First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
Good post, but fact is, they came for the handicapped people before they came for the Jews...
A close friend has read a lot about Hitler's rise to power. She has often wondered aloud if anything could have been done to stop the Nazis at an earlier stage.
I sent her a copy of Forced Exit by Wesley Smith about a year ago, thinking she might be interested in seeing how inhumane people can gain power.
But she doesn't seem able read the signs of dehumanization all around us.
Euthanasia advocates claim that assisted suicide would be restricted to a "last resort" for people already on the verge of death and in unrelievable agony. But, as consumer activist and attorney Wesley J. Smith shows, these premises have already been proved false.