The government is like the Mafia, but with better retirement and dental insurance.
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The mafia, unlike the government, also generally leaves you alone unless you chose to do business with them (prostitution, drugs, numbers).
“The mafia, unlike the government, also generally leaves you alone unless you chose to do business with them (prostitution, drugs, numbers).”
This is exactly why no one is enraged by all the Chicago murders. For the large part, the people getting murdered are themselves criminals or interacting with the criminal element; buying drugs, etc. The same is true with other criminal operations. If those operations frequently intersected with soccer moms and white collar joggers, then they would be quickly hunted down and put out of business. The criminals know this.
In the last year or so, criminals have been interacting with ordinary people more frequently, usually in black on white crime...mostly attacks. This is because our politicians and the media have essentially given the criminals their operating orders. That will be difficult to shut down because some DA’s are not prosecuting. We may be headed for a general breakdown.