In Times of Great Human Suffering, Silence Is The Voice Of Complicity; Neutrality A Crime.
This is a cross-post from something I wrote in Morgan's LiveJournal. It occurred to me that someone else might see it here first, so I'm putting it here to be read as well.
Our friend, without whose words this demonstration would not be happening, needs to see his friends. I understand everyone has jobs, I think that many of his friends are also minors, many without their own transportation. Add to that reality over-protective parents who have told their kids "stay out of it", and you've got the very people who should most be there unable to be.
His close friends and their parents who have been reading this, please hear me: you've gotta show up. Just show up once if you are physically able to. It's half an hour of your life that would probably mean everything to your friend/the friend of one of your children.
The great writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel once said, "In times of great human suffering, silence is the voice of complicity; neutrality, a crime." If you have any thanks for the fact that you are loved or that your children are loved, neutrality will yield any efforts at making a difference null.
If you are willing to act in spite of your fears, you will have done more than simply a good deed. You will have taken part in something which might save a young man's life.
He needs to see your faces, friends of his. At 8:30 every morning M-F until June 17th, you have a chance to let him know that complete strangers are not the only people who heard his cry for help.
The choice is yours to remain neutral or to say, once and for all, "I don't agree with this, and I cared enough to show up in person and let you know."
Our friend, without whose words this demonstration would not be happening, needs to see his friends. I understand everyone has jobs, I think that many of his friends are also minors, many without their own transportation. Add to that reality over-protective parents who have told their kids "stay out of it", and you've got the very people who should most be there unable to be.
His close friends and their parents who have been reading this, please hear me: you've gotta show up. Just show up once if you are physically able to. It's half an hour of your life that would probably mean everything to your friend/the friend of one of your children.
The great writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel once said, "In times of great human suffering, silence is the voice of complicity; neutrality, a crime." If you have any thanks for the fact that you are loved or that your children are loved, neutrality will yield any efforts at making a difference null.
If you are willing to act in spite of your fears, you will have done more than simply a good deed. You will have taken part in something which might save a young man's life.
He needs to see your faces, friends of his. At 8:30 every morning M-F until June 17th, you have a chance to let him know that complete strangers are not the only people who heard his cry for help.
The choice is yours to remain neutral or to say, once and for all, "I don't agree with this, and I cared enough to show up in person and let you know."
posted by EJ at 6/09/2005 10:20:00 PM
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