Democratic Transformation

[H2O Man]

62. Right.

I'm rather familiar with "struggle" and "conflict." When I was young -- a long, long time ago -- I learned a great deal about these issues when I boxed (329 fights). I learned that what the opponent thinks is of little importance, so far as what I needed to do. By the time I was 13, I had been featured in boxing magazines, and by 16, I was fighting men who had gone so far as the US Olympic trials. And it always came down to how well prepared I was, what level of "discomfort" I was willing to endure.

Same thing here today. How far are people willing to go? How much discomfort will we endure? Earlier this week, the state senator that I targeted with my hunger strike a few years back died. At first, he viewed me as a joke. Then, an annoying oddball. After I spoke in the state capital to over a thousand pro-environment citizen-activists, he decided to meet with me. It started off with his yelling at me for a few moments, then laughing when I poked fun of him. Once he stopped laughing, he talked shop.

(Sad to say he was soon to be indicted on federal charges of corruption; convicted; and booted out of state government.)

I do not anticipate this being anything less than a very hard struggle.