I’ve always been a pessimist. I saw big nations acting like gangsters, and small ones like prostitutes. I saw the wealthy still enslaving the poor; slave-owners and overseers having merely been replaced by banks and corporations. I considered the situation hopeless.
I still see these things, but now, I see them as reasons to fight. Sure, change is hard. But it is possible, especially in times of crisis. We may be the generation that fights the final battle between free people and banks. We could be the people who win the war on drugs (go the drug team!). We could even create a free, peaceful and democratic society with these islands.
Big goals, but with ingenuity, fearlessness and solidarity, I think anything is possible. I can’t promise these things. All I can promise is to tell the truth as I see it, and to fight for my beliefs. Hard out.
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