Seeds of Wisdom: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke
Meryl Yourish posted this entry in her Blog. It's about a near riot at SFSU after a Peace In The Middle East Rally which was organized by some Jewish students. Meryl has asked her fellow bloggers to link to this entry in the hope that word will spread as it usually does through out blogdom.
In my last entry, I wrote that we must use extreme caution that we don't abuse this power, that bloggers have, to push things to the top rank in Google. I think this is an example of when the use of this power is not only acceptable, but necessary.
In Germany during the 1930s good people allowed evil to flourish because they didn't speak up. In Kew Gardens, NY in 1964 good people allowed the murder of Kitty Genovese because they chose to do nothing. Throughout US, too often people have been attacked and killed because of race, religion and sexual preference because good people knew and did nothing to stop it.
We must not be afraid to take a stand. Preferably, we must do it for noble reasons, but if we can't muster up a noble reason, we should at least do it because when they finally come for us, there might not be anyone left to object. Think about it.
Posted by Cyberkat at May 15, 2002 6:48 AM