Word: tyrants
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...understood to be his own property when ruling himself and others mindfully and respectfully,” he said. “Because we know that God is not a tyrant, ruling arbitrarily, we also know that human freedom does not require that humans have the powe of tyrants...
...peace” protesters are really not for peace at all. A movement which supports policies that would continue the reign of a murderous tyrant who gasses, tortures and rapes his own people is a movement supporting a perpetual war. Instead of peace, over the course of the last decade, we allowed Saddam to manipulate the process intended to disarm him; we shamefully ignored the horrors of internal repression...
...large costs and risks of invasion. But these are not compelling enough to outweigh the benefits of toppling the dictatorship. Anyone using these arguments to reach a morally serious conclusion has to compare the potential difficulties of an invasion to the very real costs of allowing a brutal tyrant to continue unimpeded. Those who ignore the ponderous moral burden entailed by their position are no better than the appeaseniks whose timidity and fear brought ruin to so much of Europe, Asia and North Africa 60 years...
...poet Ignatius Sancho, who later became a figure in literary London, was born aboard a slave ship en route from Africa to the Spanish West Indies in 1729.) In 1805 the Irish immigrant and repentant slaver Thomas Branagan published two huge epic poems against slavery, including the autobiographical "Penitential Tyrant; or, Slave Trader Reformed," and boldly sent copies to Thomas Jefferson, then President, who responded guardedly but kept the poems in his library...
...Thomas Branagan (1774-1843) from Canto II of "The Penitential Tyrant; or, Slave Trader Reformed...