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To: combjelly who wrote (300614)	8/18/2006 3:55:34 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1587540

But either way, what a clever way to keep the people behind you while you undertake some very questionable, criminal behavior." It is typical, actually. When government is a failure, then you get gangs. When the gangs grow up, they tend to fill in the role of the governments. Look at Sicily, for example. La Costa Nostra was a stand in for a government that did nothing for most of the citizenry. There are lots of other examples. Good point. I think even the gangs in the US have a little of that paternalistic [?] oversight. But it seems to me that Hamas and Hezbollah may have gone further with the concept.