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Do You Know About the Most Powerful Crime Syndicate In Europe?

The ’Ndrangheta organized crime syndicate has invaded Europe with a dark cloud of violence, drugs, and corruption at the highest levels, and appears poised to grow even stronger in 2012 as Italy teeters on the brink of economic collapse.

For the first time, syndicate bosses described their organization to the German newspaper “Der Spiegel” last week, some of which is excerpted in this piece. Through dominance of the European cocaine trade, the ‘Ndrangheta themselves explain how their clan has become one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the Western world.

And before you decide “this is Europe’s problem,” below is relevant history and context that show the ‘Ndrangheta is already a threat to European states — and could soon cause problems here in America, as  evidenced by their ties with Mexican drug cartels.

Do You Know About the Most Powerful Crime Syndicate In Europe?

credit: Francesco Sbano/Der Spiegel

First, we have to understand the environment in which a mafia can grow and thrive.

The original Sicilian mafia formed in the early 19th century at a time of social upheaval and civil unrest across Italy. As the inhabitants of Sicily moved away from a feudal society, there were food shortages, bandits roamed the countryside, and many towns had no local police.

It was in those surroundings that the first mafia became extralegal protectors and arbitrators for peasants and merchants. From humble Sicilian origins, the mafia’s power would grow for over a hundred years. Many Mafiosi were forced to flee Sicily for America, however, when their offer of uniting with fascists under Mussolini was rebuffed and “Il Duce” tried to eliminate them. They were seen as a threat to the fascists’ power as a state within a state.

Fast forward to the early 1990s and the cocaine trade:

Before Osama Bin Laden became the most wanted man in the world, perhaps the only individual who had  reached the level of a national security threat to the United States was Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar’s vast wealth threw Colombia into a bloody civil war, and years later his ability to buy even the most senior government officials — and have others assassinated — seems hard to fathom.

Now to the present.

The ‘Ndrangheta is reaching its peak power at a time of broad civil unrest in Italy not unlike that of Italy during unifications in the 1800’s or when fascism was ascendant in the 1930′s. Some form of enhanced statism– some would even say fascism– could be in Italy’s future if the country suffers a complete economic collapse and places controls on all hard currency. Crime families could choose to align themselves or influence the statists, or become a para-state organization operating a vast black market.

On top of that, ‘Ndrangheta already has the nation-state level cash resources of a Colombian drug cartel, at a time when cash reserves in Europe are in short supply. In a declining economy, illicit opportunities will become increasingly attractive, and there are estimates that as much as 3 percent of the Italian GDP may be a result of the actions of the ‘Ndrangheta today.

All one has to do is look at the rise of Russian mafia in the wake of the Soviet collapse to see that organized crime can become a strategic and international security threat. If the Russian mafia could reach the top of the power structure in a former global nuclear power, the threat to Italy must be taken seriously as well.

Do You Know About the Most Powerful Crime Syndicate In Europe?

credit: Francesco Sbano/Der Spiegel

So who are the ‘Ndrangheta?

There are estimated to be 10,000 ‘Ndrangheta members in the world today. Their home base, Calabria, is in southern Italy, forming the “toe of the boot” that is the Italian Peninsula.

Their ranks are roughly broken down into “illuminati” (“enlightened ones”) and “manovali” (“henchmen”). Members are “baptized” at age 18, which refers to the secret ritual in which one is accepted into the “onorata società,“ or ”honored society,” as the ‘Ndrangheta calls itself. There are families that have intermarried as many as four times in the 20th century, which is a deliberate strategy to promote loyalty and avoid informants.

In fact, “pentiti,“ or ”the repentant ones” (called “stool pigeons” in America) are very rare when dealing with ‘Ndrangheta. According to statistics compiled by the Italian judiciary, “until 2008 there were about 1,000 pentiti affiliated with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, 2,000 with the Camorra in Naples — but only 42 with the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta.”

