The de facto government restricted liberties and curbed broadcasters sympathetic to Mr Zelaya, a Liberal businessman who struck an improbable alliance with Venezuela's far-left president, Hugo Chávez.
"They made politics based on pressure, and restricted liberties by using state means to harass all of those against the government through the intelligence services, the agenda they imposed, and state-bought media," Alonso said.
Though some of Mill's pronouncements suggest that causing harm is a necessary condition of restricting liberty, closer inspection suggests that Mill countenances various restrictions on individual liberty that appear designed to benefit others, rather than prevent harm.
As a professor, you know that presidents should resist restricting liberty.
Faced with this reality, the Moroccan government seems to have made the decision to restrict liberty in the name of security, perhaps in imitation of the United States after the Sept. 11 attacks.
An initial test of the water by iTélé showed a majority in favour of "measures to restrict liberty of individuals to preserve the liberty of all", but respondents were less inclined to declare that: "I am ready to see my liberty reduced if this benefits the general interest".
The various Anonymous communication channels, and supporters, would point to what they see as moves in the US to restrict liberty, from the Bradley Manning case to the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act, which will give unprecedented web censorship powers; from the treatment of Occupy protesters to the National Defence Authorisation Act opening up indefinite detention without trial.
Rather, it creates a pro tanto reason for restricting liberty.
Harm to others is not a sufficient ground for restricting liberty.
The anti-harming rationale for restricting liberty is narrower than the harm-prevention rationale.
Moreover, it is not clear if the harm principle justifies restricting liberty to prevent others from being harmed or only justifies restricting liberty to prevent those whose liberty is being restricted from causing harm to another.
