File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1996/96-03-marxism/96-03-08.000, message 52


Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 15:54:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeffrey Booth <booth2-AT-husc.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: A poem that says it all (fwd)



	The poem below would be better if the last "up" were left out. 
Try it and see.  Or try... "and by then, there was no one left to speak." 
Just a thought.
				-- Jeff Booth

On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Luciano Dondero wrote:

>                 First they came for the hackers.
>         But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
>                     so I didn't speak up.
>               Then they came for the pornographers.
>    But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
>                     so I didn't speak up.
>            Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
>       But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,
>                    so I didn't speak up.
>           Then they came for the encryption users.
>     But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,
>                     so I didn't speak up.
>                    Then they came for me.
>      And by that time there was no one left to speak up.
> 
> -- Unknown --
> --Luciano Dondero--
> 
> 
> 
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