Take that as you will but believe me, the next time one of ours is blood lined, watch how the leadership in our world come together and take action against those we know to be responsible, their friends and anyone they even once viewed as a potential friend

maybe your misunderstood this completely idiotic statement? 

Like I said Barqs, take it as you will.

I left that open for interpretation for a reason, you know?

Avoid the bullshit, distance yourself, play up to the chain of command with any info you may be party to, just like a loyal associate should, you should be fine.  However, you have openly admitted to your associations with them, a commendable gesture indeed.  Work hard, cut your ties with these fools in this thing of ours and show Maria your loyalty and you will be fine.  Any misgivings with your ancestors are forgiven but it is worth remembering that you let these incompetent jokers play Las Vegas.  I am not taking anything away from your ancestors, they did a fantastic job but now is the time to move forward, not backwards.

Wouldn't you agree?

It has always been my take that a new member of a bloodline should not be held responsible for the crimes of their ancestors.

I don't come to the streets and say much keeps people from thinking i babble on (( for post count )) To be equally as blunt as GM Kelly, I will personally put a bullet in anyone who touches my family, or a member of any legitimate existing family in the city I call home. Old, new, or in between. F**k your ancestor, you are not them. They came to this thing of ours knowing death is a way of life, it happens make some friends have some fun and move along.

Take it as you will.

Avoid the bullshit, distance yourself, play up to the chain of command with any info you may be party to, just like a loyal associate should, you should be fine.  However, you have openly admitted to your associations with them, a commendable gesture indeed.  Work hard, cut your ties with these fools in this thing of ours and show Maria your loyalty and you will be fine.  Any misgivings with your ancestors are forgiven but it is worth remembering that you let these incompetent jokers play Las Vegas.  I am not taking anything away from your ancestors, they did a fantastic job but now is the time to move forward, not backwards.

Cloud notices the crowd of hundreds of mobsters listening to a speech. This wasn't just any speech, but one of a Godfather. Kelly stood, talking to the crowd. From thugs to other Godfathers, they were all there. As Kelly kept talking a smile grew upon Cloud's face. Once she finished talking Cloud stepped forward and extends his hand to Miss Kapowski.

"I think it's easy to say you hit the perversity nail on it's head in this regard." Cloud says in an energetic tone.

"I'm glad this is being implemented. It is certainly a step in the right direction. These people have to know we are not just going to lie down. You kill one of ours, we kill all of yours!"

Winks at a friend in the crowd, and takes off his hat. He looks towards the crowd.

"One more thing. This is not about anyone turning into something they fought to remove. This is about fighting back against a group of people who refuse to move on and let go of there father's mistakes, while eliminating a threat to our people. If you cant see that difference than maybe you should take your head out of your ass for a moment."

Later that day Cloud strolls though New york whistling while thinking to himself 'Love what you've done to the place'.

YourNextWife stands among the crown listening to Kelly speak and can't help to think to herself that it's just simple common sense that the son of someone isn't to blame for his father's actions.

YourNextWife walks up to Kelly after her speech and says "I can't believe this is even an issue, it's ridiculous that people think that they have to kill someone's son after their father has already been killed. Nothing gets accomplished by killing said person. My thoughts are that killing someone's son is to hurt their father but if the father is already dead then what good does it do? Hopefully this blood lining can be eradicated once and for all because it's pointless and honestly it's a waste of a perfectly good bullet." YourNextWife smiles and shakes Kelly's hand before walking away from the crowd because she can't handle dealing with people for much longer than she already has to listen to this wonderful speech.

Tetley walks up behind Dread Lord and puts his browning high-power to the back of his head, Dread Lord feel's the cold steel pressed against his head. A loud gun shot is heard and Dread Lord drops to the ground with a gaping hole in his face.

"Blatant disrespect in streets cannot and will not be tolerated, this kind of behaviour has never been acceptable and it never will be."

Tetley takes a deep breath as a pool of blood issues from the dead man's face.

"Just in case you hadn't noticed this 'group' are sticking together and working as an underground group and are not loyal to their leaders but rather each other and are intent on causing as much damage and disruption as possible. If you associate with underground groups and help them by so much as giving them locals you will be killed along with them, it is that simple."

Some interesting interpretations here, however I think that as "bloodlining" is such a loaded concept, people are getting blinkered and not actually thinking this through logically.

