Re: Here's what will happen to U.S. based remailers

[Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>]

    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 16:15:20 -0600 (CST)
    From: Samuel Kaplin <skaplin@mirage.skypoint.com>
    
    On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, Lucky Green wrote:
    
    > Many years ago, I read a poem by a German priest
    
    Is this the poem, Lucky?
    
         They [Nazis] came first 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 Catholics, 
    and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
         Then they came for me,
    and by that time there was no one left to speak up.
                             - Martin Niemller
    
Close.  You left out trade unionists and misspelled his last name, but
certainly got the bulk of it.  I'm typing from a pink triangular
button only because it's close by (pinned to my clinic escorting hat),
but I've previously verified that it matches the text from other
sources.  Of course, it may very well be a translation . . . .

I believe that Rishab Ghosh also sent an approximation of this text
out to the list a while back.

			Rick



	``In 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 -- and by that time
			   no one was left
			    to speak up.''
				   
			      - Pastor
				Martin
			        Niemoller