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?"