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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1024)	4/10/2001 4:37:12 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Re: But did we really learn our lessons? I doubt it. This is why a famous phrase pronounced some 60 years ago suddenly becomes so topical: "When they came for my neighbours, I did not stand for them because I did not like them. But when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up." Below is the exact quotation: ...No text from the Holocaust is more often quoted than Martin Niemoller's confession of his moral failure during the 1930's: "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist -- so I said nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat -- so I did nothing. Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew -- so I did little. Then when they came for me, there was no one left who could stand up for me." ____________ I've myself rephrased Niemoller's witticism to make it more in tune with present-day Europe: "First they chased illegal Africans, but I was not an African -- so I said nothing. Then they came for the European welfarites, but I was not on the dole -- so I did nothing. Then came the freshly-naturalized folks, but I was an all-European guy. And then they came for the Muslims, but I was not a Muslim -- so I did little. Then when they told me that my ID card had been sort of downgraded, there was no one left who could stand up for me...."