>>24494137>>24494187>>24495211>>24495716Really interesting stuff anon, thanks for making intelligent high-quality posts.
There’s a real interesting synchronicity here, also, because just recently, before I ever saw your first posts about the ties between organized crime + states/systems of governance, I was exactly thinking to myself that studying or learning something about organized crime is a massive redpill into how governments, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies can work. Along with, sometimes, fraternal orders or secret societies. It’s not just a parallel in how they can function and what they do, but also quite literal historical intersections, from the past continuing until today, in which elements of governments, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement BECOME the organized crime, or cut deals with them, use them as pawns for various ends, infiltrate them and choose which elements they do and don’t want to prosecute/go after, etc.
You have the Mafia infamously having their ties to the Kennedys, helping JFK win in Chicago for instance, as a well-known piece of American conspiracy lore now. You have the U.S. government working with the Italian Mafia during WWII, cutting deals to get them to help out with Naval intelligence and also with the Allied invasion of Sicily for instance. And it only continued after, with CIA using Mafiosos for various things, to the point that even in the mainstream consciousness they’re tied with the Kennedys and also as a possible figure in the assassination.
It keeps going, it’s not just the U.S. government, you can bring up the Chinese Triads and opium trade (which opium trade into China ultimately though was more like UK/Western backed organized crime), the Yakuza of Japan, historical groups like the Carbonari (not to be confused with the excellent
spaghetti dish) and the Propaganda Due (P2) Masons also of Italy, cartels of Latin America and their intertwining with governments and law enforcement there and sometimes allegedly CIA, and so on.
Government is often just the gang that won in the best way, got to the very top, and typically tries to make its violence, corruption, and brutality more covert so as not to get so much backlash or uprising from citizens; and, admittedly, they can also do some good things for the people sometimes. Which organized crime can also do for their own communities, even while they’re swindling and scheming and murdering on the side. It also seems to be the case that, if modern high-tech governments and superpowers have significant organized crime and gangs in or across their borders, significantly impacting them or their citizens in some way, it’s likely being allowed to happen to some extent, for whatever reason. Deals are cut, bribed, corrupt, or compromised government officials and law enforcement agents are being paid or somehow encouraged to look the other way.