First They Came and I Did Not Speak Out

German Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) wrote a poem titled “First They Came.” Niemöller was the brother-in-law of Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was implicated in the Valkyrie plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. On the personal order of Adolf Hitler, Pastor Bonhoeffer was one of the last Germans executed by the Nazis on April 9, 1945. Bonhoeffer while in a Nazi prison wrote:

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

“First they came” is a famous statement and provocative poem about the cowardice of German intellectuals following the Nazis’ rise to power and the subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group. Many variations and adaptations in the spirit of the original have been published in the English language. It deals with the themes of persecution, guilt and responsibility.

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
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

Today we find the rise of the new Democrat Party. An allegiance of three key factions, the Socialists, Islamists and Homosexualists. Each faction has made it their goal to:

  1. Make America Communist for as Vladimir Lenin wrote, “The goal of Socialism is Communism.”
  2. Make America an Islamic State for the goal of the Muslim is to implement Islamic (shariah) laws in the country to which they migrate.
  3. Make America Godless, for the homosexualists hate all religions because they are held accountable for their actions.

These three factions are fundamentally incompatible one with the other. We are now seeing the Islamist faction turning against the Homosexualist faction. Soon the Socialist faction will turn against the Islamist faction, out of political necessity. Only one faction can survive in the end.

America is witness to a new cowardice of American intellectuals following the Democrat rise to power and the subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

Here is a modern day version of Niemöller’s poem:

First they came for the TEA Party
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a member of the TEA Party
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for the Christians
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Christian
Then they came for the gays
And I did not speak out
Because I was not gay
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

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