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Milo's Final Broadcast - Conclusive


Though I enjoyed and applauded this film, there is one aspect that still bothers me.

After watching that anti-NURV broadcast near the end, I still found it difficult to believe that the FBI could get an immediate warrant to arrest Gary Winston and/or search his house.

Yes, the assertions in the broadcast were probably true. However, would that broadcast, as evidence, be conclusive enough to even get a search warrant? (within that very night, I might add.) Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I would be more inclined to think that many judges in town would see it as a cyber-prank.

I see three possible reasons for this immediate response.

1) Hollywood. They've got a reputation for attempting to minimize or ignore excess (aspects of the film that may raise additional questions) and, in general, audiences seem to play along. In this case, it would be a classic example. We do not really wonder how the FBI got there so fast, as we want to see the hero beat the bad guys and restore justice or whatever.

2) The FBI threw their Constitutional limits to the wind and just went right in, believing the popular support for such a move would allow them to convict Gary even with the constitutional violations performed.

3) Messages transmit through the mainstream media are given a rather arbitrary degree of authenticity, and a large number of judges were using their cell phone or watching TV at the time (it would only take one of those to give a warrant)

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Well it seemed to me like the FBI was investigating Gary already... that FBI agent did approach Milo at the beginning and ask him to work for the good guys, which would seem to assert that Gary was a bad guy?

That was my take on it anyway... I mean, the fact that Gary had a person in the FBI meant he was either paranoid or worried they may be on to him

So that's my reasoning why the FBI was inclined to believe the broadcast.

I can't say much for the speed of the warrant though...

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this is only in response to the speed of the warrant, i cant say i believe it or that i know anything about the warrant system short of what ive seen on tv

but i agree that they judges think it woul dbe a cyber prank but milo did put in the video of teddy being beaten to death. and ill bet the fbi or justice dept had files on garys henchman(jimmy from breaker high) and milo gave a clear picture of him on the bradcast

all im saying is that there was reason to believe te braoscast was true, i dont know how long it would take to get the warrant tho

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Gary Winston was going DOWN.

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Speedy search warrants are the norm. Judges can sign-off on them 24/7. The whole point of search warrants is to surprise. If I was the DA, before that message was over, I would be on my way to a judges house; if he or she gave any resistance, I would say "Everyone in the world just saw this, including all the people at NURV. As we speak, documents are being shredded..." You get the idea. Plus, he was already under investigation. And, we should assume that as soon as Milo left, he gave that cerebellum server to the police. It's very plausible that within the hour (maybe not the couple of minutes the movie implied) police would be rummaging through everything.

Remember too, that murder/conspiracy to commit murder is not a Federal offense, it's a state charge. So these would be local and state police rushing in to search and what-not.

The arrest warrant would be trickier, even if he had all kinds of people saying they took direct orders from him to kill. A team of fancy lawyers can postpone anything for a week or so. Especially since I'm sure it would take more than one night to find something directly linking Tim Robbins to any killings.

That being said, I am not a lawyer, or a law student, or even interested in being a law student.


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