I have a lot of issues with Lombardo's take on the Outfit and other aspects of OC history. Elsewhere he called the Black Hand an example of mass hysteria, a social panic. If you read the papers from the early 1900s when this was going on, the Black Handers were called terrorists. They kidnapped children and bombed houses. They were callous cold-hearted murderers who didn't care who they went after. For the victims of the Black Hand it was not just some social panic.