What's the difference between the rule of law and the mafia? Supposedly one is less subject to corruption than the other, but which one? The law holds that only the state has the right to kill people. Killing someone without the permission of the state is a crime. But what happens when the state is corrupt?
From Newsweek (via The Daily Beast):
Although he acknowledges that the mafia once performed a useful function in Sicilian society in the early 20th century, by protecting the interests of local peasants against the corruption of Italian national police, those purer aims were lost when drug trafficking became the chief profit center for Sicilian crime bosses.People are insane. I wonder if the people who originally promoted the idea of making drugs illegal knew what they were doing. Did they know that by prohibiting them they would create an immensely profitable black market, and enslave a whole sub-section of society to a culture that constantly works to undermine the law? I suspect that the most vocal proponents of banning drugs were willing dupes who actually believed that prohibition would be good for society. But I am also sure they were instigators who knew exactly what they were doing, which was to create a system that would gain them more money and power.
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