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2009-06-29 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by ryuge 2009-06-29 06:43|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Hondouras is fighting back a hostile takeover by enforcing the constitution. What a concept! Maybe we should try that. Seems like or constitution has been bypassed quite a lot recently.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-06-29 08:22|| 2009-06-29 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 The fact that they are strictly following the constitution is exactly why this is being condemned so loudly in the usual quarters. It sets a bad precedent.

Posted by gromky 2009-06-29 08:45|| 2009-06-29 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Man I bet Barry, Nacny, and Hillary wished they could do this. If your keeping score this is the third time our country has sided against democray: Israel, Iran, and now Hunduras. Paging Jimmy Carter!

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-06-29 08:50|| 2009-06-29 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 For Hondurans who still remember military dictatorship, Mr. Zelaya also has another strike against him: He keeps rotten company

Zelaya chums around with Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Daley, Geo Soros? What a small world we live in.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-06-29 09:25|| 2009-06-29 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 This is an outrage, an utter disgrace; the United States joining various tinhorns in an effort to overthrow the rule of law and place yet another country under the heel of authoritarian "community organizers."
Is this the Big Zero's plan for the United States, too; staged and orchestrated "popular" sentiment and the charisma of the dear leader trumping the Constitution and the rule of law?

Screw these traitors, screw the media and to hell with Chavez, Castro, and ACORN.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-29 10:42|| 2009-06-29 10:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Honduras makes me wonder if anything like this would even happen in the USA, the military moving against the executive branch to block a move outlawed by the courts &/or legislature.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-06-29 12:35|| 2009-06-29 12:35|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd like to voice my full support for someone moving to enforce the constitution here in the US.

Posted by Iblis 2009-06-29 12:42|| 2009-06-29 12:42|| Front Page Top

#8 "Honduras makes me wonder if anything like this would even happen in the USA, the military moving against the executive branch to block a move outlawed by the courts &/or legislature."

Normally, federal marshals (who work for the judicial branch) would have the job of dealing with illegal acts by the executive branch. If they cannot handle it, the Congress can in fact declare a state of insurrection and call upon the military to enforce the Constitution. This is almost exactly what happened in Honduras. The "coup" and "military power grab" as the traitors at AP call it, was no such thing.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-29 13:39|| 2009-06-29 13:39|| Front Page Top

#9 I believe the federal courts can also order the military into action in the event of an insurrection, which open defiance by ~~Obama and ACORN~~ the executive certainly would be.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-29 13:42|| 2009-06-29 13:42|| Front Page Top

#10 The military is part of the Executive branch of government. Not the judiciary and not the legislative. Its leader is the President not the Chief Justice. But that aside, there is always the possibility of a "7 Days in May" type of putsch but Barry would have to be in the soup big time, not just for increasing the deficit and strangling capitalism. I fear we are going to lose our post-Iraq and post-Afghanistan officer corp and Barry gets to mold the heart of the military to his own liking. That is a greater fear than an actual military coup over the One.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-06-29 13:56|| 2009-06-29 13:56|| Front Page Top

#11 AP limited their discussion of past coups to Central America. Otherwise they probably would have mentioned the Bush coup of 2000 as the last one. That was executed not by the military but by something libs and the media hate even more, a duly constituted and ethical court of law.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-29 13:59|| 2009-06-29 13:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Jack, I understand that the military is part of the executive. Nevertheless, its primary oath is to the Constitution and that supercedes any other arrangement or chain of command. Are you saying otherwise, that it is somehow unlawful for the military to assist the Congress or the courts in restoring Constitutional order?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-29 14:03|| 2009-06-29 14:03|| Front Page Top

#13 This isn't the fucking Third Reich, there is no Hitler style oath of loyalty to the POTUS unto death.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-29 14:05|| 2009-06-29 14:05|| Front Page Top

#14 I'll try to make it simple: If the President breaks the law, Congress and the Supreme Court can order him to obey the law in a number of ways. If he still refuses, and attempts, for example, to use force against an impeachment and removal proceeding, the legal obligation devolves down the chain of command until someone will obey. At some point, whoever can enforce the law is legally required to do so.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-29 14:16|| 2009-06-29 14:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Is there any thing the Clintons cannot make worse?

Posted by whatadeal 2009-06-29 15:50|| 2009-06-29 15:50|| Front Page Top

#16 Monicas dress sold for a bundle.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-06-29 17:37|| 2009-06-29 17:37|| Front Page Top

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