#firsttheycame

Another example of a Western democracy government using Israel and Palestine to demolish their democracy: https://www.972mag.com/germany-deport-foreign-residents-palestine-activism/

When a democratic government puts itself above the law, there's no rule of law nor a democracy.

#democracy #Germany #Deutschland #RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #FirstTheyCame @israel @palestine

@heidilifeldman

I agree, you might add #LawFedi, #FediLaw, #Legal, and #LegalNews to your text for reach.

Also, a headline helps quite a bit, as well as an image or link.

#ClientRepresentation: Trump Administration on Course To Destroy Rule Of Law

Also, this reminds me of Russia's treatment of lawyers having defended political dissidents.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-opposition-leader-navalny-lawyers-jail-16aaab94a7e812df7927c40e1104625d

It is a clear case of #FirstTheyCame:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110952620112236816

@ned
#USpol #Rascism #Fascism #History

That has been the fascists' standard operating procedure ever since the #ThirdReich, as artfully described in #MartinNiemöller's poem #FirstTheyCame:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110952620112236816

It is not original thinking, though. The great military strategist, #SunTzu postulated in his principle of #Subversion thousands of years ago:

"5. SPREAD DISUNITY AND DiSPUTE AMONG THE CITIZENS;" (#TheArtOfWar).)

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111866713457556691

The#NextCivilWar is already in full flight.

Reading about Martin Niemöller, the guy who originated that "First they came for..." poem.

German, Lutheran pastor, an active supporter of Hitler in the early '30s, gradually came to realize what he was supporting and changed his views, and got thrown in a concentration camp for the last 7 years for opposing the Nazis.

Gave variations of that "First they came for..." speech many times. It wasn't a poem then, just his apology-sermon.

Read up about the history and origin of that poem. There is a lot of background and context to it, more than I can sum up in a toot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

#MartinNiemoller #FirstTheyCame

"Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States"
Hold up. Autism spectrum disorder is now DETECTED in 1 in 36 children in the US. Is it any wonder the guy who thinks not testing makes something go away, wouldn't understand how improved diagnostics would detect kids who fell through the nets before?

"This poses a dire threat to the American people and our way of life."

Eugenics out in the open.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/ #autism #maga #trump #adhd #firsttheycame

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

—Martin Niemöller

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists

#firsttheycame #andsoitbegins #uspolitics #trump

@streetartutopia Tagging #FirstTheyCame

For all you cis folks. Feel free to boost.

#trans #transgender #FirstTheyCame #MartinNiemoller #Allies

#News #USA #Majority of #Voters will be enjoying the latest from #Rapist47 until they find out they are like...
#FirstTheyCame

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

@jchaven @gwynnion This is so critical across so many issues. It was said this morning on MSNBC that the voters in Iowa can’t relate to fascism because it’s something that happens to other people not them. They will vote against their own interests until they come for them. #firsttheycame #SaveDemocracy #stopfascism

@futurebird
Reminds me of this speech by Martin Niemoller, now seen at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

from Wikipedia:
Like most Protestant pastors, Niemöller was a national conservative, and openly supported the conservative opponents of the Weimar Republic. He thus welcomed Hitler's accession to power in 1933, believing that it would bring a national revival.

He only realized his mistake after Hitler had come to power. Let's not repeat history's mistakes.

#FirstTheyCame

"First They Came" by James DeFazio

Prints and more available at:
https://james-defazio.pixels.com/featured/first-they-came-james-defazio.html

#politics #politicalart #poem #poetry #firsttheycame #poignant #text #fineart #artwork #artworkforsale #art #buyintoart #fallforart #mastoart #wallart

FIRST THEY CAME
By Martin Niemöller

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
....

#Rights #FirstTheyCame
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2019-01/First%20They%20Came%20by%20Martin%20Niemöller_0.pdf?l6HOtWW1N8umC_ELxnQI6NpaAYbxRCJj=

Whoever you are, whatever your gender or sexuality, if you think the new right's moral panics and judgementalism won't affect you, you're this:

Plain wrong.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#FirstTheyCame

https://news.gallup.com/poll/507230/fewer-say-sex-relations-morally-acceptable.aspx

Pastor Niemöller had something to say about this sort of solidarity and those who understood his message find it hard to appreciate #WTA's "principles" here...

The sports circus/business WTA saying this is one thing, but @humanrightswatch ...?

There is something fundamentally wrong with free peoples' opportunistic, appeasing and accommodating approach to the world's largest #dictatorship.

Yes, #FreePengShuai, but No to #NormalizingRepression.

#FirstTheyCame #Tibet #Uighurs #genocide #HongKong #humanrights #CCP #PRC #china #authoritarianism
@JanKooy
@humanrightswatch

FIRST THEY CAME, THE FREEDOMIST VERSION

#FreedomIsPopular #freedom #FirstTheyCame