Related to the BC Neo-Maoist "Human Rights" Tribunal ...

Speaking of Neo-Maoist "Human Rights" tribunals, the Anchoress has a timely discussion of liberty and tyranny, which opens with quotes from G.K. Chesterton: and C.S. Lewis:

“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.” (Chesteron)

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” (Lewis)

The Anchoress has bucket loads of links about what tyranny looks like in the U.S., England, France, Canada, Russia and Venezuela.  She's on one of her rolls, it's a pithy post.  About President Bush she writes:

"All we can do is hope that the guy everyone is actually calling a tyrant will continue to hold steady in the face of madness and political pressure.  And we have no reason to think he won’t.  He’s been holding steady against an incessant current, and keeping to a promise, for the past 7 years." 

"And we’re going to miss him when he’s gone, and no one is left to hold steady against anything."

Agreed.