Surprisingly, very few people are speaking out about the journalists, authors, and other intellectuals who have been arrested in Turkey. Suddenly the freedom of speech is stuck somewhere in our throats or better more has become a cloth that covers our mouths. We do not want to offend. Does that sound familiar? Does it sound like the same rhetoric used in 1939?
Where are we headed? When wrong becomes right and right is no longer guided by true north principles, the world tumbles and people all over the world suffer.
Have we forgotten what happened over seventy years ago when every nation tried to placate the new German Chancellor? Everyone ignored his speeches. Everyone closed their eyes to his threats. Are we repeating the same mistake in 2016?
Pat Garcia
