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Reginald 2022-04-23 07:01:20
I always think of that passage: "In Germany, at first they hunted down the communists, and I didn't speak—because I wasn't a communist; then they hunted down the Jews, and I didn't speak—because I wasn't a Jew; later they Chasing union members, I didn't speak--because I wasn't a union member; Then they hunted Catholics, and I didn't speak--because I was a Protestant; at last they came for me, but no one stood up for me again Speak up.” This is a short poem inscribed on the Boston Jewish Holocaust Memorial in the United States by a German Protestant priest named Martin Niemoller. "Inaction" is often a sin.
Extended Reading
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Yuri Orlov: [Offering Sierra Leonean natives free guns, rocket launchers and ammunition] help yourselves no charge everything goes free, don't forget the bullets you can't shoot a gun without bullets EVERYTHING GOES FOR FREE
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Mbizi: [to Jack Valentine, holding a machete to Yuri's neck, while restraining his arms] Can we make him disappear? Around here people disappear all the time
Jack Valentine: No, don't do it
Mbizi: Look where we are, who will know?
Jack Valentine: We will, his going to get what's coming to him
Jack Valentine: [to Yuri] what are you doing in Sierra Leone?
Yuri Orlov: [lying] I'm on safari
Jack Valentine: [amused] Oh really? You're hunting wildebeest with a Submachine gun?
Yuri Orlov: You also work with the park service? Hunting without a license? Is that the charge?
Jack Valentine: Why are we playing games? You traffic arms
Yuri Orlov: [protesting his innocence] Trade
Jack Valentine: Trade, traffic you get rich by giving the poorest people on the planet the means to killing each other