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  Mafia
Mafia power peaked in the United States in the mid-20th century, until a series of FBI investigations in the 1970s and 1980s somewhat curtailed the Mafia's influence.
The mafia's fundraising activities have included legitimate business endeavors as well as many illegal activities such as extortion (obtained through such means as subverting trade unions), smuggling of alcohol during prohibition, prostitution, drug smuggling, illegal gambling, as well as simple theft.
In the mid-20th century, the Mafia was reputed to have infiltrated many labor unions in the United States, including the Teamsters[?] whose president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared and is believed to have been killed by the Mafia.
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 Trenchcoat Mafia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Trenchcoat Mafia was a group of students from Columbine High School who met during and after school.
One reason the Trenchcoat Mafia became associated with the massacre is that Harris and Klebold frequently wore fl leather dusters, similar to a trenchcoat, and in fact were wearing them as the massacre began.
After the shootings, the students in the Trenchcoat Mafia publicly distanced themselves from the shooters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trenchcoat_Mafia   (313 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Trenchcoat
The Trenchcoat Mafia was a group of students from Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado (near Littleton) who met during and after school.
Neither the Trenchcoat Mafia nor any of its members were ever formally charged with anything and have been cleared of any involvement or foreknowledge of what was to happen in Columbine that day.
The 'Trenchcoat Mafia' was a group from (Click link for more info and facts about Columbine High School) Columbine High School in (A state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains) Colorado who hung out together during and after school.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Trenchcoat   (564 words)

  
 Mafia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Mafia was originally the name of a loose confederation of people in Sicily, who, in the middle ages, joined for the purposes of protection from the Turks and Normans currently occupying the area.
The term "mafia" has now been extended to refer to any large group of people engaged in organized crime (such as the Russian Mafia, Japanese Yakuza, and Triads), or in suspicious activity (such as the Trenchcoat Mafia from the Columbine High School massacre).
Mafia, a video game by Gathering of Developers and Illusion, portraying 8 years in the life of a gangster during the 30's.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Trenchcoat Mafia
After the shootings, the Trenchcoat Mafia publicly distanced themselves from the shooters in press conferences and interviews that followed.
All schools have their fair share of teenagers who have difficulties fitting in with the mainstream - but in the case of Denver's Columbine High School, members of one group of outsiders are the focus of suspicion in America's largest massacre of children in a supposed place of safety.
Children who survived the shooting spree say the two dead killers, both of whom wore ski masks and trenchcoats, were members of a close-knit group of "loners" known as the "trenchcoat mafia".
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Trenchcoat-Mafia   (839 words)

  
 19990419 weeks Daily Newswire
Fifteen people died and 28 were injured after two members of the “Trenchcoat mafia” assaulted their high school with semi-automatic weapons and pipe bombs.
Members of the Trenchcoat mafia were sometimes ridiculed by other students, and had threatened violence on students on at least three earlier occasions, once with a gun.
At least one report indicated that the Trenchcoat mafia was not limited to Columbine High School, but that other schools also had groups of students going by that name, both in and outside Colorado.
www.factnet.org /NEWSLETTER/19990419.html?FACTNet   (1663 words)

  
 BBC News | Americas | Who are the Trenchcoat Mafia?
Many of these messages are considered fake: A search on the words Trenchcoat Mafia showed more and more entries for the group as the hours passed following the killings.
Another student, Joshua Lapp, said: "They were known as the Trenchcoat Mafia at our school and they got ridiculed a little bit.
While rumours continue to fly, few members of the Trenchcoat Mafia have spoken to the media.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/325054.stm   (934 words)

  
 Trenchcoat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Unknown's Trenchcoat Project Follow the development of a commercial fan-made trenchcoat, made to looks exactly like the ones worn by the "Unknowns" from Deep Dive and KH2.
Amateur Outdoor Flasher Photos of a brunette removing her trenchcoat then sucking a guy's cock.
Church of the Subgenius: Trenchcoat Mafia Commentary, artwork, and links.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Trenchcoat.html   (156 words)

  
 [CTRL] The Manchurian Trenchcoat Mafia ?
3) The Trenchcoat Mafia were known for casing out the school, for their mock-wars, in which they would run through the halls shooting (albeit) fake guns.
The fact that one of the alleged shooters had made comments about "jocks" getting "anything they want", is a little silly, considering that the morning of the shooting, this suspect drove to school a BMW that most of us will never own-- let alone rig with an explosive device.
In either case, the Trenchcoats were certainly fertile ground for manipulation.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg11298.html   (2064 words)

  
 Trenchcoat Mafia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Trenchcoat Mafia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were misidentified by the media as part of the group in the days immediately following the event, but those in the group had nothing to do with the shootings.
Trenchcoat Mafia, See also, External links and Moral panics.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Trenchcoat_Mafia   (339 words)

