<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="">HI Susan, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I assume you are referring to the Trump rhetoric. Is that right?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is good to ‘hear’ your voice.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Jul 2019, at 19:41, Susan Fertig 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="">Milan, this kind of rhetoric only increases the hate and division among us. </div>
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<div class="elided-text">On Jul 20, 2019 2:07 PM, Milan Hamilton via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class="">
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<br class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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 oAsut</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Because I was not a trade unionist</div><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Pastor Martin Niemöller</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Pastor Martin Niemöller at his desk in his home. Berlin, Germany, ca. 1936.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;" class="">US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sibylle Niemoeller</div><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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><p style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </p><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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