Reply #50: Thank you for the welcome

[The Second Stone]

I've got my silicone heat resistant suit on. I've been "warned", "threatened" and "remembered" ominously for this opinion before. But if nobody stands up and says anything, then it just gets worse. Today is the first day of the rest of my life, and I will be respectable and silent on this matter no longer.




When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.



Martin Niemoller