I do think that Giovanni Falcone was a genuine man who wanted the best for his people, him and Paolo Borsellino, but for the most part I'm very cynical of government.

Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino gave their lives and are heroes while many politicians especially Giulio Andreotti and later Silvio Berlusconi was deeply involvolved with the mafia but apart this pieces of shit after the 1992-1993 more politicians even the sicilians open the eyes and start helping the judges and the prosecutors without create him useless problems.And now the same thing is happening with the ndrangheta thanks to Nicola Gratteri.

You really are a clown Alice..And an arrogant one at that !!

Southern Italy should have been much richer like the North as long there is poverty there will be the Mafia the biggest employer.

The Mafia will always find a way to adapt and thrive in Italy, they're even in the north as countless operations have shown. I don't buy that stuff about them only thriving in the south because the south is poor. The Mafia is a very adaptable organization.

After 1861 the South was used as pool of workers for the industries in the north and when after the WWII was created industries during the so called Miracolo Economico (Economic Miracle) most of it ended up in bankruptcy because the increase in labor costs and the end of state economic incentives combined with the lack of a serious and competent industrial class caused their end.
Now there are the port of Gioia Tauro,the steel mills in Taranto and the shipyards of Castellammare but they are too few and more industries would be needed, as far as the mafia is concerned, if people found a well-paid job they would not turn to the mafia for a job or would not do business with them.

I don't agree, wealthy businessmen are having their fortunes and empires seized all the time for Mafia collusion and fronting for them. Let's quit acting like there's actually a way to make the Mafia extinct, they've been singing the same song for literally over a century. Like I said, the Mafia adapts and overcomes. And even if you didn't have the Mafia, you would be left with a corporate oligarchy that exploits the working class and lobbies the government to pass laws in their favor, so you're still fucked either way. Corporate America isn't any better.

“Those others the JP Morgans, they were crooks and killers too, but that was business right? The American 🇺🇸 way!”

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Alice,

Why are you even on these boards? I'm really curious to know what compels you be so active on here?

Because like every other boring guy on here, the lives some of these guys have led fascinates me?

Im barely on here, I dont consider myself very active here at all. I'm surprised anyone knows I exist.

Why am I here? To stop in and see if anyone turns up an old tv segment on Mickey Featherstone, or Tony Spilotro, or Jimmy the Gent, or Taco Bowman, or whoever. To be able to clarify things when I read a book like Joe Dogs. I acknowledge that most of the people we discuss were simply evil, as do many others on here. I don't really understand your question. I'm not going to hero worship some of the worst people in our society, if that's what you mean...

Also, I like to contribute when I can. That picture of the biker club guy is not from 1978 because he's sitting on an Evo Softail. That Henry Hill quote is from Howard Stern, not 20/20. Actually. yes there have been innocent people on death row, etc etc.