever exception because I want to make sure when WWIII breaks out, it's George's fault, not mine!