Posted on 09/29/2009 3:23:06 AM PDT by don-o
Honduras' ousted president addressed the United Nations General Assembly by cellular phone late Monday from the Brazilian embassy in his country where he is holed up, calling on the world body to guarantee his personal safety and turn back the "dictatorship" that has taken power.
"Those who still harbored any doubt that a dictatorship has been installed here can lay those doubts to rest," Manuel Zelaya said via a telephone brought to the General Assembly podium by his foreign minister, Patricia Rodas. "This is a fascist dictatorship that has repressed the Honduran people."
Zelaya sought refuge at the Brazilian Embassy on Sept. 21, after slipping back into his country.
He urged the U.N. to adopt a "firm position" against the "barbarism" of the government that deposed him in a June military coup, speaking for several minutes and drawing sustained applause from assembled diplomats, some of whom stood.
Rodas then spoke for about half an hour, saying "our president is under siege by military forces."
"He is being threatened constantly," she said. "Every minute, every second, there could come to pass a tragic event that would bring history to a standstill."
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The Israeli mercs are still after him then?
This guy is just plain old nuts.
The pot calling the kettle black.
A Democracy removed this POS because he wished to become a dictator.
Yes, this guy is nuts and if the Israelis were involved, his cell phone would have been jamed. The Honduran government needs to stop this grandstanding and cut off all communication with the Embassy. They are allowing Zelaya and his allies to stage manage events for the eager consumption of Marxists everywhere.
Time to really take out the trash.
A President that doesn't control his nation's military is no President at all.
Do you mean Zelaya? Or Obama?
Hello? Can you hear me now?
Hoped it wasn’t on a Verizon phone and the call was lost, sort of like Mel is.
What a kook!!!!
“Time to really take out the trash.”
Zelaya or Obama?
“Come and see the violence inherent in the system”
It’d apply to every leader anywhere.
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