We All Should Be Afraid
We All Should Be Afraid Do I sound like an alarmist? Maybe...if you want to believe so then go ahead. But I have studied many years of history, more to the point, German history. I had to read many books about the holocaust and how it came to be. So when I am watching what is going on in this country I know that this has happened before. I can't believe so many people can't or won't see this. The problem is they don't teach this in our schools and now they are trying to ban the books that you obviously haven't read, so people won't know. One of my favorite things I read while I was studying to become Jewish (which BTW took 3 years of study) was a quote from a German Pastor Martin Niemöller, reflecting on his own and others' inaction during the Nazi rise to power: "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist...
