THE MAFIA WANTS MIDTERM POLLS

SUNNY THOMAS

Overexposed, the mafia wants a midterm poll. And a patronizing government that allows plundering the nation’s natural resources. Money and muzzle power, the mafia has, as the killing of honest (police) officers demonstrate. To sync with the mafia, some of our political parties clothed in the ideological fig leaf to cover their naked ambition, too, demand a mid-term poll. In the name of patriotism, they want to loot the country!

Dancing behind the move is a fickle-minded chief minister, known for her trail of misery wherever she goes and the Group of Five scheming ahead for vain glory. That frequent elections are a drain on the Exchequer that stoke inflationary pressure on the economy that will rob people of their hard-earned incomes are of little concern for the Gang of Five in their horse race of aggrandizement.     

The alluring thing about a mafia democracy is that it can eliminate political rivals who are difficult to match in a battle of the ballot. No judiciary can touch the mafia because it leaves little tangible evidence, and even if there could be witnesses by accident, chilling fear down their spines silences them.

The intelligence mafia in America got John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinated in the 1960s, inaugurating an era of trigger-happy Presidents who sent American troops abroad at the slightest of provocation, and turning America from the most admired nation to the most disliked nation of the world! 

In the Canadian equivalent of Watergate – perhaps, too mild a comparison – nine sitting judges suddenly died, presumably silenced by the mafia for their knowledge and involvement. In a media bombshell, lawyer John Frederick Carten revealed that some politicians hand in glove with the water mafia were planning to redirect the flow of certain north Canadian rivers to benefit some private interests.

Williston Lake sits at an elevation of 2200 feet above sea level (671 m). A properly constructed aqueduct would permit water to flow down hill to California without the aid of expensive energy consuming pumping stations. Ten feet of water, taken from the surface, every year, would provide approximately 4 million acre feet, annually. If a fraction of the outflow of Williston Lake, 4 million acre feet, were diverted and sold in southern California for $1,000 per acre foot the annual revenue would be $4 billion. BEHIND EVERY GREAT CRIME IS A GREAT MOTIVE. 

In Italy, politicians often court mafia who can obtain votes during elections. An influential mafia can bring in thousands of votes for a candidate. The Italian Parliament has 945 seats and a large number of political parties vying for them. So the candidate wins by a few thousand votes and mafia support is decisive for success.

There are between 1,500 and 2,000 men of honor (mafia members) in Palermo province. Multiply that by 50 and you get a nice package of 75,000 to 100,000 votes to go to friendly parties and candidates.

It is the transition from feudalism to capitalism that witnessed the birth of mafia in Sicily in the mid-19th century. In India, it is the transition from command economy to free market economy that makes the home soil fertile for mafia. In Sicily, rising food prices made many law-abiding citizens bandits; in India, the rising petroleum prices (Dr Manmohan Singh’s favourite dose) would tempt many law-abiding citizens into mafia-dom.  

Long live the mafia, the porn mafia, the drug mafia, the sand mafia, the mine mafia, the realtor mafia, the b’rat (short for bureaucrat) mafia and the T-mafia (T for Trinamool)! Let us make Indian democracy safe for mafia!!