Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-Amarillo) Calls for Rounding Up All Transgender U.S. Citizens and Locking Them Away.
Are gays, socialists, liberals, Democrats, Muslims, Catholics, Jews, the disabled, the blind... next on his list?
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Juden einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.
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When the Nazis came for the communists,
I kept quiet; I wasn't a communist.
When they came for the trade unionists, I kept quiet;
I wasn't a trade unionist.
When they locked up the social democrats, I kept quiet;
I wasn't a social democrat.
When they locked up the Jews, I kept quiet;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to protest.
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Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller
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An early supporter of the Nazis, Niemöller gradually abandoned his pro-Nazi views and after he signed a petition highly critical of Nazi policies that were incompatible with the Christian virtue of charity, he was arrested in 1937 and imprisoned in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen and later at Dachau.
In April 1945 he was transported with about 140 other high-valued prisoners to Alpenfestung, with the SS troops transporting them under orders to execute them all if rescue by the Allies was imminent. But troops from the regular German army took protective custody of them. The prisoners were soon liberated by advanced units of the U.S. Seventh Army.
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Juden einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.
---
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I kept quiet; I wasn't a communist.
When they came for the trade unionists, I kept quiet;
I wasn't a trade unionist.
When they locked up the social democrats, I kept quiet;
I wasn't a social democrat.
When they locked up the Jews, I kept quiet;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to protest.
---
Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller
---
An early supporter of the Nazis, Niemöller gradually abandoned his pro-Nazi views and after he signed a petition highly critical of Nazi policies that were incompatible with the Christian virtue of charity, he was arrested in 1937 and imprisoned in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen and later at Dachau.
In April 1945 he was transported with about 140 other high-valued prisoners to Alpenfestung, with the SS troops transporting them under orders to execute them all if rescue by the Allies was imminent. But troops from the regular German army took protective custody of them. The prisoners were soon liberated by advanced units of the U.S. Seventh Army.
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