Fighting to Preserve Liberty in America
This is a story you are not likely to hear about from the mainstream media. As previously reported on this site the Obama administration, led by Hillary Clinton, came down hard on the sovereign country of Honduras for upholding their constitution and fighting against a Chavez style, “leader for life” power grab by their president Manuel Zelaya.
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan was an aviator in the 1930s. In 1938 he mistakenly flew from New York to Ireland when he was supposed to fly from New York to California, because he claims he misread his compass. It later turned out that he really intended to fly to Ireland but couldn’t get permission.
What’s Hillary’s excuse? As the Obama Administration has called the removal of Honduran President Manuel Zalaya a coup d’etat, more attention is being focused on what the law in Honduras really says. The Congressional Research Service looked into it and had this to say:
“The Supreme Court of Honduras has constitutional and statutory authority to hear cases against the President of the Republic and many other high officers of the State, to adjudicate and enforce judgments, and to request the assistance of the public forces to enforce its rulings.”
—Congressional Research Service, August 2009
So why is Hillary Clinton now attacking the Honduran Supreme Court by pulling the visas of all fifteen members of the court? The U.S. sided with Hugo Chavez and Costa Rica to reach a “negotiated” settlement that would put Zalaya back in the presidency. Honduras said, sorry, that would violate our constitution. He broke the law, we dealt with it according to our constitution, and that’s that.
Mary Anastasia O’Grady writes in the Wall Street Journal:
The upshot is that the U.S. is trying to force Honduras to violate its own constitution and is also using its international political heft to try to interfere with the country’s independent judiciary.
Hondurans are worried about what this pressure is doing to their country. Mr. Zelaya’s violent supporters are emboldened by the U.S. position. They deface some homes and shops with graffiti and throw stones and home-made bombs into others, and whenever the police try to stop them, they howl about their “human rights.”
When will the apology tour end and we start standing up for liberty and democracy? Is it more important that Hillary have an accomplishment she can brag about than following the rule of law? This administration has so much, so backwards it is hard to keep track of it. They focus all their time and energy doing things they are not constitutionally authorized to do (health care, taking over car companies and banks, funding ACORN), and ignoring their fundamental constitutional duties of foreign policy and national defense. Let’s hope some pressure can be brought to bear on the Obama Administration to back off before Chavez puts a puppet in place.
Chavez, Castro, et al, were cheering on their protege, Manuel Zalaya to make himself president for life and impose their same style of dictatorship on the people of Honduras. Zalaya is term limited, but tried to push through a referendum to amend the constitution to lift that restriction. That is against the law in Honduras.
Zalaya had his minions break into a facility that held the confiscated referendum ballots. The Honduran Supreme Court declared that he had broken the law, the military captured Zalaya and sent him out of the country. The cry throughout the region was that this was a coup removing Zalaya, but no one is saying where the Honduran Congress or Supreme Court did not follow their own laws, and show that Zalaya was not violating the same.
To Meddle or Not To Meddle?
The Obama administration was oddly silent when democracy was trying to break out in Iran, but spoke out against the laws being followed in Honduras. Now as Zalaya plays provocative games on the border, it appears the Obama administration is negotiating with the Honduran military for the return of Zalaya to power:
The communiqué was drafted in Washington after days of talks between mid-level Honduran officers and American Congressional aides. — NY Times, July 26, 2009
The communique it appears, indicates that the military would not stand in the way of Zalaya’s return. Is this not meddling? Left wing forces in the regions are trying to create another dictatorship like Venezuela and Cuba, the laws in Honduras are followed that prevent this, and the Obama administration weighs in on the side of the leftists.
There may not be a coup in Honduras, but we may be backing a socialist revolution. We have come a long way from Ronald Reagan winning the Cold War and freeing Eastern Europe.
