"The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, . . .

[OneBlueSky]

and they are in a death struggle with each other. It is a huge gang battle, using well-meaning lawyers and policemen and clergymen as their front, controlling papers, means of communication, and enrolling everybody in their armies." Thomas Merton, 1962

I think he had it right . . .

[Double T]

1. "using wall-meaning lawyers.......and clergymen...."

WHO is Thomas Merton kidding? It is time for the commoners to lock horns with the criminals with enormous power.

[OneBlueSky]

2. can't disagree with that . . . I just found it interesting that Merton . . .

was talking about the concentration of power before it became so universally obvious . . . and that he was using terms like "great criminals" and "huge gangs" -- which is exactly what the corporate/government alliance amounts to . . .