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To: Domalais
I don't know, but until we start being massacred and buried in anonymous graves, let's not compare the difficulties of being a conservative in America with thousands of years of religious persecution suffered by the Jews.

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

--Martin Niemöller--

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

Today one might say "Those who want to hold the past in memory as if it were theirs and theirs alone are condemned to be complicit in its recurrence."

580 posted on 01/12/2011 2:03:46 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: arasina
They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

...


You must have left out the stanza where the author said:

"Then some people on the television said I use mean words,
and that was exactly the same as all the Jews being killed."
588 posted on 01/12/2011 2:16:02 PM PST by Domalais
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