Posted on 07/04/2009 9:37:49 AM PDT by Perchant
Honduras rebuffed demands by the international community to reinstate President Manuel Zelaya and pulled out of the Organization of American States
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Next step for Honduras is to pull out of the UN and other nations will follow its lead.
Obama is probably proud as punch as he spends his 4th of July in the Motherland (Russia).
Imagine Hugo being IN the OAS and poor little Honduras, heretofore our strongest ally in Central and South America, being OUT.
USA tried to isolate Cuba and ended up with a colony of USSR 90 mile off our shores. Maybe Honduras will sign a mutual defense pact with China.
Viva Honduras!
Unless I am missing something, this seems like the only logical step for them.
Viva Honduras! Let’s make Honduras the new Galt’s Gulch.
The OAS is about to accept Cuba, but it expels Honduras. On this 4th of July it appears, in the words of that song played at Yorktown, that The World’s Turned Upside Down, only not for the better. But for the very worst!!
Knowing you’re in the right kinda puts the wind at you back don’t it.
This is the best news I’ve seen all weekend. It’s time for other countries to step forward and flip off these “organizations” who have nothing better to do than to meddle in the affairs of sovereign nations.
Wow that’s disturbing.
The Zero’s not in Russia yet. He’s staging a photo-op with some troops. His wife is there, and he’ll be going there on Monday.
Read only the excerpt, and in response to that only I say this is a good start for even a small Nation such as Honduras to begin the task of telling the Leftist ingested organizations of the World to screw off.
It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it.
Excellent news on an appropriate day.
Makes me long for the days of Oliver North and Ronald Reagan.
From what I’ve seen, the international community is a rotten neighborhood. Good for Honduras.
I’m kinda envious. They won’t be wasting money on wasting money on anything that has to do with the OAS.
You probably meant "infested" there, but on second thought, every single "world" organization I can bring to mind actually has been devoured by leftists.
So, maybe yours is better, lol.
Defying the collective? Oh my! What nerve...you’d think they were a sovereign nation or something!
Now it’s time for GOP leadership to fly into Honduras in solidarity
Honduras: “¡Viva la Libertad!”
What is needed is a copy of the Honduras Constitution in English.
Very well done! Thanks!
Sarah Palin and Honduras both quitting to keep from being slimed as crazy right-wing pariahs by Obama and company.
Both taking the hit now to emerge stronger for it later.
Is this a trend?
I like that attitude: "You can't fire me, I quit..." LOL!
Good for Honduras!
Thank you for your commentary. I in fact meant “ingested” as you defined it. Glad somebody caught my humor.
South America has gone leftist in the past decade,mostly while Bush was fixated on Saddam Hussein.How many times have U.S. politicos ignored the hundreds of millions living just south of us to concentrate on the EU and ME?
My guess is that there will be only two......Poland and Australia
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“nsulza said Honduran officials gave him documents showing that charges are pending or have been brought against Zelaya, which they say justified the coup. The military ouster came after Zelaya pushed for a referendum on constitutional reform that the Supreme Court, the attorney general and Congress had all said was illegal.”
It was neither a coup nor a military ouster! It was a constitutionally sanctioned impeachment enforced by the military at the behest of the Congress ans the Supreme Court.
If only we could follow their lead...
” The U.S. Embassy in Honduras issued a statement expressing “deep concern over restrictions imposed on certain fundamental rights” by Micheletti’s government, including a curfew in force since the coup, and “reports of intimidation and censorship against certain individuals and media outlets.”
How come the US Embassy in Venezuela never expresses the same concerns there? - and - IT WASN’T A COUP!
‘Micheletti wrote that “the OAS is a political organization, not a court, and it can’t judge us.”
I love this guy
I haven’t read any other comments but let me state mine and see how many have already said this. Honduras out of the OAS. USA out of the UN. Screw the cranks who won’t submit to law and yearn for a leftist dictatorship that gives all power to a clique of Marxist cranks who only enrich themselves while posing as champions of the ordinary citizens. By the way, why if Liberals despise hypocrisy is this hypocrisy so acceptable? Hmmm. I think I know the answer to this rhetorical question.
It Bizarro World !
The OAS did not favor the removal of Noriega, by the way.
Viva Honduras!!!!!!!
Hands off Hugo!!!!!!!!!
Certainly is Bizarro World.
Damn, that picture is weird. Their eyes are exactly the same. Creepy!
any specifics?? I do know the US both governmental and through US corporations have poured millions and millions of dollars into the South and Central Americas for many years. I am sure they have enjoyed Yankee dinero. I'm not denying, just curious. Where have they been shorted.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/oas-embraces-cuba-kicks-out-honduras
Somehow this article fails to note that Venezuela is an honored member of the Organization Of American states.
Worse yet, our media masters at Reuters seem to be unaware that the workers paradise of Cuba has recently been made a member of good standing in the OAS.
Perhaps their ignorance is understandable, since the joyous news was not heavily reported.
Indeed, we found only this report, which was quietly buried noted on the CBS News ‘blog’:
OAS Lifts Ban On Cuba After 47 Years
by Portia Siegelbaum
June 3, 2009
Despite decades of harshly criticizing the Organization of American States as a puppet of Washington, Cuban TV welcomed today’s scrapping by OAS Foreign Ministers of the 1962 resolution excluding the island from active membership.
For 47 years, the Cuban flag has been displayed along with those of the other member countries but its seat has remained empty, barred as an “undemocratic” state…
Cuban Government journalists particularly stressed the declaration of Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya, host of the assembly, who said that “Today the Cold War is ended.” Referring to former President Fidel Castro’s famous 1953 saying “history will absolve me,” Zelaya said, “today he is absolved.” The remarks are sure to raise hackles among hard-line anti-Castro exile circles…
[Cuban] TV anchor Randy Alonso read a statement by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez welcoming the decision…
So now Cuba and Venezuela are deemed to be “democratic” states, but Honduras is not?
Yes, the OAS has tremendous moral authority here.
By the way, do note how Mr. Zelaya welcomed the news of Cuba’s reinstatement.
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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 7:44 am.
never happen with Obama. His goal is to strengthen the UN by making the US subservient to it, doncha know
Prayers up for these liberty-loving freedom fighters. If the Resident calls for harsh sanctions, where will we be protesting?
It is more than an embarrassment that new oil fields off the South America coast are being developed with Communist China's help.
Maybe if we had sent the TRILLIONS of dollars we sent to China south to build factories and buy products things would be somewhat better?
Good for Honduras. To heck with being ordered around by a pack of thugs and despots.
"International Community" is a euphemistic synonym, and barely a euphemism at that, for "Global Communism". AP is working under the pretense that it's already in effect.
It's oxymoronic as meaning anything else but that.
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