Once again, a "what he said" reference to Eric Muller at IsThatLegal.org for Is That Legal?: I Propose The Government Maintain a List of Everyone Who Eats Baba Ghanouj
Massachusetts governor (and 2008 Republican presidential candidate) Mitt Romney seeks the wiretapping of mosques.
Naturally, the Boston Globe article reporting on this charming proposal casts those alarmed by the proposal as "civil libertarians" and "immigrants' rights advocates."
Have we really reached the point where it's just "civil libertarians" who get nervous when powerful politicians propose the suspicionless wiretapping of houses of worship?
In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me...By that time there was no one to speak up for anyone.
--Reverend Martin Niemoller