When you strip a man of everything he is, body and soul, and everything he has, he will fight you, and it is not wrong. The fight represents foulness and corruption at its core that need to be challenged, through valiant self reliance, through economic pressure, and through global respect. It is these weapons, which can win hearts and change minds. It is also the concept of shame and honour which it make it difficult for people to admit that they have made mistakes. Yet until they do, the fight is a legitimate one.

This is my hope for the future, and my dream for the world: that people recognize that they are never powerless, whatever their circumstances or however their future.

Vive le resistance.

June 27, 2009.
Victoria, British Columbia,
The Dominion of Canada.