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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 11:17 AM
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They took Carl von Ossietsky And broke his body - but not his mind
Edited on Sat Jun-23-07 11:33 AM by seemslikeadream
Peace won't come by words alone



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tn0fdKsQWg



Prisoner 562

Half a thousand, half a hundred
Six times two, pick up your pen
Child, my child, count it up now
That's the number that I mean

It's a number, just a number
One of hundreds, a sign of shame
Each man's jacket had a number
Men had numbers, none had names

Hitler's system took their freedom
Took them prisoner, one by one
For the courage of their convictions
They were tortured, gassed and burned

They took communist, they took pacifist
They took social democrat
Jew and Christian all were prisoner
In the concentration camp


To the camp of Esterwegen
Listen child and understand
They took Carl von Ossietsky
And broke his body - but not his mind

In Berlin upon the 4th of May
19 hundred and 38
The Gestapo with its treatment
Signed his death certificate

Five-six-two his prison number
Listen, child, I beg you please
Keep in mind, always remember,
He got the Nobel Prize for Peace

In the struggle against injustice
He fought hard and he fought long
Child - remember Ossietsky
Peace won't come by words alone


Words and music: Oswald Andrae
Song Lyric as sung by Dick Gaughan


Song of Choice


Early every year the seeds are growing
Unseen, unheard they lie beneath the ground
Would you know before their leaves are showing
That with weeds all your garden will abound?

If you close your eyes, stop your ears
Shut your mouth then how can you know ?
For seeds you cannot hear may not be there
Seeds you cannot see may never grow

In January you've still got the choice
You can cut the weeds before they start to bud
If you leave them to grow high they'll silence your voice
And in December you may pay with your blood

So close your eyes, stop your ears,
Shut your mouth and take it slow
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear
And later you can say you didn't know

Every day another vulture takes flight
There's another danger born every morning
In the darkness of your blindness the beast will learn to bite
How can you fight if you can't recognise a warning?

Today you may earn a living wage
Tomorrow you may be on the dole
Though there's millions going hungry you needn't disengage
For it's them, not you, that's fallen in the hole

It's alright for you if you run with the pack
It's alright if you agree with all they do



If fascism is slowly climbing back



It's not here yet so what's it got to do with you?

The weeds are all around us and they're growing
It'll soon be too late for the knife
If you leave them on the wind that around the world is blowing
You may pay for your silence with your life

So close your eyes, stop your ears,
Shut your mouth and never dare
And if it happens here they'll never come for you
Because they'll know you really didn't care

Peggy Seeger

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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 11:39 AM
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1. Oh that is weird. I had a dream last night. El trabajo trae la libertad
It was that gate. But instead of German, it was Spanish. It was Bush's gate. It symbolized how he was similar to Hitler. That gate was the fence to keep Mexicans out. But it was a gate of hate.

And then I see your post. I've never seen most of that footage. I absolutely cannot believe what I have seen.

El trabajo trae la libertad. Arbeit macht frei. Work means freedom.

It was all just bigotry and racism.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 11:41 AM
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3. Thank you so much for that
Gregorian, we are all connected :hug:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 11:54 AM
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4. We should emblazon that slogan over our borders.
"El trabajo trae la libertad" ... what a perfect way to describe our immigration laws!

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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 11:40 AM
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2. Camps and prisons were established in the Emsland since 1923
Let me repeat that, do you understand?

Camps and prisons were established in the Emsland since 1923

10 years later

In 1933, the Nazis decided to use two of these existing camps for their political opponents: Borgermoor and Esterwegen.





http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/EsterEngl.html

Camps and prisons were established in the Emsland since 1923: Borgermoor, Aschendorfer Moor, Brual-Rhede, Dorpen-Walchum, Neusustrum, Overlangen, Esterwegen, Wesuwe, Veerssen, Füllen, Gross-Hesepe, Dalum, Wietmarschen, Bathorn, Gross-Ringe (camp Alexisdorf). In 1933, the Nazis decided to use two of these existing camps for their political opponents: Borgermoor and Esterwegen.

Officially, Esterwegen was not considered as a concentration camp but as a "Strafgefangenenlager" - "punishment camp for prisoners". Of course, the living conditions in this camp were the same as in the concentration camps: tortures, executions, forced work in the swamps until death, etc... In 1941, several prisoners of war coming from Belgium, France, Holland and Tchecoslovaquia as well as non-German political prisoners were transferred to Esterwegen. On this date, it became a sub-camp of the concentration camp of Neuengamme.

One of the most famous prisoner of Esterwegen was the German writer Karl Von Ossietzky. As pacifist and Nazi opponent, Karl von Ossietzky was jailed at Esterwegen since several months after he received the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1936. He was extremely weak and had been beaten and tortured several times. A emissary from the Helvetic Red Cross was sent to Esterwegen to inspect the condition of detention of Karl Von Ossietsky: "The SS officer came back with a shivering man, pale as death, a poor creature who seemed unable to feel anything. All his teeth were broken and he had a broken leg. I came to him for a handshake. He did not respond..." With the Nobel Prize, Karl von Ossietsky represented a problem for the Nazis: they could not kill him because he was at this time known worldwide. So he was transferred to a civil hospital where he died in 1938, under the close watching of the Gestapo.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 02:48 PM
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5. President Roosevelt and Vice President Wallace's warnings have come full circle.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0719-15.htm

Vice President Wallace's answer to those questions was published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan.

"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."

In this, Wallace was using the classic definition of the word "fascist" - the definition Mussolini had in mind when he claimed to have invented the word. (It was actually Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile who wrote the entry in the Encyclopedia Italiana that said: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Mussolini, however, affixed his name to the entry, and claimed credit for it.)

As the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-23-07 09:28 PM
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6. The merging of state and business leadership,
together with belligerent nationalism, to STEAL resources from "the other."
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