Cartel? the Mafia? do they exist? and how to you enter?

Question

i think i was watching criminal underworld and it said something about the Cartel (sorry if its spelt wrong) and its meant to be something similar to the mafia. but i typed cartel into google and nothing came up relating to the criminal world. is it real and how do you enter because my mate (all mouth) will just not shut up about them so i just wanna dangle the carrot and see what the donkey does.

thanx

Answer 1

Organized crime has deep roots in time. The Italian mafia was founded in Italy in the 1800’s, originally as a group of resistance fighters. Their power grew and evolved over time into the idea of organized crime that it is today. The Italian mafia, as it operates in Italy is still very powerful. As late as 1992, they were actively killing law enforcement personnel with terroristic bombing tactics. The Italian mafia found its way to the U.S. beginning in the 1900’s when IOC figures came illegally into the country. Most of them being Sicilian Mafiosi. Many of the Mafia members who came here in the early 1920s helped establish the La Cosa Nostra or the American Mafia. This is not to say that there isn’t other organized crime in this country. Beyond the American (Italian) Mafia, the FBI recognizes Eurasian, Asian and African organized crime groups active in this country.

The traditional organized criminal syndicate preyed on the vulnerability and ignorance of people. Those particularly susceptible were immigrants to this country. They were vulnerable in that most didn’t speak English and they did not understand American law. Additionally, many immigrants were fleeing from countries where they were terrorized by their governments and they lived in fear of officials such as police. They were unlikely to seek help from law enforcement. If one takes Chicago as an example of how traditional organized crime could operate, the scenario goes as follows:

Chicago was a gateway to the unsettled lands of the west and it became a funnel for young men seeking their fortune in the frontier. Saloons, gambling parlors and brothels sprang up around Chicago to “serve” these young men as they spent their final days or nights in civilization before heading into the wilderness. Immigrants flooded into and through Chicago. By the 1870’s Chicago had a well established “vice” industry (they even published a directory of such places for visitors) and immigrants a plenty, Chicago was ripe for organized crime. Roger Plant is considered Chicago’s first crime czar, but Michael Cassius McDonald organized the first criminal syndicate in Chicago. In the early 1900’s James Colosimo built the first truly Italian crime syndicate in Chicago, which was followed by the Torrio/Capone Syndicate.

The traditional organized crime syndicate relied on muscle, direct threat, fear, ignorance and overt acts of violence to achieve its goals. People are not as ignorant today and are more aware of organized crime. Has organized crime declined, or is it just hiding behind the Armani and a well-paid team of lawyers? Today’s organized crime has become more “respectable” in that it is more subtle and works the system to its advantage. They are also taking advantage of technology. The Department of Homeland Security has issued advisories about possible connections between virus attacks and organized crime or terrorists. “Organized crime is clearly looking to leverage technology,” according to Erik Laykin (president of Online Security Inc.). He points out that the intelligence community recognizes that organized crime is much more sophisticated these days than it once was – technologically speaking.

Answer 2

Mafia => Italian gangster gangs ( See "The Godfather" etc.)

Cartel => Capitalist Fat Cats OR Colombian Drug Barons as in Medaillin Cartel ( See "Clear and Present Danger" )

Membership I suspect by invitation only

Answer 3

Your friend is living in dreamland!You cant enter this sort of thing they usually stick to their own kind and choose their members from there.

Your friend would need to be connected and im sure he or she is not.Tell them to think of something else like skating or something.

Answer 4

Organisations like this don't tend to advertise for new members...

Answer 5

You need to have the rigth profile to get into. If you are a long term politician your are high quialified to enter.

Answer 6

CIA, 'Mayor' Giuliani's campaign, crossing state lines with impunity- AT&T ripoffs via W.E.S. fed billions to Fox, tainting FoxNews, to WB, tainting CNN, to CBS, NBC, so all are crooks, all are RICO-profiteers, illegally proximate.

Mafia is a joke, compared to the serious, Judeo-Catholic US cartel, which is illegally established, to unconstitutional royal favors for Windsors, Saudis, Vatican, and sparsely Jewish Davidian organized crime.  They kill, steal, ripoff, BIG time.



The royal scam cartel plays drug LAWS with uneven enforcement, into all kinds of trouble.  Their big gig is stealing Palestine, to degeneratively invade Iran.  See TURKEY?  That means, NOT FOR LONG.

Royal Scam Cartel cooks all the books, sells new ones!

Royal Scam Cartel plays illegal traffic in drugs and persons, with illegal media, from across borders, so all jurisdictions undermine each other.  No wonder Hitler was so buggin' about 'Eines Folk, eines Reich!'

When GW finishes cooking us, we will have to pancake all the undermined cities and counties into something desperate, which has been poorly planned, so far.

Answer 7

they both exist, but they are a very tight private group..they dont openly recruit, and to be honest i personally wouldnt want to join, i was with someone who had dealing with one of the groups, last time i heard from he/she was over a yr ago and from what i hear they are a bad bad inhumane person...what goes around comes around...its a tough organisation and very crewl..

just stick to watching scarface and the godfather..

Answer 8

You are now a suspect of the Department of Homeland Security especially after 9-11. There are Mafias under different people and they would contact you if they find to help their cause.

Answer 9

You dont just 'sign up'. When they say I know a guy thats relly how it works! Today, the mafia is more legit -if you will- and isnt in older day New York (or Kansas City, where I lived). Now its more... secret. The Gambino family just got busted and some people have never heard of them as before everyone would know the leading mafia family. Unless someone in your relaited family is in the mafia you can just woltz in and get a job!

Answer 10

u have to know people, who know people. eventually you'll get an offer you cant refuse

Answer 11

Haha. They don't exactly recruit people using the internet. Unless you have connections, you won't be able to get anywhere. I suggest you don't even talk about these things online, especially on an American website since it seems most Americans are paranoid about these things. Good luck.

Answer 12

You have been reading too many fantasy books and  watching too many 'Godfather Films'.If you get involved in the Mafioso or'Brotherhood' One thing is guarrenteed you will not live very long!!

Answer 13

The Mafia certainly exists and cartel might be as in Drugs Cartel, i wouldn't be involved in any of these things if i were you.

Answer 14

A cartel is a group who work together, usually to fix the price.