NO ONE TO COME FOR ME

DOES ANY OF THIS REMIND YOU OF THE REPORT MADE PUBLIC written by Department of Homeland Security? The person arrested in Louisana for having a DON'T TREAD ON ME bumper sticker on his truck? Or the couple in California who had a visit from the Police for holding Bible Studies in their home? The people who protested at the Tea Parties, a threat to the nation along with veterans returning from combat?
German theologian, Martin Niemöller. In his youth he was an anti-Semite and an admirer of Hitler. As Nazism took hold in Germany, however, he saw Nazism for what it was: it was not just the Jews Hitler sought to extirpate, it was just about anyone with an alternate point of view. Niemöller spoke out, and for his trouble was incarcerated in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps from 1937 to 1945, and very nearly executed. While incarcerated, Niemöller wrote a poem that, from the first time I read it stuck hauntingly in my mind:
When the Nazis came for the communists,I remained silent;I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats,I remained silent;I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists,I did not protest;I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,I did not speak out;I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,there was no one left to speak out for me

“Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.”