I trust my goverment (?)
May. 23rd, 2008 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You are probably thinking to yourself, you know, MisterX hasn't posted anything of a paranoid nature lately. Is he starting to trust the American government?
No.
http://radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/05/government_surveillance_homeland_security_main_core_01.php
No.
http://radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/05/government_surveillance_homeland_security_main_core_01.php
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on 2008-05-23 08:27 pm (UTC)Give Into Fear And They Win
on 2008-05-23 10:38 pm (UTC)What disturbs me most is the collective passivity to this. There was a good poem about the Nazi Era. This translation kind of sucks:
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Juden holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
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on 2008-05-26 02:09 am (UTC)