re: "Tyranny At Home. Tyranny Abroad."

Scipio at The Return of Scipio ("writing not for fortune or fame but because God is watching") explained what Honduras has to do with liberty.

Money quote(s):

"Who could have guessed that one day little Honduras would be in the news? Who could have guessed that one day little Honduras would be seen as a bulwark against tyranny? Who could have guessed that one day Honduras would stand firm against pressure from the OAS, the UN and the US?"

"Honduras is reliving the ancient struggle between liberty and tyranny. In all of our 6000 years of history liberty has almost always gone down to defeat. Simply put, tyranny has had too much in its favor. Laws were written by tyrants to ensure their hold on power. States would create an apparatus of prisons and police and spies to prop up any dictatorship. All media were placed under the direct scrutiny of those who ruled. These things were as true for Ashurbanipal as they are true for Hugo Chavez. "

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"The most earth shaking event in secular world history was the creation of the United States of America. It was quite literally “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Nothing like it had ever come about. From the start she presented to the world a frightening thing, the possibility that the citizens of a nation might actually control the levers of power in a state. If she succeeded she would become a “dangerous nation” and a threat to tyranny around the world. Thus the hatred that European nations had for the new nation. None of them even believed that the US could possibly survive. It was a good thing for them that she did."