Who knows what people think is the Mafia, perhaps a ' Association criminal, maybe an octopus, maybe a legacy of ancient ignorance? Maybe ... maybe all this, but most importantly it is another.
Falcone thought
"The Mafia is not invincible, is a human and like all human facts have a beginning and will also have an end. Rather we must realize that it is a phenomenon terribly serious and very serious and that you can win by not claiming heroism but inert citizens engaged in this battle all the best forces of the institutions'
But the facts seem to contrast these words, it seems that this peculiar human fact is a fact of nature, and like the wind, hail, and volcanic eruptions, never seems to end.
I wonder why , but the answer I'm afraid I know how ...
Beyond the mythic origins are lost in the mists of time, so the etymology seems to spring from an ancient Arabic word, the Mafia is vital force in the estate, in a covenant relationship " gattopardesca " between noblemen owners of those ch 'were feuds and a story that seems go to a new sense has turned into large estates, without detracting from the ancient identity and " gabbelloti " , that is, literally , a tenant who paid the "Gabella", or the rent of the bottom of the nobleman who took care of his little plot , but he wanted to make the best possible, by investing as little as possible. It is not that by its nature the gabbelloto was a criminal, but it is true that the nobles much preferred to entrust their fund to a "rogue Sperti and" able to dominate over the peasants, even with half a clove, with the help of private guards, usually armed guards of the fields.
Here this is where you create the link between people quickly with weapons and able to take in hand the situation with the abuse and so-called " cappeddi " or belonging to the upper classes, already in the hat, the hat, pointed to his membership in opposed to " Burritt ", or the poor people who cover their heads with a cap. This
in the past, but the Sicilians are known for a history gattopardesca , that is, a story that changes so nothing changes ...
Indeed this connection between a power "baronial" and overbearing men never ceased, and was used often to the detriment of state power, but more often against the poor. Here it would be interesting
go see the relationship between the State and this power, which define " gangster" or "criminal" becomes simplistic and not fully complexity.
The ancient " gabelloti " (but not all were criminals gabelloti ) have tasted the power acquired through the alliance with the barons. But for them the power is "the stuff" and control of the territory. " The
stuff, as described by Verga in novel of the same name, is not the capital, but it 's piling up of goods, tangible, visible, making the owner "powerful" and respected. And the control of the territory, that the detailed control of everything that happens in the territory of relevance, almost novel God on earth, certainly more efficient of territorial control exercised by the state legally. Just contrast with the state is characteristic of the mafia, but the opposition which means struggle and confrontation, the mafia does not want to fight or confrontation with the state, want the State to delegate to him, he wants the state is far away. The picciotti that the mafia sent to Garibaldi (but not all were sent by the mafia picciotti) for the Thousand are in testify to the need of joint barons and gangsters for a new reality state, the more geographically distant by the Bourbons, the more absent.
brings us to the history of the Republican .
the mafia, therefore, interesting stuff and the control of the territory and rely on the intrinsic alliance with the "barons" and their followers, that the novel emerging class (everything changes so nothing changes). They are capable of a thousand twists and turns and changes: from the original control of large estates, passed to the control of everything that takes "stuff" and control of the territory (because the lens does not change, the change means to achieve !).
So a nascent post-war Italy, when a minister, Gullo, issue decrees that would have led to agrarian reform, the Mafia, allied to the barons, they show their power by killing tens of trade unionists, including Placido Rizzotto .
The Mafia is therefore the longa manus , dripping blood, the interests of owners, but not all.
The Mafia is capable of becoming the longa manus more varied interest, provided you do not have control, to have management control of the territory in and stuff. And here
Portella della Ginestra , massacre attributed to Salvatore Giuliano and his band. Certainly Salvatore Giuliano was there with his men to Portella, but it was only the foolish servant of a bigger picture of him, drawing a path from "refined minds " which, with the help of the Mafia ( longa manus ), wanted to oust by the new Republican reality the Left (the Popular Front, who had just won the election 10 days prior to the first regional assembly) and the peasants. And in fact the same month of May 1947 the leftists were driven out of the national government.
AndGaspare Pisciotta had said the process of Viterbo: "We are like the Holy Trinity: we, the mafia and the State" and accused the minister of Sicilian Scelba connivance with the mafia and of promises made to Julian exchange of the fight against the "communist". But Pisciotta said the end we all know, after he killed Julian.
Portella is on, everything comes down to.
Now we talk about the massacre in via D'Amelio and again at a distance of 17 arise sewage sinister conspiracies and false leads. Caponnetto had said after the death of Borsellino "It is finished 'means the Anti-State and the State have come to terms and made the " Papello , as always ...
