I know that's a joke, but speaking as an Italian, it's not fair to say La Cosa Nostra, the Black Hand, or any of the earlier manifestations of the Mafia practice any religion other than greed and violence.
Even though I am a Protestant and have serious problems with the Roman Catholic Church, it is not fair to say that most people in the Mafia are practicing Catholics, any more than most people in Hispanic street gangs are practicing Catholics. Yes, they're often cultural Catholics, and yes, a fair number of their wives are practicing Catholics, but Joe Biden and Teddy Kennedy have more connection with the Church than most Mafiosi.
I'm not meaning to jump all over you, just speaking up because as an Italian Freeper who is not Catholic, I may be in a unique position to speak up for the Church in this matter.
As a Catholic, who has Italian-heritage extended family I was trying to make a subtle point.
That is that as much as this administration seems to enjoy using mob/mafia/thug tactic there are those that are better at it than this crowd.
And the original mafia, as murderous and criminal as they were, honored the Church and kept their ‘business’ out of it. It was line rarely crossed.
This group from the Washington/Ayers political line and trained in Rev. Wrights Church and Bill Ayers home seem to want to a pick a fight where they probably should not. They obviously do not understand that they may be crossing a line never crossed before with such an overtly direct attack on the Church.