By My Silence - Ellen Bukstel / Nick Annis

[Billy Burnett]

Run time: 03:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn_Apis4_tc   Posted on YouTube: August 06, 2009 By YouTube Member: ellenmargo Views on YouTube: 1090   Posted on DU: April 29, 2011 By DU Member: Billy Burnett Views on DU: 335

 

By My Silence

I’m not a communist so when they came for the communists...
I held my tongue
Minded my own business like a good neighbor
I trusted that justice be done

I didn’t ask what was their crime
It was their sadness..... wasn’t mine
I didn’t care where they were sent
By my silence I gave my consent ...By my silence I gave my consent

I am not Jewish and so when they came for the Jews..
I had nothing to say
Branded with stars like cattle in box cars
and then...taken away

I didn’t ask what was their crime
It was their sadness..... wasn’t mine
I didn;t care where they were sent
By my silence I gave my consent ...By my silence I gave my consent

I didn’t care when they came for the Unionists,
Came for the socialists they took the powerless,
I’m not a terrorist I’m not an immigrant
I’m native born ... faithfully ignorant

I didn’t care what was their crime
until their sorrow turned into mine

I was ok I was a citizen ....and I was free
I didn’t care now there’s nobody there
No one to speak out for me

At the time I believed
It never’d happen to me
I didn’t know what it meant
For my silence to give my consent
For my silence to be my consent
By my silence...give my consent

[OHdem10]

1. By our silence, we affirm or consent to the RW Policies of

the Tea Baggers and Republicans.

[Billy Burnett]

2. Indeed.