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From: MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU
Newsgroups: mod.politics
Subject: Re: The Mob and Atlantic City
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Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 16:54:13 EDT
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   Intimidation is the art of coercing someone without a visible
weapon.  Lets say you're a green grocer supplier.  You ship your
vegetables through a truck line.  A man walks in to you one day, and
says he'd like you to change shipping lines to the one he represents.
You've heard that this shipping line may be 'dirty'.  He looks you in
the eye and says, "You know, all sorts of things go wrong with trucks.
Flat tires, crashes, hijackings.  I'll bet you that you have trouble
with this."  Oddly enough, you have.  Several shipments have been
damaged or spoiled.  "I can assure you that if you ship with us, your
stuff will get to market with no problems."  He quotes you a price
somewhat higher than you're paying now.  After all, he says, all this
safety and security costs money.  He's just trying to make a buck.

   Have you been threatened?  A matter of opinion.  He's got a lot of
implied muscle behind him.  You want to take the risk that he won't
use it?  That's your decision to take.  Can you go to the cops?  What
if the cops can't (or won't) do anything about it?

   I guess I'm just talking to no purpose, now.  I'm not going to
convince you.  I guess I draw different conclusions from you.  I still
stand by the original point: that the mob won't magically disappear
under any circumstances.

Charles
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