And They Will Come
First they came for the Muslims, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim.Then they came to detain immigrants indefinitely solely upon the certification of the Attorney General, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't an immigrant.
From Stephen Rohde, a constitutional lawyer and President of the ACLU of Southern California, with acknowledgements to Rev. Martin Niemoller (1937)
Some people will say--and do say, loudly and often--well, that's just silly, that's not going to happen. But it can happen, it has happened, and it will happen if we don't remember that it's our country and our government. The slow whittling away of things we take for granted is what's dangerous, the things we didn't see at the time. If we lose the heart and soul of this country in our pursuit of terrorists and designated evil, then we lose.
via TalkLeft