Another Brownback in a hot spot

When the president of Honduras was arrested by soldiers and exiled Sunday after a controversial referendum, the Americans in the country included Andy Brownback, a son of Sen. Sam Brownback. He’s a Kansas State University senior studying at the Panamerican School of Agriculture at Zamorano. Classes have continued, but students are no longer permitted to leave campus, he wrote in the Topeka Capital-Journal. “The response to the news by students at the university was remarkably disinterested,” he wrote. “The majority of students come from Latin American countries in the region, all of which are accustomed to varying degrees of civil unrest.” Brownback is scheduled to leave July 12.

3 Comments

  1. Deb
    Posted July 3, 2009 at 9:19 am | Permalink

    Americans take freedom too lightly. It isn’t just a flexibility to live as we please within the law, but contains the assumption that life will go on for the most part as it presently exists. It allows citizens to pursue job creation, education…in general plan for the future without the fear that our current liberty will disappear.

  2. DFB
    Posted July 3, 2009 at 2:36 pm | Permalink

    Deb – well said, especially on this weekend, when most are more concerned with fireworks than freedom.

  3. Monkeyhawk
    Posted July 3, 2009 at 3:18 pm | Permalink

    I betcha Sam (the Sham) Brownback is, at this moment self-flagellating himself with a cat-o’-nine-tails (while wearing his official Opus Dei barbed-wire jock-strap) but hoping Andy buys it.

    Think of the campaign commercial opportunities!