http://www.hawaiistories.com/george/2004/03/01/know-thy-criminal/ Let's talk about things we are not supposed to Fri, 16 May 2008 12:42:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.hawaiistories.com/george/2004/03/01/know-thy-criminal/#comment-112 Hawaii Observer » Blog Archive » Government: the Mafia factor Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:36:13 +0000 http://www.hawaiistories.com/george/2004/03/01/know-thy-criminal/#comment-112 [...] A striking example of this is the Mafia itself, which started out as a genuine government fighting the invaders of Sicily in the 19th century. Observe a governments’ true priority by its choice after victory: the need for its violence gone, instead of becoming a public institution of progress, it stepped up the racket and the robberies. The Sicilian Mafia is not a government gone bad. It is a government focusing on its core business, extortion, after its disguise of pretend benevolence vanished. Let its example remind you what a government’s primary business is: crime. This may include sending your family members knowingly to death in wars, blowing up buildings on thousands of people like you, bombing oil producers abroad to drive up the price of your gas, emptying your pockets in a bogus "war on crime" and much more. War being simply the highest form of organized crime, it’s no surprise why a Mafia government pursues this old lucrative trade of theirs in spite of every civilized citizen’s opposition. [...] […] A striking example of this is the Mafia itself, which started out as a genuine government fighting the invaders of Sicily in the 19th century. Observe a governments’ true priority by its choice after victory: the need for its violence gone, instead of becoming a public institution of progress, it stepped up the racket and the robberies. The Sicilian Mafia is not a government gone bad. It is a government focusing on its core business, extortion, after its disguise of pretend benevolence vanished. Let its example remind you what a government’s primary business is: crime. This may include sending your family members knowingly to death in wars, blowing up buildings on thousands of people like you, bombing oil producers abroad to drive up the price of your gas, emptying your pockets in a bogus "war on crime" and much more. War being simply the highest form of organized crime, it’s no surprise why a Mafia government pursues this old lucrative trade of theirs in spite of every civilized citizen’s opposition. […]

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