First They came…

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First they came for the hackers.
But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
so I didn’t speak up.

Then they came for the pornographers.
But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
so I didn’t speak up.

Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,
so I didn’t speak up.

Then they came for the encryption users.
But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,
so I didn’t speak up.

Then they came for me.
And by that time there was no one left to speak up.

Alara Rogers

Nachtrag 19:00 Uhr: die Realität war wie immer schneller…. Sieht nicht gut aus für die Bürgerrechte. Der Gläserne Mensch – und die Konzerne spielen mit. Klar, hat ja für die auch Vorteile.