VLVL The deal

[Otto]

"This implies that Brock Vond -can he be described as a defender of classic
American values?-, to attain his goal, has no problem at all breaking up a
family."

You're absolutely right, Michel.

It's a nice reversal that the "victims" of Brock's crimes, working class
people and hippies, in the end turn out to be better Americans than the
cop who had sworn to protect the constitution.

Brock, who normally should defend the state & its values against anti- or
un-American "behaviour," uses tactics (the marijuana obelisk, kidnapping,
blackmail and torture, here called "nonjudicial motivation," p. 301) to
break up a family we would normally expect from a totalitarian, an orwellian
state, not from a liberal democracy.

Therefor the explicit Orwell-reference in the prison scene with Brock and
Zoyd:

"Believe me (...) she'd have done the same to you."
(ibid)

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to
her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!"
("1984," p. 297)

Otto