We decided to watch the first series of McMafia again last week on Amazon. We ploughed through the first two episodes in one day, only to find we had to pay on the next day, even for the two episodes we'd already watched. Amazon is the McMafia.
I then started to watch The Irishman on Netflix, the story of an American Mafia hitman. The bloody thing is over 3 hours long.
Anyway, the Mafia merely seem to act like medieval, feudal nobility, operating protection rackets in exchange for 'tax'. The various Crime Families had areas which came under their sway and weren't averse to assassinating the heads of competing families, or even waging gangland wars against each other, into which they dragged the common people.
We call our Mafia by various names - the Windsor Crime Family (The Firm), the Gloucester Crime Family, etc. They have largely been neutralised, but in exchange for our freedom we allowed them to keep the vast tracts of land they acquired by the sword in 1066. Perhaps that should have been the way the American Mafia should have been tackled or, perhaps we should get back the proceeds of crime and treat them in the same manner as the Mafia are treated.
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