"PS9" (PS9)
03/30/2014 at 20:16 • Filed to: MAFIALOPNIK
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"PS9" (PS9)
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Don't worry. We all know that crime doesn't really pay, and now that the Pope has politely asked them to stop, their days of making money hand over fist are surely numbered now, right?
offroadkarter
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03/30/2014 at 20:32 |
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Since the mafia are usually Catholics it would be funny as hell if they all just "stopped"
SnowBallin
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03/30/2014 at 22:04 |
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Luckily, this isn't the first time the Catholic church has had to intervene in an issue of "hand over fist"
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
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03/31/2014 at 04:18 |
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When I was teaching in Italy I spoke to a few people about the Mafia. The best explanation was that they were like an alternative government.
They offer much the same thing. They can get you work, if you pay your dues to them. If you don't, bad things happen to you (same as if you don't pay your taxes to the government). The only real difference is that the Mafia are more extreme with their punishments.
The reason they're still active is that the real government is so weak. If they could offer solid employment to the impoverished South, I doubt the Mafia would last that long. Their target demographic would disappear. However, due to a whole host of reasons, the bonafide government can't.