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There was NO "Coup" in Honduras; The Constitution was Upheld
June 29 2009 | vanity

Posted on 06/29/2009 10:15:50 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45

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1 posted on 06/29/2009 10:15:51 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Para-Ord.45

Makes sense the way ozero’s media is reporting that this was a “coup”. The Honduran president was ignoring their constitution and the people were enforcing the law. Ozero doesn’t agree with that. Wonder why?


2 posted on 06/29/2009 11:56:35 AM PDT by Texas resident
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To: Para-Ord.45

0buma thinks otherwise.


3 posted on 06/29/2009 11:58:22 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Para-Ord.45

I wish our military would............Oh never mind. What’s the point?


4 posted on 06/29/2009 11:59:21 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support The American Tea Party)
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To: Para-Ord.45

-Article 42 strips citizenship rights from those who call for the re-election or continuing (beyond the term) of the President of the Republic.

- Article 239 not only prohibits the re-election of a President of the Republic, but calls for the immediate removal from public office and disqualification from any political office for 10 years any person who calls for a change in that prohibition.

- Article 373 gives the power to amend the Constitution solely to the National Congress, with no role for any “referendum”.

- Article 374 prohibits any amendments to the prohibition of a multi-term President of the Republic.


5 posted on 06/29/2009 11:59:29 AM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Of course Obortion sides with Zelaya, as one dictator to another. Obortion would like very much to try what Zelaya tried.


6 posted on 06/29/2009 12:05:16 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Thanks.... I’ll keep watching to see that side of the story told... maybe, in the WSJ.

Figures Zero would be all about saving this guy.


7 posted on 06/29/2009 12:15:02 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: Para-Ord.45

Zelaya wanted to trample on the Constitution and declare himself president for life. Gee, I wonder why Hussein supports him?


8 posted on 06/29/2009 12:22:18 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Oldpuppymax

bump


9 posted on 06/29/2009 12:39:23 PM PDT by Billg64 (It is my belief that this is our last opportunity to peacefully protect our republic.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
Here is some more news our State Run Media is filtering out.

Honduras Defends Its Democracy

Honduras Crisis: Zelaya Is A Threat To Our Democracy

10 posted on 06/29/2009 12:46:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

He sees himself.

A Marxist who arrogates power despite the Constitutional limits on his power.


11 posted on 06/29/2009 12:47:17 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: DogBarkTree
I wish our military would............Oh never mind. What’s the point?

Our military would if given a lawful Constitutionally sound order after our Congress followed due process of law and voted to impeach and remove the usurper. That's how it was done in Honduras and they deserve a big round of applause for standing strong on the rule of law in a very bad situation.

There was no extra-legal military coup in Honduras and we shouldn't be hoping for one here.

12 posted on 06/29/2009 12:51:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Oldpuppymax
Zelaya wanted to trample on the Constitution and declare himself president for life. Gee, I wonder why Hussein supports him?

Because 0bama wants to do the same thing in 2016.

13 posted on 06/29/2009 12:58:11 PM PDT by Aroostook25
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To: Para-Ord.45
broke into the military installation

I've noticed such is the precipitating event for a great many conflicts: everything is just hot air until someone unauthorized sets foot on a military base and makes a fuss about being removed - and the subsequent festivites all are rooted in that event, regardless of rhetoric. Our own Civil War, AFAIK, occurred when Fort Sumter was attacked, overrun, and not returned to the Union; all subsequent activites of the war can be traced back to that point (had it been returned and secession otherwise continued, we may very well be two countries now).

Methinks if Mr. Zelaya had just kept his cronies out of the military base he might have pulled off a repeat of Chavez.

14 posted on 06/29/2009 12:58:37 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: Mount Athos

Looks iron-clad to me...so what is Obamao’s problem ?


15 posted on 06/29/2009 2:54:18 PM PDT by oblomov (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
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To: Para-Ord.45
I have a problem with the original post. You excerpted an article by Mary Anastasia O'Grady without attributing it to her. At least Scott Johnson linked her article when he discussed what happened. Here is the link to the O'Grady article.

I also have a problem with the process that occurred. According O'Grady's account, here is what happened:
  1. Zelaya called for a refendum to allow him to serve another term. This is specifically prohibited by the Honduras constitution.
  2. The Supreme Court ruled his action illegal. Chavez of Venezuela printed ballots and shipped them to Zelaya's people. The Supreme Court declared this unconstitutional.
  3. The military refused to distribute the ballots so Zelaya fired the head of the military, Velasquez.
  4. The Supreme Court ordered Velasquez reinstated which Zelaya refused to do.
  5. Zelaya's people distributed the illicit ballots to the voters.
  6. The Attorney General vowed to prosecute anyone involved in carrying out the referendum.
Here is the part that O'Grady, Scott Johnson, and you left out: Next the military arrested Zelaya. There is no mention of the Attorney General filing charges, Zelaya appealing them, and losing the appeal before arrest. The soldiers just arrested him. As O'Grady wrote,

...the military was acting on a court order to defend the rule of law.

Did the Supreme Court issue an arrest warrant? I doubt it. This was a military coup, pure and simple. It is doubtless illegal and unconstitutional.

Yes, Zelaya is a fascist thug (and an all-around b*stard) and broke the law, but that doesn't justify some else breaking the law, even if you and I think he deserved what he got.

It pains me to agree with Obama on anything, but IMHO he's right here.
16 posted on 06/29/2009 3:03:11 PM PDT by normanpubbie
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That`s great except the military isn`t interested in power.

If they were then Roberto Micheletti, leader of the Congress and constitutional successor to the president would not have been declared President by the Congress.


17 posted on 06/29/2009 3:24:40 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: normanpubbie

Picked this up:

Speaking via telephone from his home in Tegucigalpa on Monday, interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti again defended the actions of Honduran military officials in booting President Manuel Zelaya from power.

‘’We can’t allow that this government take us to communism or socialism,’’

... The attorney general and the Supreme Court declared the poll illegal

...Micheletti, a member of Zelaya’s party, had denied that a military coup had taken place to remove Zelaya from office.

...President Zelaya and the military were part of a strict chain of command that dissolved when the president attempted to violate the Constituion,’’ said Micheletti.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/70966.html


18 posted on 06/29/2009 3:35:07 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Para-Ord.45

Micheletti will remain in office until he does something that displeases the military’s puppetmaster. Then the generals will arrest and depose him just as they did Zelaya — regardless of what the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Attorney General think.


19 posted on 06/29/2009 4:48:16 PM PDT by normanpubbie
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To: normanpubbie

LOL

ooohhh kaaayyy,

“I`m due back on planet Earth now” see ya,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPcSd7DDLk


20 posted on 06/29/2009 4:54:39 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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