> > In the comments to yesterday's jury nullification > piece<http://www.examiner.com/x-536-Civil-Liberties-Examiner%7Ey2009m2d11-Jury-nullification-at-work-in-marijuana-gun-cases>(yes, > I read your comments) Smitty was especially on-point when he said, > "The real problem might be toleration, or more accurately, the lack of it. > We wish our preferred freedoms to be respected, while applauding > governmental crackdowns upon those freedoms we dislike or are indifferent > to." Frankly that's been an ongoing hurdle in the effort to preserve and > extend liberty. Until pot-smokers and gun owners and low-taxers and sexual > minorities recognize that liberty is indivisible and that we're all in this > together, we're going to be picked off piecemeal by government officials all > too happy to exploit our mutual antagonisms. > > After World War II, Pastor Martin Niemöller voiced several variants of the > following sentiments in his public speeches: > >> When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a >> communist. >> When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a >> social democrat. >> When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a >> trade unionist. >> When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I was not a Jew. >> When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out. >> > > Along the same lines, Benjamin Franklin once commented, "We must all hang > together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." > It comes down to the same thing: When liberty is under attack, *everybody*is > at risk...
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