Marc Whinery's The Untouchables

In watching the Untouchables we discussed that Elliot Ness was a law enforcement official in Chicago. He was best known for his efforts to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, or also known as Prohibition. This amendment prohibit the use of consumption or sale of alcohol. He joined the Prohibition Act in 1927 and reunited a team known as “The Untouchables” to battle the activities of Al Capone. Al Capone was responsible for many acts of violence. He was a person of good and wanted to do right by his family, but after the death of his father he met Johnny Torrio who invited him to come to Chicago and work on a booming business in gambling and prostitution. Since the regulation of the Eighteenth Amendment was enacted, he made a field called bootlegging, which is the distribute, or sale of products illegally. …show more content…
(Marc Whinery, September 14) “They are self-made men who lived life their way. People ignore the negative they did and focus on the positive aspects of their lifestyle. The power. The money.” In most cases people admire bad people because they have the need to feel powerful or superior. People like Al Capone are admired, because they stand up to the government and do not care about how long their prison sentence is going to be. People also care a lot about money because once obtained, buys freedom, the power of having anything desired. Even after multiple reports of his tenitious and brutale style of businesses he was idolized, because people felt the power he had for killing of law men and rival