FYI
Link to the Library of Congress report.
http://media.sfexaminer.com/documents/2009-002965HNRPT.pdf
Removing him from office was legal. Exiling him probably was not. He ought to have had his day in court.
He can still have it. All he has to do is step outside the embassy. Its easy. Open the door. Walk outside.
And he is in opposition to Obama, Hence, he is a racist.
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Civil war will result in anarchy and anarchy will result in a leftist rule imposed on the otherwise freedom loving Hondurans. So much for democracy (representative republic) in Central America, at least as far as Honduras is concerned.
Certainly anyone with a heart for liberty and rule of law wants peace and stability, but the ouster of a up and coming dictator was, is and will always be legitimate under Honduran law and constitutional process; certainly the Honduran interim government should have arrested and jailed Zeyala prior to giving him a fair trail in front of a jury of peers rather than tossing him to like-minded leftist poseurs.
I said as much back in July.
The sad thing is many of our elected officials are condemning every aspect of the removal of Zeyala-up to and including categorizing the events as a “military coup”. Very few have condemned the actions of Zeyala....
God Bless freedom loving peoples everywhere!
Of course hs deporation was not. However, Honduras probably felt it was better for all if he were expelled instead of staying and fomenting a street revolution.
They'd deal with the legalities of it later, but at least they kept the peace.
-PJ
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So he’s back in the country, thus the deportation issue is moot. The government should apologize for deporting him, reimburse his travel expenses, then indict the SOB. Whereupon, of course, if he wasn’t in the embassy, he’d deport himself to avoid prosecution.
There’s sort of an object lesson here on the perils of being a nice guy. They should have just jailed him in the first place. Essentially, you’d end up with the current circumstance, but without the speeches.
Glenn Reynolds today has an interesting link...
bump for future read