Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Constitutional Confusion in Honduras:Who's On First?

There seems to be more to the Honduran coup than meets the eye. The President of Honduras, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal on-line, was trying to change the constitution in an illegal manner. READ ABOUT IT HERE
A June 26th story read:

Government supporters began distributing ballots at 15,000 voting stations across the country, defying a Supreme Court ruling declaring Sunday’s referendum illegal and ordering all election material confiscated. President Manuel Zelaya had led thousands of supporters to recover the material from an air force warehouse before it could be confiscated.

The way I read it right now it seems to be a case of a chief executive exceeding his authority, the Supreme Court of Honduras called him on it and ordered the military which handles elections not to allow the illegal referendum where upon the chief executive fired the head of the military, so the Supreme Court ordered the military to remove him. The question is which part of the government are you going to honor? Another news story claims that 83% of the Honduran people side with the court against the president. Hmmm... seems strange that all the people complaining seem to be dictators ... except our president ... Hmmm... Tyranny Rising?

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