Interim Honduran President defends military action

McClatchy ^ | 6/29/09

[Nachum]

MIAMI — Speaking via telephone from his home in Tegucigalpa on Monday, interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti again defended the actions of Honduran military officials in booting President Manuel Zelaya from power.

''We can't allow that this government take us to communism or socialism,'' Micheletti told a group of reporters at a telephone press conference organized by Honduran Unity, a Miami-based group of Honduran activists who support Micheletti.

[Secret Agent Man]

No wonder Obama didn’t like Honduras stopping their president - not only ignoring the country’s constitution, but movin them towards socialism.

[rightwingextremist1776]

I would love to see him tell the mighty zero to kiss his a$$....

[Freeper]

Did you notice Resident Obama wants the old President back in power. He claims the coup was not in accordance with their Constitution.

[alecqss]

Obama is an absolute disgrace. Soon there will be no state nor people who are fighting for their freedom and who would not be swiftly betrayed by him.

[PhiKapMom]

ZERO and Hillary are on the wrong side of this one as they both have been on other issues involving foreign policy.

Hillary’s husband was impeached and a shame the Senate chickened out and didn’t remove him. She knows all about what it is like to go against the Rule of Law and so does ZERO.

Maybe they think this could be in store for them after the 2010 election. All those Czars that ZERO appointed with no oversight should be a beginning and a move toward socialism with him taking over industries like automobile and banks should get him impeached if we didn’t have such a worthless Congress.

[Congressman Billybob]

Only at the end of the article did the McClatchy reporter bother to mention that the Honduran Supreme Court had ruled the actions of the President as a violation of its Constitution. Never does this reporter mention that the Honduran House of Representatives had voted to remove the President, before the military acted.

This was not a coup. This was the military acting to preserve the nation's constitution. The usual coup has as one of its first acts suspending the local constitution.

Congressman Billybob

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[Nextrush]

One branch of the Honduran government was out of control and the other two acted with military support to deal with the problem.

That’s what I see here.

Yet Obama contends these actions were not democratic.

[Vinnie]

Maybe ZerO is trying to set a Western Hemisphere precedent for when his time comes.

[JSDude1]

It’s a Restoration, not a coup; but even if it were it’s still a good idea!

[RegulatorCountry]

They don’t seem too keen to mention that Micheletti, “interim president” was vice president and first in line to succeed Zelaya under the Honduran constitution.

This is getting sort of freaky. The UN inviting Zelaya to speak, Obama condemning Honduras for lawfully deposing this despot alongside Cuba and Venezuela, Hillary Clinton running her mouth in favor of Chavez’s little puppet ... I’m concerned that we’re much further down the road to perdition ourselves, than even I thought.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I agree

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“I’m concerned that we’re much further down the road to perdition ourselves, than even I thought.”

Obama is a socialist, clearly. He will take us down that road as far as we let him.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just in case you haven't seen this:

WSJ Update: Obama Worked To Prevent Ouster of (Marxist) Honduras President

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

pings...

[myself6]

If only OUR military officers had the friggen NADS to do the same to Zero and his fellow marxist revolutionaries...

[paulycy]

I’m concerned that we’re much further down the road to perdition ourselves, than even I thought.

Maybe we're closer to a western hemisphere hot war than we thought, too.

[TigersEye]

''We can't allow that this government take us to communism or socialism,'' Micheletti told a group of reporters...

And he's a leftist! lol Same party as Zelaya.

Skip the State Run Media. Find your own news.

Honduras Defends Its Democracy

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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.

[TigersEye]

This was not a coup. This was the military acting to preserve the nation's constitution.

That's right. The Honduran military didn't do anything that any LEA would not do if given a warrant and told to serve it. It is as simple as that. Even a cave man could understand this situation.

[Vaquero]

We should join the coup, like the leftists joined the loyalists in Spain against Generalissimo Francisco Franco (who is still dead).