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These neighbors spoke up--a powerful story. (I went to a vigil in our town to bring awareness of those in detention centers. Eight ministers read from the gospel having us respond at various times with, "Who is our neighbor?")--Diann McCabe, San Marcos, TX</div>
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<div dir="auto">Hello everyone,
<div>I am so glad to be reading about Ken and all of you, and your insights </div>
<div>I recommend you view the Film ‘ American Heretic ‘ It is about the Church in the U S today Roxana has details of the Minister- The Rev Dr Robin Meyers. He is Minister of a Congregational Church in Oklahoma City, and also an Academic. </div>
<div>At our Common Dreams Conference- held very recently, Matthew Fox was one of the key speakers- so good to hear him speak. Robin was also at this conference and introduced the Film. It was launched here and in New York at the same time and the NY Times gave
it a great review. 😊👋👋🐨💐</div>
<div>We are in the Long March of Care.</div>
<div>Hooray for you Ken! I still am engaged in the journey of people seeking Asylum and the pain and hope for our First Peoples.</div>
<div>Love to you all, </div>
<div>Isobel <br>
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On 21 Jul 2019, at 8:15 am, Ken Fisher via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<div class="">It is predominately male, so-called Christian and fearful of losing it’s place.</div>
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<div class="">In Toronto, Canada’s largest city, us whites are now a minority. In Canada, diversity is our strength.</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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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
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<div class="" style="margin:0in"><span class="">Pastor Martin Niemöller at his desk in his home. Berlin, Germany, ca. 1936.</span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in"><span class="">US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sibylle Niemoeller</span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">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 class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">First they came for the Communists</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">And I did not speak out</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">Because I was not a Communist</div>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">Then they came for the Socialists</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">And I did not speak out</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">Because I was not a Socialist</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt"> </div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">Then they came for the trade unionists</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">And I did not speak out</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">Because I was not a trade unionist</div>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">Then they came for the Jews</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">And I did not speak out</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">Because I was not a Jew</div>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">Then they came for me</div>
<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">And there was no one left</div>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">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 class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">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>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">“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>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">“Then he went after the Muslims by calling them terrorists and the Republicans did not speak out because they were not Muslims.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">“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>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">“Then he went after the Democrats by calling them socialists and the Republicans did not speak out because they were not Democrats.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">“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>
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<div class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">“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 class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">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 class="" style="margin:0in; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt">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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