Today, Ndrangheta remains rooted in small villages in Calabria, in particular two hamlets, Plati and San Luca.

Do You Know About the Most Powerful Crime Syndicate In Europe?

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As for violence, the group keeps pace with the most bloodthirsty organized crime families. A gang war in 1975 claimed 300 lives, and most of the high-profile mafia violence in Germany in recent years has been attributable to ‘Ndrangheta clans.

They are willing to use especially brutal methods to terrify civilians and send a message to authorities. In one such instance in 1991, according to Business Insider, “The members killed a butcher in the village of Taurianova in broad daylight. They cut off his head with one of his own knives and used the head for target practice in the village’s main piazza.”

In one of its most well-known actions, ‘Ndrangheta members kidnapped oil tycoon heir John Paul Getty III in 1973. It was the ransom money from such kidnappings, including $2.7 million in the Getty case, that was used as seed capital to enter the intercontinental cocaine market.

Do You Know About the Most Powerful Crime Syndicate In Europe?

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Italian officials have estimated that 80 percent of Europe’s cocaine now enters through the Calebrian coast, making it one of the major gateways for cocaine coming from South America worldwide.

‘Ndrangheta Clans earns millions with each new shipment, and are sure to bribes officials who make decisions at ports of entry.

The ‘Ndrangheta will send members to South America to negotiate cocaine deals, and are willing to consider alternative payment methods for South American groups that want something other than cash. Clan members have even arranged for the transport of military-grade weapons from the Balkans to groups in South America.

While the ‘Ndrangheta are careful not to take risks by committing low-level street crimes, they are willing to engage in other schemes if the price is right, such as sinking radioactive waste off of the coast of Italy. They even have their own small navy, as seen in 2006 when a submarine laden with drugs was seized off of the Italian peninsula.

Law enforcement is trying to fight back of course, but with each raid, it becomes increasingly clear that the group has ties to the most senior levels of government and vast resources. According to Der Spiegel: “On July 13, 2010, public prosecutors struck in massive raids across Italy. The police seized assets worth about €1 billion. The clan, according to the investigators, has invested a substantial portion of its drug money in companies and real estate.”

Here is a video clip of an ‘Ndrangheta leader getting arrested on the street in Spain, courtesy of the Spanish Federal police:

Despite law enforcement pressure, business continues to boom for the ‘Ndrangheta. In fact, they have so much money, some senior members have complained of the difficult finding places to invest it. But sources say since the mafiosi have been able to send their children to the best schools to produce lawyers, tax consultants, bankers and doctors, they can run money-laundering operations at the highest international levels.

This money has also allowed their influence to rapidly grow. ’Ndrangheta are alleged to own an entire neighborhood in Brussels, for example, and have substantial real estate holdings across Europe.

They are even influencing and buying national political elections. According to Business Insider: “Votes from ex-pat Italians are thought to have been bought to get Berlusconi party member Nicola Di Girolamo elected in 2008. In 2010, Di Girolamo was arrested for money laundering.”

Do You Know About the Most Powerful Crime Syndicate In Europe?

AP photo

If all this is true, you might ask,  why are we hearing about them now? Why are they sitting down with a major international newspaper?

Because they are getting stronger, and they want people to know it. They are increasingly operating out in the open. Clan members believe a storm is coming in Italy, and they are preparing to reap the benefits.

One source put it succinctly for Der Spiegel:

“They want to cultivate the myth of invincibility.”

(Read the full Der Spiegel article here.)

Comments (134)

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  • A Conservatarian
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:34pm

    Its called various names… I call it the fractional reserve banking cartel and they came here shortly after our revolutionary war and have been here ever since.

    That’s the most powerful crime syndicate in Europe, bar-none.

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    • grampdad
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:56pm

      Agree heartily, some of their alias’ could be The Illumaniti, Trilateralists, & Builderbergers, but they all speak of a New World Order through a one world currency.

