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To: montag813
You know, unfortunatly what you, and people that share your opinion don't realize, is that when something like this succesfully takes place, it sets a precedent making it easier next time.

There is a poem I once heard, that although was focused towards religions, it comes to mind when things like this happen. Just subtitute some of the words in it as approprate, and it relates quite nicely.

"In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I was not 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 there was no one left to speak up for me."
-Martin Niemoeller German Lutheran Pastor

53 posted on 09/12/2003 9:41:48 AM PDT by ScrtAccess
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To: ScrtAccess
Are you comparing industrialized human extermination with compensated governmental takings of land?
82 posted on 09/12/2003 10:03:13 AM PDT by Petronski (Calm down. Eat some fruit or something.)
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To: ScrtAccess
When they come for the communists and the trade unionists, I plan to help.
112 posted on 09/12/2003 10:39:43 AM PDT by Dead Dog
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