Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Car Czar Consulting says: What a “Quartet!” Can’t sing a lick!
How can this Administration be on the wrong side of this one? Is it Leftist-leaning or simply tipped over in agreeing with these other criminals?
Where were they when Iranian citizens were being slaughtered in the street?
For a better sounding group, and more “Heavenly Parade,” check out the video below.
You be the judge!
Mark Levin’s takes on all this, and calls out Obama perpetrating a “soft” Tyranny vs. a “limited government” as directed by the US Constitution, is here as well at: levin06302009
President Obama
Levine clearly outlines our pending loss of Liberty – it’s simply astounding! Stand up now and be counted, or be prepared to be controlled directly by the Federal Government or by it imposing so-called “standards” – starting with light bulbs (really!!) and moving to health care.
JUNE 30, 2009 (WSJ) Honduras Defends Its Democracy; Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object.
Hugo Chávez’s coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation’s constitution.
It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking.
But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya’s abuses, also wants him back in power. It will be a miracle if Honduran patriots can hold their ground.
[THE AMERICAS] Associated Press
That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.
But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.
The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.
Calculating that some critical mass of Hondurans would take his side, the president decided he would run the referendum himself. So on Thursday he led a mob that broke into the military installation where the ballots from Venezuela were being stored and then had his supporters distribute them in defiance of the Supreme Court’s order.
The attorney general had already made clear that the referendum was illegal, and he further announced that he would prosecute anyone involved in carrying it out. Yesterday, Mr. Zelaya was arrested by the military and is now in exile in Costa Rica.
It remains to be seen what Mr. Zelaya’s next move will be. It’s not surprising that chavistas throughout the region are claiming that he was victim of a military coup. They want to hide the fact that the military was acting on a court order to defend the rule of law and the constitution, and that the Congress asserted itself for that purpose, too.
Mrs. Clinton has piled on as well. Yesterday she accused Honduras of violating “the precepts of the Interamerican Democratic Charter” and said it “should be condemned by all.” Fidel Castro did just that. Mr. Chávez pledged to overthrow the new government.
Honduras is fighting back by strictly following the constitution. The Honduran Congress met in emergency session yesterday and designated its president as the interim executive as stipulated in Honduran law. It also said that presidential elections set for November will go forward. The Supreme Court later said that the military acted on its orders. It also said that when Mr. Zelaya realized that he was going to be prosecuted for his illegal behavior, he agreed to an offer to resign in exchange for safe passage out of the country. Mr. Zelaya denies it.
Many Hondurans are going to be celebrating Mr. Zelaya’s foreign excursion. Street protests against his heavy-handed tactics had already begun last week. On Friday a large number of military reservists took their turn. “We won’t go backwards,” one sign said. “We want to live in peace, freedom and development.”
Besides opposition from the Congress, the Supreme Court, the electoral tribunal and the attorney general, the president had also become persona non grata with the Catholic Church and numerous evangelical church leaders. On Thursday evening his own party in Congress sponsored a resolution to investigate whether he is mentally unfit to remain in office.
For Hondurans who still remember military dictatorship, Mr. Zelaya also has another strike against him: He keeps rotten company. Earlier this month he hosted an OAS general assembly and led the effort, along side OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, to bring Cuba back into the supposedly democratic organization.
The OAS response is no surprise. Former Argentine Ambassador to the U.N. Emilio Cárdenas told me on Saturday that he was concerned that “the OAS under Insulza has not taken seriously the so-called ‘democratic charter.’ It seems to believe that only military ‘coups’ can challenge democracy. The truth is that democracy can be challenged from within, as the experiences of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and now Honduras, prove.” A less-kind interpretation of Mr. Insulza’s judgment is that he doesn’t mind the Chávez-style coup.
The struggle against chavismo has never been about left-right politics. It is about defending the independence of institutions that keep presidents from becoming dictators. This crisis clearly delineates the problem. In failing to come to the aid of checks and balances, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Insulza expose their true colors.
Banana Democrats
Americas: During his campaign, President Obama made a big deal of criticizing leaders who are elected democratically but don’t govern democratically. He’s had a chance to show that it mattered in Honduras. He didn’t.
