Honduras to restore liberties; standoff at protest

AP via Yahoo ^ | 9/28/2009 | Mark Stevenson

[normanpubbie]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down Monday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by the end of the week.

Riot police ringed supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya who gathered for a large-scale protest march, setting off a daylong standoff. The government of interim President Roberto Micheletti declared the march illegal, sent soldiers to silence dissident broadcasters, and suspended civil liberties for 45 days.

But in a sudden reversal, Micheletti said Monday afternoon that he wanted to "ask the Honduran people for forgiveness" for the measures and said he would lift them in accordance with demands from the same Congress that installed him after a June 28 coup. He said he would discuss lifting the measures with court officials "as soon as possible," adding: "By the end of this week we'll have this resolved."

[normanpubbie]

This is the AP report that Google has repeatedly posted for a few minutes, then down the memory hole all evening.

[HiTech RedNeck]

When will the MSM cut out this chicken “coup”

[FlingWingFlyer]

...coup-installed...

This is why no one takes the state run, MSM seriously anymore. The morons writing the garbage for the "media" are clueless.

[La Lydia]

They think we are even more clueless, and are deluded enough to think we have no other way of getting information. Given the technology and options we have today, anyone who depends solely on AP (or the networks, or the major metropolitan fish-wraps) is too stupid to survive for very long.

[rockinqsranch]

“When will the MSM cut out this chicken “coup””

They won’t. The Commie’s have the WH, The Dem Party, WIP on the Republican Party, The MSM, and they are so enjoying frolicking with the Commies and despots of the World, and piling on little Honduras.

To them it’s better than sex.

[FlingWingFlyer]

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).

[dynamitehack]

You really have to search for information regarding this story.
Ran across this blog from an ex-pat living in Honduras...pretty good stuff.

La Gringa's Blogicito

I feel bad for these people hoping for help from our inept government. I pray we are not the cause of the loss of their democracy.

Cheers!

'Hack

[Frank_2001]

Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until 2012 to get OUR liberties restored;)

[Yardstick]

The AP seems determined to make “coup” as meaningless as “racist”.

[ArmstedFragg]

Micheletti accomplished what he needed to. Zelaya had declared today to be the “final offensive”. By Friday, it'll have mostly blown over.

[HonCitizen]

I agree

[jiggyboy]

“interim President Roberto Micheletti”? Excuse me? Could their bias based on wishful thinking be any more clear?

[TigersEye]

ping

[TigersEye]

The increasingly authoritarian measures by the government had prompted international condemnation,...

That is a complete load of dog poo. The whole thing is yellow journalism, the de jure journalism of the day, but that line really stinks.

[TigersEye]

Actually I think that is one statement they got right. Roberto Micheletti is the interim President. It’s about the only statement they got right though.

[HonCitizen]

what i can say is that many people are happy with the closing of the channel 36.

they had “breaking news” all day and seemed delighted if those news were against the people or govt.

[TigersEye]

There is a little bit of truth in the article if you can sift through the main propaganda message. There is mention that some media and demonstrations were shut down to prevent incitement. If you read between the lines of other remarks it is clear that Zelaya's supporters intend to create as much disruption as possible to put the upcoming election in a bad light.

If they can provoke the government into curfews and other security measures they will then say the election had no credibility. If the government doesn't use security measures the communistas will terrorize citizens and scare them into staying away from the polls.

Here is a great documentary report that shows just how violent these leftists have already been towards other citizens. It is a first class effort of documentary reporting. 24 minutes and well worth the time to watch.

Obama and Chavez and Castro, Oh My. The Truth About the Honduran Coup & Our President's Wrong Move

[don-o]

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[GregB]

They get their daily orders from obama better watch what I say they are reading us!!!Kiss my grits!!!

[Texas Fossil]

AP = Always Propaganda

[infowarrior]

interim President Roberto Micheletti”? Excuse me?

What else could you logically label him? He *is* interim, between the time that adherence to the Honduran Constitution required the removal of Zalaya, and the elections to be held in November...

the infowarrior

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Pretty much the entire Honduran government — Supreme Court, Congress, Attorney General, etc — agreed that Zelaya’s actions warranted constitutional removal from office, and they did so.

Doesn’t matter. It’s still a coup. Nyaah.

By this logic, if the impeachment of Clinton had resulted in a conviction and removal, that would have been called a coup as well.

Come to think of it, I think I remember Clinton’s supporters calling it just that.

[normanpubbie]

Presidential terms in Honduras run from January 27 every fourth year to January 27th four years later. For this cyle, Zelaya became President on January 27, 2006 and the new president will enter office on January 27, 2010. So even though the election is scheduled for November 29, Micheletti will remain interim President until next January.

Of course, the Micheletti regime hasn't been real good at adhering to the Constitution. They deported Zelaya in violation of Article 102 and just this past Sunday they suspended several Constitutional articles.

Heck, they could suspend the election and declare someone President for Life and that would apparently be OK with most of the people commenting here.

Because Zelaya is a Communist /sarcasm.