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To: raybbr

Thank you-this crap needs to stop. We need to defend
the first amendment! Reminds me of that poem-says
something about “when they came for so and so.....”


8 posted on 05/06/2009 1:22:28 PM PDT by murrie (For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son..........)
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To: murrie; All

From Wiki, FWIW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.


14 posted on 05/06/2009 1:27:46 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: murrie

This one?

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945


31 posted on 05/07/2009 7:57:42 AM PDT by knittnmom (FReeper formerly known as 80 Square Miles)
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