STOP POLITICKING & TELL THE TRUTH!
The term Mafioso is a ten-century-old Sicilian code of conduct in which a man is expected to act honorably. He must be brave & loyal. If Victimized or dishonored, a Mafioso must not turn to the State, which itself is inherently suspect, for justice/vengeance. This code of silence, even when egregiously wronged, is called omerta. The recourse instead is for the individual wronged too redress the transgression, too fix the problem with his own hands. This is known as vendetta.
In the early ‘30s, the Italian-American Mafia was divided into two camps. An ethnic divide existed between Italians and Sicilians. This divide related back to a ten century old blood feud from the old country. A massive power struggle erupted called the Castallmarese war in which this ethnic divide was eradicated.
Joe Valchai, the first American Mafioso to break the code of Omerta, relayed a story. When in Sing Sing, he was informed that the ethnic divide no longer existed. That the subgroups, though divided into five families, would now act as one big happy family under the auspices of a commission. When Valachi, a Sicilian, heard about this new era of cooperation, he could hardly believe his ears. He though that he was being lied too. For good reason, prior to this new era of cooperation, the two factions were literary killing one another at will and on the spot.
The term Mafioso, interestingly, has its roots in t he Arabic: Loosely referring to “brother bandits”, who used caves as hideouts. JOHN KERRY calls the President of the United States a liar. What temerity to say that our president lied about a connection between Saddam, the secularist terrorist, and Osama, the religious terrorist. In his day, Joe Valachi held a similar belief about Sicilians an Italians. "No! Never cooperation", Joe insisted when informed of the new partnership.
When Saddam invited the psychopath terrorist, Al Zar ... whatever the hell his name is ... into Iraq, the cooperation openly was annointed. Before that, who knows. But I'm cynical; I say the so-called divide between Saddam and Osma had many a bridge.
Maybe John Kerry, like Joe Valcahi, does not want to believe, but the reality is that the merging of the secular and religious terrorist was and is furiously a foot.
The 911commsion attributed lack of prescience, lack of imagination, as one basis for America’s failure to protect our people. Mr. Kerry’s insistence that no sufficient connection existed between Saddam and Osma is hardly imaginative, hardly prescient. It’s ugly political opportunism at its lowest.
JOHN Kerry is simply shameless in what he would have us believe. Shameless.