World Supports Constitution Trashing Thug, Zelaya

Published by Peter Mains on June 30, 2009 at 08:55 AM

Obama made his feeling on the Honduran "coup" pretty well known. Unfortunately, very few media sources seem to be giving any details on the actual story. CNN dances around the issue. NPR's coverage seemed to consist entirely of covering the actions of protesters.

The problem here is this. Zelaya tried to call a referendum. Under the Honduran Constitution, he cannot do so, as their Supreme Court ruled. He then tried to distribute ballots. He is not legally allowed to conduct his own elections. The Honduran military apparently has a constitutional role there. He and his supporters actually broke into a military facility where the ballots were being held, and stole the ballots, because the military was refusing to conduct the already illegal election.

Not surprisingly, this is a serious crime -- an impeachable offense, in American terms. So, he was arrested by the military on orders of the Supreme Court and the Attorney General. This is called checks and balances. That's how healthy republics work. If anyone has a reason to believe that this was truly illegal, they need to be able to explain themselves. Arguing by assertion as our president did just makes the condemnation of Honduras' system seem unreasoned and Kafkaesque.

I know our Czar Czar is pretty contemptuous of limited powers and such, but this is pretty disgusting. And the way the entire world is siding with this criminal, Zelaya is very disheartening.