Posted on 07/05/2009 9:06:49 PM PDT by tenger
Do you have a basic grasp on what is happening in Honduras right now? A Daily Poll.
Most Definitely
Only six votes so far, but all six of us have a basic idea of the situation in Honduras! Must all be FReepers or something...
I know these things to be true:
-Michael Jackson might still be dead
-the libs hate and are afraid to death of Palin
-the Obamas are mentally ill
-about 20 minutes from now, I will be eating a steak dinner....
Better than most. Is Honduras even being covered by anyone but kinda-sorta Fox News?
BTW Michael Jackson is still dead.
A poor, tiny country attempting to defend its constution from a puppet of Hugo Chavez.
waiting for the results and waiting and waiting
I’m trying to post on the not-so-conservative sites but keep getting tossed. Any ideas?
Michael Jackson’s dead? Oh my gawd! When did this happen? Why hasn’t the news media covered this story? Wow!
Who’s view am I voting on when I say yes? The truth or the MSM drivel.
I am seeing coverage that is pro Zelaya without too much effort to explain why he is not being permitted back into the country.
There is a central theme between the Messiah’s pronouncements regarding the situations in Honduras and Iran. The One favors continued repression. He doesn’t want to give freedom a chance. He looks at the U.S. as a harder nut to crack but with the aid of his friends, like ACORN, he thinks he can make strategic attacks on the underpinnings of our free society. He hopes it will eventually crumble and descend into chaos - his HOPE. Then it will CHANGE.
When Prime Minister Thaksin of Thailand was removed from office by the military in 2006, the MSM didn’t give much airplay to the motives of those involved—that he had broken the law, undermined the constitution and trying to install himself as dictator-in-chief. The reports were exclusively about his being ousted by a “military coup.” Sometimes the military is on the side of the angels, but if you want the world press to be on your side, you have to take pains to show that the process of removal was done fairly and constitutionally.
The only way to do that is to make your proceedings open to the public, as ours were for the impeachment of Clinton. Later Zelaya’s opponents would say all was done legally, with the Congress voting to remove him and the Supreme Court convicting him, but why was the world denied the privilege of seeing the Congressional debate and the vote. There’s been no record of who voted for his impeachment in Congress and there was no mention of a trial by the Supreme Court until after he was removed. This is not how you win the international support. His impeachment by Congress and his trial by the Supreme Court should have been public events in order to avoid the taint of a “coup”, especially since he was spirited out of the country by the military at gunpoint, which is standard third world behavior in a military coup.
In a perfect world, this would have been the case.
The point is, there is not a lot of information in any of the media about the ongoing situation.
You think you have a basic grasp of what happened in Thailand and Honduras,
I think you are mistaken on both counts.
Strange yes or no question when there are two sides to the story.
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