“For justice, we must go to Don Corleone”
I love The Godfather. Both book and the film trilogy. I think Mario Puzo is one of the greatest writers of 20th century. I think that when Francis Ford Coppola makes a film, it’s always a brilliant one.
But I don’t think that what was described in the book and the films really have a place here, in 21st century Britain. For some reason, it does:
Ben Kinsella’s murderers are living with death threats from one of Britain’s most notorious criminal gangs, it emerged today.
The Adams family, who ‘run’ the north London neighbourhood where the schoolboy lived, is said to have put a bounty on the heads of the feral youths who stabbed him to death in a frenzied attack.
Today, as Michael Alleyne, 18, Juress Kika, 19, and Jade Braithwaite, 20, were jailed for life, the Old Bailey heard that they would be ‘marked men’ in prison.
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They have no links to the Kinsella family, but its mob leaders were said to be so horrified by the senseless killing of the 16-year-old in their patch that they put up the reward.
Ayin tachat ayin – an eye for an eye – is written in the Good Book. And it’s perfectly understandable if one wants murderers dead. One would presume it justice, the ultimate and righteous.
On the other hand, in civilization it doesn’t work that way. In civilization the courts of justice are responsible for punishing the criminals. As the court did in this case. Is jailing for life justice? Well, it’s better justice than death penalty, because dying is the easiest thing to do, thus it’s not a punishment. By dying, the criminals won’t learn anything.
As much as I like The Godfather, it’s astonishing that its plot is allowed to exist in Britain.
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I think it is quite hypocritical that mobsters should demand and even execute justice, especially on the kind of crimes that they themselves would commit if they find it necessary for their enterprise. The image that mafiosos are “men of honor” who respect human life is a false image that is portrayed in films and stories. The only difference between mobsters and street gangsters/individual criminals is that mobsters are social, they have a great understanding of organization, hierarchy and human society – and that makes them more immune to the rule of law and the will of the authorities. On top of all that, they’re no less murderers, robbers, thieves and adulterers than other criminals – if anything, they’re even more.
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