Where "Underworld" and "Overworld" Meet June 23, 2011

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 23, 2011

A few weeks ago, Washington announced the death of one-time CIA subcontractor Osama bin Laden. On June 22, the FBI crossed the second name off its Most Wanted list by arresting fugitive mob boss James ?Whitey? Bulger, who ? like bin Laden ? had once been one of the federal government?s prized assets.

In 1996, Bulger took flight after learning from FBI Special Agent John Connolly that the Feds were prepared to arrest him and charge him with scores of murders. Connolly and John Bulger had a productive partnership: The FBI agent made the mobster a ?top-echelon informant,? using him to roll up the Boston branch of La Cosa Nostra, better known as the Mafia. This permitted Bulger?s Winter Hill Gang to seize control of Boston?s organized crime scene, while Connolly rose meteorically through the FBI?s ranks.

Connolly took a hands-on role in protecting his prize informant, on one occasion actually taking part in a mob hit. He and John Bulger also enjoyed a corrupt partnership with John?s brother William, who was president of the Massachusetts Senate.

The case of Whitey Bulger illustrates how seamlessly the criminal underworld blends with the unfathomably corrupt political ?overworld.?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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