  
 Russian Mafia in TutorGig Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mafia may mean Mafia, a criminal organization Mafia Island off the coast of Tanzania Mafia game Mafia game, a parlour game Mafia The City of Lost Heaven, a video game Jane Austen s Mafia, a movie Mafia..
Mafia Channel is a stretch of water between the Rufiji River estuary and Mafia Island in Tanzania, Africa.
Mafia is part of the Pwani Region and is governed from the mainland not Zanzibar..
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 The Trenchcoat Mafia Shooting by Pastor Dave Hart of Sanctuary
The Trenchcoat Mafia Shooting by Pastor Dave Hart of Sanctuary
For those of us who believe it is effective and important, we need to pray for all the kids and their families, those who lived and those who died.
They were on the fringe of a fringe group with the distancing, intimidating reputation of the Trenchcoat Mafia - wanna be Terminators, living in a fantasy world.
www.christiangoth.com /trenchcoat.html   (2203 words)

  
 Hindsight
Their music and other popular culture symbols were probed and it was suggested that this was a new subculture that the reporters had uncovered, one that was dangerous and ready to explode in similar incidents at any time.
Before you knew it, "The Trenchcoat Mafia" had entered out lexicon, and youth in general were to be regarded with wary suspicion, but especially so if they were linked to fl clothing or other symbols of the "Gothic" sub-culture.
Now I can say I've met some of "The Trenchcoat Mafia" and I have I higher regard for them than the people who are trying to intrude upon and limit their lives and future.
www.saf.org /pub/rkba/hindsight/hs072099.html   (1366 words)

  
 Trenchcoat Mafia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Trenchcoat Mafia and the Church of the SubGenius
The people that made outcasts of the Trenchcoat Mafia shouldn't have been so mean.
Still the "Trenchcoat Mafia" is being seen as primarily gothic.
www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Trenchcoat_Mafia   (390 words)

  
 Trenchcoat Mafia' opposed blacks, Hispanics, Jews and jocks
The "trenchcoats" were seen as smart and computer-savvy, fellow students said.
But the Trenchcoats showed up two hours late, at the wrong spot, carrying swords and brass knuckles, and the fight was never rescheduled, Good said.
Beard said a dozen students joined the group last year, adopting the trademark dusters and sometimes wearing red or green berets, but the numbers dwindled to a half-dozen this year as the novelty wore off.
www.cuah.org /news/990420.htm   (616 words)

  
 'Trenchcoat Mafia' Domains Gobbled Up
'Trenchcoat Mafia' Domains Gobbled Up EXN.CA is the Discovery Channel Canada's website and your home for daily science news.
While questions abound about both the validity of information found on the Internet regarding the "Trenchcoat Mafia," one aspect surrounding the cyber-related story is certain.
According to an informal, unscientific Newsbytes survey of the InterNIC database, several other domain names that could be associated with the Trenchcoat Mafia were not taken.
www.exn.ca /Templates/printstory_net.asp?PageName=Technology&story_id=1999042202   (724 words)

  
 School can be cruel: Shooters were low on social ladder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The two were part of a dozen or so misfits who called themselves the Trenchcoat Mafia, a group well known around school.
A couple of months ago, members of the Trenchcoat Mafia made a date to fight the jocks on a Friday night at a baseball field, said football player Matt Good.
The jocks showed up, but the Trenchcoats were two hours late, and they went to the wrong spot, Good said.
www.rickross.com /reference/shootings/shootings1.html   (688 words)

  
 BBC News | Americas | School shooting leaves '25 dead'
Witnesses who fled the scene said two pupils wearing masks and trenchcoats opened fire with automatic weapons and threw homemade bombs at Columbine High School in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado.
Many of the pupils said the gunmen belonged to a group known as the "trenchcoat mafia", who wore long fl trenchcoats, boasted about owning guns, and were alienated from the other children.
One girl told police that she was sitting in the library when one of the gunmen, dressed in a fl mask, trenchcoat and gloves, began firing shots.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/324483.stm   (699 words)

  
 Trenchcoat Mafia :: The cult of Eric and Dylan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Trenchcoat Mafia :: The cult of Eric and Dylan
Five years after the Columbine massacre, the so-called 'Trenchcoat Mafia' have become unlikely heroes for a generation of miserable, alienated teenagers around the world - and the appeal of the pair is growing.
As antiheroes, the "Trenchcoat Mafia" - the name high-school jocks [slang for athletic teens] gave to Eric and Dylan's gang - have the same appeal as A Clockwork Orange's Alex DeLarge, with the added potency of being real.
www.religionnewsblog.com /5665-The_cult_of_Eric_and_Dylan.html   (2028 words)

