1- In Colonel Jones article about PCE's he talks about understanding the purpose of the organization. Criminal organizations are generally profit oriented, they may do things to influence a government but they don't want to overthrow one.

2- The Mafia doesn't mess with other peoples religions or ideologies.

3-They look at the population as customers, they don't care about the rest. They don't believe in free markets....they create them and strange as it seems they take care of them.

4-They often make large donations to their own religious organizations.

5-They take care of their own organization...they would never sign a treaty that gave away an advantage to another organization.

6-They would never let large groups of people in their organization be without work, thus they generate great loyalty.

7-They are patriotic, they support the US and did many things during WW2 that allowed us to win.

8-They could tell you what to do with the drugs in Astan, but I doubt we will go that route.