Tossing radio equipment into a truck = silencing free speech. 
Manuel Zelaya claims to be a constitutionalist. 
Stifling free speech is one attribute of the coup-installed interim government.
Posted on 09/28/2009 5:38:24 PM PDT by myknowledge
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' coup-installed government silenced two key dissident broadcasters on Monday just hours after it suspended civil liberties to prevent an uprising by backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Dozens of soldiers raided the offices of Radio Globo. Officials also shut down Channel 36 television station, leaving it broadcasting only a test pattern.
Rene Zepeda, a spokesman for the interim government, said the two outlets had been taken off the air in accordance with a government emergency decree announced late Sunday that limits civil liberties and allows authorities to close news media that "attack peace and public order."
Supporters of the deposed leftist president vowed to march in the streets Monday in defiance of the emergency order and carry out what Zelaya calls a "final offensive" against his ouster on the three-month anniversary of the coup.
"They took away all the equipment. This is the death of the station," said Radio Globo owner Alejandro Villatoro, describing the dawn raid on the station.
Station employees scrambled out of an emergency exit to escape the raid that Villatoro said involved as many as 200 soldiers.
He said the office remained surrounded by soldiers. It was the second time soldiers have barged into the station — the first was June 28, the same day Zelaya was ousted.
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Tossing radio equipment into a truck = silencing free speech. Manuel Zelaya claims to be a constitutionalist. Stifling free speech is one attribute of the coup-installed interim government.
Its time to use the army and get Zelaya
Coup installed government....
Still chugging the lefty koolaid I see.
Yes, throw this lefty in jail to rot!
Coming to a station near you. Ossamy hussein oabammy worships these thugs.
Zelaya was duly convicted — what coup?
Just ask yourself who is getting the country ready for elections and who is trying to stop the elections.
Problem solved!
A 7.62mm bullet in the head is much better than a Honduran jail.
Ouch! I hate to see that amplifier or whatever the soldier is tossing into the truck land on the mixing board.
I say Pinochet their arses before they have a chance to carry out the repression and genocide that accompanies every communist dictatorship known to history.
What the interim gov’t is doing makes no sense. They are empowering Zeleya everyday he is allowed to exist in that country. They could have ended this on day one and things would probably be getting back to normal by now. Instead, they are pussy footing around trying to be nice.
I certainly hope I’m wrong, but I think they are being weakened by their own actions.
Good, the government should have cracked down on Zelaya communist supporters from day 1, some good, old fashioned Augusto Pinochet treatment will take the fight out of them. I miss Pinochet, that man sure knew how to take care of commies.
Is the same thing happening to the FOX News Chicago affiliate as it attempts to report on Chicago citizens who talk negatively about the 2016 Olympics?
Seriously, he was as you probably know arrested under orders of the Supreme Court. The action was approved unanimously in the congress, including by his own party.
All the candidates who had declared before his arrest are still running and still in the race.
The only mistake, if you want to call it a mistake, was expelling him from the country when he ought to have been taken into custody and jailed. That can be rectified if he will just step outside the embassy and demand his day in court.
Instead, he is appealing to foreign powers to reinstate him, with the full intention of violating the constitution as he has already stated a dozen times. When he organized a mob to go against court orders he sealed his fate.
The elections must go forward. The very decent men in the interim government are doing everything they can to prevent bloodshed while Zelaya does everything he can to provoke it.
Exactly.
Did you mean to post this at DU?
How about if we all started faxing copies of the Honduran Constitution to the MSM, by the thousands? Maybe it would occur to SOMEBODY to read the damn thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is wonderful. In our next revolution we will silence the liberal left with gusto!
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