  
 + Who +
They were the gamers and 'weird' kids; the ones who didn't fit in, whether by accident or design While they weren't popular, however, they weren't the ones behind the guns.
Toward the end of 1999 I heard from more than one of the TCM members that the young men were never actually part of the group, but were instead friends of Chris Morris, a Trenchcoater who had attended Columbine previously.
Very vocal about his hate of Columbine before the incident occurred, Chris was a member of the Trenchcoat Mafia - one of the only suspects who was.
www.acolumbinesite.com /who.html   (1032 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary
The first waves of reporting and commentary promoted the idea that the Trenchcoat Mafia -- the loosely formed and defined group of "outsiders" at Columbine High School of which Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were ancillary members – was, in essence, a cabal of dangerous, anti-social, satanistic, violence prone, far-right wing thugs.
Students began talking about how "members"of the Trenchcoat Mafia were not only verbally harassed but physically assaulted by the "preps and the athletes." "Physically assaulted," in this case means being hit in the school hallways, shoved into lockers, having food smashed into your face in the cafeteria.
Actions that outside of high school social culture – where they have existed for decades and been tolerated, even condoned by teachers and administrators in a variety of ways from silence to active promotion – would result in arrest and a possible jail sentence.
www.zmag.org /ZSustainers/ZDaily/1999-05/may_6bronski.htm   (2298 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
And he was one of the few fl kids at Columbine, which had led to trouble with Harris and Klebold's gang, the Trenchcoat Mafia.
The 'Trenchcoat Mafia', about eight in all, were labelled 'gay' and 'inbred'.
The Mafia cultivated its Nazi mystique, blended it with anarchism and nihilism, took industrial quantities of drugs and spent lunch hours together under a flight of steps, never in the canteen.
www.guardianunlimited.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3857998,00.html   (2358 words)

  
 Boston.com / Latest News / Nation
A photo of The Trenchcoat Mafia appears in the 1998 Columbine High School yearbook.
But no arrests were made, Davis said, and there was no indication that any of the others took part in the shooting.
Tuesday was the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birthday, and student Aaron Cohn said that was a significant day for Trenchcoat members, who would make references to 4-20.
www.boston.com /news/daily/21/mafia_school.htm   (815 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Smells like gay teen spirit - 05.13.99
Instead of shooting the jocks, we would run up to them, plant big, sloppy Bugs Bunny kisses on their pursed lips, then slap them across the face three times with a white glove whilst camping, "You mad, impetuous boy!" But then again, it isn't the '40s any more.
(We all know Tinky Winky is the true mastermind behind the Velvet Trenchcoat Mafia, controlling the gullible teens with a transmitter in his triangular lavender antenna -- or maybe it's just tucked in his red purse.) Now it's those pesky mass-murderous gay goths.
After the Colorado incident, Jerry got on the tube and uttered his now-immortal warning: "I don't know who this Marilyn Manson is, but she must be stopped." I can only assume he wasn't merely employing the traditional gay use of the feminine pronoun when referring to other males.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.13.99/news/feelings.html   (675 words)

  
 Court TV Online - U. S.
Trenchcoat Mafia hated fls, Hispanics, Jews, obsessed by war games
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — They called themselves the "Trenchcoat Mafia," a dozen outcast students who hated fls, Hispanics, Jews and athletes, and dressed up in long fl dusters, like villains of the Old West.
Other Trenchcoat Mafia members were questioned by police, including one who was led away in handcuffs Tuesday.
www.courttv.com /national/1999/0421/trenchcoat_ap.html   (825 words)

  
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Anyway, less than 24 hours after the shooting occurred, a website went up at www.trenchcoat.org that parodied everything the media was saying about the Trenchcoat Mafia.
Any reasonable person with a brain could figure out that it was a parody, but we all know how many stupid people are out there.
Soon, I was getting over 1000 hits a day, just for the fake Trenchcoat Mafia homepage.
www.textfiles.com /magazines/HOE/hoe-0692.txt   (897 words)

  
 At last we know why the Columbine killers did it. By Dave Cullen
The story was that Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, a pair of lonely, outcast Goths, tore through the school hunting down jocks to settle a long-running feud between athletes and the Trenchcoat Mafia.
The Trench Coat Mafia: A small group of Columbine students did dub themselves the Trenchcoat Mafia, and they did have a feud with a band of jocks in 1999.
But it was never a formal gang or club, and most of the members graduated nearly a year before the massacre.
www.slate.com /id/2099203/sidebar/2099208   (615 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
But since it did, we don't know whether to be happy or not.
Trenchcoat Underground Society has been long displayed for free of charge without advertisements over a year.
Send them to : Trenchcoat c/o Go Josh PO Box 521 Lomita CA 90717 Make money orders payable to Joshua (I'll write my own last name, use fl or blue ink).
www.trenchcoat.us   (140 words)

  
 Jedi.Net :: View topic - Trenchcoat mafia
I just noticed that some users are using Jedinet trenchcoat mafia in their sigs.
Trench Coat Mafia was something that the other kids called them, I'm not sure if they ever referred to themselves as that, because they always wore dark trench coats.
Walking around calling yourself the "trenchcoat Mafia" is not cool whatsoever and if they got made fun of it so freakin what.
forums.jedi.net /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19165   (3681 words)

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