Schiller's poem: "To Joy"
the thread
words and tune

Art, albeit it took me some time to understand your joke, I don't think it's very funny - but be reassured that I didn't feel the last bit offended.
There are a lot of countries where civil rights are not respected because they never were granted, but no one having them should let them be taken away from him as it happened to us.
The steps the Nazis used were first indoctrination, then pressure, at last: terror. So look out, Americans! But I'm sure Bush won't be so perfect as we Germans are (now the other way round).

Wilfried