re: "Small Flags"

Vanderleun at American Digest ("Dispatches from the New America") sees through the popular narrative.

Money quote(s):

"That, at least, is the mind set that I assume when I read how the "War on Terror" is but a bumper strip. In a way, that's preferable to the the mind set that now, in increasing numbers among us, prefers to take refuge in the unbalanced belief that 9/11 was actually something planned and executed by the American government. Why many of my fellow Americans prefer this "explanation" is something that I once felt was beyond comprehension. Now I see it is just another comfortable position taken up by those for whom the habits of automatic treason have become just another fashionable denigration of the country that has made their liberty to believe the worst of it not only possible but popular." (Bold type added for emphasis. - CAA)

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. "

&

"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."

JO - Self-protection

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Observer

Self-protection

Saturday, July 05, 2008

Dear Editor,

Everyone has a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This right is of no use when you can be murdered in the blink of an eye.

I was not an advocate of issuing guns to citizens because of fear this would lead to more killings. But after careful consideration, I realise that we have no choice. Things can't get any worse than they already are. With careful monitoring we should be able to issue guns to responsible members of society to protect themselves. This might well help to curb the crime rate.

Norman Edmonson
bigupja2@hotmail.com