The Honduras Millstone

 Below is the beginning of an AP release (a real one) about Honduras that demonstrates the problem we are all are in today in our country. 


The White House office of propaganda has instructed its media outlets that the government in Honduras is mean and that the poor guy the army through out is nice. Our nice government has banned contact with this mean constitutional republic and mean conservatives are ignoring the great leader.


Read the article and you will actually be able to extract what is going on, if you apply reason and education.  These people are geniuses as saying two things.  Here is the article along with photos of the poor people upset by the mean "interim" government in Honduras. 


This copy is worthy of Stalin and Hitler:  the "interim" government in Honduras has made the U.S. and unnamed other countries mad. The U.S. does not recognize the Honduran government.  OOOOOO. 

Geez, some 'conservatives' (booo) are going to meet with the interim government even though our government (hoorah) [No mention of "socialist"] has ordered such contact to stop. I don't recall any outrage when Pelosi went to negotiate (felony) with Iran (against the law). 


You can bet the next thing will be Honduran cigars will be off limits, unless Obama smokes them in which case the special rules for the upper class will permit him to continue; you know, humanitarian rules.  The upper class can smoke, use huge SUVs, and fly, what, five or ten jets to Europe for a quick visit.  This is OK.  The people, though, had better buy energy credits and submit to cap and trade.


Given time, the unchecked government will arrest Senator DeMint and the TV talking heads will be very pleased. By that time, you can email me in Honduras or Texas, if they decide to leave.  My assets, albeit small, will not be in this country.


The fact is the bum the Honduran Supreme Court and military through out of the country was unilaterally changing the constitution because his term was over and he didn't like that.  No, dictators can't have a constitution.  Chavez didn't like it, so now he is dictator for life. You wait, if Obama survives the next election, there will be a new constitutional amendment forced through eliminating term limits put in place after FDR played president. 


Do we all get it, yet?  


This is real Going to talk to the Olympic Committee to steer money to the Chicago mob is a distraction. Don't follow the bouncing balls. Don't let up even though you are getting fatigued. Fatigue is the ultimate weapon against you.


The poor victim, Zelaya, is a friend and follower or the Chavez school of facism. One, Obama endorses.  Chavez initially said he would send in his army to put Zelaya in power.  At the same time, Obama and Clinton expressed outrage that the Supreme Court of a sovereign nation decided to protect its laws.


Fascism is happening here. You can see it is the modus operandi of our leaders each and every day, if you pay attention to something other than the NBC news.  


The people in Honduras seem to have a backbone, unlike here, and threw the gangster out.  I am not so sure we have not turned into a nations of the living dead waiting for the mall to open. The living dead didn't seem to notice when their heads were being blown off.  


We are now a tin dictatorships that wants to push aside the constitution. I keep saying this in the hope that it starts to register with people.  Talk about Cassandra. 


We are awaiting wheel-barrow inflation, government control of energy, communication, and health care. Soon, in a clinic near you,  government ordered injections. Concentration camps are already built. Hello.


The moves being made may not be obvious to the dead, but they are clear. The moves have to be quiet because of the mean "conservatives" (booo) who will point things out.  This is why the "Fairness Doctrine" is being brought back and the Internet is going under the direct control of Obama. Once that happens, see ya.  


If you don't like this, spread the word and buy something from Honduras, since our great leader's policy is to destroy the country, so he can save it. There is no longer any "later." If we do not act now, then forever hold your peace, or piece as it may be. This blatant anti-American statism must become the millstone around these characters in office.  Even the walking dead can see what is going on. So, keep up the fight, every day, if you are so inclined.


On the other hand, the World Series is coming, so manjana.  Right?

US lawmakers to meet interim Honduras leader

By BEN FOX (AP) – 52 minutes ago

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A U.S. senator and three congressmen plan to meet Friday with Honduras' interim leader in defiance of official Washington policy barring contact with the architects of the military coup that ousted the nation's president.

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint intends to meet with interim President Roberto Micheletti as well as members of the Central American nation's Supreme Court, election officials and business and civic leaders during the fact-finding trip, said Wesley Denton, a spokesman for the senator.

The visit comes as President Barack Obama's administration seeks to isolate the interim government and use other forms of pressure — including suspending aid and canceling the visas of some members of the country's wealthy elite — in hopes of returning ousted President Manuel Zelaya to serve the remaining months of his term.

DeMint, one of a number of U.S. conservatives who have defended Zelaya's ouster on June 28 in Central America's first coup in more than a decade, supports the interim government plan to hold elections Nov. 29.

"The best solution to the crisis in Honduras is free and fair democratic elections that allow the Honduran people to decide their own future," DeMint said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press.

The international community has made it clear that the vote will not be recognized unless Zelaya is reinstated.

Zelaya was ousted after he ignored Supreme Court orders to halt efforts to revamp the constitution. His opponents argue that he intended to extend his time in power — a charge that Zelaya denies. He has been holed-up in the Brazilian Embassy with dozens of supporters since sneaking back into the country on Sept. 21.

A Republican, DeMint has called Zelaya "a Chavez-style dictator" in reference to Venezuelan leftist President Hugo Chavez, an outspoken critic of the United States.

The congressional delegation includes Republicans Aaron Schock and Peter Roskam of Illinois and Doug Lamborn of Colorado.

Their visit is one of several diplomatic efforts under way to end a grinding standoff over control of one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere.

