If this is what this people want, let them GO TO AND BUILD THEIR CITY AND WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM. And what will happen to those IDolized cities of this day.

Here is an excerpt.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11 ¶ Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 ¶ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

(Old Testament | Isaiah 5:8 – 17)

“Behold, the Lord hath forbidden this thing; wherefore, the Lord God hath given a commandment that all men should have charity, which charity is love. And except they should have charity they were nothing. Wherefore, if they should have charity they would not suffer the laborer in Zion to perish. But the laborer in Zion shall labor for Zion; for if they labor for money they shall perish.”

(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 26:30 – 31)

2. There is only one of these City enterprises that has truly succeeded. And it was the City of Enoch or Zion which was built some five thousand years ago or so. And it took about 365 years for them to reach perfection. In fact it was so perfect hat God blessed it took it to heaven with its land, crops, herds and houses, while the rest of the World He cursed and was drowned by the flood in which only eight children of GOD or humanoid souls survived. The City of Enoch or Zion fled to haven and it may have very well been located in the world’ sonly Chasm, which is located next door in the Gulf of Mexico. Perhaps that is or was the so called Atlantis that everybody talks about in mythology. The world does not know whether it drowned or was lifted up. All it is know is that it was lost or it fled. Here is the law and the testimony:

“The fear of the Lord was upon all nations, so great was the glory of the Lord, which was upon his people. And the Lord blessed the land, and they were blessed upon the mountains, and upon the high places, and did flourish. And the Lord called his people ZION, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them. And Enoch continued his preaching in righteousness unto the people of God. And it came to pass in his days, that he built a city that was called the City of Holiness, even ZION. And it came to pass that Enoch talked with the Lord; and he said unto the Lord: Surely Zion shall dwell in safety forever. But the Lord said unto Enoch: Zion have I blessed, but the residue of the people have I cursed.”

(Pearl of Great Price | Moses 7:17 – 20)

And after that Zion was taken up into heaven, Enoch beheld, and lo, all the nations of the earth were before him;

(Pearl of Great Price | Moses 7:23)

And all the days of Zion, in the days of Enoch, were three hundred and sixty–five years. And Enoch and all his people walked with God, and he dwelt in the midst of Zion; and it came to pass that Zion was not, for God received it up into his own bosom; and from thence went forth the saying, ZION IS FLED.

(Pearl of Great Price | Moses 7:68 – 69)

3. But this is not all, there will be a time, that we will build a city of Zion, her in America, a holy city which will be called the New Jerusalem. And it will be build in Independence, Missouri. And the name of the city will be called the New Jerusalem after which there is a type. And they will be terrible unto all nations. Of which it is written:

“For it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that at that day whosoever will not repent and come unto my Beloved Son, them will I cut off from among my people, O house of Israel; And I will execute vengeance and fury upon them, even as upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. But if they will repent and hearken unto my words, and harden not their hearts, I will establish my church among them, and they shall come in unto the covenant and be numbered among this the remnant of Jacob, unto whom I have given this land for their inheritance; And they shall assist my people, the remnant of Jacob, and also as many of the house of Israel as shall come, that they may build a city, which shall be called the New Jerusalem. And then shall they assist my people that they may be gathered in, who are scattered upon all the face of the land, in unto the New Jerusalem. And then shall the power of heaven come down among them; and I also will be in the midst.”

(Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 21:20 – 25)

And that a New Jerusalem should be built up upon this land, unto the remnant of the seed of Joseph, for which things there has been a type. For as Joseph brought his father down into the land of Egypt, even so he died there; wherefore, the Lord brought a remnant of the seed of Joseph out of the land of Jerusalem, that he might be merciful unto the seed of Joseph that they should perish not, even as he was merciful unto the father of Joseph that he should perish not. Wherefore, the remnant of the house of Joseph shall be built upon this land; and it shall be a land of their inheritance; and they shall build up a holy city unto the Lord, like unto the Jerusalem of old; and they shall no more be confounded, until the end come when the earth shall pass away. And there shall be a new heaven and a new earth; and they shall be like unto the old save the old have passed away, and all things have become new. And then cometh the New Jerusalem; and blessed are they who dwell therein, for it is they whose garments are white through the blood of the Lamb; and they are they who are numbered among the remnant of the seed of Joseph, who were of the house of Israel.