That’s the sorry story as Honduras’ now ex-president, Mel Zelaya, last Thursday defied a Supreme Court ruling and tried to hold a “survey” to rewrite the constitution for his permanent re-election. It’s the same blueprint for a rigged political system that’s made former democracies like Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador into shells of free countries.
Zelaya’s operatives did their dirt all the way through. First they got signatures to launch the “citizen’s power” survey through threats — warning those who didn’t sign that they’d be denied medical care and worse. Zelaya then had the ballots flown to Tegucigalpa on Venezuelan planes. After his move was declared illegal by the Supreme Court, he tried to do it anyway.
As a result of his brazen disregard for the law, Zelaya found himself escorted from office by the military Sunday morning, and into exile. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro rushed to blame the U.S., calling it a “yanqui coup.”
President Obama on Monday called the action “not legal,” and claimed that Zelaya is still the legitimate president.
There was a coup all right, but it wasn’t committed by the U.S. or the Honduran court. It was committed by Zelaya himself. He brazenly defied the law, and Hondurans overwhelmingly supported his removal (a pro-Zelaya rally Monday drew a mere 200 acolytes).
Yet the U.S. administration stood with Chavez and Castro, calling Zelaya’s lawful removal “a coup.” Obama called the action a “terrible precedent,” and said Zelaya remains president.
In doing this, the U.S. condemned democrats who stood up to save their democracy, a move that should have been hailed as a historic turning of the tide against the false democracies of the region.
The U.S. response has been disgraceful. “We recognize Zelaya as the duly elected and constitutional president of Honduras. We see no other,” a State Department official told reporters.
Worse, the U.S. now contemplates sanctions on the tiny drug-plagued, dirt-poor country of 7 million, threatening to halt its $200 million in U.S. aid, immigration accords and a free-trade treaty if it doesn’t put the criminal Zelaya back into office.
Not even Nicaragua, a country the State Department said committed a truly fraudulent election, got that. Nor has murderous Iran gotten such punishment, even as it slaughters Iranian democrats in the streets. But tiny Honduras must be made to pay.
We understand why the White House is so quick to call this a “coup” and to jump to the side of Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan despot has made political hay against the U.S. over its premature recognition of the Venezuelan coup leaders who tried to overthrow Chavez in 2002. Obama wants to avoid that this time.
The White House also wants to mollify the morally corrupted Organization of American States, which, by admitting Cuba, is no longer an organization of democracies and now, through its radical membership, tries to dictate how other countries run themselves.
Such a response says that democracy effectively ends with elections. It says rule of law is irrelevant and that rulers have rights, not responsibilities. But if leaders can’t be held accountable, they should be removed, as happened in Honduras.
If the U.S. does hit Honduras with sanctions, it will earn ill will in the country lasting for years. It will further erode U.S. moral authority and cost us influence in the region — becoming an embarrassing footnote in the history of U.S.-Latin American relations.
Is that what the U.S. wants? It’s time for a more sophisticated definition of democracy — one that includes the rule of law and the will of the people.
(CNN) — A new stand-off was brewing in Honduras as the country’s recently deposed president vowed to return, while the new provisional government said it would arrest him if he set foot back in the country.
Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya appears Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly.
Political turmoil has swept this Central American nation of 8 million people following a military-led coup Sunday that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya. Troops entered the president’s residence and sent him out of the country in exile. A veteran legislator, Roberto Micheletti, was sworn in that same day as provisional president with the support of congress.
“I am going to return on Thursday because they expelled me by force, and I am going to return as always: as a citizen and as president,” Zelaya said at a U.N. news conference shortly after the world body unanimously adopted a resolution that he should be restored to power.
Zelaya, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, called the resolution historic.
“Your servant has several accusations against him in Honduras,” Zelaya said. “But nobody has given me a trial. Nobody has convened a tribunal.”
Meanwhile, Micheletti’s provisional government said Zelaya would be arrested if he returned.
“As soon as he arrives he will be captured, as we already have the arrest warrants ready,” new Foreign Minister Enrique Ortez Colindres told CNN en Español.
Zelaya would face charges of violating the constitution, corruption and drug trafficking, among others, Ortez said.
