Fun_People Archive
20 Feb
Re: First they came...

Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 16:03:17 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Re: First they came...

[If you're not familiar with the original of this you might want to skip to  
the end where it's included (as we needlessly repeat this bit of history)...  
-psl]

Forwarded-by: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: carolyn meinel <cmeinel@unm.edu>
Forwarded-by: Wes Thomas <wes@ora.com>
Forwarded-by: Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>

                First they came for the hackers.
        But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
                    so I didn't speak up.
              Then they came for the pornographers.
   But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
                    so I didn't speak up.
           Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
      But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,
                   so I didn't speak up.
          Then they came for the encryption users.
    But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,
                    so I didn't speak up.
                   Then they came for me.
     And by that time there was no one left to speak up.

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The original:

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 becaues I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
   and I didn't speak up becaue I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me -
   and by that time no one was left to speak up.
		-- Pastor Martin Niemoller

© 1996 Peter Langston