And he immediately fled on a hard-to-track vehicle into an area with low surveillance. He might not have been hired, but he almost definitely knew what he was doing
I couldn't even tell that was a normal police badge, I'd assumed it was Battlestar, or some other old sci-fi I hadn't seen. Definitely not a memorable enough scene from a sequel to an old action movie
Anakin's problem wasn't that he loved Padme, it was that he thought he knew better than the Jedi council. He saw their flaws, and, because of an outside influence, condemned the entire system, and helped to give power to a populist autocrat. I think it's actually a pretty believable story...
Not all opinions are inherently valid or valuable though. That's the Paradox of Tolerance. You do eventually have to draw a line, because some people will use the benefit of the doubt to dismantle democracy
I think it's more going for absurd