Posted by
Tomás Aquinas on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:22:21 AM
Bill Jacobson has a good post here, about the Honduras coup:
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: "Heads They Win, Tails We Lose" Diplomacy
Think
about it. Obama was more interested in not 'offending' the Islamic
fundamentalist thugs who run Iran, than in expressing any measure of
support for those who were rioting against the thuggery, murder,
mayhem, and other crimes against the people foistered upon them by a
morally corrupt government.
It would have interfered with his 'negotiations' with that criminal regime.
Now,
as Jacobson points out, we have another example of Obamanian diplomacy.
Obama is supporting a Chavezian thug who illegally tried to grab a
third term.
Honduras defends its democracy
Here's an excerpt:
#
Zelaya couldn’t get the ballots printed in Honduras since the
referendum had been pronounced illegal by the country’s Supreme Court
AND the electoral board. Therefore, the government couldn’t print them.
No private printer was willing to break the law, either. So Zelaya had
the ballots printed in Venezuela and flown in.
# The Supreme
Court instructed the military (who would be the ones doing the job) NOT
to distribute the ballots to the polling stations.
# Zelaya then
led thousands of supporters to recover the material from an air force
warehouse before it could be confiscated. His supporters broke into the
military installation where the ballots were kept. (This is on a par
with some politician leading a mob to break into Fort Carson.)
#
Zelaya’s supporters started distributing the ballots at 15,000 voting
stations across the country. This act placed him in outright defiance
of the law, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.
# When the
armed forces refused to distribute the ballots, Zelaya fired the chief
of the armed forces, Gen. Romeo Vásquez, and the defense minister, the
head of the army and the air force resigned in protest. The country’s
Supreme Court voted unanimously that Vásquez be reinstated.
There's more. Click on the link above. For more background, click here.
Remember, Zelaya is a Chavenista. Chavez is backing Zelaya:
Hugo
Chavez declared that “we are not going to watch with our arms crossed
the goings-on in Honduras,” and insisted “we will do what we will have
to do so the sovereignty of the Honduran people will be respected.”
The Honduran peoples' "sovereignity" is being respected by the Honduran Supreme Court and the Honduran legislature.
Is
there a message there? Might we expect a grab for a third term and an
appointment as Dear Leader for Life on the part of The One? OK ...
that's a bit far-fetched, something DinkyDau Billy might come up with
under his AFDB.
But there is no denying that Obama really likes
defending the thugs. There is no denying that facts, when they get in
the way of Obama worship, are simply ignored by the mainstream media.
From CNN:
The military coup has provoked the condemnation of world leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and sparked clashes in the Honduran capital that have left dozens of people injured.
I
think if someone mentioned my name in the same paragraph as Hugo Chavez
I'd puke. But it sure does show the political leanings, does it not?
Here
we have Obama supporting a 'president' who claimed power illegally.
Regarding Iran, it took days for Obama to come up with some really weak
'support' for people protesting a crooked election by a morally corrupt
regime.