Comments on: President Zelaya Blocked from Return to Honduras http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:56:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Siun http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930384 Siun Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:20:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930384 <p>Thank you Laurenc - Global Exchange does consistently awesome work and this is very helpful information for us all.</p> Thank you Laurenc – Global Exchange does consistently awesome work and this is very helpful information for us all.

]]> By: laurenc http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930343 laurenc Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:00:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930343 <p>from medea benjamin </p> <p>Global Exchange is also asking you to get involved. We are asking you to make the call to the State Department and the Obama Administration to:</p> <p>Cut off all military aid to Honduras until President Manuel Zelaya and Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas are safely returned to their rightful role as President and Chancellor<br /> Support any international movements to bring the coup plotters to justice<br /> Replace the US ambassador to Honduras.<br /> State Department: 202-647-4000 or 1-800-877-8339 White House: Comments: 202-456-1111, Switchboard: 202-456-1414</p> from medea benjamin

Global Exchange is also asking you to get involved. We are asking you to make the call to the State Department and the Obama Administration to:

Cut off all military aid to Honduras until President Manuel Zelaya and Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas are safely returned to their rightful role as President and Chancellor
Support any international movements to bring the coup plotters to justice
Replace the US ambassador to Honduras.
State Department: 202-647-4000 or 1-800-877-8339 White House: Comments: 202-456-1111, Switchboard: 202-456-1414

]]> By: macaquerman http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930316 macaquerman Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:48:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930316 <p>The legal basis for deposing Zelaya rests on defying the constitution, the supreme court, the legislature and ordering the military to conduct his referendum. The head of the military refused to do so and Zelaya fired him.</p> <p>There was reason to get rid of Zelaya, but no good reason to do it in the way that was done.</p> The legal basis for deposing Zelaya rests on defying the constitution, the supreme court, the legislature and ordering the military to conduct his referendum. The head of the military refused to do so and Zelaya fired him.

There was reason to get rid of Zelaya, but no good reason to do it in the way that was done.

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930313 MarkH Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:47:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930313 <p>This is an interesting take on the Honduras thing…</p> <p><a href="http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2009/06/ousted-honduras-leader-accused-of-drug.html" rel="nofollow">http://jammiewearingfool.blogs…..-drug.html</a></p> <p>Of course, that doesn’t mean Ortez isn’t lying and it is former presidents and he who have done the drug running. I’m sure it’s all very complicated.</p> This is an interesting take on the Honduras thing…

http://jammiewearingfool.blogs…..-drug.html

Of course, that doesn’t mean Ortez isn’t lying and it is former presidents and he who have done the drug running. I’m sure it’s all very complicated.

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930300 MarkH Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:39:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930300 <p>I still haven’t heard anything about the legal basis for all this. Is there any? Or, is it just a modern coup?</p> <p>In any event we should oppose the violence (to the extent we can with all these other things we’re tied up in) and push for legal Democratic processes.</p> I still haven’t heard anything about the legal basis for all this. Is there any? Or, is it just a modern coup?

In any event we should oppose the violence (to the extent we can with all these other things we’re tied up in) and push for legal Democratic processes.

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930299 MarkH Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:37:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930299 <p>Indeed. We carry a lot of baggage.</p> Indeed. We carry a lot of baggage.

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930295 MarkH Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:33:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930295 <p>Ask Noriega? The Bush knife is still apparently at work.</p> Ask Noriega? The Bush knife is still apparently at work.

]]> By: rapier http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930249 rapier Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:57:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930249 <p>I have this hunch that the White House was left totally out of this and is being kept out of it. I have a nephew in the Coast Guard and of all places I just heard he is on a ship in or near, you guessed it, Honduras. </p> <p>I am looking at this as a mini coup against Obama by portions of military and various flavors of spooks. I hope I am just wrong and paranoid but keep this idea in the back of your mind for future reference. </p> <p>Apparently, the report that Palin has been made the president of Honduras is erroneous.</p> <p><a href="http://www.haloscan.com/tb/attaturk/4229126562367638354" rel="nofollow">http://www.haloscan.com/tb/att.....2367638354</a></p> I have this hunch that the White House was left totally out of this and is being kept out of it. I have a nephew in the Coast Guard and of all places I just heard he is on a ship in or near, you guessed it, Honduras.

I am looking at this as a mini coup against Obama by portions of military and various flavors of spooks. I hope I am just wrong and paranoid but keep this idea in the back of your mind for future reference.

Apparently, the report that Palin has been made the president of Honduras is erroneous.

http://www.haloscan.com/tb/att…..2367638354

]]> By: gannonguckert http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930248 gannonguckert Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:57:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930248 <p>It depends on the package you purchase; shooting children in the head is included in all but the most basic, “sampler,” instruction suites.</p> <p>If you or your client have a special need, please do not hesitate to ask; we are always delighted to tailor a program to meet your individual requirements.</p> It depends on the package you purchase; shooting children in the head is included in all but the most basic, “sampler,” instruction suites.

If you or your client have a special need, please do not hesitate to ask; we are always delighted to tailor a program to meet your individual requirements.

]]> By: ThingsComeUndone http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930244 ThingsComeUndone Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:40:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/05/president-zelaya-blocked-from-return-to-honduras/#comment-1930244 <p>Hitting with the White glove is how my mom put it say something openly in front of everyone that might be taken as not an insult but everyone assumes it is the new President is hoping Obama doesn’t get it but he knows his people understand the insult.<br /> I agree its bigoted and racist think of Macaca I bet that word was chosen because it was hoped the press would not get it.<br /> But the crowd sure did.</p> Hitting with the White glove is how my mom put it say something openly in front of everyone that might be taken as not an insult but everyone assumes it is the new President is hoping Obama doesn’t get it but he knows his people understand the insult.
I agree its bigoted and racist think of Macaca I bet that word was chosen because it was hoped the press would not get it.
But the crowd sure did.

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