OneBlueSky
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Sat Sep-01-07 10:04 PM
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"The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, . . . |
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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 . . .
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Sat Sep-01-07 10:12 PM
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1. "using wall-meaning lawyers.......and clergymen...." |
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WHO is Thomas Merton kidding? It is time for the commoners to lock horns with the criminals with enormous power.
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OneBlueSky
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Mon Sep-03-07 07:14 AM
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2. can't disagree with that . . . I just found it interesting that Merton . . . |
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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 . . .
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