Every time I walk by my building’s lobby in order to get to the elevator, I am forced to observe our ridiculous left-wing media ridicule the concept of the Constitution, and openly try to grant Hugo Chavez access to America’s nuclear weapons. After all, Zelaya recently made the Communist assertion that he should be President for life; after the Honduran Supreme Court stated that their Constitution does not permit such excessive power, the President tried to change the Constitution anyways. Thankfully, the military and the rest of the government would not stand for that nonsense, and promptly booted him out. The magnanimous lengths that they are going in an attempt to keep this Chavez-sucking swine out of their country is truly admirable; certainly, it is more admirable than the lackluster efforts our Republican Party has taken in ousting our illegitimate, inexperienced President, who continues to hide his birth certificate from Americans. Their government has valiantly shut down airports in order to keep Zelaya out of their country, and exterminated several unionized Socialist thugs that attempted to secure an airport for their Dear Leader.
As conservatives, we should valiantly stand by Honduras in their attempt to erect laissez-faire capitalism in their country, as well as stand by their commitment towards democracy (excluding the Communists, of course). After all, was it not America which gave the world a concept of how a Constitution should be, one that keeps bureaucrats and politicians in their places? Unfortunately, the MSM has been unanimously on the side of evil; even the normally acceptable Fox News has declined to announce its unremitting support towards Honduras. So, for the few enlightened that support the disposal of Zelaya, I salute you!
However, the question eluded me: Why does the world hate Honduras’ new government, a stalwart of democracy? Dennis Prager’s
call to arms answered my question, and it should be an inspiration to Americans old and young, rich and poor, white and black, Creationist or Intelligent Design Theorist, hard-working or privileged:
The importance of the summit meeting in Moscow between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pales in comparison to the events taking place in Honduras.
Whether or not the United States and Russia reduce their nuclear arsenals is ultimately meaningless. But whether Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro are victorious in Honduras or whether the movement toward left-wing authoritarianism is finally defeated in a Latin American country is extremely significant.
Our illegitimate President supports another illegitimate President supported by several illegitimate rulers while in an illegitimate talk about axing legitimate means of defense. Typical moonbat.
The courage of the pro-liberty forces in Honduras is almost miraculous. It is almost too good to be true, given Honduras’ consequent isolation in the world.
Even if you know little or nothing about the crisis in Honduras, nearly all you need to know in order to ascertain which side is morally right is this: Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Cuba’s Castro brothers, the United Nations, and the Organization of American States are all lined up against Honduras.
And what troubles these good people? They claim that there was a military coup in Honduras that renders the present government illegal.
It is unfortunate that America must be included in this list: even the most arrogant liberal understands that American patriots are conservative, while everyone knows that the one who waves the Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, or United Nations flag is the one that is an unreformed Marxist, a Bolshevist of the worst order, and an enemy of democracy and free markets. That the United States is not setting out to eradicate Cuba, to exterminate Venezuela, or to punish Nicaragua is scandalous. That the United States has not withdrawn from the United Nations over the UN’s support of a dictatorship ought to bring criminal charges against President Obama and his lapdog, Hillary Clinton, and the entire US Department of State. The OAS, of course, is just a joke that 99% of Americans have never heard of, and will soon never need to hear of it again,
Here, in brief, are the facts. You decide.
The president of Honduras, Jose Manuel Zelaya, a protege of Hugo Chavez, decided that he wanted to be able to be president for more than his one term that ends this coming January — perhaps for life. However, because the histories of Honduras and Latin America are replete with authoritarians and dictators, Honduras’s constitution absolutely forbids anyone from governing that country for more than one term.
So, Zelaya decided to follow Chavez’s example and find a way to change his country’s constitution. He decided to do this on his own through a referendum, without the congressional authorization demanded by Honduras’s constitution. He even had the ballots printed in Venezuela.
As Mary Anastasia O’Grady, who writes The Americas column in the Wall Street Journal, explains: “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. Chavez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela.”
The sweetest thing about all of this is that Chavez was surely about to use Honduras as his forward base against the American economy; Honduras would be an awfully convenient location for Venezuelan bombers to refuel after whittling away at American oil excavations. His insidious plot has been thwarted… for now. Chavez, being a rash man, will probably attempt to take over Honduras himself, rather than wait on the United Nations and the rest of the crooks to secure it for his disciple. He will inevitably inflict collateral damage on the Communists supporting Zelaya, thus converting the Commies that remain into free marketeers. With the extra bolster from the new Honduran patriots, Chavez’ invasion will go down in flames, many countries will resign from the United Nations in protest, and the Republicans will pursue a policy that involves supporting Honduras while attacking Venezuela, which will win them the Senate and most of the House in 2010.
The Honduras Supreme Court ruled Zelaya’s nonbinding referendum unconstitutional, and then instructed the military not to implement the vote as it normally does. When the head of the armed forces obeyed the legal authority, the Honduran Supreme Court, rather than President Zelaya, the president fired him and personally led a mob to storm the military base where the Venezuela-made ballots were being safeguarded.
As Jorge Hernandez Alcerro, former Honduran ambassador to the United States, wrote, “Mr. Zelaya and small segments of the population tried to write a new constitution, change the democratic system and seek his re-election, which is prohibited by the constitution.”
