OAS eyes Honduras suspension, but beaten to punch

Associated Press ^ | 49 minutes ago | Associated Press

[fiodora]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Organization of American States is meeting in Washington to consider suspending Honduras' membership because of the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The group's assistant secretary-general, Albert Ramdin, said Zelaya planned to attend Saturday's emergency meeting. Zelaya is expected to address foreign ministers

Ramdin says the OAS does not regard the current Honduran government as legitimate — so it can't withdraw from the OAS.

Ministers agreed Tuesday on a 72-hour ultimatum for the Honduran government to reinstate Zelaya or face an OAS suspension. But Honduras' interim president calls the OAS "a political organization, not a court."

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

[counterpunch]

[FlingWingFlyer]

“You can’t withdraw because we’re going to suspend you!” ROTFLMAO!!! You can’t make this stuff up. What a bunch of buffoons.

[Drango]

If the OAS doesn’t like Honduras’s actions they should declare war on them. Nuke ‘em. Send in the OAS military. Bomb them into submission. /s

[fiodora]

Wow!! They are brothers!!
Do you know if 0bongo Sr. was invited to Venezuela?

[PghBaldy]

OAS has not suspended Venezuela. http://www.oas.org/documents/eng/memberstates.asp?sCode=VEN#Inicio

[NorwegianViking]

Obama is supporting Zelaya, Chavez, Castro, and the Narco-Drug Trade.

[GeronL]

I think the US is a member of the OAS, Obama would love to bomb them I would think

[GeronL]

Honduras has no real military power to speak of. More of a large SWAT team.

[Star Traveler]

“I quit!”

No, you can’t quit; you’re fired!”

LOL...

[apillar]

OHH NO! Not the OAS! Does this mean they won’t get invited to the OAS New Years party?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Talk about do nothing, bloviating hand wringers.

[newfreep]

Oh no....they're on double secret probation!

[realpatriot]

Someone needs to fix this pic. 0 is missing his hammer and sickle (scythe?)

[rawhide]

I agree. Lol! Sorta pops their balloon!!!

[Brad from Tennessee]

Link below to an AP piece that actually tells the full story:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/04/honduras-swift-coup-was-months-in-the-making/

[Oldpuppymax]

Count on the AP for breathtaking bias and thorough misrepresentation of news. Again with the “coup” nonsense.

[Servant of the Cross]

I'm betting that Ramierez had it on the original, or at least a "?", and that a chicken editor deleted it. IBD Cartoon.

[rovenstinez]

POWER to the people of Honduras, to their SOVEREIGNTY and to their Constitution. I hope they realize how important it is they stand together and resist the world opinion...and the OAS.

[Servant of the Cross]

I would love to see some GOP spokesperson(s) call a press conference to support the legal, constitutional government of Honduras. 0bama is an anti-freedom, dictator-loving Marxist. On Independence Day, it would sure be nice to let Honduras know the Fraud does not speak for the real America.

JoSixChip had the brilliant idea that Sarah could make a first trip as an independent citizen to show solidarity and support of the Honduran government to contrast with the Marxist's policy.

[charmedone]

Do those troops hire out? Hmmmmmm?

Just a thought.

[EGPWS]

Obama is supporting Zelaya, Chavez, Castro, and the Narco-Drug Trade.

Color me suprised. /s

[ArmstedFragg]

You gotta love these clowns. They obviously haven’t thought this through to the next step. If the old government’s the only one they recognize, then they’ve just suspended the ‘legitimate’ government. The only way they can suspend the “illegitimate” government would be to admit them so they can be suspended. It just gets sillier and sillier.

[TigersEye]

That is pretty much just pro-chavista propaganda.

[Tzimisce]

Haha!

[DoughtyOne]

You’re fired!

No, I quit!

No, I fired you!

No, I quit!

I said you’re fired!

And I said, I quit...

The OAS, can say what it wants, the government of Honduras is legitimate. In this instance the OAS’ opinion is also legitimate, as even wrong opinions can be. It is still irrelevant. Honduras has dropped out of the OAS, and anything the OAS says is just posturing.

Honduras is a sovereign nation. It has every right to conduct it’s business as it sees fit.

It’s not harming it’s citizens. All is well. Life goes on.

Masterful move Zelaya. You went from president to a man without a country.

