Posted on 06/30/2009 3:17:28 AM PDT by Scanian
ON Sunday, the citizens of Honduras woke up with one president and went to bed with an other. Manuel Zelaya was forced out of the country -- replaced, with full backing from the Congress, the nation's courts, and its military with Interim President Robert Micheletti.
Some have denounced this dramatic change as a "coup d'etat" and an assault on democracy. In truth, it was much more of a last-ditch effort to protect Honduras' constitutional order and rule of law from a reckless populist.
Honduras and the United States have a long history of friendly relations. We signed a free-trade treaty in 2005; Honduras was an early contributor to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
But relations chilled, and chilled hard, after Zelaya won election nearly four years ago.
Zelaya sees Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro as beacons for the future. As president, he tried to steer Honduras hard left -- but succeeded mainly in boosting corruption and cronyism. The independent monitors at Transparency International now give Honduras the same ranking for corruption as Libya and Ethiopia.
Honduras is a poor nation, and got worse on Zelaya's watch. But rather than blame the global downturn or his own failures, Zelaya sought to rally the masses behind him by fingering the nation's elites as behind the nation's woes.
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Castro, Chavez, Obama. Three blind mice with far too much power.
Let’s see. Venezuela is angry at Colombia and Honduras. I wonder if we might see some sort of Pan Latin-American war brewing.
If there is a war, I think Obama will join with the forces which intend to crush freedom. Socialism must march on!
Wonder if we could do the same thing here.
VZ is “angry” because with them it wants to take them over. Hugo doesn’t have enough money at home, but he has plenty of money to go around stirring up trouble throughout Latin America; and of course, he has the assistance of his closest national partner, Iran, in doing this.
My fear is that Bambi, who would actually be Hugo’s closest partner if he dared come out and say it, will try to put the heat on Honduras to take back the Hugo-supporting Commie who was trying to stage an auto-golpe (self-coup, where a leader who was originally elected puts himself in power permanently and gives himself more powers). We have a base in Honduras, and I hope Bambi doesn’t even think about sending our troops out to enforce Chavez’ will.
Or if he does, I hope the commander refuses, just as the Honduran did.
President Obama took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Honduras is a sovereign country, but I would have at least expected him to speak up in support of the constitution of a close friend of the US and one in our own hemisphere. His support of a rogue president who attempted to subvert the laws of the nation over the objections of both the legislature and the judiciary (checks and balances don’t matter?) is a shameful and craven attempt to curry favor in mostly leftist Latin America. Obama’s weakness on this issue is especially dangerous, since the enemies of democracy are watching and taking notes.
It would be interesting to see this happen Here in 2012 Obama refuses to leave and the Headline on the Evening news would be ,Celebrating the death of Michael Jackson and everyone would go on a Candle light Vigil and no one would care
If we could only get the military, the courts and congress to get rid of the Kenyan and ship him out on a plane to Zimbabwe all would be well.
Oh, I forgot the congress and half the courts need to be shipped out too.
Yes, meddle in Honduras, but no meddling in Iran. A person’s actions speak louder than their words.
We have one potentially strong woman (and maybe a couple guys in the game) but Sarah is still unproven and busy governing Alaska.
So the short answer is no. We conservatives don't have a leader these days.
Our congress critters would not be supportive.
So says, Zero, Chavez, Castro and other communists.
ON Sunday, the citizens of Honduras woke up with one president and went to bed with an other. Manuel Zelaya was forced out of the country — replaced, with full backing from the Congress, the nation’s courts, and its military with Interim President Robert Micheletti.
Can we do that here?
Honduras had a Supreme Court. We have nothing. Our Supreme Court sold out when they refused to see the Birth certificate of the Kenyan, Fear of black riots trumped the legality of our election.
Now we have our country being sold down the river by Globalists and Socialists and Representatives that dont Represent anything but their own power and greed.
We MUST take back America in 2010 .
Whaddya mean 'but'?
Corruption and cronyism is what the left is about.
And people here don’t care what is happening here in America.
Who’d a thunk, fascism in America.
Finally! A major newspaper gets the story right.
Judging from the mobs shown in pictures, this dust-up is the usual Indians vs Europeans struggle in Central America.
Not to mention giving uncomfortable hints of things to come in this country...
US military, are you listening?
I agree in principle, it will be tough though. Of course we're FReepers so we don't mind that.
No. If we get rid of Obama then it will be through Constitutional means. I'm not condemning the Honduran actions, merely saying that it is not an appropriate solution here.
Obama is probably terrified of a similar scenario here in the good old USA. I wonder if our top commanders have the sand to execute an operation to compel Obamba to produce his birth certificate.
I was hoping....
....But our military is infected with the same big-government bureaucratic mindset.
Zelaya sees Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro as beacons for the future. As president, he tried to steer Honduras hard left — but succeeded mainly in boosting corruption and cronyism.
Substitute Obama and US in this paragraph and it’s still 100% accurate.
I wonder if Obama had trouble sleeping last night, thinking about this?
bkmk
Hmmm. Military stepping in to remove a president who is bent on trashing the constitution. No wonder Zero is terrified of this development. Can’t let this sort of thing spread, you know.
ACORN and OBAMA will be bringing one of these to America.
Excuse me??
Oh, that’s right!
Sorry — they ALREADY HAVE.
Sorta explains Obambi’s anger that Zeyala was sent packing, doesn’t it?
The Hondurans did use Constitutional means. Are you ever right about anything?
Usually. Unless you can point out to me where OUR Constitution allows for the military to force the president from office as the Honduran's did?
The military in Honduras did not force Zelaya out so that point is moot. Educate yourself.
Just walked out on his own, huh? In any case, you would do well to follow the threads and understand the whole conversation before jumping in.
BTTT!
A beacon for our aspiring boy president and his entire party. Senator Byrd sheds a tear. Jack Murtha proposes naming an airport after him.
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