(Book of Mormon | Ether 13:6 – 10)

LET THE HUNGER GAMED BEGIN. The children of this world are wiser than the children of light. I compare the Hondurans people, of which I am one, to the children of Light. People often see truth in different lights. I have a totally different point of view concerning this matter. Let me start with the parable of the crops thief.

There was a certain thief that went to his neighbor crops to steal corn from his neighbor with his son and before doing so, he looked fearfully all around to see if there was not anyone around to see him stealing; and he charged the son to warn him if he detected someone coming. And the son immediately complied by telling his father that he forgot to look up. The son knew that God is watching. And this is a God given point of view.

Has any of you considered where the name Honduras comes from or what it may truly means? It means the Bottomless Pit. It also means the house of SabiDURiA or th home of WISDOM. It is my home. Anciently it was the home or regions University of wisdom or where the people did partake a lot of the forbidden fruit of endless knowledge of good and evil. Unfortunately, they rigged too much evil and as a result they were utterly destroyed. Only the ruins of my ancestors remain.

1. Having said that. To me this Charter City initiative in Honduras is no different than the enslaving city of Babel in the ancient world order when Nimro-d the mighty hunter and his institures of debauchery; and in this Case, Charter City, Romer-d, the mighty economist, and his institutes of Monopoly, for then as it is now, they said to one another;

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

(Old Testament | Genesis 11:3 – 4)

HonDURAs as it now stands is or was after all, a Province of Ancient Babel and later on a province of latter day Babylon; which was and is located in the plain of Shinar; where a great golden image was created that looked like a pyramids that measured six by sixty cubits. Please refer to the entire chapter 3of the book of Daniel in the Bible as a textual reference. Ironically, for those that have eyes to see, the coat of Arms of Honduras, is as that great triangular image that sits upon the great waters that represent a great horn with an eye, which is the very synagogue of Satan. IF that city is built in HONDURAS, not many days hence we will se a great beast ascend from the Bottomless pit like Nebuchadnezzar.

“NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.”

(Old Testament | Daniel 3:1)

It may last for a short period, but we all know the end of the story of both Babel and Babylon and what became of the great tower. Let the huger games begin.

2. Charter cities could very well be the way of the future. But only if based upon sound governing principles; and not only upon laws, a judiciary system and constitutional safeguards and policies that work and benefits or protect the Economic interests of those who will invest in these enterprises. Most of those who promote these mammoth enterprises; have exhausted the resources of other lands and countries; and are running away from sound governing laws as ravenous wolves seeking whom to devour; and it is because they are likely criminals.

3. What about the human factor, MR NIMROD? In these schemes there is not real plan for self governing human being but for potential slaves. What does an economist know beyond numbers and runaway expansion? Quantity not necessarily translates to quality and the pursuit of happiness. It is not only about better living conditions. Many people migrate to the US for the freedom and Liberty factor it represents and engenders. If immigrants knew that there is a better chance to work in Spain, or China, Singapore and Hong Kong to improve themselves, and there very well is on most of them, they still would not migrate there. Many would rather die trying to pursue their happiness by coming to the US even illegally. And it is because, there is no true and lasting happiness anywhere without property ownership rights, whether tangible or intangible; without moral agency, without law; without freedom to voice ones mind and thoughts.

4. All idolized cities decay or are destroyed sooner rather than later; and the result is almost always meager living conditions and destruction because they prescribe debauchery as ancient nimrod did with his institutes of immorality, idolatry and debauchery which governed and commercialized even the intimacy of human beings and which regarded not the sanctity of life. They even worshiped the god of nature or animals and sacrificed to them their babies. All in contrast to what God had commended their fathers.

5. Again, the concentrations of population anywhere save it is for defense and other necessary central activities is never recommended unless the city builder and its foundation is GOD. This Charter initiative in fact goes against the grand command that God grace to our fathers which say, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. NO wonder then why Babel was confounded, divided and destroyed. Only now, after several thousand years they have begun to be one language and purpose again.

