09-05-2017, 05:40 AM
(09-04-2017, 02:50 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Also I would respond to PBR but it looks like Rags beat me to it. Let me just say that I don't want the US to Emulate even Germany or Canada or the UK when it comes to free speech. But I think I'll leave this little ditty here:
First they came for the National Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a National Socialist.
It's for innocent people -- and not for pirates, drug traffickers, murderers, rapists, thieves, and child abusers. Or Nazis or Stalinists. It's for people who never did anything wrong.
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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.