Secretary: Soldiers arrest Honduran president

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - More than a dozen soldiers arrested President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security guards after surrounding his residence before dawn Sunday, his private secretary said. Protesters called it a coup and flocked to the presidential palace as local news media reported that Zelaya was sent into exile.

The chief executive was detained shortly before voting was to begin on a constitutional referendum the president had insisted on holding even though the Supreme Court ruled it illegal and everyone from the military to Congress and members of his own party opposed it.

Zelaya was taken into military custody at his house outside the capital, Tegucigalpa, and whisked away to an air force base on the outskirts of the city, his private secretary, Carlos Enrique Reina told The Associated Press.

Tanks rolled through the streets and Army trucks carrying hundreds of soldiers equipped with metal riot shields surrounded the presidential palace in the capital's center. About 100 Zelaya supporters, many wearing "Yes," T-shirts for the referendum, blocked the main street outside the gates to the palace, throwing rocks and insults at soldiers and shouting "Traitors! Traitors!"

It was not immediately clear who was running the government. Soldiers appeared to be in control, but the constitution mandates that the head of Congress is next in line to the presidency, followed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

My guess what “The One” will say: I am disappointed, feel bad, want the problem solved, want the Hondurans to decide, do not want violence, hope it will be solved peacefully, hey - everyone come to my house for fourth of July, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. The gutless wonder on display again.

“The chief executive was detained shortly before voting was to begin on a constitutional referendum the president had insisted on holding even though the Supreme Court ruled it illegal and everyone from the military to Congress and members of his own party opposed it.”

Good for the Hondurans. Now, if the rest of Central America and Mexico would do the same, they might actually get somewhere, besides to the USA!

The NAFBPO foreign news report often reports the problems in Hondurus.

“El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 6/9/09

There were thirteen homicides in Honduras in less than 24 hours. The article’s sub-headline reads: The wave of violence keeps hitting the people, overwhelming the operations of the National Police due to the lack of a policy to fight against insecurity.” The paper also printed the following commentary from one of its readers: “Hurrah, Security Minister, golly, you want to beat the record with your ineptitude, what’s your goal? 50 deaths in 24 hours? Hopefully one of those deaths will be you or someone from your family, so that you’ll know how it feels to lose a loved one because of crime, you inept, useless, do-nothing you, you don’t even stop anything, to say nothing of criminals, do us a favor and shoot yourself.” (Honduras is just slightly larger than Tennessee)”

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Refusing to step aside after losing the election or several other assaults on the Constitution.

I think nobama has come to realize this distinct possibility and has had to scale back some of his anti-liberty plans, realizing the US Mil swears allegiance to the CONSTITUTION not to the President.

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