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    • Yeah_Buddy
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:47pm

      Good reason NOT to outlaw assault-type weapons here.
      Instead, outlaw Obummer. Oh wait, he is probably already illegal.

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    • bmwrider
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 5:07pm

      Half baked, Ron Paul inspired economic nonsense. Without fractional reserve banking, banks would need to keep 100% of their assets in vaults. They could not lend money, earn profit, or pay interest to savers. You would be just as well off keeping money under a mattress, which I am sure you already do.

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    • ScratInTheHat
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 5:59pm

      @bmwrider How did we ever survive before we started letting the banks stick it to us and turn money=work into money=wherever they tell us it is! Another brainwashed rube!

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    • Cat
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 6:33pm

      Previously posted in another thread …
      (Someone at the BLAZE probably picked up on it)

      Really?
      How much do we really know about the real manipulators and what they plan to do with all our money?
      Ask Leo Lyon Zagami, an ex-member of the Comitato Esecutivo Massonico – Masonic Executive Committee (MEC) of Monte Carlo.

      “Google-it”
      There are too many links to post here
      Judge for yourselves

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    • Fla Del
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 6:41pm

      I wonder how the supporters of Islam and Caliphate feel about this group trying to take over Europe. They are already doing that. Could be an underground war coming soon. Someone please tell me where I can buy front row seats to watch this event. Should be a good one.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 6:42pm

      I thought it was only those evil muslims who committed such horrific violence. Notice the word terrorist is never used. What‘s a little beheading if it’s not done by muslims. innocent till proven guilty for them.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 9:00pm

      Second picture is a Woman… look at the shoulders and the hips.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 9:45pm

      and the most powerful crime syndicate in these United States are in Washington, D.C. working on how better to fleece the people.

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    • P-51D
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 10:19pm

      I thought it was MI-5 or MI-6.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 10:30pm

      In the video 3 cops with a camera man capture one of their leaders in daytime without any resistance? No body guards? No one to help. Seems fake to me. Those cops would have been gunned down in no time if he was a big bad a55 leader of a nasty group like that.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:14pm

      Here’s an interesting side bar. After the Japanese decimated our fleet in Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, they could have sent their troop ships and carriers directly to California to finish what they started. The prediction from our Chief of Staff was we would not be able to stop a massive invasion until they reached the Mississippi River. Remember, we had a 2 million man army and war ships in other localities, so why did they not invade? After the war, the remaining Japanese generals and admirals were asked that question. Their answer….they know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them. The world’s largest army…America’s hunters! A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin.Allow me to restate that number.Over the last several months, Wisconsin’s hunters became the eighth largest army in the world.More men under arms than in Iran.More than in France and Germany combined.These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan’s 700,000 hunters, All of whom have now returned home.Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. The point?

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:23pm

      America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower. Hunting — it’s not just a way to fill the freezer.. It’s a matter of national security.

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    • JL320
      Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:09am

      They got granpas hunting shotgun lookout!

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    • DoubleThrowDown
      Posted on January 11, 2012 at 2:55am

      If they are going to become the most powerful crime syndicate in America then they are going to have to dethrone the democratic party. (we might have a third party)

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    • JL320
      Posted on January 11, 2012 at 3:20am

      This is whats here in our country now http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/03/narco-execution-videos-and-its-effects.html Sorry but some euro idiots with shotguns don’t bother me. These monsters have ties all the way up to Obama. Evil is here.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on January 11, 2012 at 7:33am

      Aconservatarian: “… the fractional reserve banking cartel… That’s the most powerful crime syndicate in Europe, bar-none”

      So true, except too parochial. The central banking system is the most powerful crime syndicate in the world, not just Europe. And, just like the ‘Ndrangheta and the Cosa Nostra, it is related to an ethnic clan dispersed around the globe. Unlike the ‘Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra, the banking cartels are Jewish and not Italian.

