[Oe List ...] Who Will Speak?

[Linda and Milan Hamilton]

Elsa, thanks for the comment and feel free! I am not opposed to it going
viral😇

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 2:36 PM Elsa Batica via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Milan,
> Thank you for this, your thoughtful post.
> May I copy and share to my friends and network?
> Thank you.
> Elsa Batica
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> Batica & Associates
>
>
> On Jul 20, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Linda and Milan Hamilton via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> Really! So let's hear some other voices then! It is still a free speech
> country, at least until we are all silenced is it not. And whose rhetoric
> do you think has been responsible for the huge increase in the last three
> years of hate groups, white nationalist attacks and mosque and synagogue
> attacks? MH
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 20, 2019, at 11:41 AM, Susan Fertig via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> Milan, this kind of rhetoric only increases the hate and division among
> us.
>
> Susan
>
> *Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Droid*
> On Jul 20, 2019 2:07 PM, Milan Hamilton via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
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>
> I watch in muffled horror what is happening to our beloved Republic,
> especially in the past three years, I remembered this quote from a Lutheran
> pastor in Germany after it was too late to stop Hitler’s Nazi party march
> to obliterate the German Republic:
>
>
>
> First they came for the Communists
>
> And I did not speak out
>
> Because I was not a Communist
>
>
>
> Then they came for the Socialists
>
> And I did not speak out
>
> Because I was not a Socialist
>
>
>
> Then they came for the trade unionists
>
> And I did not speak oAsut
>
> Because I was not a trade unionist
>
>
>
> Then they came for the Jews
>
> And I did not speak out
>
> Because I was not a Jew
>
>
>
> Then they came for me
>
> And there was no one left
>
> To speak out for me
>
>
>
> Pastor Martin Niemöller
>
> Pastor Martin Niemöller at his desk in his home. Berlin, Germany, ca. 1936.
>
> US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sibylle Niemoeller
>
>
>
> Niemoller was at first a supporter of Hitler and his policies, but as the
> revelations moved on to what the Nazi machine’s propaganda campaign was
> doing to eliminate any opposition by systematically silencing the free
> press, removing “sick” elements of the population, the gypsies, the
> handicapped, the “undesirables,” the “non-Aryans” (non-white), the Jews,
> and any others deemed “enemies of the State” by the Nazi party. We now know
> how that turned out.
>
>
>
> I am discerning some parallels to what happened there, in terms of the way
> a democratic republic can be chipped away at and ultimately destroyed, in
> our good old U.S. of A.
>
>
>
> “First he went after the Mexican immigrants by calling them rapists and
> murderers and the Republicans did not speak out because they were not
> Mexicans.
>
>
>
> “Then he went after the Muslims by calling them terrorists and the
> Republicans did not speak out because they were not Muslims.
>
>
>
> “Then he went after the free press by calling them “fake news” reporters
> and the Republicans did not speak out because they were not journalists.
>
>
>
> “Then he went after the Democrats by calling them socialists and the
> Republicans did not speak out because they were not Democrats.
>
>
>
> “Then he went after the Judges by calling them supporters of Democrats and
> the Republicans did not speak out because they were not supporters of
> Democrats.
>
>
>
> “Then he went after African American and Muslim and Puerto Rican American
> citizens who were also members of Congress telling them to “go back where
> they came from” and the Republicans did not speak out because they were
> afraid of him.”
>
>
>
> I do not know how this will turn out but I am sure of one thing. When he
> goes after the “fake and disloyal” Republicans, there won’t be anyone left
> to speak for them.
>
>
>
> Wake up America! Wake up Democrats! Wake up you sleeping Republicans who
> still have a sense of what is happening! Before it is too late! Save our
> democratic Republic!
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