I just found out what th White Rose Society really is or was

[noahmijo]

The White Rose Society (German, Die Weiße Rose) was a World War II-era resistance movement in Germany calling for nonviolent resistance against the Nazi regime. The group of Munich students released six leaflets from June 1942 to February 1943. A seventh leaflet, which may have been prepared, was never released because the group was captured by the Gestapo.

The White Rose consisted of five students, all in their early twenties, at Munich University. Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie led the rest of the group, including Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf. They were joined by a professor, Kurt Huber, who drafted the final two leaflets.

The men of White Rose were war veterans, who had fought on the French and Russian fronts. They were influenced by the German Youth Movement, of which Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst were members. They had witnessed the German atrocities, both on the battlefield and during the Holocaust, and sensed that the reversal of fortunes that the Wehrmacht suffered at Stalingrad would eventually lead to Germany's defeat. They rejected the Prussian militarism of Adolf Hitler's Germany and believed in a federated Europe that adhered to Christian principles of tolerance and justice. Quoting extensively from the Bible, Lao Zi, Aristotle and Novalis, as well as Goethe and Schiller, they appealed to what they considered the German intelligentsia, believing that they would be intrinsically opposed to Nazism. At first, the leaflets were sent out in mass mailings from different cities in Bavaria and Austria, since the members believed that southern Germany would be more receptive to their anti-militarist message.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose

That's eerie, I mean first off I am ashamed I never knew what this group was in Germany...now THAT must have taken guts it's one thing for us to brave a protest ect, but to do it in actual Nazi Germany like that...people please sure it's not safe to protest in this country, but I mean here they don't throw you in a gas chamber or execute you as a citizen of the US (yet)

[Henny Penny]

1. I guess that's the point Noah.... "Not yet!"

[BrklynLiberal]

2. That is why real courage is defined as being afraid and acting anyway.

[Greeby]

3. It does bear a interesting rhetorical question

If Bush's America is facism, can facism really be fought through peaceful and legal means?

[Jade Fox]

4. There is a movie about them called just "White Rose"...

Quite good as I remember. Came out maybe 20 years ago.

[wake.up.america]

5. NOT YET.

Americans still believe they live in a democracy.

Elections in 2006 will be rigged!!!

[Cleita]

6. Yet, being the operative word. They haven't done it

because first they hadn't consolidated their power enough by November of 2004, and now they haven't because we have not proved to be a big enough of a threat to them. However, the Cindy Sheehan war protest has made them take notice. The hurricane has postponed any retaliatory action right now. But if there are no moves for investigation and impeachment I believe they will start clamping down. We can't let the pressure up now or they will be able to do everything Hitler did to stifle dissent.

[Maple]

7. Which is why Ghandi's solution

doesn't work elsewhere.