:: Res Ipsa Liquitor ::

This battle of Right against Might. The context, 77 years ago then, was the non-violent, 400km Salt March, a protest against British monopoly on salt trade.

It was a protest against monopoly the Satyagraha way.

Seventy-seven years on, ain't we living in a world of surging monopoly over the opinion space. Constructive criticisms are gross dissent. And that, you should only buy one version of truth that is news-slanted by the politically-cowed mainstream media dictated by the editorial mullahs?

In January 2006, as if blogging was long foreseen as the modern day long-haul Salt March from the cyberworld to reality, I remembered Gandhi's devotion to Satyagraha -- the resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa (total non-violence).

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi

We are no mahātmā. But that stops us not from seeking solace in mahātmā's wisdom and spirit.

Among many other things, Gandhi once said:"You should be the change that you want to see in the world."

WALK WITH US bloggers... fellow Malaysians!

P.S: Thank you Jeff Ooi for ht einspiring note. We are in the same path.

# posted by Kitaro Minami : 6:23 PM