Originally Posted By: olivant
...The distinction ya'll make between conspiracy and overt acts doesn't wash.


It does wash.

While all agree Vito assisted Michael in the planning for that "...day of reckoning in the future...", nothing happened while he was alive (aside from Barzini's planning as well).

And even after he was dead, it was Tessio's overture to Michael that opened the gates, as Michael knew he would not get out of that meeting alive.

So Vito never was the one to break the peace.

Apple

Last edited by AppleOnYa; 07/12/09 02:51 PM.

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