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  • FIRST, THEY CAME FOR THE TRUTH (Fr. Martin Niemoeller was a phony)

    06/18/2004 12:59:32 PM PDT · by mrustow · 91 replies · 946+ views
    Best Writers ^ | 17 June 2004 | Michael Shaw
    Most of us, in this PC age, are familiar with the following sentiments or some variant, supposedly written by prominent German Protestant theologian and pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) about the Nazis. First 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 the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.Finally, they came for me and there was no one left to speak out. Two things...