Tuesday, April 13, 2010

UGLY THINGS....

My reason in addressing this is quite simple, I suspect I just got tired of hearing ugly things about good people . If we were in another land and I have lived in two other countries staying in some of the most racist and bigoted areas, being exposed to neo-Nazism or at least their philosophies, I believe we would all feel offended by what we experience and hear according to prejudice and that fear instilled to create terror. We call it white racism but when we ourselves indulge in such ugly and hateful discourse (black and white) or make violent threats against another just because of who they are, we have become no better than them. We try to disguise our hate by saying it is against God or against a tradition and culture being threatened by difference. It is why they do it too.
It is even more offensive when people use Religion, God or any faith to propagate such hatred and bigotry.
It is as if someone has inverted the cross like they do in witch craft to become everything opposite to its original intention - thus love becomes hate much like the burning of the cross by the KKK.

The Nazi regime eliminated all other opposition, which helped them keep their grasp on the mantle of power. The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, decided to wage war upon the world, which started Second World War. They squelched all other political parties in Germany.
Hitler was bent on destroying anyone who disagreed with him, and on conquering the world under the Nazi regime.

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran minister and was originally a supporter of the regime. He later became a progressive agitator against the movement of intolerance .

Niemöller is most famous of his Poem"First they came ..."



"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up 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."
These are dangerous times for silence in our own land so I choose to speak....

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