tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post6996877453514896702..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Hilarious Honduras hypocrisyBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-70074396447592992152009-07-07T08:15:23.462-07:002009-07-07T08:15:23.462-07:00The illegality is rooted in the fact that the army...The illegality is rooted in the fact that the army sent away Mr. Zelaya to Costa Rica´s Oscar Arias, a Nobel Prize winner, instead of exposing him to the natural nervousness provoked by the circumstances. <br /><br />It is really not meant as an excuse but the de-facto truth is that in the future many of those who could find themselves in a predicament similar to that of Zelaya would most probably go down or their knees begging for a little “Honduran coup” treatment.Per Kurowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14155373607182051840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-47289594589068505602009-07-07T07:59:40.574-07:002009-07-07T07:59:40.574-07:00So Little Rock 1957 was a military coup? The milit...So Little Rock 1957 was a military coup? The military enforcing a Supreme Court order IS NOT A COUP. Period. When the 101st Airborne enforced the orders of the U.S. Supreme Court and escorted those little black children into Little Rock High School, that was NOT a military coup.<br /><br />In the case of Honduras, the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the President of Honduras removed from office and arrested for violating the most inviolate article of the Honduran Constitution: the one that says that if the President even PROPOSES a second term, even THINKS about it, he is automatically removed from office and stripped of his Honduran citizenship for the next ten years. They do NOT want strong man rule in Honduras again. It could not be a coup because ZELAYA WAS NO LONGER PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS AT THE TIME HE WAS ARRESTED BY THE MILITARY AND DEPORTED. He wasn't even a CITIZEN OF HONDURAS at that time, he had automatically stripped himself of that citizenship for the next ten years the moment he proposed his little referendum, and thus it was quite permissible to deport him as an illegal alien.<br /><br />If it was a military coup, WHY IS THE MILITARY NOT RUNNING HONDURAS RIGHT NOW? Why is there a CIVILIAN government running Honduras right now, instead of a junta of generals? If removal of a trespasser from the White House in order to allow the real President to take office is a coup, what was Little Rock 1957? A coup? GAH! <br /><br />- Badtux the Constitutional PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-45640575863630774912009-07-07T06:35:19.262-07:002009-07-07T06:35:19.262-07:00Dear Flipper Feet -
I am not familiar with the sp...Dear Flipper Feet -<br /><br />I am not familiar with the specific provisions of the Honduran Constitution. But I don't know of ANY Constitution that provides for replacing the chief executive at militaty gunpoint.<br /><br />El Presidente may have been a shmuck, but what happened WAS a coup. (If it waddles like a penguin and snarks like a penguin, it's a penguin. Call it an eagle if you like, it's still a penguin.) As long as free & fair elections are possible, he can be removed by election. If he broke the law, there is a branch of government empowered to try him in court.TampaDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927689342520971279noreply@blogger.com