The deposed president said he would travel to Washington to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States. He also is expected to meet Tuesday evening with Tom Shannon, the top U.S. official on Latin America.
Even as Zelaya spoke at the United Nations, his opponents held a large and noisy rally in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Crowd members waved blue and white Honduran flags and signs denouncing Zelaya.
Roberto Micheletti, the new provisional president, briefly addressed the crowd Tuesday afternoon. He vowed that the next national elections, slated for November, will be held as planned, and that a new president will be sworn in as usual in January.
Gen. Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, the top Honduran military commander who had butted heads with Zelaya, also spoke at the rally. By removing Zelaya, the armed forces were only complying with their constitutional duties, he said.
Before he spoke, the crowd chanted in support, “Armed forces! Armed forces!”
Zelaya supporters also were active Tuesday, with three major public-sector labor unions launching a general strike, a union official told CNN. About 100,000 workers joined the strike, said Oscar Garcia, vice president of the Honduran water workers union SANAA. That number could not be independently verified.
“It will be an indefinite strike,” Garcia said. “We don’t recognize this new government imposed by the oligarchy, and we will mount our campaign of resistance until President Manuel Zelaya is restored to power.”
Also on Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said it was reviewing its aid to Honduras as it works with regional partners on a deal to restore Zelaya to power and quell political unrest in the country.
Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the U.S. was reviewing whether Zelaya’s ouster met the legal definition of a “coup” before any decision was made.
“Because of the situation and the very dramatic nature of the events there and our profound concern about what’s going on there, I think we’re looking at a number of aspects of our cooperation,” Kelly said.
The State Department has also issued a travel alert due “to the current unstable political and security situation in Honduras.” The alert “recommends that American citizens defer all nonessential travel to Honduras until further notice.”
In another development, two U.S. military officials in Washington confirmed to CNN that U.S. helicopters will fly over southern Honduras on a humanitarian relief mission Tuesday. The officials said there is great sensitivity to any public appearance by the U.S. military in the country.
The U.S. military also postponed some planned exercises with the Honduran military until the situation in the country settles down, according to the U.S. Southern Command.
“We have postponed certain activities,” Maj. D.L. Wright, Southern Command spokesman, told CNN.
Wright said this decision would be in effect for at least two to three weeks, or “until the political situation settles.”
Zelaya was overthrown early Sunday when the Honduran military arrested him and flew him to Costa Rica. Micheletti, president of the Congress, was sworn in as provisional president later Sunday.
The United Nations, OAS and most nations in the Western Hemisphere, including the United States, have condemned the ouster and demanded that Zelaya be restored to power.
The World Bank said Tuesday it would freeze funds to Honduras until the crisis is resolved, and the United States said it is reviewing its aid to the Central American nation. The U.S. joined many other nations in co-sponsoring Tuesday’s U.N. resolution.
Zelaya had been at odds with the other branches of government over a referendum he wanted to hold Sunday. The Honduran Supreme Court had ruled that the referendum was illegal, and Congress had voted not to hold it.
The high court also had overturned Zelaya’s dismissal of Honduras’ top general, who said the military would not participate in the referendum. The court ordered that the general be reinstated immediately.
Zelaya disregarded those actions and vowed to hold the vote anyway.
Honduran authorities on Monday clashed with Zelaya supporters, who took to the streets and threw rocks at authorities, burned tires and set up roadblocks.
In a radio address Tuesday, Micheletti said Zelaya would be arrested if he came back.
Micheletti also told Honduras’ representatives at the United Nations and OAS to quit speaking against the new government or they immediately will be removed from their posts. They are not authorized, he said, to speak for the Honduran government.
Sr. Insulza, Secretario General de la OEA.
Sr. Insulza. Le hablo como un hondureño común y corriente que ama a su país, que quiero vivir en el y que quiero que mis hijos vivan en el. Si Vd. verdaderamente representa lo que su curricula manifiesta, favor de escuchar ambas partes y se dará cuenta que nosotros los hondureños tomamos la decisión de destituir a esta persona que estaba con una agenda establecida y externa, orientada a modificar todo por lo que hemos estado luchando como sociedad simple, con altas imperfecciones pero digna de decidir por nosotros mismos lo que nos conviene y lo que no. En la Constitución de Estados Unidos dice “We the people”, y lo defienden y han defendido a capa y espada hasta con sangre para poder llegar hasta donde están hoy. Nosotros, aunque pequeños, pero tenemos el mismo derecho de autodeterminación para definirnos como “We the people” y escoger lo que nos conviene y lo que no. Favor, respetar ese derecho y hacer lo correcto hacia ese sentido. Atte.
