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| Ousted leader announces bid to return to Honduras | |
| 2009-06-30 | |
| Honduras' ousted president said he will return to his country in two days and reclaim control from coup leaders, urging soldiers to go back to their baracks and stop cracking down on thousands of his supporters who have protested his overthrow. Arrest his ass the minute the plane touches down and put him on trial for treason for usurping the constitution. Then shoot him. That's the only way they're going to stop this nonsense for good.
Brought the hairy eyeball from all the leaders who feel like they've got a right to do as they damned well please and the rubes and the rules be damned. Flanked by leftist Latin American leaders who have vowed to help him regain power, Manuel Zelaya said late Monday that he would accept an offer by Organization of American States Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza to accompany him back to Honduras and work for the restoration of the democratic order. Zelaya, a wealthy rancher who has championed the poor, said he wanted to make the trip Thursday, after attending a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to seek support from its 192 member nations. "I will return Thursday to Tegucigalpa and I want the support of whoever thinks I have the right to finish my presidency," Zelaya said at a late night news conference in Nicaragua, where he earlier received a standing ovation during a meeting of Latin American leaders to discuss the coup. Honduran military leaders arrested him Sunday and flew him to Costa Rica. | |
| Posted by:ed |
| #6 Excuse me "Can ignore both the constitution and the law with impunity". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-06-30 21:06 |
| #5 What's really happening here, Oblahblahblah wants badly to set a precedent where the President (Doesn;t matter where) Can ignore the constitution with impunity. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-06-30 20:58 |
| #4 Typical lefty - he never met a totalitarian he didn't like. Note that even Saul Alinsky's trash book for wannabe revolutionaries is called "RULES for Radicals"... There always has to be a Leader, yannow. Me, I prefer "There is no governor, anywhere." |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-06-30 13:55 |
| #3 seems the one is very comfortable in the arms of anti constitutional forces...guess he see's his own ass on the line in the future and wants to set the stage for public acceptance of going aganst constitution adhearance...for iranian's who desire freedom he drags his ass for almost a week..but for this anti constitional crowd his condenmations are immediate...time for america to wake up the monster we have and start to deal with it. |
| Posted by: Dan 2009-06-30 12:08 |
| #2 "The military coup has provoked the condemnation of world leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez..." That's a very small range. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2009-06-30 11:23 |
| #1 Obama's very own Aristide. Wonderful. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-06-30 09:36 |