Troops are preventing Zelaya's supporters from approaching the embassy and opposition media outlets have been forced off the air under an emergency decree that limits civil liberties including freedom of the press and assembly....

Another View.  Click on the title.  I guess this means we now hate Panama too.

September 25, 2009

Honduras Must Hold Firm on Zelaya

By Carlos Alberto Montaner

Politics is full of surprises. Roberto Micheletti, designated president of Honduras by that country's parliament, wanted former President Manuel Zelaya to remain in jail in Tegucigalpa while judges and prosecutors formalized the judicial process against him for violation of the Constitution, corruption and misappropriation of public funds. Curiously, Hugo Chávez, Lula da Silva and Daniel Ortega have made that detention possible.

True, Zelaya is not in a Honduran jail but in the Brazilian Embassy in the capital, but that's a lot more convenient for the government of Micheletti. It is unlikely that pro-Zelaya commandos will break into the Brazilian haven to try to rescue him, because he entered it of his own will and, in any case, the responsibility for Zelaya's physical integrity is now in the hands of Brazil. The Honduran police need only guard the building's exterior and control the comings and goings. At some point, Zelaya will decide to submit to his country's justice, or maybe he'll choose to spend a long time under asylum.

Meanwhile, President Micheletti, with remarkable firmness, says that he's going ahead with the elections planned for Nov. 29. Shortly before Zelaya's return, Panama declared that, if the upcoming Honduran elections are fair and transparent, it will recognize the new government. That's the sensible thing to do. Fortunately, President Ricardo Martinelli is a brave statesman who doesn't mind swimming against the current if it is morally justifiable to him....

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I want to find who these mysterious governments were that were pro fascist, so I made a google search looking for pro Zelaya countries.  I gave up looking for the answers after SEVEN pages all of which describe one demonstrating in July on behalf of Zelaya.  Yessir, journalism.

As the man said, we better hand together or will hang separately.

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Carlos Alberto Montaner Honduras

Clinton, Castro, Chavez, Ortega, and Obama v. Honduras' Constitution

Sorry about Saturday's snafu. The blog is online, but I don't think the correct version was sent. Anyway, who cares.

Honduras Defends Its Democracy

Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object.

By Mary O'Grady for WSJ

Hugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution.

It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking.

But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya's abuses, also wants him back in power. It will be a miracle if Honduran patriots can hold their ground.

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.

But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.

The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.

Calculating that some critical mass of Hondurans would take his side, the president decided he would run the referendum himself. So on Thursday he led a mob that broke into the military installation where the ballots from Venezuela were being stored and then had his supporters distribute them in defiance of the Supreme Court's order.

The attorney general had already made clear that the referendum was illegal, and he further announced that he would prosecute anyone involved in carrying it out. Yesterday, Mr. Zelaya was arrested by the military and is now in exile in Costa Rica.

It remains to be seen what Mr. Zelaya's next move will be. It's not surprising that chavistas throughout the region are claiming that he was victim of a military coup. They want to hide the fact that the military was acting on a court order to defend the rule of law and the constitution, and that the Congress asserted itself for that purpose, too.

Mrs. Clinton has piled on as well. Yesterday she accused Honduras of violating "the precepts of the Interamerican Democratic Charter" and said it "should be condemned by all." Fidel Castro did just that. Mr. Chávez pledged to overthrow the new government.

Honduras is fighting back by strictly following the constitution. The Honduran Congress met in emergency session yesterday and designated its president as the interim executive as stipulated in Honduran law. It also said that presidential elections set for November will go forward. The Supreme Court later said that the military acted on its orders. It also said that when Mr. Zelaya realized that he was going to be prosecuted for his illegal behavior, he agreed to an offer to resign in exchange for safe passage out of the country. Mr. Zelaya denies it.

Many Hondurans are going to be celebrating Mr. Zelaya's foreign excursion. Street protests against his heavy-handed tactics had already begun last week. On Friday a large number of military reservists took their turn. "We won't go backwards," one sign said. "We want to live in peace, freedom and development."

Besides opposition from the Congress, the Supreme Court, the electoral tribunal and the attorney general, the president had also become persona non grata with the Catholic Church and numerous evangelical church leaders. On Thursday evening his own party in Congress sponsored a resolution to investigate whether he is mentally unfit to remain in office.

For Hondurans who still remember military dictatorship, Mr. Zelaya also has another strike against him: He keeps rotten company. Earlier this month he hosted an OAS general assembly and led the effort, along side OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, to bring Cuba back into the supposedly democratic organization.

The OAS response is no surprise. Former Argentine Ambassador to the U.N. Emilio Cárdenas told me on Saturday that he was concerned that "the OAS under Insulza has not taken seriously the so-called 'democratic charter.' It seems to believe that only military 'coups' can challenge democracy. The truth is that democracy can be challenged from within, as the experiences of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and now Honduras, prove." A less-kind interpretation of Mr. Insulza's judgment is that he doesn't mind the Chávez-style coup.

The struggle against chavismo has never been about left-right politics. It is about defending the independence of institutions that keep presidents from becoming dictators. This crisis clearly delineates the problem. In failing to come to the aid of checks and balances, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Insulza expose their true colors.

Birds of a feather....

Pig in poke....

Some animals are more equal than others....

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Rod - note Animal Farm is dystopian.

Animal Farm is a dystopian novel by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist^[1] and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin".^[2]...
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Overview

The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia destroy any possibility of a Utopia. While this novel portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution (and not the act of revolution itself), it also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if smooth transition to a people's government isn't satisfied....