Honduran ‘Coup’, eh?

So, what’s up in Honduras, our media refers to the removal of President Zelaya as a coup? Well, to listen to the White House, a democratically elected President has been removed from office by the military and must be restored to power. Great news! Our new beloved Chairman does have the balls to stand up for Democracy! Uhhhh, not so fast.
What’s really going on? Zelaya was removed by the military for attempting to subvert the Honduran Constitution. The Supreme Court of Honduras, a body that still considers their Constitution to be worth defending unlike some others of which I’m aware, ordered his removal and arrest on Constitutional grounds.
What did President Zelaya do to warrant this? Apparantly, he’s not a big fan of term limits – especially those which apply to the Presidency of Honduras. As, under Honduran law, he would have to relinquish power at the end of his term in November, so he announced that he would hold a national referendum to see if the people of Honduras wanted him to stay on in his role as President, perhaps in perpetuity.
Wow, that sounds really Democratic, right? I mean if the people want it, why not, right? Sorry knot heads, that’s not how Constitutionally based governments are supposed to work. There’s no provision in the Honduran Constitution for the President to announce national referendums as a means of amending the Constitution. So, his actions were illegal. He broke the law, and was removed from office by the Supreme Court of Honduras. The military immediately relinquished power back to the Legislature, who unanimously cheered the action. Done deal, right?
Wrong, enter the Obeyme Administration. As the blood of Iranian protesters was still running in the streets we were being lectured by the anointed one on how we cannot be seen as ‘meddling’ in Iran’s internal affairs. ‘The elections were the basis for a spirited debate…blah blah blah.” Excuse me, but I wasn’t aware that Ivy League debate teams ended their proceedings with one side shooting the debaters from the other team??? Call it what you will, but this was our beloved Chairman’s excuse for not supporting the protesters against the Iranian regime with a lot of American blood on its hands.
So, what’s at stake in Honduras that warrants American ‘meddling’, or strong arming in this case, for their enforcing of their own laws? A Marxist thugs regime, that’s what! Zelaya is a Marxist thug, supported by Castro and Hugo Chavez. It makes perfect sense that our own Marxist thug of a President would come to his defense. Now it all makes sense, right? Obeyme is calling for Zelaya to be reinstated, even though its clearly none of his business and would violate Honduran law and sovereignty. Did he even read that book that Chavez gave him?
Who knows, maybe Obeyme wants to hold his own referendum? In any case, this is the kind of stuff gets people killed and I believe that Chairman Obeyme will get one hell of a lot of people killed before he’s done.
-OMB