U.S. Rep. Roskam in Honduras on fact-finding mission

Miami Daily Herald ^ | October 2, 2009 | Joseph Ryan

[don-o]

U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam was in Honduras Friday to meet with the torn nation's interim president as part of a Republican fact-finding mission that flew in the face of current U.S. foreign policy.

Roskam, as part of a contingent headed by South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, met with interim President Roberto Micheletti. But President Barack Obama's administration is seeking to isolate Micheletti and other architects of the military coup that ousted the nation's president for allegedly trying to defy term limits.

The U.S. and European Union, among many nations around the world, have condemned the ouster of Honduras President Manuel Zelaya and suspended aid to the Central American country. Zelaya is now holed up at a Brazilian Embassy in Honduras and the Obama administration wants to see him reinstalled to finish off the remaining months in his term.

Some Republicans have blasted Obama's stance, saying that support for Zelaya could lead to an expansion of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's socialist programs in Latin America.

[don-o]

Includes some blather from Foggy Bottom

[originalbuckeye]

Hey, Illinoisans, does Roskam have what it takes to move up in politics?

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[NonValueAdded]

Good, I hope these guys come back and talk up a storm. Glad to see DeMint went over the objections of the Gigolo.

[HighlyOpinionated]

This is the ONLY way for the Republicans to find out the truth since they’re not getting it from our Media and definitely not from the White House.

I hope Jim DeMint will get vocal about this when he gets back.

FOX will probably interview him. They’ve had him on before.

[TigersEye]

The SRM continues with its ill-informed propaganda.

[momf]

“military coup that ousted the nation’s president for allegedly trying to defy term limits.”

Guess that’s why there is a joint resolution waiting on the House side. Once the time is right for the resident to move, the Senate can whip one out, both be voted on and, the great one won’t be bothered. Wonder why he didn’t pass that idea on to his friend?

[Jet Jaguar]

US Senator’s spokesman: Honduran leader says civil liberties restored no later than Monday.
AP via Breitbart ^ | October 2, 2009 | N/A
Posted on October 2, 2009 7:50:33 PM EDT by Jet Jaguar

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353820/posts

[normanpubbie]

Boy, that's a great way to find out the facts -- listen to only one side.

Wouldn't it be better to talk both to Zelaya's supporters and the interim government's? Then maybe fact-check each side to see what the truth is?

[livius]

Zelaya was comfortably ensconced here and had ample time to present his case to Congress, and once he was smuggled back into Honduras, in fact continued to broadcast on the radio from the Brazilian embassy, urging Hondurans to turn out in the streets, until they pulled the plug on his station because he was attempting to incite violence. Well, that and his ravings about the Jews blowing poison gas under the door of the embassy...

Zelaya and his “supporters” (by whom I assume you mean Hugo Chavez, the Nicaraguan Marxist president, and the guys wearing the Che Guevara shirts who are throwing rocks at the Honduran army) have talked up a storm and have been the only people listened to by our government. The US has actually ejected Honduran diplomats, including Micheletti’s daughter, rather than listen to them.

So remind me who needs a hearing again?

[TigersEye]

Great sense of fairness you have there. 90% of all reports published about Honduras are heavily distorted in defense of Zelaya and you suggest that his side hasn’t been heard. ROTFLOL You and Mel are a joke.

[don-o]

All I have seen from you in your misplaced defense of Zelaya is a couple of alleged procedural foot faults by the Honduran government.

Who stepped over the line first?

Answer: Your commie cowboy did. He is the one and only cause of this problem and the Hondurans are handling it as well as they can be expected to. Don’t forget the bottom line for them is the denial of any executive to assume unbalanced power,

[normanpubbie]

...a couple of alleged procedural foot faults by the Honduran government

Nope. The instant that the plane carrying Zelaya left Honduran airspace, a violation of the Honduran Constitution (Article 102) and a kidnapping occurred. A crime.

On July 3rd, the Miami Herald published the following statement:

"We know there was a crime there," said Inestroza, the top legal advisor for the Honduran armed forces. ``In the moment that we took him out of the country, in the way that he was taken out, there is a crime. Because of the circumstances of the moment this crime occurred, there is going to be a justification and cause for acquittal that will protect us."

This argument won't wash in any legitimate court, and the officer who ordered the deportation will be charged with a serious crime and will sing like a canary. I expect that he or his superiors will testify that the deportation was authorized by someone on the Supreme Court. And the National Congress leadership will be implicated in the crime, too.

The problem with your analysis is that the Constitution authorizes and is superior to all three government branches, not the other way around.

I'll comment on the other "alleged procedural foot faults" in later posts.

[don-o]

Strain those gnats and swallow that camel