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Don't Forget About Honduras, It was No Coup, Could it Happen In the US
If Obama were found to hold the presidency under false pretenses?

This continues to be an important story, but hard to find it in the press.

Ignoring the constitution, President Manuel Zelaya ordered a “non-binding” referendum be put to the voters on extending his stay in office.

After the Honduran supreme court ruled that only the country’s congress could call such an election, Zelaya ordered the army to help him stage it anyway. When the head of the armed forces, acting on orders from the supreme court, refused, Zelaya fired him, then led a mob to break into a military base where the ballots were stored.

The Honduran Supreme Court, congress, attorney general and members of Zelaya’s cabinet opposed his move as unconstitutional. The supreme court ordered the military to remove Zelaya from office.

Nonetheless, Barack Obama declared the Honduran government’s actions a coup — never mind the government was preserving its democracy instead of overthrowing it.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “The action taken against Honduran President Mel Zelaya violates the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, and thus should be condemned by all.” She called on Hondurans to uphold their constitutional processes, the very thing they were doing by ousting Zelaya...

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/07/03...-question/ More ... http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/07/u...cy-of.html
(This post was last modified: 07-17-2009 12:27 PM by SumOfAllFears.)
07-17-2009 12:25 PM
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