Question is, though, do you think they'll go through another violence period?
Not of they're smart. If they do, they'll just be fucking themselves. The FBI
WILL NOT STAND for LCN type killings, whether or not their main focus is on terrorism or not.
They'd be hypocrites for doing so.
And this would be the first time the Feds were hypocritical?
Before 9/11 it was their bred and butter and when the terrorism hype cools down it will be their bred and butter again.
Personally, I doubt the terrorism hype will ever cool down. But if it does, and the Mob grows themselves too big for the Government's liking, they'll shut them down faster than they did twenty years ago. Sick as it sounds, 9/11 did the Mob a favor.
If they keep it right where it is--and there are plenty of street guys still making real money right now
without the extreme violence--they'll be around for a long time.
They don't have to kill a lot of people to instill fear. Because even if they only kill one guy every five years (which is hyperbole, by the way), no one wants to be that one guy.
This isn't Sicily (where it's ingrained into the psyche and a part of the cultural fabric)--or even Canada (where there are rarely sentences of more than ten years). This is America. And you're right, this is a hypocritical country in a lot of ways. But it is what it is. The Feds play dirty to win, and there aren't too many guys willing to do twenty-year stretches here anymore. And if you lose at trial in a mob-connected Federal murder case, that's exactly what you're going to get.
Let them earn, but there's no need for stupid murders anymore.
