You see comments like that with every mob bust. People will say they should be going after the "crooks in Washington" or the violent drug gangs. Well first, violent drug gangs get busted all the time. The recent bust in California for example. And political corruption is said to be one of the top priorities for for the FBI. But that's where you could get into an endless political debate about what is corrupt and what isn't.

I've always gotten the feeling that a lot of people who say that stuff do sort of romanticize the mob as "lovable rogues" and would like to see them left alone. Never mind they are killers, drug traffickers, etc. too.