6. There needs to be a moral fiber in any civil society to promote and maintain collectivism. And because they have lost this fiber and cannot find peace, misery seeks the company of misery and want to build themselves up. Are Honduras so ungovernable that they need a Daddy State within its borders to show them the true way? In fact, the way has been shown fro over two hundred and thirty years by the merits of an inspired constitution a that of the United States of America, the REPUBLIC, and if so, why they do not develop it themselves?

7. When I left Honduras my dream was no different than that of its founder fathers, which is and continues to make of Central America as one single Nation or a federation of Central American Republics that will make a Rich, strong and respected country. The best way to improve any society starts at home, by teaching its members good and self governing principles so that they are able to govern themselves. And charity never fails. Invest in Education and Charity and you will have changed the entire country of Honduras instead of gathering renegades from all countries to enslave them in a City State Prison.

- The possibility (or rather, likelihood) that huge slums outside the borders evolve to house those who build and service the charter city but for whom it is much cheaper and easier to live by the freewheeling rules of Honduras than the tight regulations of the city. The comparison with people who willingly migrate to e.g. the UK to work is all very well, but if people could work in the UK while paying the rent they would have paid in e.g. Bangladesh then I’m sure many would. So the likelihood is that many charter city workers would still live conveniently over the border. Who provides infrastructure, housing and services to these people and deals with the social dislocation this setup creates? Or you do you somehow force them to live inside the city and end up with a Dubai-style labour underclass inside the borders?

- The idea that the city will begin by only including people who share a certain set of norms is patently absurd. Will there be a ‘norm exam’ of some kind to facilitate entry? Then, apparently, ‘subsequent immigrants will adapt’ to these norms. Formal rules can be introduced at the stroke of a pen; norms take generations to change and that change rarely comes as a consequence of a pen-stroke in itself. Certainly, people can adapt to ‘talking the talk’ of new rules pretty fast – but is that not the whole sorry history of attempts to impose democracy and ‘good governance’ on developing countries from the outside in recent decades? There is a serious question mark regarding what kind of norms are actually likely to emerge in this context. Building an enclave of ‘good rules’ in the middle of Honduras is not the same as e.g. arriving in a sparsely populated continent, exterminating much of the indigenous population and then importing both western laws and western people, as happened in the US or Australia.

- Setting up a low-tax enclave in the middle of a deeply corrupt state…possibly not a great idea. The implication is that by putting clever Western people in charge of the rules one can outfox experts in corruption who are deeply intimate with the Honduran context and may seek to play their activities inside the charter city alongside those outside it in ways that maximise their interests. There is little reason to believe this outfoxing will be successful. Moreover, taxation has historically been one of the major means of creating accountability and entrenching the very norms of rights and responsibilities that the charter city would presumably be supposed to inculcate over time. Minimise taxation and you undercut these important processes.

1 • Prior and Informed Consent: Do the Honduran people know what they’re getting into? I doubt it, because I think the promoters have little idea of what they’re getting into.

2 • Sophisticated Investor: High risk investments are for sophisticated investors who understand the risks, and can afford the losses. Typically, people in poverty are not sophisticated investors.

3 • Rationality: Though mathematical gambling suggests that to win or lose on a 50/50 bet is the same, real people act “irrationally”, by preferring to avoid losses. But the mathematics of gambling was designed by mathematicians, whereas human biases are the product of evolution. Double your crop, you just have bunch of rotting extra food; lose your crop and your dead. In real life, the “irrational” risk-averse response is much smarter.

Why do Westerners always think that if they have an untested idea, the place to try it out is on some poor people. Why don’t they try it out in the Hamptons? (I’m sure we could figure out a suitable version.)

Where are the ethics of experimenting on the poor? Didn’t we just apologise for using them for medical research in the 1950s? Are we going to learn some day?

At minimum, we should demand that all the proponents, researchers, consultants and financial backers put their own life savings on the same bet. If the charter city doesn’t work, they give up all their assets, which are transfered to the Honduran people as compensation; if the charter city works, they get double their money for all the great work they’ve done.

Let’s see if they take the bet.

Also, I hope to FSM that someone is taping the hell out of everything. This is going to be an amazing documentary series on hubris and total failure.