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on January 11, 2012 at 9:03am

      @JL320
      I agree, we have people like that already here on/inside our border and “Dear Leader” is complicit, at best, with actions like that.
      If anyone, ESPECIALLY on the border, is not armed to the teeth and at least semi-proficient with their weapons then hopefully that will jolt them into action.

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  • TH30PH1LUS
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:16pm

    Italy is becoming the “Mexico” of Europe. How the mighty have fallen.

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  • Secret Squirrel
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:15pm

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    “the Most Powerful Crime Syndicate In Europe?”
    Goldman / Sachs is in Europe too?

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    • SgtB
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:08pm

      And what about De Beers?

      Remember one small but extremely consequential fact people. Monopolies, cartels, and general market manipulation through force and coercion are only possible because of gov’t involvement. Ever wonder why we have the “Big 3” and not the little 50? EPA, USDOT, OSHA, FTC, NHTSA, and the list goes on. In a distorted market, only the people with big money and influence can operate.

      So how does this apply to this story? Simple, the use of drugs by adults has been outlawed. This created a black market for the “good”. Simply put, gov’t regulation of a good or service produces an underground market for said good or service. This is a fact because you cannot legislate the morality of man. Whether or not you see something as moral is a personal opinion and for gov’t to try to legislate these standards leads to demoralization of the state as a whole. When this happens, crime runs rampant and what once was a nuisance or simply deviant behavior scoffed upon by society is now marked by violence and death, even for those not involved in said behavior.

      BTW, this is coming from a Marine Corp veteran who has never used any drug aside from alcohol (which humans have relied upon for a few thousand years to keep them through drought, winter, and crop failure), and I don’t count the nicotine that I constantly inhaled from birth to the age of 18 and every subsequent visit home.

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    • stage9
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:12pm

      The greatest political crime syndicate in the US comes out of Chicago.

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 9:56pm

      @SGTB-I agree. succinct truth is like poetry.

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  • Marsh626
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:10pm

    Hate on the KKK all you want, but this is why they opposed Italian immigration (especially from southern Italy). Southern Italians seem to have a natural inclination towards engaging in organized crime activity, moreso than any other White ethnic group. Don’t get me wrong, I like a lot of Italians. But I also like the truth and stability. Opening our borders to crime infested communities is a horrible idea.

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    • may40
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:41pm

      You are actually justifying the KKK for their hate of Sicilian’s? First off my grandparents immigrated here over 95 years ago from Sicily and worked hard in the mills. They didn’t have their hands out waiting for the Government to feed them. To them, it was humiliating not to provide for your family not so much anymore. I know plenty of honest Italians and dishonest ones, just like I know plenty of honest and dishonest French, Irish, Dominican’s, Greeks so on and so forth. Don’t try to through a whole nationality under the bus b/c of a few rotten ones.

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    • MeandMyXD
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:46pm

      I’m Italian…..born here….raised here…..Some of my ancestors came here from southern Italy….I don’t engage in illegal activity and neither did my ancestors. You can’t make a blanket statement regarding the moral intent of an entire population of a given region. To do so displays complete ignorance.

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    • fangbanger
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 6:50pm

      organized crime has nothing to do with race. every nationality has their version of the mafia

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    • 0gre
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 9:07pm

      Are you seriously saying that? Seriously? OK, lets hear about your ethnic background and see what kind of equally awesome and enlightened comments you get in response. . .

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  • Blazen420
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:04pm

    Big deal! We have THE largest crime organization in the world right here in America…..It called the
    US Government. And Americans have become so stupid that the criminals need not even hide their crime anymore. Hell, the news media even brags about it. Keep on voting for these idiot ass Dems and Reps and support the American cartels.

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    • rienheart
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:20pm

      Got to Agree. They don’t have anything compared to American Crime Bosses, Hell our Crime Bosses have the “Bomb”

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  • Heil88
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:29pm

    These thugs need to be worried about the citizens of the US. Were sick of the crime and corruption on both sides of the field. The state and government employees work for us. If they won’t start to do their jobs, we as the people will stand up fire and impeach all of those not preforming their duties that they swore to uphold. We the people will take our country back and hold all those accountable who have be derelict in their duties.

