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To: STARWISE

"In Germany, the Nazis first 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 trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me...By that time there was no one to speak up for anyone."

The Reverend Martin Niemoller, I Didn't Speak UP


1,254 posted on 03/25/2005 12:49:02 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: eccentric

A freeper (forgot who) altered the original and it goes like this:

"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.

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

When they murdered the unborn and about to be born, babies, I didn't speak out.

Because I wasn't pregnant and I wouldn't do that if I was pregnant.

Then they came for the disabled and handicapped and I didn't speak out because I wasn't in that condition. I was healthy and didn't care about them.

Later I got old and I was infirm. Then they came for ME!

They told me I was taking up scarce resources and costing others money through my health insurance and a burden to everyone. No one decent was left to speak out for me.

They were all gone.


1,269 posted on 03/25/2005 12:56:39 PM PST by wisconsinconservative ("Life is sacred or meaningless, there is nothing in between.")
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