Posted on 11/08/2007 8:11:23 AM PST by RDTF
The Mafia's Ten Commandments have been found after police arrested a top Godfather in Sicily.
Under the secret Cosa Nostra code of conduct, the so-called "men of honour" must avoid bars, other gangsters' wives and girlfriends and be on time.
The list of rules emerged from documents seized after the arrest of Salvatore Lo Piccolo, 65, at a secret mob meeting in Palermo, along with his son Sandro, 32, and two other godfathers.
The 10 'Mafiosi' commandments are:
1. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends.
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always be available for Cosa Nostra, even if your wife's about to give birth.
6. Appointments must be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra are anyone with a close relative in the police, with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values. Some of the rules are obvious, such as that absolute silence and secrecy - "omerta" - must be kept at all times.
Along with the rules, police found a holy image bearing the Mafia initiation ritual. The wording is: "I swear to be faithful to Cosa Nostra. If I should betray it, my flesh must burn, just as this image burns."
Lo Piccolo apparently carried the papers everywhere with him in a brown leather briefcase.
Sounds like they need an 11th commandment:
Don’t carry secret Mafia paperwork around in your briefcase!!!
Uh-oh. Now he's in a pickle.
Worst list of ten I’ve ever seen.
Clearly the author crammed multiple commandments into number ten. There are ten... no eleven... no twelve......er......
..these fifteen...Oy!!...these ten commandments!
Yup, he broke that commandment
The Baptist church would be better off with these.
If you can't trust a crook, who can you trust?
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
Curious indeed.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
I see a problem here.
bogus.
After 50 years of experience with the Cosa Nostra and lots of this over the years. The Cosa Nostra has one very basis rule - nothing, nothing is written down.
Makes this entire story bogus.
You! I want that one over there!.........
The mainstream media. They always tell the truth, without fear or favoritism.
Looks like he is violating Rule 3 in that picture.
So heartened to see this. Being a bloody, murdering SOB who devastates the lives of families is no reason to be tardy. One must have some standards mustn’t one?
LOL! yeah, dead meat either way.
HAHAHA! These banditi love to think of themselves as moral agents. In truth, they're nothing but goons. There is no honor among thieves.
Good, I absolutely despise Mafia types.
dumb and dumber together.
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