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    • GO-FOR-LIBERTY
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:08pm

      And rumors of war.

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    • M 4 Colt
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:37pm

      I hate to say this but if you are able to vote the bad ones out of office the crime groups have so much money that they will just buy the new ones we vote into office. One of the only hopes we have are TERM LIMITS!! That way they are in and out of office before they can be bought off.

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    • a true texan
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:51pm

      HEILL88: The problem with saying we will fire them is waiting for the next election. They will have up to 4 years to pass more regulations, fill positions by fiat and shred the constitution even more. The problem my friend is that only 8-10% of voting age Americans vote that leaves something like 100 MILLION people who do not vote. So you may be right Americans are tired of it just enough so to complain but not actually to take action! We are a LAZY bunch of people, as a whole, and sadly we deserve the government we have. I hope more of us stand up and take action, speak out and become active. May God have mercy on us.

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  • bankerpapaw
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:25pm

    We certainly have organized crime in America. It’s call Congress and the Obama thugs.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:30pm

      Well what do you expect? That’s what big government breeds. People are not really anarchist, because if anarchists created their own society it wouldn’t be long before the anarchists formed a more tyrannical government. Ninety nine percent of the time people reject government and get a worse government. That‘s why the Founding Father’s were so special.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:37pm

      See look at it this way. There is God’s government which is the laws of nature, which is also Liberty from the laws of men. But, locusts don‘t like having to self govern themselves in the confines of God’s laws, and therefore men create their own governments because they think God is unfair. So then there are two governments men have to answer to, and the greedy self righteous men can suck the life from other men.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:48pm

      And now, the point the world is at now, even though you don’t really realize because it has happened so slowly is a point of total utter collapse. Because, a tyranny replaced a tyranny which replaced a tyranny over and over again, and many many walls were built. But now the Prophecies of the Prophets are coming to pass because God runs faster than men do.

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    • SoulReaver
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:49pm

      Big government is not the problem the wrong government is. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a limited efficient government that protects its peoples interests and promotes free markets the problem with our government is that it is not doing these things in an efficient manner that promotes the free market when applicable.

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    • CLEttinger
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:51pm

      Example: Boy A goes to school keeps his head down and studies hard, goes to college and gets a great degree. Boy B goes to school goofs around, smokes weed barely graduates, gets a government grant for same college drops out after 2 years. Boy B is mad because he’s working at Burger King while boy A is now a Doctor, Boy B think he’s not getting his fair share.

      This is the moral degridation of our society being propogated by our politicians wanting to keep people ignorant so they can reap the benifits of their corruption. They promiss Boy B more free stuff that Boy A must pay for. More people see that Boy B is getting by without working hard so more people start sliding by as their is less and less incentive to push hard. Our politicians want his because they just have to promiss more free stuff to get the votes, easy work for them and they guarantee easy work for their ignorant followers untill the system collapses because their aren’t enough people working hard.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:12pm

    No, but I know about the one here: check out the white (NOT) house and congress.

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  • batteredyoungpatriot
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:47am

    Could u imagine a world where these people were taxed and their businesses were kept track of. Does anyone else realize how much less violent our world would be if that were the case!?!

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    • David Ross
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:15pm

      @youngPatriot, don’t be fooled by the fallacy of legalizing crime makes it vanish. Remember that it takes money to create power and when combined together you have corruption especially in socialist societies.

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:19pm

      Implying they would run a lawful business.
      Implying they wouldn’t do other illegal activities.
      Implying these thugs wouldn’t still be violent.

