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The police hold little or no fear for the sect because it is confident that it will have no trouble in slipping away from any police hunt. It often seemed to the Right—with no little justification, it must be said— that many southern and Sicilian members of parliament owed their election to boss politics, and to electoral machines that bribed supporters and bullied opponents. The courts too hold little fear for the sect: it takes pride in the fact that evidence for the prosecution is rarely produced because of the pressure it puts on witnesses. One historian has described England in the s as resembling a banana republic, its politicians masters in the arts of patronage, nepotism, and the systematic pillaging of the public revenue. But even a history of the mafia that included all these things would still leave many questions unanswered.

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