Martin Niemoller's quote can be found below. When they brought in abortion we muttered amongst ourselves but we did not speak out. Now thousands of young people who could have supported us in our old age are not here because we did not speak out. Having shown a complete disregard for the unborn child society will find it easy to deal with the problem of too many elderly, who are a burden on society and those who would have spoken out on our behalf are the young people whom we allowed to go to death as they were just beginning their journey of life.Niemoller's quote says it all.
First they came
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
Comments
Post a Comment