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    • LostDog54
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:28pm

      @David
      I never did heroin or smoked crack because I didnt want to. Not because it was illegal. Its easier for school aged kids to get illicit drugs than it is for them to by cigarettes or beer. In my opinion, legalizing drugs wouldnt add to the addiction rate, it would simply take away the illegal violence created on the black market over cash. Clearly the war on drugs hasnt worked. Time to try something new. And no I am not a Ron Paul supporter by any means.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:45am

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    E.U. Officals can barely ‘Pick at their own Butt”, much less fight crime…………………

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  • Locked
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:37am

    “If all this is true, you might ask, why are we hearing about them now? Why are they sitting down with a major international newspaper?”

    Seems an odd question to ask, as the article itself relates events and violence from 20-40 years ago. The group isn’t new.

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:29am

    Obama & Co. armed the Mexican drug cartels with illegally traffiked firearms via Eric Holder/BATFE. Obama forced the US taxpayers to purchase some of these illegally traffiked arms by BATFE via “Stimulus #1″ (a.k.a. jobs program). How many of these arms will find their way into the hands of Ndrangheta?

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  • SoupSandwich
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:26am

    These wusses got nothing on our EPA or BATFE.

    A hunting shotgun? The best pose was with 2 bird guns? Posers in new cammie with bird guns. Sure. Quaking at the thought they may intrude on MS13 or bloods and crippies bidness. Sure.

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    • geomann
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:43am

      My thoughts exactly. Shotguns and pistols = short range. Invest in repeating rifles with scopes, people. The second picture was had some pretty good stuff, but I think those are in the hands of law enforcement. Crap, I just realized it is a revolving door…crime, confiscation, BATF sales back to criminals. Like I said, invest in arms while you still can.

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    • LostDog54
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:33pm

      Looks like a duck hunter…. If we arent careful this dude might bust out his upland game bird under over. These guys know how to bring the shock and awe. Just dont bring it around me. Might find yourself in a world of hurt. Ill hit him running at 250 yards and kill more ducks than dude with my eyes closed. Good luck and dont forget to turn your pistol sideways before you start clappin’. Jokers with guns make me laugh. Learn how to shoot folks.

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    • LadyLibertea
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:36pm

      I had the same thought….that guy is standing there with a shotgun for hunting. The midget only looks like he stands about 12 inches above the counter top too. Now I know that size doesn’t matter if a person is crazy…..but come on. To him and the guy with the ax….why are you hiding your faces if your not afraid???

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  • Speak without Fear
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:25am

    Have you ever heard of the most powerful crime syndicate in America? BarackHusseinObamanesta’s.

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  • altops
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:23am

    same as it ever was,same as it ever was,same as it ever was,same as it ever was,same as it ever was,

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  • commonsense2012
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:18am

    Obviously, the military must take on the job of ending this. Police can not handle this.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:27am

      So your answer to domestic problems is to send in the military? Obama, is that you? You want to use some drones maybe? Now that thw NDAA is in place, you can start your drones to flying….Get ‘er done Obama! Too bad you arent the Prsident of Italy…

      You need to change your username.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:13am

    Wrong!!! It’s their Government!

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  • kconservative
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:12am

    Good Job Blaze, this is the first I have heard of them. Very informative article. Exit Polls should be reported any time in New Hampshire. I hope the blaze has an Exit poll feed. They have one at http://www.NoBarry.com

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  • Watcher11
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:12am

    again Ron Paul is correct if you legalize drugs for one purpose only the drug trade that governments are using to transport around the world and make money from would stop overnight for the risk of your children using them, take responibilty and be good parents and you settle that risk as just bull! what is the difference in our society now for the drugs are winning the war and the governments are so precise on the money they can tell you how much they rack in!

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    • Tretka
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:29am

      You are wrong in my opinion. Where there is a market, there will be distributors. If legalized, there is a possibility of legalized brutalities and death concerning anything to do with drugs-on an open and epic scale.

      Secondly, the big picture is, why would we say okay to something that is so corrosive to the human race? In my opinion we should stand against it anything to do with drugs.

