Derrick Broze on organized crime in America
Derrick Broze (DBrozeLiveFree) is in Mexico, where cartel talk is constant. His read: America runs the same thing, only tucked further out of view. The story we got handed, Al Capone goes down once the FBI has machine guns, organized crime exits stage left. Broze isn't buying it. Groups like these never went anywhere, he says, and governments keep working with them, farming out the jobs nobody wants their name on. Intelligence networks included. Cartel is just the word for it. So the question sits there: is it still running America, just where nobody has to look?
Transcript (en)
How heavy is the influence of the mafia? Is it gone or is it something, or is it just gangsters wearing suits? We have this sort of, this history that they taught us in the U.S. that organized crime, you know, Al Capone, et cetera, in the early 20th century, they were all shut down once the FBI got machine guns and they went around and they caught all the bad guys and that's it, and organized crime's gone. And it's, you know, it's not a factor today. But the fact of the matter is they're still there and governments still work with them and they still, I mean, there's so many great books and research out there showing how the intelligence networks have worked with organized crime. And sometimes they outsource some of their dirty work to them. So I don't believe by any stretch of the imagination that the influence of organized crime is completely gone. Where I'm at in Mexico, people talk a lot about the cartel and stuff, which is just another word for organized crime gangs. I mean, it's the same in the US. It's just more hidden. Government is also an organized cartel. Government's a crime. I kind of just see them as competing, you know, competing cartels ultimately at the end of the day. If you enjoyed this, be sure to hit that like button and follow to stay up to date with what's going on in the world and everything else memes and markets. Peace.
