I realize that Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous poem is invoked far too often, but hear me out for a minute.

After the passage of the health care reform bill in the US House of Representatives a few days ago, Members of Congress have been receiving threats from various nutjobs who wish ill on them and their families for having perpetrated this hideous crime on the American people.

If these anonymous idiots had been equally as vocal about, say, the passage of the Patriot Act, they might today be facing a government with far less tools at its disposal to violate their privacy to find them.

Of course, this invocation of Niemöller is flawed in that I'm certainly not speaking up for these clowns. So maybe I'm next.