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Honduras, What The Media Doesn't Tell You About the "Coup"
WSJ/The Lid ^ | 7/1/09 | The Lid

Posted on 07/01/2009 5:02:28 PM PDT by Shellybenoit

The headlines were bold, "Military Coup in Honduras" and the stories told about the evil Honduras military swiping power from the democratically elected president. Even the President of the United States angrily rebuked the power grab. This tale told in most of the mainstream media has very little to do with what actually happened in Honduras.

Truth be told, President Manuel Zelaya was trying to use his friend Hugo Chávez's methods of bullying through the law in order to retain power. Honduras’s military acted under judicial orders in deposing the President according to Supreme Court Justice Rosalinda Cruz said:

“The only thing the armed forces did was carry out an arrest order,” Cruz, 55, said in a telephone interview from the capital, Tegucigalpa. “There’s no doubt he was preparing his own coup by conspiring to shut down the congress and courts.”

Cruz said the court issued a sealed arrest order for Zelaya on June 26, charging him with treason and abuse of power, among other offenses. Zelaya had repeatedly breached the constitution by pushing ahead with a vote about rewriting the nation’s charter that the court ruled illegal, and which opponents contend would have paved the way for a prohibited second term. source

The military immediately turned power back to the people and the congress replaced Zelaya with someone from the same party as the deposed president, no coup, just the prevention of a coup. This was a unanimous move by the Supreme Court of Honduras to preserve the nations democracy. Regrettably, America's President is so wrapped up in his desire to make nice to people like Hugo Chavez, that refuses to acknowledge Honduras' fight to stay free:

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: chavez; honduras; obama; zelaya

1 posted on 07/01/2009 5:02:28 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

The occupant of the White House says that “this will set a terrible precedent”....


2 posted on 07/01/2009 5:04:54 PM PDT by SandWMan (Even if you can't legislate morality, you can legislate morally.)
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To: SandWMan

Irony.

Barry is worried that what happened in Honduras may happen to him, hence his rhetorical “this will set a terrible precedent”....


3 posted on 07/01/2009 5:07:07 PM PDT by cranked
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To: SandWMan

Sort of like...voting on bills that aren’t written?


4 posted on 07/01/2009 5:11:10 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: Shellybenoit
Regrettably, America's President is so wrapped up in his desire to make nice to people like Hugo Chavez, that refuses to acknowledge Honduras' fight to stay free

That, plus he's dumb as a rock.

5 posted on 07/01/2009 5:11:54 PM PDT by Grim
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To: SandWMan

He can imagine himself in the same position! Too bad SCOTUS isn’t eager to enforce our Constitution. They seem to think it is printed on rubber!


6 posted on 07/01/2009 5:20:11 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: cranked

Snippet from press media in Canada!

I would like to see the U.S. Armed Forces engaged in a similar action here!!

“Behold the man. Behold the coward.

By contrast when Honduras’ legislature and supreme court acted to remove President Manuel Zelaya, a close ally of Chavez, who had fired the head of the army and attempted to stage a coup by violating the Constitution, Obama and his people have been working around the clock to restore Zelaya to power, even while stating that they want the whole thing to be “free from external influence and interference” (the hypocrisy on that line alone is almost enough to choke even Chavez himself). The question is why?

But of course it’s not that difficult of a question. Not when you think like a coward. Not when you think like Obama. Why wouldn’t Obama panic at the sight of a Congress and Supreme Court removing a left wing Socialist President who violated the Constitution in pushing to make himself el-presidente for life, by violating term limits. Let alone the military dumping said President across border.

Obama no doubt has nightmares of waking up on a C-31 transport to Kenya, after enough of his wrongdoing leads him to being booted out of the White House by what remains of the American legislative and judicial infrastructure.

Today Manuel “ALBA” Zelaya. Tomorrow it could be Barry “Hussein” Obama. And Barry knows better than anyone else the full catalog of lies, crimes and scandals brewing beneath his regime. Obama’s rise to power has been part of an American hemisphere trend that covers the likes of Chavez, Zelaya, Correa, Silva and even the return of Kerry’s old buddy, Ortega, to power in Nicaragua. What all of them have in common with Obama is a left wing socialist agenda that ignores the rule of law. An attack against Zelaya, could in Obama’s mind be seen an attack against him equally.

If the rollback of socialist tyranny begins in Honduras, it might spread. If Brazil, Venezeula and Ecuador follow— might not the democractic revolution spread to America as well, and make the Prince of Chicago’s throne shakier than ever?

