Big news today is the rounding up of Mafia members all the way from the balmy shores of New Jersey to the frequently frozen fens of Boston. The Obama Justice Department decided it was about time they should enforce some of the laws of the United States. Attorney General Holder instructed his department that they should look back and notice some actual crimes probably had been committed and the full force of the Department of Justice descended upon a hundred or so Italian-Americans and their associates.
Isn’t it wonderful watching all those bad guys being rounded up and forced to march in the ever so popular perp walks.
Gambling, murder, pension fund plundering, you name it, overweight middle-aged men were suddenly busted for it.
There’s pretty good odds not a single one of them confessed to their criminal activities before the Feds called their press conference.
Not one of them copped to having ordered the torture of prisoners. There may or may not be photographs of hooded prisoners having live electric cords attached to their bodies while numerous fat bellies consumed uncounted cannoli.
Why has Attorney General Holder decided that he should stop looking ahead and stop not looking back when it comes to the Mob but keep looking ahead and never looking back when it comes to the self-confessed crimes of George W. Bush? Why has the Obama administration decided torture is no longer a criminal offense but bookmaking still is?
Perhaps the recently arrested capos should confess to ordering their soldiers to waterboard their victims instead of instructing them to break the usual kneecaps.
According to Obama administration precedent, confessing to ordering torture grants the penitent unconditional immunity for themselves and their underlings.
So, let’s get this figured out. If you make book in New England, you go to jail. If you dip your fingers into a pension account, you go to jail. But if you order the torture of powerless prisoners under your control, you get to brag about your nefarious deeds in a best selling book and have the President of the United States of America dismiss your crimes against humanity as something less worth investigating than running a whore house in Manhattan.
Illegal gambling - worth prosecuting.
Ordering the torture of prisoners by waterboarding - not worth prosecuting.
President Obama and his underlings have demonstrated the complete contempt they have for the law.
Gumby has shown more backbone than either Obama or Holder.
(Is it surprising that there doesn’t appear to be any Mafia activity in Chicago?)
