User blog comment:Twilightsagafan/Amanda Todd/@comment-24.67.205.221-20121018193059

I too cry for Amanda. But bullying is not limited to the young. I am an older Canadian, also in British Columbia. I am being bullied by the government of my country. Why? Because I have shown too much integrity in supporting poor people in developing countries. People in the Government of Canada are deliberately and knowingly conspiring to conceal evidence of corrupt and criminal acts done by the Asian Development Bank. The ADB is partly owned and financed by the Government of Canada. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is on the Board of Governors and appoints a member of the Board of Executive Directors of ADB. I have proved the corrupt and criminal acts. The Government has the proof.

The acts of ADB, supported by this Government, have destroyed my reputation and in fact all aspects of my life. They have done damage to the people of one of the poorest countries of Asia. I have had to tell children in Asia that I was sending to school that they would have to leave school because my money is finished and I can no longer get work. The government of Canada said they would look into the ADB situation. They did not. I went to Ottawa but they would not meet or even talk with me, even though they know for a fact that what I say is true.

I do not want to seem opportunistic in suggesting a parallel with Amanda Todd’s situation, but I too am contemplating suicide, not as a way out, but as a way to bring attention to what this government is doing and to help to prevent further such bullying and abuse of power. I have nothing else left to lose. And in contemplating suicide, I am not a coward. I have sat as the only foreigner among groups of Afghani people along roadsides in rural Afghanistan, without knowing who was and was not Taliban.

Who is to set the example if people in our own government abuse their power and bully our citizens, all with impunity? I will be happy to give more information, including names, to any who have questions.