<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank-you Carleton. Thank-you Milan!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Milan, I’m very grateful to see your posting - even if I am reading it for the 100th time. It describes our moment in history in so appropriately.</div><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The same ‘white entitlement’ pretending not to be racist (or sexist vis a vis abortion rights) is on the rise here in Canada.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is predominately male, so-called Christian and fearful of losing it’s place.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In Toronto, Canada’s largest city, us whites are now a minority. In Canada, diversity is our strength.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Trudeau’s Liberals embrace climate change, racial diversity, feminism, distribution of wealth and the inclusion of the LGBTQ community. Conservatives reject all of the above and are almost exclusively white and so-called Christian in their opposition.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my riding of 100,000, a rural riding called Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston (between Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston and Toronto) our Candidate in the October 21st Federal Election is Kayley Kennedy, a 24 year-old white woman and human rights advocate. She has family roots going back 150 years in this turf, is well-educated, yet very rural in her style. She has asked me, at almost 77, to be her Campaign Manager. All my town meeting, cadre, gridding and fundraising abilities are getting out for a romp again. In Canada, it appears that she is the youngest Candidate running for Parliament and I am the oldest Campaign Manager. As I write, we now have metro teams in each of our 13 rural municipalities at work. Sound familiar?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Over the past 18 years, our Conservative Member of Parliament has won the past 6 elections. While it is time for change, and while we are committed to the hard work of door-to-door, it truly is in the ‘hands of the grace of god’. Remembering Mandela & de Klerk; remembering Gandhi & the salt tax; remembering the ‘overnight’ fall of the Berlin Wall; it will be with the grace of god when the demonic forces of Trump are expelled and the fascists of Canadian conservatism are once more put back in a box!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now is the time. We are the people.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 20, 2019, at 4:31 PM, Carleton Stock via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">Amen! When we were pastors of a church near Pittsburgh, I had that Niemoller quote on my des'k! It does seem more applicable to the US these days. Let's work to turn The Donald out of The White House! An editorial in the St. Louis paper this week said essentially the same thing!</div>
<div class="">Carleton Stock</div>
<div class="">St. Louis</div>
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From: Linda and Milan Hamilton via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br class="">
To: George Holcombe <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br class="">
Cc: Linda and Milan Hamilton <<a href="mailto:lindaandmilan@gmail.com" class="">lindaandmilan@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
Sent: Sat, Jul 20, 2019 12:44 pm<br class="">
Subject: [Oe List ...] Who Will Speak Up!<br class="">
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<div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><span class="">Pastor Martin Niemöller at his desk in his home. Berlin, Germany, ca. 1936.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><span class="">US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sibylle Niemoeller</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">As 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:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">First they came
for the Communists</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">And I did not
speak out</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Because I was not
a Communist</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Then they came for
the Socialists</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">And I did not
speak out</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Because I was not
a Socialist</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Then they came for
the trade unionists</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">And I did not
speak out</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Because I was not
a trade unionist</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Then they came for
the Jews</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">And I did not
speak out</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Because I was not
a Jew</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Then they came for
me</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">And there was no
one left</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">To speak out for
me</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Pastor Martin
Niemöller</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">“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.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">“Then he went
after the Muslims by calling them terrorists and the Republicans did not speak
out because they were not Muslims.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">“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.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">“Then he went
after the Democrats by calling them socialists and the Republicans did not
speak out because they were not Democrats.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">“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.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">“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.”</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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!</div>
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