Reflections of a Lutheran priest.
They came to take the psychotic, but I am not a psychotic so I said nothing.
They came to take the communists, but I am not a communist so I said nothing.
They came to take the Jews, but I am not a Jew so I said nothing.
They came to take the Poles, but I am not a Pole so I said nothing.
They came to take the Catholics, but I am not a Catholic so I said nothing.
And then, they came to take to me…
But there was no one to defend me.
Who doesn’t know its history repeats it. Last month, the extreme right became a major political force in Austria and Switzerland. Already that they piss on Arabs, Turks or Indians in several towns of Europe and burn crosses in the south of the United States. Personally, the indifference of the French pantouflard (coach potato) more worried to know who will win next Survivor (to use an Anglo-Saxon comparison) never disgusted me so much.
I listened to Jean-Marie LePen interviewed by Stéphane Bureau the other day on TV. He tried to make LePen say he was racist (without succeeding by the way), but he did not seem offended by the total valorisation of social Darwinism preached by this guy. Undoubtedly symptom of a society more interested by the container then the content.
What is really disturbing in the fact that such an amount of French votes for this powerful idiot is not than they are racist or xenophobic. But that they (the 15% which votes for him) support a message according to which men are in wild competition to each others.
To believe and support such a speech is to give it validity. Unsecured (insecurity is the main reason to vote to the far right), several people act stupidly by voting to the beast that will protect them from “human vermin”. One must be really stupid to believe that a beast will protect you and deeply inhuman being to believe that a human being is vermin.
“Eye for eye will make the world blind” (Mohandas Gandhi).
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