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The Jackboots Are Coming: Mass Arrests, Power Grabs and the Politics of Fear

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The treatment being meted out to anyone that looks like an illegal immigrant is only the beginning. Eventually we will all be in the government's crosshairs for one reason or another.

This is the start of the slippery slope.

Martin Niemà ¶ller understood this. A Lutheran minister who was imprisoned and executed for opposing Hitler's regime, Niemoller warned:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.

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