drug | Mafia | issued | a | Communique |
aimed | at | correcting | public | opinion |
about | its | supposed | existence. | Now |
the | first | requirement | of | any |
Mafia, | wherever | it | may | be, |
is | naturally | to | prove | that |
it | does | not | exist, | or |
that | it | has | been | the |
victim | of | unscientific | calumnies; | and |
that | is | the | first | thing |
it | has | in | common | with |
capitalism. | But | in | these | particular |
circumstances, | this | Mafia | was | so |
irritated | at | being | the | only |
one | placed | under | the | spotlight |
that | it | went | so | far |
as | to | give | details | of |
the | other | groupings | who | were |
trying | to | cover | themselves | by |
illegitimately | using | it | as | a |
scapegoat. | It | declared: | 'We | ourselves |
don't | belong | to | the | Mafia |
of | politicians | and | bureaucrats, | bankers, |
financiers | or | millionaires, | nor | to |
the | Mafia | of | fraudulent | contracts, |
monopolies | or | oil, | nor | to |
the | media | Mafia.' We | can | doubtless |
assume | that | the | authors | of |
this | statement | have, | like | all |
the | rest, | an | interest | in |