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matt819

(10,749 posts)
4. Typical cowards
Wed Dec 28, 2016, 12:15 PM
Dec 2016

The response from government leaders in Montana has largely been one of silence. Sure, a press statement or two, but nothing particularly harsh.

As for the cowardice and stupidity, consider a few facts:
These neo-Nazis are marching in a town of 6,000.
According to this link (http://www.bestplaces.net/religion/city/montana/whitefish), .11% of these residents are Jewish. Do the math. Not a lot of people.

Hey, neo-Nazis, try marching large Jewish communities. Go to NYC and march in Hasidic neighborhoods - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/nyregion/brooklyns-private-jewish-patrols-wield-power-some-call-them-bullies.html?_r=0. Go to NYC and march on Fifth Avenue and see how the 3,000 Jews in the NYPD respond - http://forward.com/news/212852/inside-the-heads-hearts-and-yarmulkes-of-jewish-co/.

All of that said, the words of Edmund Burke resonate today, in the United States: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Close to 65 million Americans voted for reason and sanity. Among them are good men and women, an obvious fact this is meaningless if, in the face of events like these, they do nothing.

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