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<blockquote data-quote="Rich B" data-source="post: 3367101" data-attributes="member: 571023">Yep.The notion that a government should have the authority to tell everyone how to live runs counter to the freedoms our nation was founded on.This is an old quote, but it represents the slippery slope we might be heading down-German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decautur GA in 1959In Germany they first came for the Communists,and I didn&#039;t speak up because I wasn&#039;t a Communist.Then they came for the Jews,and I didn&#039;t speak up because I wasn&#039;t a Jew.Then they came for the trade unionists,and I didn&#039;t speak up because I wasn&#039;t a trade unionist.Then they came for the Catholics,and I didn&#039;t speak up because I was a Protestant.Then they came for me —and by that time no one was left to speak up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rich B, post: 3367101, member: 571023"] Yep. The notion that a government should have the authority to tell everyone how to live runs counter to the freedoms our nation was founded on. This is an old quote, but it represents the slippery slope we might be heading down- German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decautur GA in 1959 In Germany they first came 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. [/QUOTE]

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