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Honduras Is NOT a Military Coup

July 2, 2009 on 2:32 pm | In National Political | No Comments

The Obama “party line” is that the removal of Zelaya as President of Honduras is just another military-dictatorship brutally deposing democratic governance. Even Fox News reports on the recent have obediently parroted this perspective. Fortunately, some of the Fox pundits have shown independent thought. Hopefully, soon all will realize that what has happened is not a military coup- strictly speaking.

Its true that in years past the historical landscape of South and Central America has been dotted with what really were military coups- situations in which factions in the military overthrew a legitimate government in a ruthless power grab.

That is far from the current situation in Honduras. Here we have a President who was elected but has been making open movements away from a democratic government in a blatant imitation of the dictatorial socialism of his mentor, Hugo Chaves.

Taking action directly from Chaves’ playbook, Zelaya made Herculean efforts to neuter constitutional constraints on his serving beyond the current term he his allowed. On this and other issues, Zelaya has tried to act in contradiction to the congress and the courts. He has behaved aggressively and has not been above using the nebulous threat of Chaves’ military support as a club.

So, in the interests of protecting Democracy against Zelaya/Chaves’ Marxist and socialists designs, THE LEGISLATIVE AND THE JUDICIAL BRANCHES OF THE HONDURAN GOVERNMENT INSIGATED A BLOODLESS COUP AND INSTRUCTED THE MILITARY TO IMPLEMENT IT.

This is a far cry from the anti-democracy military takeovers that are being insinuated by the Obama Administration and the gutless Organization of American States.

Why is Obama winding up on the wrong side of a fight for democracy in Central America? Because Ortega, Castro, Chaves, and Zelaya are a very slick fraternity and the new American President is their new plebe. Obama, the cocky young freshman thinks he’s smarter than all of them. He has no idea what real hazing is like…
SJM