Future Unpopular Acts in Bush's Second Term

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Originally posted by richlevy
......politcial prisoners like Niemoller, or ethnic Poles had their own symbols........

<a href="http://flagspot.net/flags/pl_aw1.html" <a> political prisoners - upside down red triangle </a>

It seems that every group and subgroup had their own symbol.

Originally posted by richlevy
.......started out as a sympathizer with the Nazis, but later, as he watched where they were going, had an attack of conscience and spoke out against them, for which he was imprisoned.

Niemoller wasnt the only turncoat Nazi, Schindler is another more famous example. Schindler was not a sympathizer but actually a party member and had the unique ability to use his contacts to save as many Jews as he could. Anyway, we've all seen the movie.

I also wanted to add was that there were millions of Christians also killed by the Nazis, but they were not killed in camps.

Originally posted by richlevy
After all, ethnic Japanese in this country went into detention camps as a security measure, something we did not consider doing to any other ethnic group whose homeland we were at war with.

Though this was a terrible thing, they were not tortured and killed as I remember. IRC they did lose their businesses.

So you're saying that the American people do or did have much of the same complacency toward certain minorities in times of war or crisis as the German people did during the Nazi regime? And that we should see that as a warning to ourselves....that even we, the great believers of truth and justice, fell into the same trap?