[AlexanderHanff]

I just don't see what you hope to achieve by posting defeatist commentary, it serves no purpose. Clearly we believe we can make a difference or we would not be making as much noise as we are.

Your attitude seems to be, there is nothing we can do we are all doomed and slaves to the system, and I am sorry but I don't and never will see life that way; for as soon as one starts to believe that then life literally has no meaning.

I am no spring chicken and I am also tired and every day I get more and more tired, I sleep every couple of days at best for 4-6 hours. Neither am I naive, I have travelled extensively around the world and experienced many cultures and political regimes, I have studied society and government at an academic level; I am fully aware of how difficult the situation is but I would never lose hope.

I want my children to grow up in a free society (free as in liberty not as in beer) and I will fight until my last breath to try and secure that for them no matter what the odds, no matter who the adversary and no matter how tired I am; and the more people who do that, the stronger society becomes and the sooner we get rid of these political and corporate incumbents. Give up? No, it is not something I could do, our lives are our legacies, what defines the memories of those we leave behind when our lives end and I want my life to mean something and to influence change for a better tomorrow. I am a person, not a component, I don't exist to serve to the functioning of the machine, I exist to live and breath and experience, I exist to learn and to pass that knowledge on to others so they can learn and I exist to grow.

Alexander Hanff