Zelaya in the middle, flanked by Raul Castro and some a** from Venezuela.
Posted on 07/06/2009 6:06:54 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Hundreds of emails from Hondurans flooded my in-box last week after I reported on the military's arrest of President Manuel Zelaya, as ordered by the Supreme Court, and his subsequent banishment from the country.
Mr. Zelaya's violations of the rule of law in recent months were numerous. But the tipping point came 10 days ago, when he led a violent mob that stormed a military base to seize and distribute Venezuelan-printed ballots for an illegal referendum.
All but a handful of my letters pleaded for international understanding of the threat to the constitutional democracy that Mr. Zelaya presented. One phrase occurred again and again: "Please pray for us."
Hondurans have good cause for calling on divine intervention: Reason has gone AWOL in places like Turtle Bay and Foggy Bottom. Ruling the debate on Mr. Zelaya's behavior is Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez, who is now the reigning international authority on "democracy."
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Makes me think of the phrase (very real this time) of "Dude, where's my country?!"
Zelaya in the middle, flanked by Raul Castro and some a** from Venezuela.
Below is the email message I sent to my friends to get them up to speed on the Honduras situation. I encourage every FReeper to email commentaries to their friends in addition to our regular day job of posting and commenting on stories at FR.
“Up to last week I certainly had no knowledge of the politics in Honduras. Since then it seems pretty clear the Hondurans did the right thing by ousting Zelaya. But it must not be very clear to the leftists who occupy the White House and the State Department and the UN as they promote Zelaya and potential internal strife in Honduras.
The Wall Street Journal writes this story this morning.”
I'm sorry. You must delete the above statement and remove it from all memory. It is not to be released to the general public. No one is allowed to know that. The little people are not allowed to know the truth. We all must await the Word from our Leader, zero. . . zero. . . zero.
/sarc
“This has ALL the makings of Sandinista power grab tactics in Nicaragua, complete with violent street mobs during elections they called “turbas” back then. You see also these mobs as “Chavistas” in Venezuela, and even as A.C.O.R.N. thugs in our own United States. “
NAILED!
No, that’s Ortega in the middle with his arm around Zalaya on the left, and THugo on the right in the black shirt holding uplifted hands with Ortega.
The only one missing in this band of communist thugs is Zer0.
We are becoming the festering mud hole in the swamp of totalitarianism.
Zero’s there, he’s just working hard to maintain invisibility.
IMO, anybody who doesn’t think Bambi was behind this whole Honduran farce this weekend needs a reality check. But he has definitely tried to sink into invisibility on it.
Neither the UN nor the OAS would have done a thing without the go-ahead from Obama, who is conveniently out of the country in a situation where he won’t be asked to comment on it at the moment (after his disastrous comments essentially backing up Chavez just hours hours after Zelaya was ejected).
We have a military base there and a mutual protection treaty, so unless the Zelaya people had Obama’s assurance that our military would not respond, they would never have even pretended to attempt that landing. Bambi’s marks are all over this Honduran crisis.
No, he had it right. Zeleya in middle.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get the article to load when I try to click through.
Mary Anastasia O’Grady is just about the only good writer on Latin America, so I hope I’ll be able to get it to come up later. (Maybe everybody’s reading it and the site’s overloaded...I hope!)
Wow, Zelaya’s a dead ringer for Ortega.
And in his appearance, too.
:)
I’m still waiting to see just how Chavez is going to invade Honduras. It sure as hell ain’t going to be through Columbia.
Does the Venezuelan Navy have an amphibious capability? Does the Venezuelan Navy have any capability?
Short of that, I don’t think international garment-rending and finger-wagging by the world’s Radical Chic is going to have much effect.
Will Baltazar Garzon decide to prefer charges?
LOL! Poor Baltazar must be bored now that even the Spanish court remembered that it was not the "Audiencia Internacional," but the "Audiencia Nacional," and therefore they could not go after the Israelis...
Invading through Columbia would be a very circuitous route. Going through Colombia would be a bit more direct.
I knew the UN was corrupt and supported tyrants. Now I can add my country.
They’ve both got that “dictator” look, with the Saddam-like mustache, but that is indeed Zelaya, not Daniel Ortega.
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