… and I didn’t speak up
No Force, No Fraud
by Bob Smith
“I want to talk about the important lessons of the Niemoller poem/sermon. It’s a guilt-ridden poem, and Niemoller was guilty, in his own eyes. He had been a submarine commander in WWI, and had initially supported Hitler. Niemoller, however, was explaining the widespread guilt of Germans in ignoring what their own government was doing … until it actually affected them … until it was too late to stop. It’s important for all of us to recognize when we’ve been wrong, take responsibility for it, take action to change our ways, and to try to make amends for any harm our wrongness caused. I’m not much of a believer in ‘evil,’ but if there is human evil, I suspect the worst examples are those people who know they’re wrong, but will use all sorts of trickery to keep from admitting it and to prevent anyone else from knowing... (originally published 12/30/03; posted 01/28/07)
http://libertyed.org/noforce/2007/01/and-i-didnt-speak-up.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Smith
by Bob Smith
“I want to talk about the important lessons of the Niemoller poem/sermon. It’s a guilt-ridden poem, and Niemoller was guilty, in his own eyes. He had been a submarine commander in WWI, and had initially supported Hitler. Niemoller, however, was explaining the widespread guilt of Germans in ignoring what their own government was doing … until it actually affected them … until it was too late to stop. It’s important for all of us to recognize when we’ve been wrong, take responsibility for it, take action to change our ways, and to try to make amends for any harm our wrongness caused. I’m not much of a believer in ‘evil,’ but if there is human evil, I suspect the worst examples are those people who know they’re wrong, but will use all sorts of trickery to keep from admitting it and to prevent anyone else from knowing... (originally published 12/30/03; posted 01/28/07)
http://libertyed.org/noforce/2007/01/and-i-didnt-speak-up.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Smith
rudkla - 30. Jan, 15:29
