Yet another one is where did all that Sicilian mafia money go.

Another one to ask is where do all seized drugs go.

That’s right, supposedly incinerated under ‘strict’ court conditions and control.

Ever seen one of those happening?

I know. My real question is the unspoken one: Why are they running free?

Meantime, there’s been a run on the local mafia perdente, individuals slain in broad daylight, in bars, outside their apartment block, businessmen blown up inside their cars.

Let the good times roll.

It would be simpler to analyse how so many Maltese got so impossibly rich in the last 20 years. It cannot all be hard work and sheer graft?

[Daphne – A lot of it is drug money.They don’t deal in cocaine directly themselves, but they fund the trade at a couple of removes. There’s a lot of liquidity swishing around looking for investment. Part-financing a cocaine consignment, no questions asked and no answers given, brings very high returns.]

When the system becomes solely reliant on an acceleration of consumption; concrete, the fragmentation of individual interests and undiluted manifestation of cash, it’s the underworld which compensates for the system’s weaknesses.

When laws are made and maintained to keep the ‘common good’ abreast of legitimate personal liberties, leaving it to politicians to ‘sanction’ dire injustice, criminal organisations become an insurance.

If it’s true we failed our students, generations unable to discern life for themselves, where a fatalistic resigned mindset asking for favours becomes Labour’s actual electoral manifesto, the PN failed miserably.

The sooner that’s engraved inside Pieta’, the better. Otherwise, what will happen is an army of Franco Debono’s arguing the legitimacy of legalising, read regulating, the feudal roots of this place.

If the PN had to retake ‘italianieta’, they should out of an urgent sense of analysis and parallel comparison with what Saviano mentions.

After all, all he did, was remove any sense of romanticism and determine organised criminals as being the banal in charge of pathetic politicians.

And that remains unforgiveable to a camorra which feeds on the myth of eternal godfathers. When all they are is corruption’s caretakers and vote canvassers.

It would be interesting for eg. to analyse sewage for cocaine, perhaps in certain key places of the state. It’s how investigations, under cover and relentless, start in Italy.