Posted by
grad_1986 on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:50:56 PM
There is a famous poem by the a Lutheran pastor named Martin Niemoller who lived during the Nazi regime. The poem goes as follows:
When the Nazis came for the communists
I remained silent
I was not a communist
Then they came for the social democrats
I remained silent
I was not a social democrat
Then they came for the trade unionists
I did not protest
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
This famous poem speaks of how we are all in this together and that when one persons freedoms are taken away then eventually all freedoms are lost. Today our freedoms as Americans are slowly being whittled away by activist judges (one will soon be on the Supreme Court) who care very little for the "will of the people" but more about their own "wills". And like the poem shows, it all starts somewhere and progresses like a cancer until there is nothing left for each "right" we have is based on other rights. Take any of them away and the whole system collapses like a house of cards.
To illustrate this I have written a similar poem called: "First they took away.."
First they took away peoples property and gave it to others to use and called it PROGRESS
I said nothing
I wasn't a property owner
Then they took away the freedom of speech and called it "Hate Speech"
I said nothing
I was not a writer or a journalist
Next they took away the right to own a gun and called it unnecessary in the 21st century
I said nothing
I was not a gun owner
Then they took away the freedom of religion and called it science and evolution
I said nothing
I was not religious
Then they arrested me and took away my right to a trial calling me a home-grown-terrorist
And no one was able to do anything about it