[Rhodes22-list] RE: [rhodes-list] Holocaust - first they came for the .....

[Kroposki]

Gregg,
	Thank you for your reply.  When Michael used part of the first
line, I recognized the source.  The last few years, I have kept a copy
of the verse, it just took some time for me to find it.  This verse has
both political and business implications.  Look at the lady accountant
from Enron who was speaking out.  How many others are working for
organizations who have crossed the line and are fearful to speak out
because they would loose their jobs.  More troubling is that many issues
of right or wrong are being obscured in the name of political
correctness. We may have a Constitutional right of free speech, but the
pressures against using it are great.  It still takes individual courage
to speak out.  Recently I saw an interview with the actor, Ed
Asner(sp?).  He has been outspoken on several liberal issues.  The
interviewer stated that he was an example that you could speak out and
not be reprised against.  Mr. Asner shot back that he was definitely
reprised against for his views and it cost him many roles as an actor.

		Ed K
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg J. Dinino [mailto:gjdinino at utel.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:23 AM
To: rhodes-list at sailnet.net
Subject: Re: [rhodes-list] Holocaust - first they came for the .....

Ed,

Rather timely with political and cultural climate in this country these 
days, don't you think?  Thanks for providing the whole quote. . . I've
been 
missing a few lines all these years.

Gregg

Gregg J. Dinino
Kennebunk, ME
s/v Tosca
1958 Rhodes 18 (keel) #4-58


At 10:38 PM 9/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Michael stated a post with "first they came for the ..."
>So everyone knows the whole verse, here is the rest of the story:
>
>
>In Germany they first came for the Communists
>     and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
>  Then they came for the Jews,
>     and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
>Then they came for the trade unionists
>      and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
>Then they came for the Catholics
>      and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
>  Then they came for me
>     and by that time no one was left to speak up.
>
>  --The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing
>Church
>who spent seven years in a concentration camp.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Meltzer
>Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:36 PM
>To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] first they came for the .....
>
>
>
>Then see and understand his post:
>
>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11286
>
>         Ed K
>
>
>
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