Opinion: The Point Of No Return

It would be impudent claiming that everyone will face during his or her life a point of no return. Some of us always keep one or more doors open to slip back into the cosy being of the former state of existence exploring new fields and terrains.

When is a point of no return reached? If a situation has become unbearable for example. Circumstances might be far-spread: in the individual case a broken friendship or relation or a dead end road in the job. In the collective case a common goal of crucial change, be it for better workplace situations leaving the general strike as ultimate matter or be it for basic rights raising the voices publicly or taking otherwise action.

Let's go one step further: in the case of demanding freedom and the removal of the existing regime there is also a point of no return reached if those requesting it face deadly crackdown measures or fear lethal revenge. If the opposite side is willing to eliminate even those being under a cloud of rising up. If those who've decided to defect from a system of random injustice know that they can never go back - because the ones they'd left for the the right cause will never forgive them hunting them until the end of their days. That's truly a point of no return.

It is obvious that I refer with the last break to the Syrian freedom movement. All participants, from the rally joiners to the Free Syrian Army soldiers are in the meantime beyond the point of no return because there are no doors anymore for a way back. And it's not their fault as some might estimate by a first look at the surface of the matter. No, it's the full responsibility of the regime and its' cronies simply ignoring since nearly a year now any form of ceasefire, continuously murdering unarmed civilians.

The regime has reached its' personal point of no return refusing to stop the violence. And the revolutionary movement refuses in reaction to end the call for freedom. This is not about calling for NATO intervention or demanding any kind of help. This is not about any measures necessary to be taken - there are a lot of theories and discussions circulating but no one has found up to now the philosopher's stone. This is only about visualizing the roots. In this special case the irrevocable loss of faith in the dictatorship's ability to negotiate nonviolent proceeding.

Asking for any kind of dialog is not only utopian, it is most of all disrespecting all the civilian martyrs of this revolution. 'Never trust the hand that beats you.' The spark of freedom wavering one year ago over the iron Baath curtain has become a flame shining brightly now over the borders. The dark forces want to blow them out because they're not able to stand that kind of light but with the time they will fail. That's the positive message. The only drop of bitterness is the total amount of innocent martyrs until the freedom movement will have won.