Poets have a way of expressing emotions in a manner that we mere mortals cannot. Watching the unspeakable horrors of the past few days, I have not been able to get the famous words, written in 1946 by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller, out of my mind.'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.'Different times, different politics — but the fundamental principle remains. Don't ever think it can't happen to you. Don't ever think you are safe from the forces of evil, whether they be men in black shirts with swastikas on their armbands — or killers in combat trousers descending from the sky to gun down, kidnap and rape young women.
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