"Ordinary people. The courage to say no.
The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowd, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labour for marrying a Jewish woman.
We know little else about
August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one
of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was
published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in
that moment."
People like August Landmesser, Franz Jägerstätter, and Mitt Romney are models to us, now that His Stable Genius and his collaborators, the Republicans, have steamrolled the institutions that normally guard us against tyranny--Congress and the courts. It is up to us now, as individuals, to say "no" to the injustice and lawlessness that has been unleashed, now that Our Dear Leader has been acquitted.
Lord give us courage.
“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.” --Flannery O' Connor
The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowd, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labour for marrying a Jewish woman.
People like August Landmesser, Franz Jägerstätter, and Mitt Romney are models to us, now that His Stable Genius and his collaborators, the Republicans, have steamrolled the institutions that normally guard us against tyranny--Congress and the courts. It is up to us now, as individuals, to say "no" to the injustice and lawlessness that has been unleashed, now that Our Dear Leader has been acquitted.
Lord give us courage.
“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.” --Flannery O' Connor
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