NSA Telephone Logs - A Threat to Our Freedom

I was shocked to read that 63% of Americans approve of the NSA telephone logging program, as reported by Rich Morin on today's www.WashingtonPost.com. I want you all to remember this, written in 1945:

First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller

http://www.telisphere.com/~cearley/sean/camps/first.html

There may be several versions of this quotation, but they all tell us the same message: freedom is precious and fragile and needs to be defended!