Originally Posted by JC
Originally Posted by NYMafia
Originally Posted by JC
Not sure that any US mobster was anywhere close to Riina's guys in Italy. They blew up part of a highway to kill one magistrate, detonated another bomb to kill another magistrate, kidnapped one of Inzerillo's kids, cut his arm off and shot him in the head, kidnapped a rat's kid, strangled him to death and disolved his body in a vat of acid, among many other atrocities committed during Riiina's time in power. No US mobster would ever dream of doing any of the things that they did, not even Scarpa and DeMeo, as crazy and demented as they were.



JC, you make a very valid point. The guys on the other side are a different breed altogether!

The way they "play in the sandbox" is WAY different than America....


To be fair back then especially they also got to play by a different set of rules. What they were doing was more like what you think of the drug gangs doing in places like Colombia and Mexico, little if any regard for human life. It eventually backfired on them, as even in a country dominated by different mafia groups the outcry from the public was just too loud when magistrates started getting blown up and kids were getting killed. So the government had to crack down, and bosses in Sicily started getting locked up for good or having to be constanly on the run and in hiding if they wanted to stay out of the can.





If guys in the US ever did anything like Riina's guys did, there would be no mafia here. The FBI would make the pressure that they put on the guys in NYC and NJ after Everet Hatcher got killed by Gus Farace look like a pleasant fireside chat!