This is the Mafia; concepts like innocence have very little value here. Our thing only works when there is trust and loyalty between family members. In the absence of either, the system breaks down and you see people doing things entirely for their own purposes, often contrary to what their family wants, needs or desires and this has consequences for both parties.

Now, what is the reasonable consequence of betraying your family, likely costing them millions of dollars in compensation as a minimum and pursuing your own selfish, unfounded agenda? Certainly the death of the individual, but where they have already decided they are happy to sacrifice their own life, what then? Should we just shrug our shoulders, say "oh well" and carry on with our business until the next time the same people repeat this process?

Personally, I don't think I would be much of a Don if I did that and it certainly wouldn't be in the interests of my family to let people whose sole purpose here is to cause them harm to carry on unabated. So what can we do? We can isolate these individuals by cutting them off from their support network. The way we do this is by making announcements like this; if you know there are people out there determined to do your family harm, you are betraying your family by not reporting their whereabouts and you will be held accountable for this omission. If your so-called friends want to keep on performing this merry little dance, they should know that they are putting your life in danger. Someone still prepared to do that doesn't sound like much of a friend to me and I would distance myself from anyone happy to cost me everything for little more than the settling their own juvenile scores.

Bogie's hand slid slowly away from his holstered gun and he straightened up his jacket front. "Thanks Tetley. Saved me the trouble." 

He turned and walked away from the bloody scene. Bogie had just been walking by on his way to headquarters when he heard some idiot spouting off insults at the Godfathers. It all happened so fast Bogie wasn't even sure what the main topic had been, but he knew blatant disrespect when he heard it.

Shaking his head, Bogie kept walking and mumbling, Fathers. Mothers. Sons. Daughters. Doesn't matter. There's just no room in this world for idiots who don't show respect.

"Blatant disrespect in streets cannot and will not be tolerated, this kind of behaviour has never been acceptable and it never will be."

Yup, said it all along. Saved me the trouble of speaking up again. I hold with what was just said here too...

A better example of an entity doing "this kinda thing" would be the mafia, which coincidentally, is what I'm involved with.

Barry basks in the applause.

If protecting my family makes me a hypocrite, Fletcher, then I'm absolutely fine with that. I'm sure my members will be too. I've never hidden the fact I intend to exact a blood debt from whomever I feel is associated to the people targeting my members and I actually display that message on my person at all times, so I'm not sure why this is a surprise to you. 

Our actions are in response to how certain individuals are behaving. Fortunately, we're at the top, holding all of the cards so I kind of feel like these people are bringing knives to a gun fight. If they are fine with condemning all of their friends to death by their actions, I'm happy to be the one supplying the bullets. 

Also, as "letting petty little dicks run amok" isn't something I've ever been in support of I don't feel I've sold out on my values, beliefs or morals.

I am extremely confused on how this makes the new reign of leaders like the 303.

If the former leaders are going to constantly be attacking the same people repeatedly through whichever next of kin enters these shores, surely something should be done about it? And something is. It may not be the answer you like but giving the people chances seems to not being doing much in the way of stopping these specific people. So if stronger steps need to be taken, why should they not be taken?

Barry stops and scratches his head. He felt like he was responding to someone making idiotic comments and references to the situation in Europe as if that somehow had any relevance to what was happening across the Four Cities, but when he finished speaking, he realised he was talking to thin air. He hoped nobody noticed, lest they confused him with the weedy Chris_Vaughn who was always talking to himself about something or other and generally regarded as a plank.

Fletcher, what you are suggesting is that a group of people can bloodline kill but that the leaders cannot return the favor?

Trust me I know bloodlining and bullying is wrong. I am fairly certain that Kelly_Kapowski or the other current leaders would avoid it if there was another way that worked. Clearly the other way is not working though. So unless you got a brilliant idea that could replace this one, I don't see what else can be said on the matter.

Clearly leaders are tired of having particular members in their community killed repeatedly by this group of people.

That is not necessarily true but you can believe that if you want. Why can't the leaders act like leaders and do something they agree with?

To be fair they didn't say they were hunting them down. Just that if those people continue to do those things, that is what they will be doing in reaction to it. At least that is how I see it.

Now if they want to be upstanding members of our community I don't think anything would happen to them. I could be very wrong though. This is merely how I perceive it.