April 10, 2003
Government
The rise of the Republican Party.
J. Michael Stracynski posted this in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, where a fierce debate is raging with respect to the Iraqi invasion and the erosion of our civil rights in the wake of 9/11. JMS points to this article in the Oregonian: IN MY OPINION Richard L. Clinton.
It begins:
Two old friends of mine — a Jewish couple in their 80s, both retired university professors who fled Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and eventually became U.S. citizens — made a stunning remark to me a few months ago: "You know, all our lives we have blamed our parents and our parents' generation for allowing Hitler to gain control. Now we're beginning to see how powerless they must have felt to stop what was happening all around them."Read the article.
It's happening, all around us. We must stop it, or our children and their children will vilify us for the same reason.
Posted by Frank at April 10, 2003 8:23 PM