blogpost 7:What the life of Mafia brought to the world

Mafia brought us a world with no fear, hope and freedom of will into this world. As of today, at this present time, in some part of the world, the mafia still dominates in different cimes. One of wich is that the mob create new ways to extort money. They have made connections on big banks, and different companies and industries. According to this article entitled: Italian Mafia Rakes in Billions as Global Economy Struggles at the website foxnews.com, the mafia never stop on growing, even as the global economy struggles, the mafia just sits and relax on their golden life. 

The crime syndicates are flush with billions of euros from extortion rackets, drug trafficking and booming sales in fake designer clothing made in China expressly for the Italian mob. While businesses around the world are struggling down for survival, the Italian mob is living a golden moment. The Mafia used brutal force and terror to make sure the peasants worked hard and didn't cause trouble. Revolts were repressed violently, often with the help of the army or more often the police. No wonder so many Sicilians left for America. “Coffee, water, fruit, bread, milk, meat, cheese, and even biscuits are all products of organized crime,” says author and journalist Roberto Saviano, who lives under police protection after receiving death threats from the Neapolitan Camorra, one of Italy's Naples-based organized-crime syndicates. 

Going back to the money, I found this article entitled:  Mafia now "Italy's No.1 bank" as crisis bites: report by James Mackenzie on the website reuters.com, extortionate lending by criminal groups had become a "national emergency," said the report by anti-crime group SOS Impresa. Organized crime now generated a turnover of about 140 billion euros ($178.89 billion) and profits of more than 100 billion euros. Until now, the mafia still controls the biggest companies and industries and is living in mansions. Taking a gold shower and is never stopping. In many ways the feds can find a way to stop this, but what if a member of the feds is a mobster, this madness won't ever stop.

blogpost 6: Mafia on Movies

Action movies are one the most watched genre in the film industry. No one seems to dislike it. There are many movies about the mafia mobsters, some in fictional characters, while some are true-to-life history. On these movies, they have portrayed what the mafia is like and it works. Lets try to look in deeper to the true mafia stories. One is about a contract killer of the mafia. There are many question that can be asked, but we should be careful, because we should not judge the book by its cover, nor judge it otherwise. In this blog, we will look into what the movie is sayin and what the real life mobster portrays. 

According to the article entitled: "The Iceman" Review – Infamous Mafia Hitman Struggles For Work-Life Balance by Gino Orlandini on the website hollywoodlife.com, he asked that is this man is an evil killer or a family man. Looking into this article, a man with a family to feed is a difficult job. In this story, we began to ask; Is this guy really evil? Or is it just a warface so that the enemies that he might face would be afraid of him?  It also paints Kuklinski as averse to killing women or children as a matter of principle – even going out of his way to save a young girl who witnesses him commit a murder. In his story, I saw a man with a good heart. A man pressured, assuming that he has no more job, he dicides to join the mob and work for them as an hitman. 

After looking into that, I found this review article entitled: The Iceman - review, written by Peter Bradshaw on the website theguardian.com, Kuklinski, a guy who runs a porn distribution business, kept secret from his respectable wife, Deborah. But then he is recruited as a chillingly calm assassin by local mobster Roy Demeo, whom he later enrages by going into business with another psychotic murderer and violence enthusiast, nicknamed Mr Freezy. Even though he runs a porn ditribution business, he respects his wife morally good. He is an assasin, but looking in deeper into him, he is a loving and caring family man who just wants a balanced life for his family. A family he loves so much, Kuklinski even mention that he never hurted his childrenn not even once in his life. This is a man who has two sides in his daily life, a man who is soft and jolly to his family, and on the other side, on his job, a mean scary assasin who does his job. His job to kill people was not personal to him, its just business.

blogpost 5: Why the Mafia was born in the world

One of the main objective of the mob is to gain money and power. To gain control of the city by money and by scaring the weak with its soldiers. On the recent blogs that I've posted,we already answered how they do it. Now in this particular blog, we are going to find out why do they do it. Going back to the year 1920's and 30's, the U.S. had an economic crisis, they called it the "Great Depression". In those times, there we're lots of citizens who did not have any jobs at all. Many of them lived in the streets, beside the dumpster and some of them steal for their daily meal, for them to eat and to survive the daily life. Looking deeper into this, some of the most wanted, rich and powerful mobsters grew up to this environment. 

