05-01-2010, 11:53 AM
"FIRST THEY CAME AFTER ....... "
Reknown excerpts from a sermon by Pastor Martin Niemöller
Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller, an eventual opponent of Hitler, came to write many anti-Nazi writings and delivered many anti-Nazi sermons in the
mid-1930's. Personally detested by Hitler, this led to his arrest in 1937 for which he became imprisoned by the Nazis, first in the horrendous Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp where over 35,000 were exterminated and then moved to the brutal Dachau Concentration Camp where over 30,000 were exterminated.
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Paster Niemöller was liberated from Dachau by the Allies in 1945. On January 6, 1946, he gave a sermon about his inhumane ordeal before
The Confessing Church of Jesus Christ in Frankfurt. This is the reknown excerpt from a part of it:
From Pastor Martin Niemöller:
"In Nazi Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't 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 didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me â
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
So here we have Arizona a newly enacted law to "come after" those who "look" llegal (i.e., NOT white) and IMPRISON THEM.
WHO then shall be NEXT ?????
In time, it could be YOU....unless you speak UP now!!
FURTHER, hundreds of THOUSANDS of brave BRAVE MEN and WOMEN of the Allied Forces (including the USA) fought and GAVE UP their LIVES
for HUMAN RIGHTS and FREEDOM in this world and in our country!
So ALL of this ultimate sacrifice for what?? So The Government of Arizona and all those along with them who HATE people of different colors/races other than their OWN White Race can now SPIT upon their very graves in this utter insult to human rights and the American vision of "liberty and justice for all."
What a total OUTRAGE! What sheer CONTEMPT for those who sacrificed so much to tell them their GOOD FIGHT and tragic deaths were ALL IN VAIN. All because we now have here in the USA as seen in Arizona AND across the USA a growing, spreading pernicious right-wing extremist movement commencing to transverse down the VERY SAME ROAD as Der Führer ADOLF HITLER HIMSELF did ... going after people of different races, of different color, of different cultures.
NOT affirming life in all its great and wondrous God-given diversity, but rather being life-negators... seeking THE ONLY CORRECT WAY,
"DIE EINZIG RICHTIGE WEG !!!"
WE MUST NOT ALLOW THIS to HAPPEN ANOTHER TIME !!
NEVER AGAIN!!
NIE WEIDER!!
- WT Reader
Reknown excerpts from a sermon by Pastor Martin Niemöller
Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller, an eventual opponent of Hitler, came to write many anti-Nazi writings and delivered many anti-Nazi sermons in the
mid-1930's. Personally detested by Hitler, this led to his arrest in 1937 for which he became imprisoned by the Nazis, first in the horrendous Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp where over 35,000 were exterminated and then moved to the brutal Dachau Concentration Camp where over 30,000 were exterminated.
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Paster Niemöller was liberated from Dachau by the Allies in 1945. On January 6, 1946, he gave a sermon about his inhumane ordeal before
The Confessing Church of Jesus Christ in Frankfurt. This is the reknown excerpt from a part of it:
From Pastor Martin Niemöller:
"In Nazi Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't 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 didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me â
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
So here we have Arizona a newly enacted law to "come after" those who "look" llegal (i.e., NOT white) and IMPRISON THEM.
WHO then shall be NEXT ?????
In time, it could be YOU....unless you speak UP now!!
FURTHER, hundreds of THOUSANDS of brave BRAVE MEN and WOMEN of the Allied Forces (including the USA) fought and GAVE UP their LIVES
for HUMAN RIGHTS and FREEDOM in this world and in our country!
So ALL of this ultimate sacrifice for what?? So The Government of Arizona and all those along with them who HATE people of different colors/races other than their OWN White Race can now SPIT upon their very graves in this utter insult to human rights and the American vision of "liberty and justice for all."
What a total OUTRAGE! What sheer CONTEMPT for those who sacrificed so much to tell them their GOOD FIGHT and tragic deaths were ALL IN VAIN. All because we now have here in the USA as seen in Arizona AND across the USA a growing, spreading pernicious right-wing extremist movement commencing to transverse down the VERY SAME ROAD as Der Führer ADOLF HITLER HIMSELF did ... going after people of different races, of different color, of different cultures.
NOT affirming life in all its great and wondrous God-given diversity, but rather being life-negators... seeking THE ONLY CORRECT WAY,
"DIE EINZIG RICHTIGE WEG !!!"
WE MUST NOT ALLOW THIS to HAPPEN ANOTHER TIME !!
NEVER AGAIN!!
NIE WEIDER!!
- WT Reader