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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (57687)	7/6/2009 10:57:20 AM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 149317

With possible essentially minor errors, the following is about right, IMHO. The thing is, in Honduras unlike in America, the Supreme Court has the right to order the Military to do stuff to protect the country, and it did. Under the Honduran constitution, it is illegal to attempt to circumvent term limits. In this case, the President openly wanted to see about doing just that. The Congress and the Supreme Court didn't like it, and said you can't do that. So President Zelaya decided to go ahead anyway, thus necessarily using ballots provided by outsiders, in this case the dictator of another country, Hugo Chavez (and this surely counts as meddling on Hugo's part, which is why folks in Honduras are calling him another W. Bush). So the Honduran Supreme Court said you can't have that referendum with ballots from a foreign country. The Honduran Congress Agreed. When Zelaya saw that the military intended to obey the S.C., Zelaya ordered it not to. When the military decided to obey the Supreme Court instead, Zelaya fired the head decision maker of the Military (he no doubt was very close to having HIS way with the military, instead of the Supreme Court). This is when the Supreme Court ordered the military to take Zelaya out. It obeyed. It was a bloodless process, quite unlike other changes of power rightly called coups. Yes, protesters have caused some trouble and a few injuries and deaths have occurred but it is all quite minor compared to actual coups. Chavez claims the charges that he meddles are wrong, and that he is working to avoid violence. To achieve that, he encourages the opposition to existing rule of law per the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress. He encourages opposition to the pre-established legal in-line successor to Zelaya. He cuts off oil supplies to Honduras(which he KNOWS should anger many and likely promote violence, which could help him get Zelaya back in as HE plainly wishes). Yeah, right, THAT'S the definition of not meddling in the affairs of other countries, and promoting peace. Yeah, sure (to be clear, this is sarcasm. I know some of you may be slow out there). Dan B.