Montesquieu lives in Honduras

Diario El Heraldo ^ | 07.07.09 | Arturo Alvarado

[HonCitizen]

What do you think?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

He nailed it. Krauthammeresque.

[metesky]

If only our elected officials and military took our own constitution as seriously...

Viva Honduras!

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I hear Obama this morning saying that we support Democracy and that if the people elect someone we disagree with such as in Honduras, we respect the will of the people. What he didn’t say is we should respect the right of the people to arrest the person they elected if he breaks the law.

[don-o]

It’s a very good article. Thanks for posting it.

How are things going there?

[AmericanInTokyo]

The reason Obama supports what Zelaya is trying to do to his nation, IS BECAUSE OBAMA WANTS TO DO THE SAME TO THE UNITED STATES AND SOLIDIFY HIS OWN DICTATORIAL POWER. Just you watch, if he gets reelected in 2012, there will be some kind of effort, arising from the American turbas in the streets, to ammend the US Constitution to add more terms to the Presidency. Saw it here first. This is the Hugo template and all dicatators, be they left or right, want it for THEIR country.

[tanuki]

Fantastic article.

In the past, when we think of representative government in Central America, the knee-jerk response is to think of Costa Rica. Now, a new paradigm has emerged. There’s no little resemblance between Honduras now and Massachusetts, circa 1775; two small entities willing and determined to fight great powers for their basic freedoms. A lot is riding on those brave people down there-it’s heart-breaking to see our indifference. THEY are our spiritual brethren-not the clowns in DC.

[don-o]

ping

I made a list from the Sunday live thread. FReepmail me to be removed (or added) to Honduran ping list. Or if there is already such a list, someone let me know that.

[don-o]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286823/posts

Above link is to U S State Department daily briefing. It is sickening, but read as much as you can stand. Then, all Americans need to contact Senators and Congressmen and demand that they stand up against this alignment with the tyrants.

[Girlene]

Thanks, don-o. Zelaya is to meet with Clinton/State Department today. According to this release, Honduran Congressional, Business Leaders to Hold Washington, D.C., Press Conference, Congressional members and business types will hold a press conference at the National Press Club this afternoon at 3 pm. I'm assuming it's still a go. I don't know if it will get much coverage with the whole Jackson thing on today, but at least they're trying.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good catch!

[La Lydia]

This is an elegant comparison. It raises another of Montesquieu’s theories that Honduras at first seems to contradict, his climate theory, also outlined in Spirit of the Laws. He believed that geography and climate, that is temperature, rainfall, etc. influence people and their societies, and that certain climates produced particular forms of government. Living in a warm climate supposedly makes people volatile, driven by emotion and more likely to create despotic governments than those living in moderate or cold climates. He wrote, however, that such influences and tendencies can be overcome, and apparently the Hondurans have achieved that.

[RegulatorCountry]

He was drawing on the French concept of “terroir,” which is a term usually associated with wine.

[La Lydia]

He was drawing on and elaborating on Tacitus.

[watusa1775]

ping me por favor, any thing on Honduras, I am in Choluteca

[HonCitizen]

though i fear he will come back to power with he support of the white house.

[don-o]

I have signed up for Hillary Clinton’s Daily Appointments. Evidently Zelaya is in town today. Anyone seen anything else on this?

Daily Appointments Schedule for July 7, 2009

Washington, DC

July 7, 2009

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SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON:

7:45 a.m. Weekly Breakfast with Vice President Biden.

(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

1:00 p.m. Bilateral with His Excellency Jose Manuel Zelaya, President of the Republic of Honduras.

(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE / OFFICIAL PHOTO TO BE RELEASED)

THERE WILL BE A DAILY PRESS BRIEFING:

At approximately 2:00 p.m. with Ian Kelly

[don-o]

You are on my list.

[don-o]

After I posted I saw you already had this. Good get. It’s all drowned by Jacko, though. Disgraceful.

[HonCitizen]

i still fear he is coming and willing to take revenge un us. BTW you take care because cap-n-trade is a back stab from O.