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  • Bluedog78
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:06am

    Legalize that crap and put them out of business, or continue to deal with the corruption and bloodshed. Prohibition or no prohibition there will always be junkies.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:15am

      You are correct sir. I might add that if someone were to sell drugs to a child, they would be locked up though…If dopers want to be dopers, so be it. Allow the stong to survive and the weak lazy a@@ punks to choke on their own vomit and die…

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    • behindHIM
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:04pm

      Ohh yeh, no more bloodshed if you take away a syndicate’s money maker, sure a “law” solves the whole thing…THEIR OUTLAWS brainiac!!! That’s how countries find their public officials dead in the streets.

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    • Locked
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:21pm

      “THEIR OUTLAWS brainiac!!! ”

      The wording you wanted was “They’re“ not ”their.”

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  • blackstone22
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:05am

    Truly fascinating, i haven’t read anything on this group before and it seems likely their power in Italy and elsewhere will grow given severe economic conditions

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:04am

    Its coming and its going to be bad.
    Once europe collapse – we will be next shortly thereafter
    Marshall – law & NDAA coming to a neighborhood near you.
    Obviously it will begin in the urban environment and expand to the suburbs.
    This does not even account for the dust up with Iran and the price of Oil going crazy.
    Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your persecutive most Americans have their head up their butts. – But I graduated from High school and 2+2 still =s 4.
    The smart ones will be as prepared as they can.

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    • Bonnieblue2A
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:35am

      I think you meant “martial law” not Marshall. Obviously Ron Paul is correct about getting rid of the Dept. of Education as well as deffering drug laws to the states per the US Constitution.

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  • sWampy
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:00am

    Drugs are such an easy problem to fix, it amazes me the amount of money we piss away fighting them. All you have to do is poison all drugs you capture, put them back on the streets, when there is a 75% chance you do it you will die, the demand will go away. Of course PC bs keep that from happening, and as with most pc crap, millions suffer needlessly because of the pc bs.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:19am

      I like! Sure gonna miss my brother, nephew and ex wife….Too bad, so sad…

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    • Tom K
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:26am

      That is how Hitler got rid of the heroin users; intercepted shipments, poisoned the load and the addicts did themselves in. Wonder if Ndrangheta is contributing to Obama’s campaign ?

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:35pm

      Has nothing to do with pc bullsh&&.It has to do with morals.Speaking of which do you have any at all?
      If you said that jokingly and I took it wrong I”m sorry.Doesn’t translate onto written word.Maybe you have the morals of a swamp rat the rest of us don’t.While I agree that bending over backward to fix their problem is wrong and doesn’t work.I don’t think you or anyone else has the right to kill them for their addictions.Then again would you be able to tell the difference between a track mark from drug use versus plasma donation?Why is that important you ask?People who think like you do, start slowly, then disentigrate into ever more far reaching bully pulpits of power.With that train of thought it wouldn’t be long someone like you would go after any one THEY THINK is or was connected to the drug trade.Why the track marks are on their arms ,be damned.Its What you think that matters, not truth and reality.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 10:59am

    Do you know about the most powerful crime syndicate in America ? The CRIMINAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT……. They will be the ones to take your homes, your guns, your freedoms…. Not some assbackward , inbred camelhumper…….

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:20am

      Bingo.

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    • JERSEYJUDE
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:05pm

      @Detroit paperboy – Amen to that…Your statement is reality and and your descriptions so funny.

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    • Biddle
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:18pm

      You said it! They fund these fools!!!!! Enough! How does the CIA get their information? THink about it people….its all pay-to-play! The love of money is ….what?……the ROOT of….go ahead say it. It proves itself.

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  • Athinkerinaseaoflibs
    Posted on January 10, 2012 at 10:56am

    All the gun laws in Europe appear to be working well

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:02am

      LOL yeah. Its like the criminals dont care about the laws.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:11am

      Obama could “Fast and Furious” them some …..maybe he has???

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