Originally posted by DonsAdvisor:
The Witness Protection Program started in 1970. This is what brought the rats out of their holes. Omerta means death if you snitch. But the program means a new life and less jail time if you snitch. Hill is a rat, but he took the rational, logical option, as they were presented to him. He wouldn't have had that option 10 years earlier. Hence, he may not have been a rat 10 years earlier.
Exactly.