In the 1930s, Hitler's Gestapo required pastors to
submit church sermons for official approval or
they'd be put into a detention camp with Jews.
Pastor Noimuller refused to obey the Gestapo
and he was put into a concentration camp.
Years later, when the Allies liberated the
camp, Pastor Noimuller was more dead
than alive but he gave his liberators a
scarp of paper on which he'd written:
First they came for the Jews, and I did
not speak up because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak up because I was
not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak up because I was
not a trade unionist.
When they came for me there was
nobody left to speak up for me.
A timely warning given the hate campaign
against refugees that is being whipped up
by the Murdoch media empire to increase
newspaper sales and TV station ratings.
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