{"id":223,"date":"2009-06-03T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2009\/06\/remember\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T06:04:00","slug":"remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2009\/06\/remember\/","title":{"rendered":">Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

>As China blocks<\/a>, let’s remember<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democracy is not chaos, it is wealth. Wealth to the soul as well as to the body and society. Churchill put it nicely into words: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.<\/span>“<\/p>\n

For all of us enjoying the luxury of being able to speak, organize, move and express ourselves freely, I have a small poem by Martin Niem\u00f6ller (cannot find the name of the author, comment if you know it)<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In Germany they came first for the Communists,<\/span>
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then they came for the Jews, <\/span>
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then they came for the trade unionists, <\/span>
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then they came for the Catholics, <\/span>
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then they came for me, <\/span>
and by that time no one was left to speak up.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

>As China blocks, let’s remember. Democracy is not chaos, it is wealth. Wealth to the soul as well as to the body and society. Churchill put it nicely into words: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.“ For all of us … Continue reading >Remember<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}