On 04/09/2013 04:01 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
You can make up complicated scenarios that bear no resemblance to what
would actually happen, and scare yourself with them.
The Mafia is just another interest group. Attempting to apply
large-scale coercion tends to piss people off. They don't want that. No,
classic corruption goes after a power node, a focus of substantial
power. So ... does the Mafia in New York threaten City Council members?
Isn't that just what a protection racket is - large-scale coercion? It
seems to work for the Mafia, inasmuch as they're still being involved in
protection rackets... and the presence of organizations like Addiopizzo
seems to show that they are.
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