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So, I lost. To those of you inclined to leave anonymous comments, who did NOT see the evidence, feel free. Justice was not done today. I am disappointed. But if you think I am done, think again. Not in this case. Not for any case. Be cautious in your celebration. I am aware that this blog is open to the world so I won't say more. No comment. But let me say this. In times like this we must turn to what we know.

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

And fight I shall.

Full post as published by A Public Defender's Life in Alaska on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).