Honduras: an example for US?

[WildspitzE]

The situation in Honduras is being depicted as some sort of unfounded military coup by most MSM and the OAS (including what I've read from our State Dept).

Could it be that Honduras, a banana republic, is actually doing the right thing pursuant to its constitution and the rule of law?

I can't vouch for the accuracy of what's in the video, but if true, why would the US not stand by their determination to defend the rule of law? Perhaps, so that Venezuela, et al don't say it's a US conspiracy? Perhaps there is more in terms of alliances with Venezuela and those that fund them?

Inquiring minds should learn more about this situation before we see how the world will "deal with this situation".

[KGW]

Re: Honduras: an example for US?

Or not. . .

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/



"These are subtle shifts from a simulating national media, but like the first cracks in a wall, they reveal a structural weakness in the strength of the information blockade. They’re blinking.
There was also an interesting report on TeleSur, which I’ve yet to confirm, but, if true, would be devastating to the coup: that the national police commander, after the Armed Forces shot at members of the protest, evacuated the airport battlefield on the logic that they didn’t want to be blamed for the Army’s disgrace. If true, that would have great consequences for the unity of the coup."


"The problem is, that the precondition set by the coup government for said "negotiations" leaves nothing to negotiate. The coup's "foreign minister," Enrique Ortez. has repeated this mantra various times:

"There is only one thing that is not negotiable: the return of ex-president Zelaya."

Got it? Any thing on the table for said "negotiations" has as a precondition that an illegitimate military coup (with civilian window dressing), or its next generation of illegitimate designees, would have to be in charge. Thus the rug is pulled out, beforehand, on any of the other suggestions the coup rulers could make. Micheletti's offer of "early elections" is nonsense. Nobody can trust "elections" run by a clique that has already demonstrated its total contempt for, ahem, the results of elections. If they don't like the result, they'll just hold another coup. And that's probably a moot point anyway because no country can hold fair and free elections when it, at whim, suspends the most basic constitutional rights of freedom of assembly, association, transit, the press, due process and from unwarranted search and seizure in one's home.
This is the same "foreign minister," by the way, whose skills at diplomacy included this statement, last week, about US President Obama:

"The (US) president of the republic, with all due respect to the little black man ('negrito'), doesn’t know where Tegucigalpa is. We know where Washington is and we’re are obligated, as a small country, a democratic pygmy, to clarify the concepts for him and read to him, maybe in his language, what’s going on."

And as comical punctuation to his defense of his small country in the context of a larger one, Ortez, speaking last week about neighboring El Salvador, said:

"It's not worth talking about a country so tiny that you can't play football in it because the ball lands in another country."

This isn't a government. It's a clown show... a macabre one, in which the clowns are armed with machine guns and, like Batman's super-villains, are shooting them at the audience.
One of the coup's top military officials, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, brazenly admitted to the Miami Herald last week that "we broke the law," in carrying out the coup, followed by a shoulder shrug and so what? But among his most chilling statements - including an advance justification for political assassination by military snipers - was this gem:

"It would be difficult for us, with our training, to have a relationship with a leftist government. That's impossible."

In other words, elections, if the people choose a government that is not right of center, will be ripped up by this gang of military thugs."