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How do they get away with doing illegal things ?



The question might be stupid, but how do they get away with doing things (not just in this series but in other vice videos) like illegal border crossings and such stuff?

I mean, on the spot, they will get away with it, but after the episode was aired on tv, why arenĀ“t they arrested entering Thailand the next time?

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Arresting journalists is pretty bad press for a regime. Also, none of these episodes airs anytime around when they do any of these allegedly illegal things.

Worst case scenario, one of these guys has to remember never to go X country again.

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Off topic but Money rules all...

If you own a drug like Aspartame which is rightfully rejected as being deadly to humans (with a laundry list of effects) you simply get Donald Rumsfeld to be your new CEO, then when Reagan takes office, your man Rummy runs the transition team that coincidentally replaces the head of the FDA (which is SUPPOSED to protect you) with a guy in favor of the drug, who soon after allows said poison to be used in all manner of food and drink!

Take your diet soda and let it sit a few days, have it tested and see if it didn't turn into formaldehyde, ummm yummy!

WE THE SHEEPLE.

I would like to go back in time and kill the idiot who created the term "reimagining."

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Ha that is a true story, but when corruption happens here, we get a mildliy carcinogenic no calorie sweetner, in other places there is censure of press or worse.

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Yep this can be applied to all "Cable News",shock = more money.

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Simple. They don't get away with anything, because most of it is fake.


I'm right now on episode 4 of season 3 where a guy says "they are insisting on us being blindfolded the whole way" yet then you see random shots trough the car window of streets, as well the "journalist" siting in a car with a blindfold.

I guess we are supposed to believe this was hidden camera, but they seem to be using hidden camera in every episode now, the rhino horn, the shark fin, and now suddenly drug dealers don't think of searching them for concealed cameras?

It surely does look fake

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I don't think you realize:

a) Just how stupid most people are
b) How easy it is nowadays to conceal a pinhole camera, especially when you have the resources and expertise they do

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