On Healy's Insightful Observation

I read of the time they wanted to wave

The swastika over a shtetl,

I'm oddly impressed the ACLU gave

All it could to that storm in a kettle.

The union had taken a stand that was strong

In seventy-eight, and some called it wrong,

Yet well it reflected the grit of the land

Of the free and the home of the brave. Understand

That the plan didn't fly, but supposing it had,

And further supposing had something gone bad,

Can you force an incident, however sad,

That MAY just have driven the union mad,

To say: "I am Hitler"?

I can't.

I get it, the foe of a foe can be friend.

How close is a friendship like that in the end?

You want the stain gone, break out the bleach,

But seek out a pair of good gloves within reach.

And do put them on.

Just for the record, I am not bleach.

Inspired by the following posts:

I WIll Grieve, I Will Laugh, But I Am Not Charlie, by Josh Healy

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/13/i-will-grieve-i-will-laugh-i-am-not-charlie

ACLU History: Taking a Stand for Free Speech in Skokie

https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie

In an Unequal World, Mocking All Serves the Powerful, by Saladin Ahmed

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/01/10/when-satire-cuts-both-ways/in-unequal-an-world-mocking-all-serves-the-powerful