Sr. Barrack Obama, Presidente de Estados Unidos de América.
Sr Obama, favor que le traduzcan lo de arriba; y además le digo que aquí no se ha hecho mas que actuar en los intereses de nosotros mismos, por la mayoría; de similar manera que como su país lo ha hecho en múltiples situaciones, ejemplos:
* Panamá, en 1,989, cuando los intereses de USA se vieron afectados cuando un “loco” se descarriló y decidió actuar al margen de la ley y de los intereses de su país llevándose de encuentro los intereses de Vds.
* Irak, 2003, idem.
* Granada, 1983, idem.
* Y muchos de casos mas a lo largo de la historia de su país.
Con la única diferencia que estó sucedió en países ajenos a Estados Unidos y Vds. aún así actuaron. Esto estaba sucediendo en nuestro país, y con el derecho de “autodeterminación” y repaldado por la mayoría de nuestro pueblo hemos decidido salvar a nuestra sociedad y sacar a una persona que estaba actuando para intereses y con agendas ajenas a nuestra voluntad. Se actuó para salvar a Honduras. Sin país no tenemos democracia, entonces por orden prioritario, había primero que salvar al país. En noviembre 29 procedemos a salvar la democracia. Favor de hacer lo correcto y darnos una oportunidad de explicarle al mundo lo que en realidad sucedió en nuestro querida Honduras. De Vd Atte.
Emilio Ulloa
Thank you for posting this. I asked our staff to translate this if they could. Here is our attempt at translation:
This is a personal request for the intervention of the OAS. Know and Distribute:
Friday July 4 1975 at the height of their constitutional roles of Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, a bomb exploded in the bathroom of a bar downtown Knights “The Iberian” of Buenos Aires.
The aim of this attack was to assassinate a naval officer who was a lone table reserved near the door leading to the bathrooms. Coincidentally, that day the sea was not to take their coffee and instead sat a woman, completely alien to everything. The explosion killed her instantly, along with the guy that was assisting a group of parishioners from wounds received consideration, not counting the bar was demolished and its owner in “Pampa and Via.
A few days after it was learned that the perpetrator of the attack had been Jorge Taiana.
In view of the danger, it stayed in the Criminal Rawson. There he served at the bakery, until he escaped “on probation” because the trial judge considered their particular family situation. I had two small children. The National State as compensation a sum succulent, having been “victims of fascist persecution.”
Those unable to leave their coffins with probation, or receive compensation, nor care for their young children, were women and the coffee guy who still must be asked why the walk was killed. But nobody is perfect in life or in death, as in this case.
Jorge Taiana TODAY IS FOREIGN GOVERNMENT OF ARGENTINA
I find it amazing that our President and government is calling foul that a corrupt president is deposed because he is trying to illegally alter the constitution of Honduras to make himself more like his socialistic ally Chavez. The U.S. needs to applaud Honduras for not allowing itself to be ruined like Chavez is currently doing with Venezuela and Castro has already done with Cuba. The world reaction to a leader trying to become a dictator being deposed is just baffling to me. Shame on Obama and the U.S. government!
Este es el personje que pedira la intervencion de la OEA. Conozcalo y difundalo:
El viernes 4 de julio de 1975, estando en plenitud de sus funciones el gobierno constitucional de María Estela Martínez de Perón, estalló una bomba en el baño de caballeros del céntrico bar “El Ibérico” de Buenos Aires.
El objetivo de aquel atentado fue el de asesinar a un oficial naval que tenía reservada una solitaria mesa en proximidades de la puerta que da a los baños. Casualmente ese día el marino no fue a tomar su café y en su lugar se sentó una mujer, completamente ajena a todo. El estallido la mató instantáneamente, juntamente con el mozo que la estaba atendiendo y un grupo importante de parroquianos recibió heridas de consideración, sin contar el bar que quedó demolido y su dueño en “Pampa y la Vía”.
