🚀 go-pugleaf

Recently there have been a few messages on this group that
included a tagline with an incomplete version of the 
familiar Martin Niemoeller quote about why the Nazi regime was 
able to put him in a concentration camp; in short because no one was
left to defend him.

The reason Niemoeller ended up in the camps was that -he- spoke out
against the Nazis, but only after he failed to defend other people
who had spoken out against the Nazis before he decide to. 

Any willful editing or supression of part of this quote puts one in 
*very* bad company indeed. Does it not?

Here is the complete quote:

* In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak because *
*  I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak   *
*  because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and      *
*  I didn't speak because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the *
*  Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.             *
* Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up.      *
*  Rev. Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)                                       *