Authors comments:
Benjamin
Franklin,
"They that can give up essential
Liberty to obtain a little temporary Safety, deserve neither
Liberty - nor Safety."
After
you read "Elements of Fascism" (found in Introduction),
please think about how easy it was for Franco, Hitler and
Mussolini to set aside basic freedoms by
exploiting a perceived threat. Also think about the
way citizens must have felt when they
realized their actions had
become government scrutiny, and when they
peaceably dissented, they and their friends
were imprisoned or killed.
If we
don't learn from history we're bound to repeat it.
If you watch television, you will hear Constitutional Law
Professors saying our Congress has allowed George W.
Bush to set aside many of our constitutional
freedoms in the name of national security. The
elements are in place, and someday when you decide
to peaceably dissent, how hard do you think it
will be for those having ill intent for
financial gain to identify and arrest you and those you
associate with in the name of national
security.
Pastor
Martin Niemoller, Germany, 1937,
"First 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 the Jews, and I did
not speak out because I was not a
Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak
out for me."
It
appears we may already be in a war to preserve our way of
life and our democracy, and this war doesn't have
anything to do with people living in the middle
east.
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