I just looked on the Fox site and they had a fairly decent summary of the information, except that it didn’t say that the military acted on the orders of their Supreme Court and legislature, that their Constitution forbids a president who has tried to be in office more than 4 years from holding office, that impeachment was not an option, and that the military did nothing to establish who would rule in the interim.

Aside from that, it was fairly decent. lol.

How it took the information it had and still managed to call Zelaya’s Constitutional removal from office a “coup” escapes me.

Unfortunately, most people probably wouldn’t read to the end of the article either.

I wonder how we can hold Fox accountable.

justincase on July 1, 2009 at 3:05 PM

I’ll see if I can get that changed, ExpressoBold. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. If you think of anything else that should be on there let me know.

The Cap and Trade bill that had a “space-filler” where stuff could be added in later, after the bill had passed, wasn’t added because that was Congress, but it’s indicative of how badly the American people and our process is screwed.

justincase on July 1, 2009 at 3:28 PM

Elduende, you always have the best information. Thanks for the information! This was in one of the references at Fausta’s blog:

“For weeks, Zelaya — an erratic leftist who styles himself after his good pal Hugo Chávez of Venezuela — has been engaged in a naked and illegal power grab, trying to rewrite the Honduran constitution to allow him to run for reelection in November.

First Zelaya scheduled a national vote on a constitutional convention. After the Honduran supreme court ruled that only the country’s congress could call such an election, Zelaya ordered the army to help him stage it anyway. (It would be ”non-binding,” he said.) When the head of the armed forces, acting on orders from the supreme court, refused, Zelaya fired him, then led a mob to break into a military base where the ballots were stored.

His actions have been repudiated by the country’s supreme court, its congress, its attorney-general, its chief human-rights advocate, all its major churches, its main business association, his own political party (which recently began debating an inquiry into Zelaya’s sanity) and most Hondurans: Recent polls have shown his approval rating down below 30 percent.

In fact, about the only people who didn’t condemn Zelaya’s political gangsterism were the foreign leaders and diplomats who now primly lecture Hondurans about the importance of constitutional law. They’re also strangely silent about the vicious stream of threats against Honduras spewing from Chávez since Zelaya was deposed.”

justincase on July 1, 2009 at 3:41 PM

Any computer programmer people out there? Is there any way for independent analysts to verify whether the software running a ballot system is able to be manipulated and/or WAS manipulated? Is it just a matter of blind trust?

justincase on July 1, 2009 at 4:24 PM

Pat in NC at 5:03

I was confused on that. Someone here had mentioned that the victim was black, but they must have meant the one who was injured rather than killed. I will see if I can get that changed. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

justincase on July 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM

Chaz706, right now I’m not in a mood to have blind faith in anybody in the government. From the site I looked at earlier, it seems to me that the folks in Chicago had some strong suspicions and were frustrated by the lack of answers. I wonder what independent observers/analysts are used to protect the integrity of the voting system.

Even paper ballots have problems. I think we need to have surveillance cameras at the polling places every minute – broadcast live on internet so we the people can watch what’s happening even when (for instance) democrat precincts won’t allow independent observers in, or when somebody calls after the polls are closed to find out the count and the poll worker asks, “How many votes do you need?”

I’ve wondered about requiring people to scan in a fingerprint so that the final tally can only have the same number of people as there are unique fingerprints. That way if the poll workers are going to fill in 500 ballots after the polls close they need to come up with 500 different fingerprints. We may not know if Mickey Mouse voted, but we can know how many people actually voted.

justincase on July 1, 2009 at 11:33 PM