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From: dave@teldata.UUCP (Dave Heppner)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Action or guilt
Message-ID: <262@teldata.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 13:32:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  9 13:32:35 1984
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All I wanted to do was live in my own little world. As  long
as the government allowed me to live I did'nt care what they
did or how much of my substance they took. Then one day...

                    DECLARATION OF GUILT

"In Germany, the Nazis 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 did not speak up  because
I was not 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 was a Protestant so I
didn't speak up.

Then they came for ME...by that time there  was  no  one  to
speak up for anyone."

Signed by Pastor Martin Niemoller  at  the  Council  of  the
Evangelical Church in Germany, October 18, 1945.

     I had my head stuck in the sand, then one day I  pulled
it  out,  and was appalled at what I saw in the world. I can
no longer keep my mouth and mind shut. I must try  to  speak
for  those  who cannot, and I must fight for the rights that
have been taken because no one was willing to  get  involved
and take responsibility for their own actions.

     If man is to decide what is just, who is to say it can-
not happen again.  Or has it already started.

                            Freedom costs something,
                                    Dave.