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Long. <<http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/8/54352/79317>> ... "It's not my problem" Rwanda
"It's not my problem"
Bosnia
"It's not my problem"
Somalia
"It's not my problem"
Myanmar
"It's not my problem"
North Korea
"It's not my problem"
Sudan
"It's not my problem!"
Perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, victims: we can be clear about three of these categories. The bystander, however, is the fulcrum. If there are enough notable exceptions, then protest reaches a critical mass. We don't usually think of history as being shaped by silence, but, as English philosopher Edmund Burke said, `The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'
"Well... It's not my problem"
My wife had wondered for many years about how so many Germans stood by and let the holocaust happen?
She got her wish when we were attacked by the terrifying scientology cult and I was driven into exile.
"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."
--Holocaust Museum
But the reality is that the number of people who be anything but bystanders when they see vicious injustice being done is too small to have an effect even on a relatively small (40-50k tops in the USA) cult like scientology.
Keith Henson
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