There is no turning back

What I've been reading coming out of Syria is that security forces are rounding up people, some from protests but also some just at wrong place wrong time, and tossing them in jail. In some towns like Deraa,  they went door to door and rounded up all men between  15-50 years old.

Many are repeatedly beaten and tortured in jail, and now they have been dumping some naked, bloodied and badly beaten back into the streets as an example to others.  The journalist Dorothy Parvaz who wrote about her time while detained in a Syrian jail has been left scarred from hearing the pleas of people being brutally beaten. It's the kind of experience which breeds nightmares for some time to come.

But even those released naked, bloodied beaten and bruised are even more determined to protest for human rights so it doesn't happen to them or others again.It also doesn't matter if those arrested, beaten, tortured and released have protested or not. 

The thugs of Assad's regime wants to instill fear into people in hopes to finally bring the country under control. But I don't think it will create fear. I think it will create anger and more determination to fight to the end. To fight so that others might be free if it comes to that. Fight so that those who have died so far have not died in vain. Fight for freedom.