The Obama administration's stance towards the Honduran's interim government, appears to me that if the precedent is set here, in Honduras, that a criminal president, by his own actions, removes himself from office, according to the Honduran constitution, are we next?
By supporting the soft communists in Latin and South America, have we removed our mantle as the supporter of free countries and peoples and joined the totalitarian regimes?
The question here, and I might add, a very tough question to ask as an American, is this:
Why is the current administration in Washington pressuring a sovereign nation to reinstate Zelaya, against the laws of their country, against the highest law of Honduras?
I cannot believe that as incompetent as I think they are, they don't know that the Honduran government's ouster of Zelaya, and his deportation was actually perfectly legal. And the deportation was meant to prevent bloodshed.
Why are we siding with Chavez and Castro and Ortega and the rest of those socialist commie bastages?
It occurs to me, and I really hate even contemplating the possibility, but to not suggest it would be to ignore what's happening, that the reason for our government's stance on this is that perhaps, just perhaps there is a possibility of the Dems, and the kool-aid drinking Obama zealots trying to get a similar resolution passed to amend the constitution to extend or abolish term limits on the Presidency? Well, there's already a resolution that's been introduced in the House as of January of this year. And there is an advocacy group for abolishing the 22nd amendment. They even have a website end22.com. google it.
Folks, large things are afoot in the world and this country and what I am seeing is something I never would have dreamed possible in these United States. The move towards socialism has been happening at a snails pace, but it's been happening now it's here. Just look at what's happened in the first 6 months of the Obama presidency. Nationalized Banks, Nationalized Auto industry, and now the big push for Nationalized Health Care. And the whole "spreading the wealth around by robbing those who've worked for their wages and giving it to those who have not. Where does it end? Where is the spirit of America?
A perfect example of how the issue gets confused to the average news consumer...
An article from AP: US turns up pressure on Honduras coup government
The article in it's entirety are reprinted below:
emphasis mine.
US turns up pressure on Honduras coup government
By MARK STEVENSON (AP) – 1 day ago
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The United States is turning up pressure on the Honduran government installed by a coup — and the businessmen who support it — warning that they will face severe sanctions if ousted President Manuel Zelaya is not restored to power.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called interim President Roberto Micheletti to say there would be serious consequences if his government ignores international mediation for Zelaya's return.
Her call on Sunday came as talks mediated by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias stalled due to the refusal of Micheletti's delegates to accept demands for Zelaya's return.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said that Clinton helped "helped him understand the potential consequences of a failure to take advantage of this mediation."
Honduran business leaders, meanwhile, say U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens has called them into meetings to warn that Honduras — impoverished and highly dependent on exports to the United States — could face tough sanctions if the interim government continues to refuse Arias' compromise proposal for Zelaya to return as head of a coalition government.
The European Union added to the pressure on Monday by announcing it was suspending $93.1 million (65.5 million euros) in aid to Honduras.
No government has recognized Micheletti, and the United Nations and Organization of American States have called for the return of Zelaya, who was arrested and hustled out of the country by the army on June 28.
But Micheletti vowed not to stand down — and implied that the United States is betraying one of its staunchest allies. Honduras allowed its territory to be used as a staging area for U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua during the 1980s, and more recently it sent troops to Iraq.
"We have received pressure from all sides," Micheletti said in a speech before cheering supporters Monday. "One learns in life that people who seem to be friends are not really friends, but are only interested in what you can do for them or give to them."
Referring to Clinton's call, Micheletti suggested she send an envoy to Honduras to verify that his government is not persecuting opponents.
"I told her to please send someone she has confidence in, someone she can really talk to, down here to say whether it was really true that people are being killed all the time," he said.
He vowed to stay in power until the scheduled Nov. 29 elections. The United States has suggested it may not recognize that vote because it will be held under a de facto government.
"We are going to go with life, we are going to go on with our government, we are going to go on with the next presidential elections on Nov. 29," he said. "They have to respect us."
Business leaders — a key sector of support for Micheletti — also vowed to tough it out, hoping that the U.S. government is as wary as they are of Zelaya, who has aligned himself with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of Washington's biggest antagonists in the region.
The interim government has launched a lobbying effort against sanctions, betting they wouldn't play well with U.S. conservatives or business interests.
"Honduras is a small, poor country," said Amilcar Bulnes, the head of the Honduran Council of Private Business. "The world would look very bad if it takes out its wrath on this country."
Bulnes attended one of the meetings with Llorens last week, and said the U.S. ambassador told businessmen that "there could be consequences for Honduras. ... They could be very tough."
"Implicitly, he was saying there may be U.S. economic sanctions within the framework of an action by the (Organization of American States)," Bulnes said.
He said such sanctions could draw resistance from investors in the country's key assembly plant sector, who are overwhelmingly American.
"I imagine there would be some reaction from them," Bulnes said.
The U.S. Embassy said it would not comment on the meetings.
On July 8, the U.S. government announced it had suspended $16.5 million in military aid, and had placed a hold on development aid expected to total about $180 million. But it has not yet threatened to cut off trade or remittances, a move which analysts say could quickly bring down Honduras' economy.
"The U.S. could make this be over in a second if it imposed strong sanctions," said Mark Jones, a professor of political science at Rice University. "But in doing so it would hurt the poor, it would hurt our allies."
EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner announced the aid cut from Brussels, calling the standoff "a crisis which Honduras can ill afford."
Adolfo Facusse, the head of Honduras' National Association of Industries, was defiant:
"We prefer sanctions to Zelaya's return," which he said would bring the "loss of liberty, dictatorship, communism."
Zelaya angered many here by ignoring the objections of the courts and Congress to try to hold a referendum on changing the constitution, which many saw as an attempt to impose a Chavez-style socialist government.
Bulnes said the damage to Honduras' image since Zelaya's ouster had already hurt the country's tourism, hotel and restaurant industries, but he said that farms and factories were still operating normally.
Seventy percent of Hondurans live in poverty and the per capita gross domestic product is just under $4,000 per year.
"Neither Micheletti nor Zelaya gives me anything to eat," said street vendor Oscar Quintanilla, who is struggling to raise four children amid constant protests. "I don't care about constitutional referendums, all I care about is the welfare of my family."
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
So, the article makes a great deal in the opening paragraphs of showing how the whole world is essentially supporting the return of Zelaya. Only at the very bottom of the article does it mention the reason he was ousted, and nowhere in the article does it mention that Zelaya essentially impeached himself by insisting on violating the constitution of Honduras.
I think a very telling quote from Micheletti the interim President is this:
"We have received pressure from all sides," Micheletti said in a speech before cheering supporters Monday. "One learns in life that people who seem to be friends are not really friends, but are only interested in what you can do for them or give to them."
What the hell is our country coming to when we cannot even tell the truth and outright support a wannabe dictator's return to power?
Stay vigilant fellow patriots...
And die with your boots on...
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