[TigersEye]

I agree with all you said except that all is well in Honduras. Nicaragua has closed its border to trading. Venezuela has cut off supplies of refined gasoline and diesel. The World Bank has suspended financial aid. 0bama has threatened to cut off U.S. aid. It is reported that at least a thousand Nicaraguan and Cuban agitators have infiltrated through the Nicaraguan border, with Honduran passports, to stir up pro-Zelaya sentiment. (It was also reported that many had come in before to vote in Zelaya's little referendum.) The UN has stated it will refuse to recognize the current government of Honduras.

The forces are aligning to crush the constitutional government of Honduras.

[HonCitizen]

BREAKING NEWS: we’ve found out that Zelaya conviently shutted douwn our radars allowing Venezuelan flag planes to carry drugs to the US.
ALSO Zelaya spent $80,000 (yes US Dollars) in 5 days!

We are fighting not only for our country, but also to protect the US from harm by drugs, we fight to protect a country that always has made good things for our people.

[DoughtyOne]

I think you make some very powerful points there.

If Honduras is crushed, it will be a real tragedy.

People who think international entanglements are just great, should go to school on this.

International governance, is a threat to more than Honduras.

[DoughtyOne]

With Dictator Zero in charge here, you folks are in a real pickle.

Can’t tell you how angry this makes me.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[That is pretty much just pro-chavista propaganda.]

Mostly, yeah. I should have said “fuller” rather than “full story.” AP went into more detail about the government's justifiable alarm over Zelaya’s actions than previous AP stories. What is described is not a military coup:

“The military on June 28 acted under orders from the Supreme Court and with the support of Congress, which is controlled by Zelaya’s Liberal Party _ though nearly all members had turned against him. Lawmakers unanimously installed congressional leader Roberto Micheletti, who failed to get his party's presidential nomination last fall, as the new head of state the same day.”

From June 28, AP:

“The president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, has been forced into exile after being arrested by a group of soldiers in an apparent military coup. . .More than a dozen soldiers disarmed his security guards after surrounding his residence before dawn.”

[DesertRhino]

Zelaya spent $80,000 (yes US Dollars) in 5 days!

What a piker! If you divide our budget by 365, then by the number of congressmen, it appears the average congressman spends about 23 million per day! Can we get this Zelaya guy to run for US Congress? LOL

[Lexinom]

But Honduras' interim president calls the OAS "a political organization, not a court."

Darn straight! They are acting more like a sovereign government.

Please leave a comment on this Honduran mission blog, and commit to prayer and fasting tomorrow for the Honduran people.

[TigersEye]

OK. Just making sure that you and everyone else knows that there are less biased and more accurate accounts out there. You are correct that is a fuller story than most.

[rockinqsranch]

Wondering if the Leftist net is closing around Honduras in this fashion, what is being prepared for us when we fight for our Sovereignty?

[TigersEye]

I know what you're looking for.

Dirty pols bought dirt cheap. ;^)

[TigersEye]

We're already in such a world of trouble. Honduras had a congress willing to uphold the rule of law over any self interests each legislator might have had. Including the courage to face the sanctions now being brought against the whole country. That could play havoc on their political careers even though they did the right thing.

They also had a SC with integrity. We might. But I did have to use the word 'might.'

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related article:

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Obama in his youth reveals his core beliefs......

[2harddrive]

Good for YOU, Honduras! Stand UP to the cowardly OAS and the stinking UN!

[wbones8765]

I am with Honduras and against dictators!!!

[HamiltonJay]

WHY IS AN IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL BEING PORTRAYED AS A MILITARY COUP????

This is rediculous.

[demshateGod]

Do you think Honduras would let us move there?

[genetic homophobe]

You meant to start with “I quit”

[DoughtyOne]

Perhaps that would have been better. My intention was merely to provide a silly example that most people would identify with, that showed how silly the OAS is being.

[cookcounty]

Obama gave the green light to A-jad at Cairo. Now he’s givenChavez the green light to invade Honduras, which he has the capability to do.

[tubebender]

Now that is down right scary...

[Rome2000]

I have a buddy that fled here from South Africa when that all went to hell.

He said there isn't a single country on the African continent that's run competently, and now we are pretty much in the same boat.

The United States of America is being led by an marxist african cryptyo-muslim.

Thanks Abe.

[Rome2000]

I would love to see some GOP spokesperson(s) call a press conference to support the legal, constitutional government of Honduras.

That would require a set of balls.

Not to many GOP'ers in possession of those.

[SouthTexas]

Uh, yeah.