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Posted: 12/19/2005 1:01:48 PM EDT
I was reading an article just a minute ago about the passing of Vincent "The Chin" Gigante. Then I got to thinking, is there still a true Italian mafia? You really don't hear much about it on the news anymore, just movies and shows dramatizing it.
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Yes...but unfortunately they are greatly diminished. They have been replaced by black street gangs, 1 %er motorcycle gangs, and foreign gangs like the Russians. I would take the "mafia" anyday over those...
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In chicago , they are refered to as the Outfit, in the Trib. Alive and well it appears, along with king dick.
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Yes, it's called our government.
Want to purchase spirits? You have to buy it from the government at a 100% mark up, which is a tax. Extortion is more like it. Mob - Government...many times...no difference. The first is illegal, the second is legal because the one's in power say it is. Not because it's Constitutional or right. Both kill for power, both have robbed people. Both have killed innocent Americans. Augh! *Sorry, just get pissed because no matter what you do or what happens our Freedom and what is right is being replaced with absolutism and tranny. |
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King Dick / Richard Daley? |
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I have no specific information that may or may not indicate the presence or lack thereof of certain organized crime syndicates in and around the Greater Kansas City area.
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As long as you don't call him "Boss" Daley...that is reserved for his dad... |
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They live in Mission Hills? |
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Of course there is, the leaders are just not as public as the Gotti era.
You'll know when the mob falls because you will see NASDAQ fail as well. |
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The late 80s and early 90s were a very open, public time for the mob all around the country. Here in Toledo, there was a restaurant called "The Mafia"...it was run by the Toledo wing of the Detroit mob... |
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The ARFcom sheep will tear you apart for your post. |
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supposedly some of the mexican mafia and mexican gangs make the old style mafia guys look like mister rogers neighborhood, in violence, numbers of individuals and control of crime areas and spheres of influence.
read somewhere compared the number of mobbed up guys to the numbers of ogranized mexican mafia people and it was pretty scarry. |
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I had my one, very brief, encounter with the mob in MN in 1990 and it scared the shit out of me.
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+1...That is why we made a big mistake going after the "mafia"...Doing that only allowed them to be replaced in many areas and "industries" by more dispicable creatures... |
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Do tell! |
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dude, your gonna get deaded |
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a mob can be anything...i believe you mean a Mafia or an organized crime ring.
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Israeli mob, Russian mob, Italian mob, Armenian mob, Irish mob, Albanian mob... pick one.
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those folks are still very much around. Their just not so much out in the open as they once were. |
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Yep. You can't toss something like that out and not tell the story. |
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Not much really. At an Italian restaurant with my family. I was a college football player at the time and thus thought I was the toughest guy around. Dude comes in with a couple of brusiers with him. Looked mob and dressed mobish. I made I contact with one of the thugs and we have a stare down. A few minutes later he comes back around and we stare down again. Third time he walks around he opens his jacket and I see a pistol in a shoulder holster, plus the look he gave really chilled me to the bone. I stared at my spagetti the rest of the meal. |
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I see a Hammer of Dead in your future. |
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Dude, I love Cheney but that is the funniest graphic I have seen in a long time. |
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With the hammer of dead. Because he knows the Govenor. |
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I got your's beat. My Grandfather's auto shop near Dobb's Ferry used to fix all the garbage trucks. If you dont know where Dobbs Ferry is, its basically north of NYC. In the 50's and early 60's he met alot of 'unique' businessmen. I wouldnt name any of them, but think of a NYC celebrity businessman in that time and he probably met them. At his shop there was once these two guys there who worked for a very influential businessman there, and my gramps had to do a favor for them. When my dad was young he used to explore all around the house. One day he found a trunk filled with a bunch of guns. Turns out one of the businessmen were being investigated and my gramps didnt want to say no. There was also a funeral of one of the boss's relatives, who was related to one of the Kennedy's if I remember correctly, where my gramps was invited to go to. My gramps was from Cuba so he wasnt the best at speaking English, so he saw the mob boss guy and he said, "My congradulations", he was trying to say my condolences, and the mob boss looked like he was going to do something, but my grandmother had to explain what he was trying to say. Another time, one of my Dad's cousins was trying to open up a recycling company near NYC. He had a couple of trucks and was getting some good money. One day he got a knock on his door, he opens up and the guy says, "I'm here to buy your company." He says, I'm not selling it. The guy then tells him, "Hey I got some pictures for you to look at. Are these all your trucks?" He hands him the photos, and he starts flipping through them. He sees all his trucks, sure. But then he sees a bunch of photos of his kids, wife, and relatives. The mob guy tells him, "Oh, how did those get there?" Needless to say, he got rid of the company and left NYC. |
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Behind every great fortune is a crime.
That thing of theirs is alive and well....though the mandatory sentencing has made it rough on them. One or two acts and a guy goes to prison for the REST OF HIS LIFE. So there is very little of the loyalty that there once was. |
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Yes. They are very much around, just not like you would think. It aint Goodfella's anymore.
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One and the same...and the reason I want to leave this commie state... Indiana gets more appealing everyday. |
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Best line in the movie. |
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still exist but no where near as powerful as the old days if you are referring to the Italian mob
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I thought only old honest money lived in mission hills............ no kidding
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