There are some opposed to health care reform who are equating President Obama to Hitler and they mis-quote a German theologian when they say that "..when they came for the Jews I didn't complain because I wasn't Jewish. When the came for the Catholics I didn't complain because I wasn't Catholic..." and so on. This source prints the exact quote from Martin Niemoller and it goes as follows. "First they came for the communists, but I was not a communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the socialists and the trade unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. Then the came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me".
(Source: "Hitler, Obama and Malthus" by Lou Dubose editor of The Washington Spectator from Sept 1, 2009.
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