What's the difference between the government and a mafia family?

Question

I'm struggling to see any difference between the government and an organised crime family.
Protection racketeering, extortion and robbery. It seems like the government legalises these things and just gives them different titles.
Am I wrong?

CLARABELL, the govenment DO rule with fear and exploitation!

Maybe we should start calling Gordon Brown "The Don"?

Answer 1

In a mafia family you gotta have a little respect...badda bing, badda boom.....

Answer 2

Well back in the day government represented we the people and defended individual liberty as a limitation on government powers. Now I would say government authority is bought as a racket and elected officials spend all their time plotting barely legal ways around the constitution to give government more power.

Answer 3

A government should be democratically elected. A mafia family may rule through fear and exploitation.

Answer 4

Its a pity that the British electorate don't take on board your comment.No, you are not wrong,the Labour Party under Blair instigated the mafioso and his cohorts are carrying on likewise.Until we get rid of this government we can expect to be paying out protection money but not getting the value the marjority of us deserve.

Answer 5

I like the analogy. But the government is simply more efficient.

Mafia: Protection, racketeering, extortion and robbery
Government: Taxes

Answer 6

I believe the main difference would be one is a government and one is a family.

In other words, the organized crime family would be a family organized to do criminal activity.
A government would would be a group, not neccessarily a family, organized to do government activity.
It's really pretty simple. I don't understand why you would struggle with understanding the difference between them?
Maybe your struggle is with the similarity of the two.

Think of it this way!
Would you struggle seeing any difference between someone with a persistent cough smoking cigarettes and a heroin addict?

Answer 7

your not wrong in the slightest we put up with day in and day out when they tell us that they are doing things for our own good!
well i cant think of one thing they could have possibly done for me that i can perceive as good
if i was in a possession of trust say a doctor and i turned round and said hey sorry people but Ive left a CD with all your medical records on the bus i would get what? sacked sued probably that and more but hey give me a title stick me in a Parliament job and then pat me on the back and tell me we all make mistakes and these things happen
its b*******

Answer 8

Oh yes a hell of difference. The Mafia kills you and leaves a horses head in your bed. The government is sneaky it waits for an NHS hospital or terrorists bomb to kill you and you don't even get a complimentary horses head.. Poor joke about the NHS those people do a fantastic work.

Answer 9

there is one big difference, if the mafia is a threat to you or scares you you can run to the government for protection but if the government does you have no where to run for protection.

other than that I can't think of any difference.

RRRR

Answer 10

correct but its not so much the government but people of significants in it , they are placed in these positions by a powerful global group that does follow a sick ideology . every president or priminister in every so called civilised country is pushing the agenda of the new world order , they are gangsters yet they take it to a much higher level .

Answer 11

you're completely right vivi.... here in Italy the only difference is that a criminal when is caught goes to jail... the politician (tks to his strong connections in Mafia world) doesn't even go to court .... that's incredible...!! can you imagine what kind of people is leading our country ???