Tarja... a friend and a member of Amnesty in Finland, after reading my blog wrote: "Yesterday I read a poem by Po Chu-i, it was written in the 8th century or so. He talked about how the learned and enlightened people always are the first to go to prison - what has changed? It could've been written yesterday! It's so depressing, we humans have all the power and intelligence to make this planet a good place to live, but we choose not to. Century after century, decade after decade - violence, corruption, oppression, desperation, waste of lives."