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So Hub will trample on certain rights, just not all of them?


Early in the movie he tosses a $20 bill into the terror suspects case bringing the ammount up to the required reporting threshold, an obvious trampling of the suspects rights to fair teatment.

But the rest of the stuff bothers him?

Where was his moral compass at the airport?

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Initially he tries to do things right, I think it is part of his character's decline driven by the events of the movie, until his redemption at the end to once again uphold the law using a court order, rather than just running in with a gun as he did at the school.

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While I believe you have a point, Hub did NOT throw the money into the case, Agent Frank Haddad did.

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That's part of what makes him human. That's pretty much what the whole movie is about. It's easy to bend/break the rules to nail an obvious bad guy, but than you have a probable bad guy, than a guy who might be guilty (and even if he's not he shouldn't be hanging around with those guys anyway) ect. That's what makes him an interesting character; he grows and changes throughout the movie.

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