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to: MATT MUNSON
from: FRANK SCHEIDT
date: 2012-11-26 12:05:28
subject: a take on the niemoller poem

-> 
-> First, they came for the gay veterans.
-> He didn't fight hard; he wasn't gay.
-> Next, they came for the immigrants.
-> He didn't fight hard; he wasn't "illegal."
-> Next, they came for the trade unionists.
-> He didn't fight hard; he no longer belonged to a union.
-> Next, they came for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
-> He didn't fight hard; he wasn't poor.
-> But finally they came for him,
-> and there was nobody willing to fight hard for him.
-> -Dan Choi

Interesting posting, but the logic is flawed.  One might say with equal
"logic" the following:  "First they came for the criminal. 
Next they came
for the average citizen."  See?  The logic just doesn't follow.  Just
because one undesirable group is suppressed, that doesn't mean other
*desireable* groups will be ... [sigh] ...
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