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..... Having gotten the above load off my chest, with clannishness towards all, and patriotism towards none, I hereby break my vow of Omerta—a venerable mafia appellation meaning “Code of Silence”—and herewith renounce my membership in the Leelkase clan cohort in favor of the “Great Commonwealth” of the Geri-Koombo clan-family. No doubt this boiling perfidious betrayal of the Leelkase will earn me the vituperative wrath of my former kinsmen, branding me a quisling, a traitor, a deceitful good-for-nothing, a shameless, self-serving opportunist and a doer of treasonable deeds against his kith and kin—the noble Leelkase! Still, they are unlikely to move against me physically, thanks to the Bald Eagle, Uncle Sam’s insignia that insures my protection. Hence, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” ....