Friday, February 11, 2011

Despair and Terror

If any place could use a "color" revolution, it is Belorus (well, a lack-of-color revolution in this case):

It is so hard to be a man in an unfree country. If you do nothing, you are a passive participant. If you try to do something, you are broken and turned into a traitor. It takes incredible courage and spiritual strength to escape this fate. Courage and strength that I lacked.

A tale of living in a "stable" dictatorship. Do read it all. When a police state does its job right, the people are too atomized and frightened to demonstrate on the public square.