Posted on 10/05/2006 4:45:19 PM PDT by shrinkermd
Homeland Security: The FBI is concerned about potential links between al-Qaida and the mob. So why do Democrats and labor unions want felons working our docks?
Port security, according to the Democrats, is one of the gaping holes in the defense against terror, evidence of how the Bush administration’s war in Iraq is a “distraction” from the things we should be doing....
...So it was interesting to see that when Congress passed the Port Security Act on Saturday, it did not include a provision pushed by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., that would have barred the hiring of felons for dock security jobs...
Well, there’s one slight difference: It was opposed by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, a major supporter of Democrats...
(Excerpt) Read more at epaper.investors.com ...
Well if you can't hire felons on the docks how would the Democrats get those choice jobs?
BINGO, You Win......
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Democrats are a SECURITY RISK.
Plain and simple.
Not one to romanticize or glorify the Mob, these are not nice people after all, but I understood that the American and Sicilian Mob cooperated with the Allies during WWI.
The US Government concerned over a series of sabotage incidents on the New York waterfront enlisted the mobsters who controlled the docks, particularly Lucky Luciano, who agreed to provide surveillance and security effectively stopping further sabotage incidents.
Luciano perhaps didn’t do this entirely out of the goodness of his heart or out of altruistic patriotism. In exchange, he and the other mob bosses brokered deals with the government to turn a blind eye on some of their other “activities”.
And there has always been speculation that the US invasion of Sicily was greatly aided by the mob but then they (the mafia) probably saw a better likelihood of continued survival under the Allies than they saw with the Fascists.
But even still, I can’t imagine the mob of those days dealing with the likes of al-Qaida.
Easy. They have a price. They can be turned. They can be bought.
It was for that very reason that the Cali Cartel in Colombia (as ruthless a group of thugs and villains as you could find) refused to help Osama smuggle poisoned cocaine into the US a few years back. Fear of Panopticons spying on their every move and Operators storming their palatial mansions was more than even these ruthless men could stomach.
I came upon this story the other day and disagreed.
I would rather have the mob (Catholics) then others I could name. Had a friend who lived in Chicago. Kept the car (fee) in a fenced parking lot. Safest place that car could be!!! No break-ins!
Family oriented and patriotic. I might rather have the mob than the Chinese.
Mussolini and the Mafia were enemies, so Lucky saw a way to get out of prison by "helping" the US war effort. How much help he actually was is debatable.
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