Comment by throwmeout123 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by throwmeout123 | Hacker News Reader

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Uhm, I live and i Was born in sicily. MMD lived a great life with a lot of money in comparison to shitty overtaxed italian salaries and got arrested just to get medical attention without enacting the Andrea bonafede identity. He was seen many many Times in castelvetrano. He sold himself to the police.

Binnu was an ignorant peasant, only good at violent acts, just like Riina and the other corleonesi. He sold himself to the police too. Those people are not criminal masterminds a la Gustavo Frings, are just analphabet goat shepherds with a knack for vioolence.

Mandamenti might be less powerful such as in commanding entrepreneurs Who to hire and so on (mainly because sicily is depleted of Economic activity) but they still control a big part of sicilian politics, huge part of sicily national health system, lots of first sector (natural environment plus huge eu subsidies so a lot of scams and so on), tourist and nightlife activities, drug and prostitution (often in collaboration with black axe from nigeria)…calabria is even shittier and more crippled…should i go on?

I could disagree with something you say, in particular about the great life that Messina Denaro lived (in my opinion, I live a better life, and I am not talking about some grandiose "living with clear conscience", like materially I mean), but overall I agree with what you write. I also agree that Messina Denaro, in the end, wanted to be caught.

In fact, in my original comment, I wrote, "Although still present, organized crime in Italy was severely curtailed...". It is still present.

From a cultural point of view, though, blatant extortions, homicides et similia would no longer be accepted either by the citizens and the politicians, even the corrupted ones; times have changed. I mean, something like the assassination of Mattarella, the President of the Region Sicilia and brother of the current President of the Italian Republic, would be difficult to imagine nowadays. Or the killing of Generale Dalla Chiesa.

Similarly, a new season of terrorism, like the one that in the 70s and 80s terrorized, in fact, Italy, would be difficult to imagine nowadays; the "New Red Brigades" of the early 2000s looked like a group of out-of-shape, ideologically retired "nostalgics", more than a "serious" terrorist group (even if they were able to killed two minor--and I say minor from a political, and not human point of view--semi-political figures)

There is still a lot to do to eradicate organized crime, and as I wrote before, were it for me, I would use the iron fist again, and again. And again.

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