Okay, once, for all, and for all time. Then I'm really not going into this again.
Why would they ask Barney's permission?
Farby was the acting boss when Ralphie got hit. End of story. Chin was still the official, but Farby had the final say on the street. That's protocol. They didn't have to ask Barney's permission for anything. That's the street.
One of Farby and Ralphie's mutual partners got in Farby's ear and got permission to take Ralphie out. Farby may have had to get the nod from Chin (not sure either way), but no one else. And that was that. End of story.
Barney just had to eat it. Him and Ralph were the kind of friends that went "from the womb to the tomb." Closer than brothers. Barney wouldn't have killed him even if he was robbing him (and I never believed that anyway).
Barney NEVER would have given his permission if he was asked. But he wasn't asked. And even if Barney wanted to make a beef when he got home, Farby was already dead from cancer by that time. Not that Barney would have beefed. He knows the rules and respects them. He's old school.
Okay, now I'm done.
All right, I got it about the Coppola murder. But who do you think organized the DiLorenzo and DeSimone murders Barney was initially charged with?
Don't get me wrong, I am not arguing or insisting it was him, you live there and know better than me, I am just interested.
But anyway, if they were such good friends with Coppola, the fact that Bellomo wouldn't have reacted in any way to his murder, as you say, that's really creepy in my opinion. So much for the so called "honor" in the mafia.
