{"id":78527,"date":"2021-06-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78527"},"modified":"2022-05-24T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:49:12","slug":"whats-swedish-for-omerta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78527","title":{"rendered":"What’s Swedish For Omert\u00e1<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When people can’t trust the “Justice” system, they create their own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Irish cops to legends of The Godfather <\/em>and Goodfellas <\/em>and The Sopranos<\/em> to the various warlords and cartels of Central America (and what is a cartel but a warlord with a product people want to buy?), the long legacy of people, even in a place that’s prided itself on this justice system, who find themselves needing to turn to their own communities (read: the elements of their communities with the fewest scruples about applying force to gain power) to get, if not “justice”, at least a order they as a group can live with, albeit at a cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trick? Get the locals to fear you, and the erstwhile authorities at least to give you some room<\/a> out of mutual convenience, if not outright getting on your payroll<\/a>. And\/or both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So – can we, the people, trust our institutions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n