When they came for me

For Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange

First they came for the confidential source.
And I said nothing because I was not a confidential source.
Then they came for the journalist.
And I said nothing because I was not a journalist.
Then they came for the publisher.
And I said nothing because I was not a publisher.
Then they came for the reader.

Roger Stoll lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has published articles, book reviews and political poetry in Black Agenda Report, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Internationalist 360, Jewschool, Marxism-Leninism Today, MintPress News, MRonline, New Verse News, Orinoco Tribune, Popular Resistance, Resumen Latinoamericano, San Francisco Examiner, and ZNet. Read other articles by Roger.