Posted on 06/29/2009 2:59:33 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
MIAMI | The Honduran military on Sunday ousted leftist President Manuel Zelaya and exiled him to Costa Rica - an action rejected by much of the world, including the United States and its sometimes foe, Venezuela.
The apparent catalyst for the coup came last week when Mr. Zelaya decided to go ahead with a nationwide referendum on whether he could purse a second term in office. Honduran electoral law limits leaders to one four-year term. Continues...
Have you hugged a Latin American tyrant today?
Being America-haters themselves, liberals have always had the hots for America-hating communist dictatorships, so on Sunday libbies were having paroxysms of fury that Honduras's Hugo Chavez-wannabe Manuel Zelaya got his butt ousted from power in what the New York Times insists on falsely calling a military "coup". It turns out that Zelaya's removal was ordered by Honduras's Supreme Court, the military was merely complying. Hey, I thought liberals loved court-ordered things, like court-ordered busing, court-ordered racial quotas and stuff?
Obama was so upset at what had happened in Honduras, he didn't go out for ice cream. Instead of waiting a whole week to respond, he swiftly issued a statement expressing 'deep concern' that the military had not allowed Zelaya's abuse of the constitution to go forward via an illegal referendum. Also expressing 'deep concern' were such beacons of democracy as Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez. "I call on all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic Charter," said Obama's Teleprompter in an angry statement.
Hillary Clinton was furious, too! "The action taken against [Zelaya] violates the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, and thus should be condemned by all!", she said, insisting that the autocrat must be restored to power in order to have freedom there.
Liberals insist we should never interfere in any other nation's internal affairs, except for Honduras. Castro has butchered around 100,000, North Korea is starving, beating and executing people in "labor camps" and Iran's mullahs slaughter protesters in cold blood, but it's Honduras that has liberals upset.
Like a good little liberal, Zelaya had no use for his country's constitution. Under the Honduran system, oddly just like under the American system, the president doesn't have the authority to unilaterally change the constitution, so Zelaya insisted he did, attempting a rewrite by having Chavez ship him the requisite illegal ballots in order to hold an illegal referendum to let him seek another term. The Honduran Supremes ruled the planned vote unconstitutional, basing their ruling on something called 'the plain text of the constitution'. Congress would have to approve the referendum to call for a constituent assembly.
After the military was ordered by the high court not to cooperate in the illegal referendum, Zelaya fires the chief of the armed forces, who then gets reinstated by the high court. So late last week, Zelaya -- like all good democracy lovers -- led a mob of street thugs to raid the military installation storing Chevez's ballots, instructing them to pass 'em out. (President orders up street thugs. Mobs, unions. Sounds like a community organizer whose name escapes me right now.)
Under orders from the high court, the military arrested Zelaya, letting him off easy by exiling him to Costa Rica in his pajamas.
With North Korea and Iran in a bidding war to see who could be tougher with the weenie in the White House, now Chavez is upset with Obama, too, accusing him of organizing the "coup". He also accused Obama of running a banana republic.
Yet, to Obama, Honduras -- like everything else -- is just one of those 'distractions'. He's busy instilling the idea that we need to ruin our health-care system by having government run it -- then wham! "Coup" happens in Honduras. He's plugging away the notion that the feds can control the weather by raising taxes under Crap & Trade -- then wham! Another distraction -- North Korea threatens to launch missiles at Hawaii. This is what happens when you're a narcissist and the world of 'distractions' revolves around you.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Ping...
hhhhmmmm...
seems eerily similar to a post I just read.
Yo, you've had Castro in the hemisphere for 50 years! A return to barbarism?
Good job, nicely written...
The nations' envoys soon will take up their former posts. The move, analysts say, reflects Obama's desire for better Latin American relations and President Hugo Chavez's need to improve his image.
By Chris Kraul and Paul Richter June 26, 2009
Reporting from Bogota, Colombia, and Washington -- In a potentially significant step toward repairing their tattered relationship, the United States and Venezuela have formally agreed to resume full diplomatic relations, the State Department announced Thursday.
Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the two nations exchanged notes that in effect formalized pledges that President Obama and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made at the Summit of the Americas in April to reinstall ambassadors who were expelled in September.
U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy and his Venezuelan counterpart, Bernardo Alvarez, soon will resume their former posts in Caracas and Washington, respectively, Kelly said. Each country's embassy had remained open and formal relations were never fully cut.
And the muzzie marxist in chief does this at the same time that fat red SOB Chavez is threatening to close down the last TV station that still has the balls to criticize him.
Clearly Hussein is sending a message of approval to the communist thug, and putting news networks in the US on notice that this can and will happen here too if they don't toe the party line.
Baraka Hussein is completely out of control.
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez threatened to close down an opposition-sided news network, saying the defiant Globovision channel's days on the airwaves will be numbered if its directors don't stand down.
Chavez on Thursday urged executives at Globovision "to reflect" upon the TV channel's tough anti-government stance — or else the station "won't be on the airwaves much longer."
The socialist leader has threatened Globovision before, demanding sanctions against the channel for its alleged violation of broadcast regulations. Chavez told a crowd of his supporters on Thursday that he "doesn't care" if such a decision were to draw international criticism.
Chavez recently called for sanctions against Globovision, and within a week Venezuela's tax agency slapped the network with a $2.3 million fine, prosecutors charged its president in a probe into alleged fraud and lawmakers began investigating the channel for purportedly joining an anti-government conspiracy.
Broadcast regulators also are investigating Globovision for inciting "panic and anxiety" during its coverage of a minor earthquake last month, when station director Alberto Federico Ravell criticized state television for failing to quickly inform its viewers about the severity of the quake.
Like CHAVEZ OSSABAMA only approves libtard coups
It’s disgusting that not even the Washington Times mentions that the Supreme Court ordered the “coup” — actually, a restoration of democracy.
And it’s depressing that the Honduras military doesn’t put out a statement to that effect, a repeated statement, that forces the world’s commie press to at least report that they said it.
If this was a coup, surely someone can tell me the name of the general who now controls the country, right?
Honduras Defends Its Democracy
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It was perfectly legitimate, but I have a bad feeling about this. I think Bambi and Chavez are going to force Honduras to take their would-be dictator back.
Best explanation I have heard John!
Hey Hugo,
Hey Fidel,
You boys a little nervous? You both should be.
Well your days are numbered and short chumps.
Not taking our calls...it's going to be a long four years.
The showdown between the president and virtually all other circles of power in Honduras plunged the impoverished Central America country into a political crisis with no solution in sight. Congress — led by members of Zelaya's own Liberal Party — has opened an investigation into his mental stability and could declare him unfit to govern.
Thousands of Zelaya opponents marched through the capital of Tegucigalpa to demand his ouster Friday, chanting "he must leave now!" Many shops, gasoline stations and some schools were closed for fear of disturbances.
In Washington, the Organization of American States held a session to discuss the situation in Honduras. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged "restraint by all concerned in order to prevent any further escalation" of the crisis, said U.N. associate spokesman Farhan Haq.
Zelaya lashed out at Congress early Friday for considering his ouster.
"Congress cannot investigate me, much less remove me or stage a technical coup against me because I am honest, I'm a free president and nobody scares me," Zelaya said in his two-hour speech, at one point bursting — Chavez-like — into song.
"But we have to forgive them. Glory to God! We have to forgive, and I know who to forgive because the people are my support and my best ally in this political process," he said.
He referred to Congressional President Roberto Micheletti — a member of his own party — as "a pathetic, second-class congressman who got that job because of me."
Micheletti, who by law would take over the presidency if Zelaya were ousted, retorted, "We should not have to suffer the aspirations of a disturbed man who wants to hold onto to power."
Demostrators 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.
Ah. Burning tires, the symbol of Kenya.
What’s with the one glove? Is he also a supporter of Michael Jackson?
No wonder Bambi's afraid.
Interesting contrast between the Zelaya supporter in post #14 and the Zelaya opposition.
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