Comments on: Hands Off Honduras

By: coldwarrior

coldwarrior — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:23:10 +0000

Just read your latest...blogging from Tegucigalpa... Need to keep the word going and out there. Honduras will disappear this week with all the adulation of Jacko and Obama's tet-a-tet with the Russians. Dropped a letter to my Congressman on Friday. If we can't stand with Honduras, then what is the point of standing for anyone?

By: The Razor » Blog Archive » Obama - Hands Off Honduras

The Razor » Blog Archive » Obama - Hands Off Honduras — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:06:50 +0000

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By: Kid from Brooklyn

Kid from Brooklyn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:34:46 +0000

Honduras sufferes from a public relations problem more so than a constitutional problem.

By: zerosheep

zerosheep — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:24:51 +0000

News agencies need to start reporting all of the facts, and the governments around the world need to do their own research. Under the Honduran constitution: (1) the president is limited to one term, and even attempting to try for a second results in immediate suspension from office (Article 239); (2) there is no constitutional mechanism for removing elected officials comparable to our impeachment process, so the Honduran officials have had to 'wing it;' and (3) the Honduran military is specifically tasked under the constitution with enforcing the one-term limit (Article 272). Given these facts, how can anyone in the world other than Chavez and his cronies be calling this a coup?

By: cruadin

cruadin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:53:53 +0000

The Obama Administration’s zeal to support a renegade Chief Executive in Honduras says something about out Commander in Chief, and it isn’t good.

Obama’s ambivalence about making a clear statement of condemnation or support regarding Iran’s sham election was at least defensible in terms of realpolitik. His fierce moral urgency to prop up a power-mad Executive in Honduras is not equally defensible. It betrays a sense that our President sees the aggregation of political power as a positive social good, whether it is done extra-Constitutionally or not.

The people and the Constitutional institutions of Honduras deserve our support at this time. They do not need the Chief Executive of the United States aligning himself with the worst of this hemisphere’s thug leaders.

The UN has exposed itself once again as an organization that defends the power of national leaders (regardless of the legitimacy of their power) over the inherent rights of the people to govern themselves.

It is a horrible situation, but it is also a teachable moment for those with eyes to see.