Pocos días después se supo que el autor del atentado había sido Jorge Taiana.
En vista de su peligrosidad, lo alojaron en el Penal de Rawson. Allí prestó servicios en la panadería, hasta que logró salir “bajo libertad vigilada”, porque el juez de la causa consideró su particular situación familiar. Tenía dos hijos pequeños. El Estado Nacional lo indemnizó con una suma suculenta, por haber sido “víctima de la persecución fascista”.
Los que no pudieron salir de sus féretros con libertad vigilada, ni recibir indemnizaciones, ni cuidar de sus pequeños hijos, fueron la mujer y el mozo del café quienes todavía se deben andar preguntado por qué los mataron. Pero bueno: nadie es perfecto en la vida, o en la muerte, como en este caso.
JORGE TAIANA HOY ES MINISTRO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES DEL GOBIERNO ARGENTINO
what a big mistake Obama Administration has done. I would like to know his posture, first Iran now Honduras, we are trying to put an stop to this psych(chavez) and his puppet. it seem to me the USA don’t give the necessary attention on what is going on an Latin America. We will demostrate to the whole world. we don’t want Chavez intro mission or any other communist country.
As as citizen of Honduras, and support the new goverment, this move was made to preserve democracy, Ex president Zelaya and many of his cabinet members made many illegal acts, and no one is above the law, with all the internation condemnation, I prefer to take the economic sanctions as a true patriot democrat than to live forever in a Chavez puppet regime.
Dear all
although my beloved Country Honduras is very small, poor, here we have dignity and we appeal to the international comunity before to judge us should has listened both side not just Zelaya expresident opinion( here we are aprox. 8 milion), legally(based on our constitucion) we have a new president and it will be just for a few months until the next november elections. Please respect our constitution and law. I have not any political party but I love my country. to all the world we the people of honduras want peace, fredom and democracy. the mayority of hondurans dont want a socialism like venezuela. or comunism like cuba. God Bless Honduras!!!!!!!!!!
I am in agreement with your thoughts and prayers for your country.
The International Comunity before taking decions should review what people in Honduras wants. We don´t want a President as Zelaya who believes is above the law and our constitution. I am really concern about decisions made just listening one part of the story! As a Honduras citizen I want peace for my country, but also democracy, please if you really care just let us do what we think we should do by following the laws. We don´t want conflict, we want a real democracy which is not Zelaya.
Como hondurena rechazo categoricamente las expreciones del Sr. Vargas Llosa, el cual expreso de que el Presidente Zelaya sabia del “golpe de estado”. Y como hondurena quiero decirles a todas esas personas que estan a favor del “golpe de estado” que Honduras nunca a necesitado dinero para ganar las elecciones libres del Partido Liberal al cual pertenece el Presidente Zelaya.
Le guste o no a los gorilas militares y a ciertas personas del partido nacional, el partido liberal siempre ha sido mayoritario. El partido liberal no ha necesitado ningun centavo de otros paises para poderle ganar al partido nacional, como lo menciono en la entrevista el Sr. Vargas Llosa.
Y no me extrana como hondurena que soy, que los gorilas de la gestapo de Honduras(los militares) hayan vuelto a las andadas del pasado. No me extrana que los militares hayan roto los llavines de la residencia del presidente de la republica (Mel Zelaya) ya que esa es constumbre de ellos.
Nada mas que ahora, estos sinverguenzas se estan tapando la cara para que nadie del pueblo los reconozca.
Volveran las lagrimas de las madres nuevamente ya que en el tiempo de los militares, desaparecieron muchos hijos y esposos de campesinos hondurenos solo por levantar su voz para una vida mejor. Por eso como hondurena me siento triste y avergonzada de ciertas personas que todavia tienen el descaro de apoyar el “golpe de estado”. Porque quieran o no lo quieran fue un golpe de estado.
God Bless Honduras. They show more courage
than I’ve seen in my life time.
THE USA has lost it’s soul. We have our brave soldiers fighting our Enemy, when it appears that our own leaders are taking money from our future
generations.
very , very sad.
Our own President is trying to kill the freedom of the good people of Honduras.