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2009-07-29 Caribbean-Latin America

US revokes visas of 4 Honduran officials

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Posted by Steve White 2009-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 I see the administration is acting "stupidly".

Posted by newc">newc 2009-07-29 00:35|| 2009-07-29 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps Obama doesn't have all the "facts".

Posted by ed 2009-07-29 00:54|| 2009-07-29 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Stupid f**king government toadies writing these things, "coup-installed leaders" - NOT! The whole thing is constitutional per the Honduras constitution.

BULLSHIT - Obama you and your people are fucking LIARS, despicable and deserve the worst fate anyone can imagine for you.

Why is that a-hole in the oval office trying to screw a true and functional democracy that is an ally?

Dammit, I do not advocate the assassination of US public officials, but if a Honduran took a shot at one of ours I really could not blame them much, given the bullying, small-mindedness and generally anti-democratic, pro-dictator stance said US officials are taking in trying to demolish Honduras and hand it over as a Chavez puppet state.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-29 03:41|| 2009-07-29 03:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Four clothing companies who manufacture products in Honduran factories--Nike, Inc., Adidas AG, Gap Inc. and Knights Apparel--released a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calling for the "restoration of democracy in Honduras."

And there you have it. The real reason.

Obama is just being a [[Geebus dude, you KNOW better than that! Are you TRYING to get sinktrapped? Please think twice next time. -Scooter]], in order to keep peopel from actually asserting rights against US companies that wish to exploit them rather than deal with truly free people.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-29 03:44|| 2009-07-29 03:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry to be so pissed folks, but this has me heated up. I served in Honduras at one time, and I know several missionaries who have been there, and a few families that have come (legally) from there. This crap Obama is doing is hideously wrong.

Were another country to try to abrogate our US Constitution and install a would-be dictator and criminal as president, I'd be trying to figure out which meddling foreign officials I could kill easily and get away with it.

This is akin to NATO, Communist China and the Soviet Union trying to reinstate Nixon because they found him easier to deal with, and completely ignored his criminality.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-29 04:08|| 2009-07-29 04:08|| Front Page Top

#6 We know, OS. I hope Honduras has the spine to tell Obama to go to hell. If I was them, I would send those 4 on a diplomatic mission to the US as a dare to see if Bambi would blink. If he did, great. Honduras now has political capital for standing up to the US. If he arrests/sends 'em back, then it is a PR bonus as you can deflect some popular anger into showing how the US is acting "imperialistic" and "meddling" in Latin American affairs again while keeping the LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL government in place.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-07-29 07:21|| 2009-07-29 07:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Also, what gets me is the Honduran people are just now getting used to what happened. Meaning, there will not be more riots and strikes over this. Bambi just handed the opposition cause to keep the fires burning, so to speak. They have hope the US will support them if they cause chaos or civil war. Does Bambi and the Wicked Witch of the North realize this and are hoping for it, or are they that blind, arrogant and stupid?

How much hope do we have here at home when our "democratic and free" government is pushing for tyranny for foreign nations?

Posted by DarthVader 2009-07-29 07:25|| 2009-07-29 07:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Scoot, its the proper name for a person of color that is behaving like Obama does. I grew up hearing the term used by my friends (yes it was a mixed race neighborhood - we were poor, not prejudiced). Its not offensive to me, just descriptive. I sometimes forget that others do not see things how I do.

an expression used exclusively by a black man to describe another black man ... part of the beauty and power of the expression lies in the fact that it can be pronounced, house slave, but still make the same point (not to be confused with other terms that have similar components but are used exclusively by white racists).

Anyway, I hope Honduras can stand up to Obama and his idiot cronies, and don't let the b*astards in DC force the to give up their constitution and the liberty it protects. It disgusts me to see our government siding with Castro and Chavez, and our press repeating lie after lie, editorializing "news" instead of reporting it, and nobody is being held to account for their words and deeds.

Its doubly frustrating because there is little we can do - if I went and beat the reporters up, I'd go to jail; "he needed an asskicking" is no longer a legal excuse, not even in Texas.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-29 11:35|| 2009-07-29 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 OS, please give some consideration to Fred, who is legally and otherwise accountable for terms that can be Googled. This isn't a matter of being 'right'. It's a matter of consideration for our host and the site owner.

Thanks.

Posted by lotp 2009-07-29 16:26|| 2009-07-29 16:26|| Front Page Top

#10 I am so sick of our country being on the wrong side of damn near every issue ever since we got our affirmative action president.

Posted by Mercutio 2009-07-29 17:50|| 2009-07-29 17:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Manuel Zelaya, future Obama cabinet czar for Central American relations...

Posted by logi_cal 2009-07-29 19:03|| 2009-07-29 19:03|| Front Page Top

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