An article from some radical right-wing nut about Obama and his disdain for the rule of law over at Renew America.
American conservatives may perhaps take some small comfort in the fact that there is at least one country in the Western hemisphere that actually takes its own constitution seriously. Unfortunately, that country is Honduras, and not the United States.
By now, most readers are probably familiar with the events that have taken place in Honduras over the past two weeks. If one only listened to the reports from the mainstream media, one would get the impression that horrible, evil right-wingers in the Honduran military had staged a coup d’etat against a popular democratically-elected President. This, of course, is not what happened. In fact, the deposeé — Manuel Zelaya — had attempted to amend the Honduran constitution by popular referendum to allow himself to serve a third term as President. According to said document, not only is the constitution not amendable in this fashion, but a sitting President immediately forfeits his right to hold that office if he proposes to alter the constitution to give himself extra terms. Hence, the moment he put forward the proposal, Zelaya legally deposed himself.
Further, the Honduran military removed Zelaya from office as their constitution expressly says they can do in such a case, and this move was approved (in fact, it was ordered) by the Honduran Supreme Court, acting in its capacity as the interpreter of Honduras’ highest law of the land. To top it off, Zelaya was replaced by Roberto Michelleti, formerly the President of the Honduran Congress, by a nearly unanimous vote of Honduras’ legislature — again completely in accord with what their constitution stipulates.
Yet, America’s Hypocrite-in-Chief calls these events “illegal.”
It’s kind of long, but read the whole thing when you get the time!
Tags: Honduras, Progressives
