The point remains. Tony was saying that the illegal surveillance doesn't worry him given that he's not a muslim. I'm responding when does it stop? Regardless of one's political leanings such unsupervised and quite possibly illegal surveillance is very worrisome.
larry On 12/19/05, Kevin Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting stuff on wikipedia about this one... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came... > > I prefer reading it in the original German. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 10:04 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Iran > > Is there any guarentee that this will be the only thing they'll look > at. Remember that the Pentagon is apparently spying on peace groups, > listing them in a threat database and ordering extra surveillance. The > FBI has been wanting expansion of the Patriot Act in part to silence > "Radical Librarians" according to on recent email that was released. > > So how much longer until it becomes those who democratically oppose > the current administration. With no oversight and protection as > afforded by the FISA courts, its very possible. > > There's a wonderful quote by a German paster from the second world war > that applies: > > First They Came for the Jews > > First they came for the Jews > and I did not speak out > because I was not a Jew. > Then they came for the Communists > and I did not speak out > because I was not a Communist. > Then they came for the trade unionists > and I did not speak out > because I was not a trade unionist. > Then they came for me > and there was no one left > to speak out for me. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:188730 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
