Posted on 06/28/2009 10:26:24 PM PDT by trumandogz
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — With their condemnation on Sunday of the coup ousting President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, governments in the Western Hemisphere from across the ideological spectrum found a rare issue around which they could swiftly arrive at unity.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I’m not unified. I’m glad they tossed the Marxist sonofabitch out.
Zelaya is a communist tyrant who tried to force his dictatorship on his country, just like Chavez in Venezuela. He should be in jail.
I thought Pres--ent Ubama ushered in an era of perpetual unity the world over.
We weren't hoodwinked were we?
Sounds like all of the Marxists and Communists in the Western Hemisphere are “united” right now. Well good for them.
I can’t believe Uribe in Colombia would side with the thug Zelaya. Is this NY Slimes report accurate? [snort...]
Colombia, the America’s most conservative government is opposed to the coup and does not plan to recognize the new government in Tegucigalpa.
And BTW-Uribe in Colombia is also pushing to modify the constitution to avert term limits.
Uribe has worked a miracle in Colombia. I saw that nation decline to near illegitimacy from the 1960’s into this century and now Colombia is doing great economically, politically and socially.
But then again: it is the New York Times.
However, I know that whenever a Communist dictator, and a Fascist dictator are on the same side, we should clearly know we have no agreement with them what so ever!
Makes one think that Obama must be fearful that the same plight awaits him as well.
The concern is that the governments/despots in question fear that their militaries will get the same idea and push them out. Can Chavez really trust his own military? Can the Columbian’s?
Our own military swears to defend and protect the constitution; if Obama were to push to act unconstitutionally, could he depend on them to support him?
Thus we have the real concern; that what the military does in Honduras, the militaries of disparate contries will do in the rest of South America!
There seems to be a lot of that going around.
From what I’ve read about Zelaya, it appears that Obama wouldn’t support his ouster from office because ideologically they are much the same.
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According to the WSJ, his removal was proper under the current constitution, which was written in 1982. Leftists of all stripes hate the constitution because it traces to the Reagan era and established a republic (representative democracy) with three branches operating under a separation of powers. Zelaya was attempting unlawfully to circumvent the constitution by doing an end run around the lawfully elected Honduran legislature and appealing directly to the “people” (actually the unions and other Marxist groups) to get their “permission” to rewrite the constitution to replace the republican form of government with a “democracy” that would allow him to serve as president for life. All evidence suggests the Honduran legislature and supreme court complied with the Honduran constitution to prevent this coup by Zelaya.
Thanks for that link. It seems this has been festering for a while. You’re right, this wasn’t a military coup. It was more like Zelaya throwing the constitutional process out the window while everyone else in the government decided not to go along with him.
What happened in Honduras is what will happen here if the socialists keep pissing on the Constitution, and that's why they and their propagandists in the press are all up in arms.
I feel as though we are watching our own future unfold before our eyes right now. More people need to start paying attention.
Amazing - not all that much about Iran and the rigged/preset fraud elections and the extremely violent reaction to protesters by police and the military - with 0bama saying that the Iranian people would have to make choices...
And in Honduras - the president (a Marxist thug), decides to trample their constitution, and 0bama (and most of the rest of the idiot “leaders” in the “Americas” scream bloody murder.
I just don’t get it. What ever happened to 0bama’s pontification about “rule of law”? That only apply when it protects dictators?
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