From the first leaflet in 1942 of the White Rose, a group of German students at the University of Munich, and their professor, calling for nonviolent resistance to the Nazi regime. They issued a few more leaflets, before they were hunted down and executed. Today they are German heroes.
Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be “governed” without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct. It is certain that today every honest German is ashamed of his government. Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes – crimes that infinitely outdistance every human measure – reach the light of day?
If the German people are already so corrupted and spiritually crushed that they do not raise a hand, frivolously trusting in a questionable faith in lawful order in history; if they surrender man’s highest principle, that which raises him above all other God’s creatures, his free will; if they abandon the will to take decisive action and turn the wheel of history and thus subject it to their own rational decision; if they are so devoid of all individuality, have already gone so far along the road toward turning into a spiritless and cowardly mass – then, yes, they deserve their downfall….
Therefore every individual, conscious of his responsibility as a member of Christian and Western civilization, must defend himself against the scourges of mankind, against fascism and any similar system of totalitarianism. Offer passive resistance – resistance – wherever you may be, forestall the spread of this atheistic war machine before it is too late, before the last cities, like Cologne, have been reduced to rubble, and before the nation’s last young man has given his blood on some battlefield for the hubris of a sub-human. Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure.
Politics is, for many aspiring rulers, a game not unlike piracy where the “pol” tries to “win” and, if he win, to use government for his own purposes. In the USA this is regularized as big-money rule or oligarchy, even though some individual pols stand out as more grasping than normally acceptable. We — the public — have a problem much like the problem expressed in the quote, to overcome this entire regime, and especially the big-money part, which puts control outside electoral politics and makes democracy a near sham. The 99.99% being ruled by the 0.01%, to modify OWS’s slogan a bit.
It is not enough for us to throw the bums (elected politicians) out; we must cut the umbilicus to the big-money boys.
I saw recently a movie about them .
It is titled :”Sophie Scholl . The last Days”.
Here is a link to a you tube version ( with English translation).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8RIMpuTexg
Definately worth seeing.
As a small tribute to those very brave, righteous ,young people from the White Rose group, I dedicate one of my the most favourite songs.
The pictures in this short you tube videoare great as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUqBet4bjP8
“who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible crimes reach the light of day?”
given that time’s running out on account of perpetual war + global warming = doomsday
unless these crimes reach the light of day right away, when & if they eventually do surface, it’ll be too late for shame
there’ll be barely enough time to mourn
what might have been
but for the inertia
the i’m ok, you’re ok, we’re all ok
look the other way
Think of this when you read the other article about how Naomi Wolf was arrested for using a sidewalk.