Que Bola?

Que Bola?It is interesting to follow all of the writing, blogging, and editorializing regarding the illegal wire tapping being done in the name of national security by our current leaders. They have undertaken an assault on the system of checks and balances not seen in probably more than a hundred years. While they are re-writing history and telling "big lies" in hopes of geting through this crisis, they are doing precisely what they accuse the Cuban government of doing to its people. Spying on its citizens, unlawfully detaining and jailing them, having tight control of the press, torturing supposed enemies of th state-does this sound like Cuba or the US? I have been reading Thomas Merton's "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander." He has a great little homily on what it takes to be a pharisee in politics. He says, "At every moment display righteous indignation over the means (whether good or evil) which your opponent has used to attain the same corrupt end which you are trying to achieve. Point to the means he is using as evidence that your own purposes are righteous--even thought they are the same as his." This sure seems to be the case in our countyry's current stance toward Cuba and its people.