Montana IA Management Co.

TM steps from his office to the people that have gathered at his steps he flicks the end of his cigar into the nearby brush as he steps up to the podium he smiles at everyone and speaks.


Ladies and Gentlemen: I have gathered you all today to make and announcement to all you hitters out there. How many hours do you each spend making your IA lists? Too long? How often do you need to update them yourself spending countless hours keeping it up and maintaining while you could be hitting. Kind of defeats the purpose? Well imagine if all your lists were made for you every week, updated and ready to go. Where all those hours spent making the lists could be spend towards hitting and improving your guns. People I present to you Montana I.A Management Co. The one stop shop for your I.A list every single week. For the Lowly price of 250K a week I offer you an updated list each and every week. Interested? Contact me... and I'm sure we can work something out.

Remember to double-check your targets as well


TM smirks walking back into the building

"Recro listins to TM, see's a empty park bench near by ponders this over"

Kung smiles at a family friend making a speach on the streets.

Well, this could be handy.

Kevin walks by and over hears what TM has said

TM, wouldn't this be some kind of rule breaking in the other person's family? I mean don't get me wrong good idea. I'm sure this would cause problems for other members unless they are apart of New York, but even that could possibly cause a problem. Your thoughts on on this?

Kevin waits patiently for TM's response

HairyBaby also walks over all the while smirking...

TM, I also want to know more about how this works, as there are a couple of little things that make no sense to me

1. Why would any family allow their hitters to go to you and pay you for the privilege of letting you know who they are?

2. What stops anyone buying the list and sharing it amongst their fellow "hitters"?

3. Does sharing this information not cheapen the work done by real hitters?

I would also like to add why would a leader of another family want to help other cities and families to find IA's and improve there guns? Wouldn't he want to keep his IA list in his family only?

Not the wisest move to want to willingly improve the guns of the hitters who may one day have to turn them in your direction.

Nothing new I can add here, but I could not refrain from also voicing my opinion. I wonder if there is some secret back hand goal to this business because it looks like somebody willing to make their future enemies stronger just for a quick buck.

I honestly and respectfully hope I'm wrong in my appreciations because a long time leader such as TM, with the great step he recently did in authing a Captain seems to have not foreseen a few consequences of this business.

We're all business men. We operate in a world of organised crime, where we do almost anything for a profit.

My emphasis here is on the 'almost'. There are certain lines we do not, or at least in my humble opinion should not, cross. Where the opportunity to turn a quick buck superseeds the efforts to protect our families, this is something I would never support.

In this thing of ours, hitting is part of the course. People will do it. All we can do to control this is to allow leaders to control who has the information required to do it, or at least make sure the person is putting in the work required to get the information for themselves. Selling it for a small fee negates all this, opening up the sacred realm of being a hitter to the noobs and the tards.

In the past, many mafiosi have died for such a business venture. If this had come from a member of my own family, that would have been their fate. I'd be interested to hear how a leader in this thing of ours feels that this is a good route to go down. How can the pros, a small boost in cash, possibly outweigh the numerous and significant cons?

So far, I have seen everything I would have said, so do not wish to bore everyone by repeating. One thing I would add tho TM, is your last line in bold re checking your targets and followed by you smirking, makes me wonder if you are planning on leading people down the wrong path for i/as

TM,

I sit here and listen to your speech, and I cannot understand you in the very least. This is about as suicidal as a move as anyone could make.

I say this point, on the basis of Helping a rival family ARM THEMSELVES. Why don't you just send them the locals of all your family when the next war happens also?

By selling IA lists to rivals, you are aiding them in amassing more powerful weapons, in which they will use to shoot you, and your family, in the fucking head. It is widely known that every family has some from of IA lists, but why would you aid them in any way? Why would you make their job easier? Guns are used to kill, if you didn't know this already. The reason any hitter races the sleeping gangsters all days is for when that next war comes around the corner, so they can kill rival family. You, and everyone that is not The Sicilian Connection, is a rival. Why would you help arm them? I say we put TM on a suicide watch, with 24 hour care.

As much as I appreciate people opening business's around the cities I can't say I see the logic in this one my friend.

"How often do you need to update them yourself spending countless hours keeping it up and maintaining while you could be hitting. Kind of defeats the purpose?"

I understand that it takes alot of pointless time to make one when you could be hitting but that is all part of being a hitter. Personally I would raher do an IA list myself because I know that I wont cheat myself. (please dont mistake that and think I am saying your cheating anyone) but I know people who sold IA lists in the past and when you receive them they are missing a great deal of IA's. So all in all it is better that you keep it within your own family. Like I said before collecting locals and sorting lists, no matter how long or boring it is, is all part of being a respectable hitter.

This just in! Come to Philly IA Management Co.

will a simple donation (What ever you think is fair) I will provide IA list to you.

TM, checks in the mail!  THANKS!

Will = With **

Just my two pesos worth here.

When you train that gun, you train your mind as well. You are a professional. You have taken it upon yourself to protect your family at all costs, with your very life if necessary. Every time you pull that trigger you risk the chance of a critical failure of your weapon. Something could go wrong, and you accept this as part of the lifestyle you chose. Should you happen to make an error in judgment and shoot the wrong person your life is forfeit as well. So many variables. You hone your skills, you do your homework, you take pride in what you do.

There are no shortcuts on your way to the top. There is hard work, there are long hours, but no shortcuts. Get out there and do the leg work. Compile your own list. Do your job. You want to skate through life pick an easier profession. This one requires more than you are willing to put into it. Pride and integrity.

Judge_Holden is right if you want to make it to the top in this thing of ours you've got to put the work and effort in. So get out there make you own IA lists it teaches you independance.

If you want to make it as a hitter in this thing of ours then you have to put in the work and take the risks it's apart of our life.

I never been the type to hound leaders about business decisions.  Afterall, this is a business and yes TM will bring in money for it.  I'm all for anything that makes you money.

Especially if you're willing to accept the consquences that come along with the way one chooses to earn cash.

I do believe this is about more than just TM starting his IA business.

Everyone seems to think that this will affect TM directly, but in all actuality this will affect everyone that hits directly.  I think this is where people find a problem with it.

Not only would this make it easier to take TM down, but every leader in our community.

So I'm thinking, is it the fact that it affects TM's family or that it affect everyone that knows what to do with a gun?

This affect our community as a whole.

Me personally, make your money TM. That's why we're all here and I don't see a reason why you can choose which ways to do so.

That is all....

**why you can't choose

There's not really much I can say here without getting myself killed for disrespect.

Still, if we have Crewleaders themselves setting the precedent by throwing aside time honoured traditions such as Omerta, I can only assume it'll be an amount of time before the likes of loyalty, honour and indeed respect go with it.

With all due respect Mr Marley,

it's not about the money being made or the fact that it makes it easier to take anyone down. The fact is, most hitters take pride in hitting and work hard at it. So lets say you work your ass off and make your own lists every single time. Now here comes a guy/gal who sells them, not only making it harder for you but now all the hard work you did to create that list is for what?

im my opinion it would be a waste of time to make your own if they are being sold to any average joe in these cities. I am a firm believer that a hitter should make his own lists (unless you have someone who does it WITHIN your family) and if he/she doesn't then why do they deserve to be killing anything? call me old school I guess but I feel it is not only a privilege to be a hitter but a responsibility to not only yourself but to your family as well, and by giving out IA lists it takes the hard work right out of it for a quick buck. Hard work, dedication, trust, loyalty etc etc are all part of this life we all chose to live. I just personally think this breaks the foundation in which the mafia is based on (Omerta).