Posted on 10/09/2009 6:57:13 PM PDT by opentalk
After visiting Tegucigalpa last week and meeting with a cross section of leaders from Honduras's government, business community, and civil society, I can report there is no chaos there. There is, however, chaos to spare in the Obama administration's policy toward our poor and loyal allies in Honduras. In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya's ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the November elections: U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
“Our ambassador is the only person I met there who thinks there was a ‘coup.’ Let’s release the State Department legal analysis.”
It’s easy to see why Obama is backing a communist dictator...
And he’s hoping that his condemnation of the ‘coup’ will fool Americans...
We are certainly standing up and taking notice of how the Hondurans peacefully ousted a wannabe usurper and this scares the beejeebus out of Obama.
Anyone?
...at all?
Where in blazes is the US "press corps"? Or are they the "Press Corpse?"
Wait, he won the Nobel, it's a major award !
Hi, a quick search found this from U.S. Mission to Geneva, Switz. Sept 28, 09. Press briefing.
excerpt:
“Question: My question regards Honduras. Brazil has just put a resolution in the Human Rights Council about the situation there. I’d like to know how do you assess the situation on human rights being so close to Honduras.
Then the United States also said that it could help to protect the Brazilian [Enmucadera], so I’d like to know how that could happen, what kind of protection we are talking about.
Finally there has been some disagreement about the right forum to introduce this subject between Brazil and the United States. Ms. Rice said the Security Council wouldn’t be the more adequate forum for that. So I’d like to know which one would be.
Mr. Koh: As you know, the crisis in Honduras has been going on now for more than three months. I know this because it happened the day after I came into office, so I kept very close track.
Today may be actually the most delicate moment of all because of the location of the various parties, et cetera.
First on the issue of the Brazilian Embassy, as the international lawyer for the U.S. government, obviously the respect for the inviolability of diplomatic premises is something that the United States is deeply committed to. With regard to the Honduras situation itself, this is something in which we have supported the process being convened and conducted by the former President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias Sanchez, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Our hope is that a solution can be brought about in that setting which can be respectful of the right of democratic governance as well as the human rights of all Hondurans.
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Question I would like to come back to Honduras and what is going on. It seems that in fact the government has rejected, the de facto government has rejected the OAE mission. The two people were not allowed to come back to the country. They don’t want this mission to go on. So you say that in fact for Honduras we have to go on with this setting, but this setting doesn’t seem to fit. So what are the, I don’t know, the propositions of the United States regarding this particular issue?
The second thing, we have had different human rights reports on the human rights violations there, so what will be your position in this Human Rights Council regarding Honduras and the resolution proposed by Brazil?
Mr. Koh: Again, we would prefer to state our position on particular resolutions as they come up. In some cases, depending on what version comes up of Resolution A or B, we would have a different view. So I think it would be premature for us to comment on that point.
What I have said earlier is that the Honduras crisis has been a subject of shifting events from day to day. So what you may have reported is the latest situation, but it may not be the final situation. So what we are continuing to do is to support the restoration of democratic governance and the protection of human rights for all Hondurans, and we believe the process which is best able to accomplish that is the process which is being supervised by former President Arias.”
more here
http://geneva.usmission.gov/2009/09/28/koh-posner/
The state Department lawyer is Harold Koh. He is really big on injecting international law. I hope Demint can get it released.
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This is an absolutely great piece by DeMint.
here’s a good compilation of why Harold Koh is no friend to our Constitution or the the liberties it protects
No kidding, obama is appeasing commies, this stuff needs to be exposed.
DeMint
B T T T
The Obammunist prosecutes the legal opinions of presidents. Don't look ever to see an administration legal opinion.
That's what The Kenyan has Commissars for. They enforce the party line without accountability.
They are immune from subpoena. They have executive privilege.
yitbos
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The Lies coming from Obama Hussein regarding Honduras are justifiable Gounds to Begin IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS on The Fraud Occupying OUR WHITE HOUSE!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! To Senator Jim DeMint for His trip to Honduras and the Revealing of The TRUTH THAT IT IS NO COUP!
Why?
How can he reject an election before it has taken place?
Does he have a mental disorder?
Harold Koh’s judicial transnationalism provides camouflage for him to do the old “living constitutionalist” gambit of translating his policy preferences into the guise of constitutional law.
From National review.
He's able to say the right things, and he's in the thick of all the big issues. I just wish he could get a little more media attention. We could use a guy like him, who's actually doing things, and not just talking about them.
The Obama thugs and the MSM will try to discredit DeMint in every way they can. I would not put it past the president to sic some of those "doctors" in white coats on him to take him away to a funny farm.
I may be exagerrating....but not by much.
Leni
Kick butt, take names.
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