criminal culture targets and preys with all the nefarious and insidious machinations at its dastardly disposals. A solid pillar of the community can be approached, intimidated and have 'the make' put on him/her to start paying protection money. If you refuse to pay, be intimidated or dare stand up to them, you become toast, that's the colloquial slang for destroying you and everything you stand for and in some cases honest upright citizens have been driven to suicide. In Blighty it is taxing the rich, in stateside its ' making you an offer you can't refuse. in my books, its do your worse m---er-f--kers'.