"Cosa Nostra" : The Positive side.
The "Cosa Nostra' is often wrongly portrayed as organized crime in American history. It was in fact a reference to the immigrant people having their own justice system to protect themselves from the corruption within the system. These immigrants, these Italian immigrants were often preyed upon by the system, and by other Italian criminals, and so they set up their "own thing", La Cosa Nostra.
Well like anything, it can be corrupted, and so it may have over time, but the original intentions of it were to protect people, with law, order and compasssion. The black hand was the real criminal element, and "Mafia' was from the term mafioso, who was a rich, powerful individual who commanded attention and respect. Like anything, terms and ideas are corrupted. Take alook today how much corruption in the legal system, imagine 70 years ago, when immigrants could not speak the language.
So why is this positive side to"Cosa Nostra" missing from history ?
2007-01-08 08:28:27 · 3 answers · asked by Caesar J. B. Squitti 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The "Cosa Nostra" was originally formed to fight Spanish occupation of Sicily in the 15th or 16th century. The Cosa Nostra also provided the allies with help during the invasion of Sicily in WWII.
2007-01-08 08:34:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because there isn't one. That's not how it works. Every group operates out of a criminal network. Why do you think the New World was founded? To escape from that kind of filth. Even in England. Haply, it's at an end.
2007-01-08 08:31:14 · answer #2 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dago through rain, dago through snow, and when dago flat, dago wop wop wop
2007-01-08 08:31:12 · answer #3 · answered by jinenglish68 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