Fwd: I didn't speak up . . .

[Lori <lori@web4all.it>]

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>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:31:42 -0800
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>From: John Tubbs <jmtubbs@mbay.net>
>Subject: I didn't speak up . . .
>
>Thanks to Paul
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>First they came for the Muslims, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a 
>Muslim.
>Then they came to detain immigrants indefinitely solely upon the 
>certification of the Attorney General, and I didn't speak up because I 
>wasn't an immigrant.
>Then they came to eavesdrop on suspects consulting with their attorneys, 
>and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a suspect.
>Then they came to prosecute non-citizens before secret military 
>commissions, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a non-citizen.
>Then they came to enter homes and offices for unannounced "sneak and peek" 
>searches, and I didn't speak up because I had nothing to hide.
>Then they came to reinstate Cointelpro and resume the infiltration and 
>surveillance of domestic religious and political groups, and I didn't 
>speak up because I had stopped participating in any groups.
>Then they came for anyone who objected to government policy because it 
>aided the terrorists and gave ammunition to America's enemies, and I 
>didn't speak up because . . . I didn't speak up.
>Then they came for me . . . and by that time no one was left to speak up.
>
>--Stephen Rohde, a constitutional lawyer and President of the ACLU of 
>Southern California, who is indebted to the inspiration of Rev. Martin 
>Niemoller (1937)