Seven Years Ago

Seven years ago, seven years ago, People stood up and said " If u make cherry tea, why do you fly first class? It is wrong. Morally wrong. You take our money to make cherry tea so that sick people can live easier. But you waste that money on a plane ticket which could benefit tens more sick people." Seven years ago.

Seven years ago, Elite said, "You have defamed me. I take you to Court. I use your money to hire big Lawyer. YOU HAVE DEFAMED ME." Seven years ago.

People said, "I have no money to fight your Lawyer. I concede and settle out of court." Seven years ago.

Two years ago, People stood up and said, "If you make cherry tea, why do you have gold plated taps in your private bathroom?" People stood up and wrote, "If you make cherry tea, why do you fly first class?"

Elite stood up and said, "You have defamed me. I take you to Court. I use your money to hire big Lawyer. YOU HAVE DEFAMED ME."

People said, "I have no money to fight your Lawyer. I concede and settle out of court."

One year ago, Elite stood up and published an article suggesting the "facts" put up by People. Elite got angry and said, "You have defamed me. I take you to Court. I use People money to hire big Lawyer. YOU HAVE DEFAMED ME."

Elite vs Elite. And the maker of cherry tea fell. Fell so quickly amidst a storm of anger amongst the People.

Seven years ago, People stood up and said, "If you make cherry tea, how can you fly first class? It is wrong. Morally wrong." Seven years ago. And People lost. Lost miserably.

The Elite had a mandate. A strong mandate. Every year his cherry tea corporation made money. Lots of money. Economic progress. Elite could do anything. And he was not Wrong. There was no Wrong. Legally, it is not Wrong. He had the Mandate. Legal Mandate.

But Morally? Ethically?

The Law is Blind. Lady Justice is Blindfolded.

Legally there is no Wrong. Because he had the Mandate. The Mandate of his higher Elite. Thats why Elite, though fallen, is still Free. Amongst the People he had wronged.

Can this story be made into a Platform? A Platform for the People? But the People were wronged for Seven Years. Seven years ago, People stood up and said. But were Silenced. By Defamation. By Law. By Fear. By Power. By Mandate. Seven years ago.

Silenced for seven years until Elite fought Elite.

So how dare You, Representative of the People, place thyself on the Platform of Hero?

When People spoke and were silenced, seven years ago.

Quotes of the Day --

"You may rob a three corps army of its general, but you cannot take away the free will of a common man." -- Analects

"The benevolent emperor Nintoku considered the nation prosperous when he could look down from a tower and see the smoke from many cook stoves even though his palace was in ruins." -- a Japanese saying

"Yet it is far more remiss in a man to reduce doubt and surmise to certainty; since when he has gained his object and knows that his doubts are justified, the fact which he was at pains to track down becomes a grief surpassing all others." -- Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan