Omertà
ITALY
The Italian civil society suffered a lot of scandals, controversial and terrific news of killings, kidnap kind, robberies... In the middle 1980s they were surviving the social eruption of dark terrorist in the last 20 years. It was a time in which the Italian society was convulsed. Also, by that bad times were opened the “Palermo's Maxiprocess against the Cosa Nostra that involved 475 defendants” (1) It last about 2 long years. In a few words it was considered the first real reaction of the Italian State towards the Sicilian Mafia. For the first time the “Cosa Nostra Mafia” members were convicted as belonging to a unitary and vertically mafia organization.
It was the specialized “Judges Task Force” created with this purpose with special capacities which conducted the investigation and created law new figures like the “repented criminals” (2). There were some repented big capo-mafia members who collaborated with the judges and broke the dense veil of “particular organize silence mafia conspiracy: omertà, which permitted them be invisible for dozens of years.
Authorities in all level were so afraid of almighty killing powers of Cosa Nostra Mafia. But after someone decided to act came a new hope. Next years they continue to take legal actions from different levels: new laws were approved by the top to bottom and continuously updated until today. Police began to say “no” to the bribes, death treats…, some of those courageous payed with theirs lives or their family members. Media also, took courage to say the truth… and so on. The other mafia groups: the so call N’dragueta from South continental Italy, the Camorra from the Napoli area, etc. began to be coop by the authorities (3). It was the beginning of a new fresh era in Italian society.
UNITED KINGDOM: OMERTA BRITISH STYLE
Same thing we see in The United Kingdom during the Leeds Process of so called “Rochdale grooming scandal”. Because they were Pakistani Muslim and the police, investigators, social workers, etc. were scared to take action from first notices in 2008 on “would be politically incorrect to accuse muslin minority members”. But the “conspiracy of silence” was broken after silences and fears by courageous citizens in the society and began to move the system until today.. (4)
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: HIERARCHY OMERTA
We see the same “conspiracy of silence” into the Catholic Church but in this case is about 90% with teenagers’ boys and little boys abused by homosexual clergies. A long line of hurt people moved out from God benefits in the Catholic Church. Must of them and their families resented with reason, for violently moved out from God lovely care, living the stigma forever.
The last drops arrived, overflowing the brim in North America. The slow correcting actions of this awful scandals changed the pass. At the very end of this October 2018, the American Justice Department took action to search in “All United States Catholic Dioceses” all curia’s archives looking for covered pedophiles. We will see how the actions take their way, we are in the really beginning of the hurry scandal solutions and hurt of the Catholic Church prestige in North America and the
world. I didn’t need to place references to internet: news are all over.
Same situation: Omertà Catholic Hierarchy style.
MY CONCLUSION
Thanks God we have: His grace which never fails, every day more abundant wise lay faithful who do not swallow any more lies and excuses, some clergies in position of authority to point at the scandal’s roots with courage and knowledge, the blessing of internet which do not let hide the tragedies any more, people who want to recover the hurt persons who left the Church…
Let’s all pray and work for solutions, every single one of us “From our own place and condition in the Church and in the Civil Society”. The Church is God’s property. It is Our Catholic Church. It is Our Civil Society. We will make it with the grace of God.
Edmonton 1 November 2018.
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Notes:
(1) Cf. in WikiMafia:
Details of the so call at that time“Maxiprocesso di Palermo contro la Cosa Nostra que coinvolse 475 imputati”
http://www.wikimafia.it/wiki/index.php?title=Maxiprocesso_di_Palermo
(2) “Pentiti” in Italian jargon means in this cases repented who accepted collaborate in the trial in exchange of reduction of penalties, protection to their family members, etc.
(3) The list of the must well known Mafia groups:
Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra)
Camorra or Campanian Mafia.
'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia.
Basilischi (Basilicatan Mafia)
Sacra Corona Unita (Apulian Mafia)
Mala del Brenta.
Banda della Magliana.
Banda della Comasina and the Turatello Crew.
For more details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime_in_Italy
wiki mafia news, etc.
(4) The shocking scaring rings gangs in the UK with a lot of details abusing hundreds of young teenagers and girls from 2008. I placed just two references but they continue to find more horrors. You can search for more.
Who were the men in the Rochdale grooming gang and what happened to them?