In order to stop this attempt to subvert the Honduran constitution, while keeping Honduras under the rule of law and preventing a Chavez-like dictatorship from developing in its country, the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the military to arrest Zelaya. They did so and expelled him to neighboring Costa Rica to prevent certain violence.
Mr. Alcerro wrote a rather excellent letter to the Washington Post in response to a rather ignorant story they wrote about the Honduras Constitution. His own Leftist party was in control of Congress when they decided to remove the swine from office; that he has to come crying to OUR officials is despicable; similarly, our complacency in insisting his wicked plans is similarly despicable. Zelaya should be lucky that he was expelled to Costa Rica, a neutral country; if he had been expelled to Canada and managed under the stern leadership of Stephen Harper, then he would have been dealt with in a swift and appropriate manner.
Was this a “military coup” as we understand the term? Columnist Mona Charen answered this best: “There was an attempted coup in Honduras, but it was Zelaya who initiated it, not his opponents.”
Or, to put in another way: When did a military coup ever take place that was ordered by that country’s supreme court, that was supported by the political party of the president who was overthrown, in which not one person was injured, let alone killed, and which replaced the ousted the president with the president of the country’s congress, a member of the same party as the ousted president?
There’s quite a difference between attempting to become a tyrant and attempting to stop a tyrant. The Honduran military, Supreme Court, and Congress did the only reasonable thing one can do when their country is about to become the new Stalinist utopia: they deported their aspiring tyrant, and quelled the riots.
What I am concerned about is this: Will this coup eventually lose its energy, much like the 2002 coup to oust Hugo Chavez? Will the ruling party eventually abandon the free markets in favor of kowtowing to an organization as naive and totalitarian as the UN?
But none of this matters to the United Nations, which never met a left-wing tyrant it didn’t find appealing. That is why the president of the U.N. General Assembly, a former Sandinista foreign minister, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, accompanied Zelaya in the airplane on Zelaya’s first attempt to return to Honduras on July 5. (Brockmann, among his other radical moral positions, is so virulently anti-Israel that the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations threatened not to attend the U.N. Holocaust Memorial Day event if Brockmann showed up.)
If only those two were assassinated in one fell swoop! The opportunity for ridding the world of two of its worst tyrants is glaring Obama in the face, and he is more than willing to watch the opportunity dissipate. The reason for that, of course, is because Obama is one of them.
And none of this matters to the OAS, which just lifted its ban on Cuba’s membership and which says nothing about Chavez’s shutting down of Venezuela’s opposition radio and television stations.
Of course, the Organization of American States is more than happy to deny Honduras its membership. Of course, the Osama Administration is more than happy to allow other countries to model themselves after our Fairness Doctrine, while more than unhappy to allow other countries to model themselves after our Constitution. In addition, the current secretary-general of the OAS, Miguel Insulza, assisted in the tyrannical reign of Salvador Allende, before finally being ousted by the just and freedom-bri
And none of this matters to the world’s left-wing media. Thus, on July 1, a writer for the United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian penned this insight: “There is no excuse for this coup. The battle between Zelaya and his opponents pits a reform president who is supported by labor unions and social organizations against a Mafia-like, drug-ridden, corrupt political elite.” To the Guardian writer, Zelaya was a “reform president.”
Lenin’s useful idiots never die out.
Then again, according to the Guardian, it’s better that one person comprises the political elite than dozens of people comprise the political elite. Sheer idiocy.
And the Los Angeles Times editorial page wrote: “Even though the Honduran Congress and military may believe they are defending the country against a would-be dictator, the ends don’t justify the means.”
Quite a great deal of foolishness in one sentence. That the Los Angeles Times does not believe that Zelaya is a would-be dictator is mind-numbing. As for the cliche that “the ends don’t justify the means,” in fact they quite often do. That is one of the ways in which we measure means. One assumes that while the Los Angeles Times believes that Americans should be law-abiding, it agrees with Rosa Parks having broken the law. The ends (fighting segregation) justified the means (breaking the law).
What Micheletti did is even more justified than what Rosa Parks did: while she inconvenienced several Americans in their daily lives and cost the economy several thousand dollars, Micheletti is only bringing convenience to those that accept it, and will drastically improve Honduras’ economy.
If Honduras is hung out to dry, if America suspends trade and economic aid, the forces arrayed against liberty in Latin America will have won a major victory. On the other hand, if Honduras is not abandoned now, those Iran-supporting, America-hating, liberty-loathing forces will have suffered a major defeat.
Even members of the Obama administration recognize this. As quoted in the Washington Post, Jeffrey Davidow, a retired U.S. ambassador who served as President Obama’s special adviser for the recent Summit of the Americas, said:
“The threats against democracy in Latin America are not those coming from military coups, but rather from governments which are ignoring checks and balances, overriding other elements of government.”
Let your representatives in Congress know that America needs to stand with liberty, not with Castro, Ortega, Zelaya, Chavez, the OAS, and the U.N. And buy Honduran goods. I am smoking a terrific Honduran cigar as I write these words: God bless Honduras.
Honduras was once an enemy of American interests; now, it is our ally. If Osama Obama makes a single mistake on handling this new government, however, all of our gains will have turned to losses, and we will eventually have to bomb Honduras like we must Iran. Of course, we know he will make that single mistake.

