If I protest, it becomes a big deal and draws attention.
"I am against the ban and I protest it loudly," says Aleksandra Namyslo, a history and Holocaust professor and author who has curated exhibits of Jewish life at The Institute of National Commemoration in Katowice.
And I had said: "I bet if Syria protested it would last for a week because of how atrocious the government is, and then they'd go back," but now it's been over three years.
I'd protest it if I didn't always say "I'm on my way" when I haven't even taken a shower to leave yet.
JODL: It was precisely on the basis of this conversation-when I protested that it was quite impossible to carry out a troop deployment at that time for it would take 4 months-that the Fuehrer ordered that these deployment arrangements were to be improved.
"I would oppose any act of unjust discrimination against people who are homosexual, and if that happens on my watch you can be sure I will protest it," he said.
During a discussion of "The Merchant of Venice," a classmate hissed at him, "You're another little Jew, aren't you?" Instead of leaping to my feet and punching him, I protested, denied it, brushing aside the insult as though answering a question of fact politely put to me: "No, I'm not a Jew".
When I protested that it was unsightly, he pointed out that a) getting a "real one" installed was a big, costly job that involved opening up walls; b) it was just a doorbell; and c) the wireless bell more than served its purpose, emitting a two-tone twang when the delivery guy rang with our rotisserie chicken — and who else, besides NYPIRG, ever came calling?
I protested, but it was no use.
