what I mean is this the thing that people who study organized crime never seem to understand is the fact that the real problem is that it’s not just that there’s a group of criminals murderers psychopaths people who want to make a lot of money as quickly as possible it’s really about the mindset of this place because here’s the thing you grow up and live in a place where you don’t have a right to a thing that is from the day you’re born you have no rights nothing is assured you’ve got nothing I mean how do I say this anyplace else there are more or less acceptable services for nearly everyone decent schools public transport municipal services that work relatively well or at least there’s an idea that there could be such things but not here in our town here there’s nothing and I mean nothing there’s fuck all there’s not a movie theater not a library not a public park not even a working school so since there’s not a fucking thing here no services no public institutions no nothing of any kind what you’re left with is that for anything that you can get out of life here you have to turn to the organization to the clan to get it here they’re in charge or else if you want to avoid trouble and it doesn’t take a lot to satisfy you then you have to work everything out on your own because most of the time the decision not to get involved with the clan is not so much a question of being for it or against it but because you’re afraid that if you do then you’ll run into problems

actually even though people might think of the organization as something that is in sharp contrast with the rule of law social order peace and quiet the social compact all the same where I come from it’s considered by quite a few people to be a sort of way out a safety net because if you’re born here and you have no family money then you’re destined either to remain poor for the rest of your life or else to move to the north to find work many young people who just have temporary or seasonal jobs or who are completely jobless see the organization as their one chance of survival and so even people who live a normal but underprivileged existence see the organization as the one way out of poverty a path to salvation either directly or indirectly for instance there are people who work as fronts and before you know it they are officially registered as the owners of significant amounts of property because the organization puts companies chains of stores houses beach houses expensive cars all kinds of things in their name