When they came for me, Everyone was silent; there was no one left to speak out. What's this poem saying? That we all have to stand up, speak out and take action NOW while we still can. If we do so, we will win the struggle for liberty. If we do not, freedom will die ... just like it did in Nazi Germany.
Inspired by the poem First They Came by Martin Niemöller, which was written about the Nazis.
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George WashingtonGeorge Washington is a pen name. I am using the pen name, with the approval of the publisher, because I have received death threats due to my 9/11 research and writing. I am using a pen name to protect myself and my family.
But what action can most people take that makes sense and could truly rstore our democracy? I say join our mission at www.foavc.org to get the nation's first Article V convention.
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Joel S. Hirschhorn (127 articles, 31 quicklinks, 58 diaries, 509 comments)
on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 5:44:55 PM
It is important to speak up because discourse fertilizes the brain. It is even more important to speak up with unpopular views. The tyranny of the majority is the worst, since the majority is always wrong - until it is too late.
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John Hanks (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1210 comments)
on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 11:34:44 PM
Be careful when you fling accusations such as these. Your own house of cards could suffer collateral damage with links that show the rabidness of those "protesting" government policy or decisions that results in injuries, damage, and even death.
And all of this in the name of "truth"...
I've noted your fondness for quotes. Here's a handful for contemplation:
"The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints," - Samuel Hendel
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself," - Thomas Paine
"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular," Adlai Stevenson
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you," - Richard Cheney
"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought," - Charles Kingsley
"Most people want security in this world, not liberty," - H.L. Mencken
"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck," - Frederick Douglas
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 1727 comments)
on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 2:45:14 PM
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