Rise of the State, 1984 "Big Brother" Special Protected Classes of People

reference: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1913/show#
Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009

"If you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you're heading." -- rfh
( ref: http://harrold.org/rfhextra/history.html )

The 'protected class' sword cuts both ways. If you choose to be designated special today then tomorrow you may be chosen for special treatment.

Warning to minorities and those who would be "special." Be careful what you ask for. History has a tendency to repeat itself. - rfh

..1st pink triangles, then ...unlebenswürdig.

In May 1935, Das Schwarze Korps* article by SS-Untersturmführer Professor Eckhardt, "Indecency Deserves
Death."

* ..the officialnewspaper of theSchutzstaffel SS

An excerpt of Heinrich Himmler's speech to SS-Gruppenfuehrer on 18 February 1937:

"In the SS, today, we still have about one case of homosexuality a month. In a whole year, about eight to ten cases occur in the entire SS. I have now decided upon the following: in each case, these people will naturally be publicly degraded, expelled, and handed over to the courts. Following completion of the punishment imposed by the courts, they will be sent, by my order, to a concentration camp, and they will be shot in the concentration camp, while attempting to escape. I will make that known by order to the unit to which the person so affected belonged. Thereby, I hope finally to have done with persons of this type in the SS, so that at least the good blood, which we have in the SS, and the increasingly healthy blood which we are cultivating for Germany, will be kept pure."

( ref: http://cghs.dadeschools.net/holocaust/homosexuals.htm )

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew;
And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

-- Martin NiemÖller (1892-1984) German pastor and theologian

...about the rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

Warning:

"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.

When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.

When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.

Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet."

Lyle Myhr, quotes about Guns view/comment at quotes.liberty-tree.ca

( reference: http://harrold.org/quotes )

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