 According to this article I found, entitled: Mafia in the United States, from the website history.com, the American mafia was composed of Italian-American organized-crime network with operations in cities across the United States, particularly New York and Chicago. During the 1920s Prohibition era, they  rose to power through its success in the illicit liquor trade. After the Prohibition era, they moved other operations on criminal ventures. This includes drug trafficking, illegal gambling, and even infiltrating labor unions and legitimate businesses such as construction and New York’s garment industry. 

  The Mafia’s violent crimes, secret rituals and notorious characters such as Al Capone and John Gotti have fascinated the public and become a part of popular culture. Trying weaken the Mafia, the government used anti-racketeering laws to convict high-ranking mobsters. However, it remains in business today.  In New York City alone, the number of Italians soared from 20,000 to 250,000 between 1880 and 1890, and by 1910, that number had jumped to 500,000 immigrants and first-generation Italian Americans, or one-tenth of the city’s population, according to historian Thomas Repetto.

 The majority of these immigrants were law-abiding, but, as with most large groups of people, some were criminals who formed neighborhood gangs, often preying on those in their own communities. 

blogpost 4: Are you tough enough to join the Mafia?

Seeing and knowing what the mafia mobster does, seems pretty easy in the movies. Lets try to look at a realistic observation of how the mafia recruits a single person. The things that we see in movies about the mafia, tells what is really implemented in the real life mobsters. A big pack of psychopaths who was trained to feel no conscience of what they do. Imagine that you are a part of the mafia family, your brother is killed by a mobster because of being a rat in the organization. The mobster who killed your brother is friend of yours, he can come whenever you invite them, the big thing is to ordinary person is to feel conscience of what he had done, but the reality is he does not feel anything.

According to the article that I found entitled Help Wanted... Who wants to Join the Mafia? written by Clarence Walker on the site americanmafia.com. "A lots of Mafia guys are psychopaths. "The Mafia isn't something to glamorize" told by retired FBI agent Bruce Mouw. From a moment there, I thought the same thing. I am a fan of mafia and their toughness through every situation, but not their crimes and killings. Many times I wonder, how and where do they get the strength and potential to do things like murder, robbing and visiting the relatives of the people they killed. Is it, desperation? hunger? or that craving mentality for money, power, fame, pleasure and a reputation of toughness. 

The article goes on telling a true example of initiation ritual with a fictional character. To become a mafia, violence is where you start. They pick a guy for you to kill, and you do it. Through this, they are trying to see if you are weak and soft, brutal killing would be the best way to show and prove to them that you are tough. After doing all the work they told you, the induction begins. Joining the mafia is the as same as selling your soul. 

 
On the operation of induction, the boss will test your heart. These are the example questions : 
1. If I told you---your brother was a rat, he's gonna harm us, you'd have to kill him. Would you do that for the family?

2.Your mother, child or wife, is dying in bed and you needed to leave either (one) because we called on you. Could you do that?

At these questions, they look inside you, and figure out if you are weak. Because I think that for the mobsters, caring is for the weak. If you get soft, you will be in a lot of trouble doing business in the organization. The only thing that I was frightened was a sentence on the last part of the oath. It say's: "I enter alive into this organization and can only leave dead." This is big, the only way out is death. That is why they kill, if you rat them out, you get killed by them. 

According to the article entitled, The Rise and Fall of Omerta written by Mike La Sorte still on the site americanmafia.com. A part of that oath is the Omerta code. It is a mafia code of silence. Omerta is a vow by wiseguys never to reveal Mafia secrets or reveal information to members under threat of torture or death. The code establishes as the first duty of a man is to seek justice (retribution or revenge) with his own hands when he perceives an injustice. Early Italian writer's prefer to it as the " spirit of the mafia". It is the code that provides you the law of not being a rat in the mafia organization. A thing that makes you tough against the police or higher authorities. On my conclusion on this blog, some mobsters are not psychopaths, others do it because they we're on the verge of desperation, that includes for example, you have no job, no more food to eat and a relative of yours is dying. In there state, this example is partially true, because it is just what I opinion on observing what the movie and the real life mafia does. In ending to this blog, I would like to share to a famous saying of a mafia mobster, John Dilinger, "I rob banks for a living, what do you do?"