You tend to forget that Henry Hill is a pompous scumbag who's testimony is just as questionable as Richard Kuklinski. I'm sure that some Mafiosos aren't the monsters that they are seen as by the rest of the world and maybe the Mafia used to have what we would call honor but the fact remains that 95% of the guys are scum and would ruin our lives and probably kill us if it ment some money. The massive majority of mobsters aren't good people and I would never wanna be in business with them.

And as for the poor thing and protecting Italians, what would you call the Black Hand. I'm positive that stealing from peasent shopkeepers isn't the definition of protective.