Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Saw this one today and of course reminded me obviously of the quote from Martin Niemoller. How does it make you feel, I personally feel it is similar to the quote from Mark Twain in the previous post. In my heart it speaks very much to our duty to stand up and do something to defend a way of life we believe in. You can see from other posts it strikes a chord within me. We cant just sit back and rest on our laurels, and frankly its not even our laurels as our commander in chief said "You didnt build this!" and its true. We sit back and enjoy (and also forget) the freedoms that our ancestors scrapped and fought and some gave their lives so that we their descendants might enjoy a better life than theirs. Aren't we now doing them ALL the greatest of disservices by now taking those freedoms for granted and worse still allowing them to be slowly stripped away one spoonful at a time.

"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."
                                                  -Martin Niemoller



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