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OT: Standing Up For What's Right - Against Circuit City and the local Police
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<blockquote data-quote="Rich Stern" data-source="post: 731188" data-attributes="member: 52580"><p>I had the good fortune to be in Boston this holiday weekend, and read something on the new Holocaust memorial the city erected near the harbor, just over the Big Dig site:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.</em></p><p></p><p> --Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This quote may be a little over the top, considering the circumstances of the incident in Ohio, but the point remains: When someone's civil rights are trampled, even in a trivial way, the worst thing we can do is accept it as a meaningless inconvenience. Even if we don't personally care to be hassled as Mr. Righi is now being hassled, I urge you not to undercut him. He is, in effect, speaking out on all of our behalfs, by saying "I do not accept arbitrary trampling of my civil liberties."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If the men who wrote the Constitution were alive today, I assure you they would all be willing to stand up for Mr. Righi in this case. What he experienced is exactly what they did not want Americans to have to live with or submit to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Stern, post: 731188, member: 52580"] I had the good fortune to be in Boston this holiday weekend, and read something on the new Holocaust memorial the city erected near the harbor, just over the Big Dig site: [i]First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little. Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.[/i] --Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945 This quote may be a little over the top, considering the circumstances of the incident in Ohio, but the point remains: When someone's civil rights are trampled, even in a trivial way, the worst thing we can do is accept it as a meaningless inconvenience. Even if we don't personally care to be hassled as Mr. Righi is now being hassled, I urge you not to undercut him. He is, in effect, speaking out on all of our behalfs, by saying "I do not accept arbitrary trampling of my civil liberties." If the men who wrote the Constitution were alive today, I assure you they would all be willing to stand up for Mr. Righi in this case. What he experienced is exactly what they did not want Americans to have to live with or submit to. [/QUOTE]
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