| From: | TopCat <topcat@******.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: Killing in Shadowrun... |
| Date: | Wed, 22 May 1996 19:38:56 -0500 |
>>>organisations like the Mafia? Omerta. The old code of honour,
>>>"nobody talks".
>> Organizations like the Mafia (in unrealistic worlds) have
>> things like Omerta. Realistically speaking that's a
>> romanticized idea that never really existed.
>You tell that to the people who die every day in the middle of
>the streets in Palermo or Corleone and, when the Police arrives,
>normal people who OBVIOUSLY WERE in the middle of that same
>street AND WHO ARE NOT part of the Mafia (in the strict sense)
>say "I have seen nothing".
I'm telling you that even today (in the US, not Italy, which is VERY
different) everyone from caporegimas to the lowliest number runner end up in
jail. How? They get informed on. Now Italy is different because
(supposedly, and I believe it) the Mafia has a presence there like the drug
cartels have in South America. The own the country. Things are very
different in the US where that is not the case. They are still influential
in certain circles today, but not nearly to the extreme they are in Italy.
And in SR, the Yakuza has infiltrated a hefty percentage of their former
footholds. Then there's the Triads and Posses and outlaw biker gangs and
every other organization who has taken a bite out of what could've been
Mafia run. So they have nowhere near the influence in the US as they do in
Italy and that's why they get nailed.
>Just to rectify, you know. People DIE in Italy because they try
>to talk... NORMAL people... Priests, businessmen, people who
>refuse to adhere to the so called "CODE OF HONOUR" and to pay
>the rackets... It's a trend that is just starting to reverse...
In Italy, exactly. I wholeheartedly agree with you. I wouldn't ever dream
of messing with the Mafia in Italy. The Mafia in the US is very different
than the Italian Mafia, and that's just the way things are.
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