I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
~Martin Niemoller
A number of major media outlets are NOT covering the story that Dick Cheney is angry at some media members for not staying quiet about a story that broke on June 23rd that our government has been monitoring an international banking database to check financial records (possibly yours and mine, included) in the "fight against terrorism".Thankfully, a number of news sources have reported the story in various forms:
- USA Today's great summary
- Arizona Central's reprint of the Washington Post's story
- The Indy Fishwrap's reprint of the AP story
- the Washington Post's editorial - with great details of the program
- BBC's headline that got my attention
- NPR's story that got Karlen's attention
- ACLU's page about the Patriot Act
- US Government page about the Patriot Act
- Actual text of the Patriot Act
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