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Re: Mafia

By: Fiz in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 14 May 25 10:26 PM | 21 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 08320 of 10948
(This msg. is a reply to 08316 by De_Composed)
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De: "Does a loose confederation fit the bill for that? No it does not. It does not have a leader, and whatever rules it may have are loose."

How would you call what I call The Banksters" organization -- the approximately same "club" written about in "The Creature From Jekyll Island"? How is that banking brotherhood substantially different from The Commission of "La Cosa Nostra"? (Literally "Our Thing", originally out of Italy, just like the Catholic Church!)

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Re: Mafia
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Wed, 14 May 25 9:50 PM 		Msg. 08316 of 10948

fizzy:

re: 'But I want to point out that The Mafia actually WAS "an organization", complete with rules of conduct, JOINT OPERATIONS, agreements on territory, areas of crime which were acceptable...and which were not, and "penalties" (justice?) for violating the agreements.'



A confederation, with each unit operating autonomously.

But remember the start of thread. You wondered if "the Mafia" was acting as the strongman for the Demon Crats. Does a loose confederation fit the bill for that? No it does not. It does not have a leader, and whatever rules it may have are loose.

IMO, the Mafia organization has been played up by Hollywood to be better organized than it was. Sure, New York had 5 families that interacted and had to coexist, but there were 24 mafia families throughout the nation. I don't think they often interacted.

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