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Some people are capable of learning
from history and some are not
until it's too late:

"First they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out -
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the communists
And I did not speak out -
Because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out -
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me
And there was no-one left -
To speak out for me."

Pastor Niemöller, Germany, 1938

He was resuced from a Baxter-type
concentration camp in 1945
emaciated and near death
by Allied soldiers.

His crime? He had refused to let 'The Authorities'
vet his sermons before delivering them.

The moral in 2007 after 'The Authoriites'
disinterred 'sedition' as a federal crime
in Australia?

Free speech - use it or lose it!

There is a federal election soon.

It's your choice what kind of country
you want Australia to be.

Never waste a vote because or one day
'The Authorities' may decide voting is
too big a hassle to bother with.