17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
The Mafia has had two primary characteristics: a) the use of force b) trade in elicit and prohibited goods and services Unless you can claim a reference to a Mafia at some time and place that had neither characteristics and a market which they monopolized which lacked any other intervention, then this all is utterly irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Matt
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That's inaccurate. The Mafia pre-dated the US by several hundred years if