[104339] in Cypherpunks
Re: Who is next? (re Jim's subpoena)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DOOM Anonymous Untraceable User)
Fri Oct 16 12:21:29 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:05:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: DOOM Anonymous Untraceable User <nobody@seclab.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com, "William J. Hartwell" <billh@ibag.com>
Reply-To: DOOM Anonymous Untraceable User <nobody@seclab.com>
Could you mean this....
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945.
William J. Hartwell wrote:
>
> This ran through my mind this morning before I was totally awake. Maybe
> somebody can help me with the original author of this....
>
> When they came for Kevin Mitnick I said nothing. After all he was a big
> time hacker and I wasn't a hacker so I did not speak up.
>
> When they came for Jim Bell I said nothing. He was a criminal and I am not
> a criminal so I didn't speak up.
>
> When they came for Toto I said nothing. Surely he was nuts and I am
> completely sane so I didn't speak up.
>
> When they came for Jim Choate I said nothing. He runs a cypherpunks mailing
> list and I don't manage any lists so I didn't speak up.
>
> When they come for me who will be left to speak up?
>
> This is a poor paraphrase of the original but I wonder if it is something
> that we may be saying here in the U.S. soon?
>
> --
> William J. Hartwell
> (602)987-8436
> Queencreek, Az.
>
> billh@ibag.com billh@interdem.com billh@hartwell.net
