grahame
Senior Retro Guru
Back on topic.
Their (the BNP's) ideas may be dreadful. But they must be allowed to hold them in a free society.
I'm reminded of the famous poem by the German pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
Their (the BNP's) ideas may be dreadful. But they must be allowed to hold them in a free society.
I'm reminded of the famous poem by the German pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