That is how a coward thinks, and Obama is nothing if not a coward. And like all cowards, he knows how little he deserves what he has, and how easy it would be for him to lose it all. A gang of greedy and deluded followers, and a nationwide 24/7 propaganda blitz can only do so much. After all there isn’t a socialist tyrant in the hemisphere who hasn’t had the same thing. And yet the latest of them is enjoying a well deserved vacation in Venezuela. A profile in cowardice. A liar and a manipulator who serves his own ends first and his host country’s, last.

Heavy hangs the head that wears the ill-gotten crown. From one corner of the globe to another, Obama flits back and forth, delivering speeches and posing for photos. Like a rat rubbing against a rosebush, hoping some of the loose petals will attach themselves to him so that he can appear more like a rosebush and less like a rat, Obama hopes that going through the motions of being a world leader will actually get people to confuse him with a world leader.

Yet his mumbling silence on Iran speaks far more eloquently about the sort of man Obama is, than all his scripted speeches ever could. Obama has been compared to JFK, but what he represents is no profile in courage, but a profile in cowardice. A liar and a manipulator who serves his own ends first and his host country’s, last. Who proclaims, Ask not what I can do for your country, Ask what your country can do for me. And above all else, a craven coward.”

How come we always get such from foreign countries’ media and not from the Slimes, Compost or LA Slimes??? Those medias are more involved in who got the death-story of M.J. first than real issues as mentioned above. The U.S. journalism died long ago. I like the “C-31”!!!


7 posted on 07/01/2009 5:25:19 PM PDT by danamco
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To: Shellybenoit
Skip the State Run Media. Find your own news.

Honduras Defends Its Democracy

Honduras Crisis: Zelaya Is A Threat To Our Democracy

Coup Rocks Honduras

Coup in Honduras - Correction: This is NOT a coup

Honduras Natives Say Democracy Preserved

Supporters of Zelaya.


Supporters of Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya shout slogans outside the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, June 25, 2009. President Zelaya's attempt to hold a referendum Sunday on changing the constitution has pitted him against the country's top courts, the attorney general, military leaders and even his own party, all of whom argue the vote is illegal.(Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Supporters of Honduran rule of law.


Demonstrators opposed to Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, protest in Tegucigalpa, Friday, June 26, 2009. President Manuel Zelaya is promoting a Sunday referendum on constitutional changes that has plunged the country into crisis by setting the president at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature that have branded the vote illegal.


A man holds a constitution of Honduras as demonstrators opposed to Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, protest in Tegucigalpa, Friday, June 26, 2009. President Manuel Zelaya is promoting a Sunday referendum on constitutional changes that has plunged the country into crisis by setting the president at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature that have branded the vote illegal. (Photo/Esteban Felix)


Students wearing gags on their mouths protest against Honduras President Manuel Zelaya outside the Venezuelan embassy in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, June 25, 2009. President Zelaya's attempt to hold a referendum on reforming the constitution has pitted him against the country's top courts, the attorney general, military leaders and even his own party, all of whom argue the vote is illegal. (Photo/Fernando Antonio)

My thanks to Rome2000 and cripplecreek for finding and posting these photos on this thread.

8 posted on 07/01/2009 5:49:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Shellybenoit
Yet the stolen election in Iran was a far clearer subversion of democracy than the coup in Honduras.

Why did that statement even need to be included? So far not one shred of evidence has been published anywhere that even hints at any irregularity in the ouster of Manuel Zelaya.

9 posted on 07/01/2009 6:11:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: danamco

Why don’t you post that as a thread? That is an amazing bit of editorial work you’ve found! Canada Free Press?


10 posted on 07/01/2009 6:58:07 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: TigersEye

I think it may have been a poorly worded attempt to state the facts of the case in Iran - “stolen election” - are much simpler and more succinct than those in the legal removal from office of former President Mel Zelaya. That’s a charitable interpretation, anyway.


11 posted on 07/01/2009 7:02:18 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom
I guess I'm just not feeling as charitable as you are given the difficulty of finding articles written with a modicum of intellectual honesty, integrity and factual basis. When one finally comes along that fits most of that bill it chafes to read a careless statement like that.

I applaud your sense of fairness.

12 posted on 07/01/2009 7:52:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

Our very own Constitutional Professor disagrees with a guy that is holding a constitution as a protest?

That is a classic, thanks.


13 posted on 07/01/2009 9:20:27 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Fitzy_888
Remember, 0bama says Zelaya must be re-installed to preserve democracy. He said nothing about observing the rule of law which is what a constitution is about.

Slick Willie never parsed so well.

14 posted on 07/01/2009 9:31:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Shellybenoit; All
All you need to know...


15 posted on 07/02/2009 1:48:57 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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