Honduras - When Is A Coup Not A Coup?

When it’s in Honduras and the Military is acting under the orders of the Honduran Supreme Court.

It’s just a shame that our own President and Secretary of State didn’t take the time to investigate the facts before running off for some face time before the cameras.

In her Wall Street Journal opinion piece today, Mary O’Grady writes;

“Hugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution.

It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking.

But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya's abuses, also wants him back in power. It will be a miracle if Honduran patriots can hold their ground.

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. 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. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.

The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused". (Ms. O’Grady’s complete article may be found at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124623220955866301.html)

And that’s when the Honduran Supreme Court stepped in, ordered the military to escort Mr. Zelaya and his family to the airport and sent them packing to Costa Rica.

This was probably more than they deserved and definitely better treatment than if they had been an opposition party of, say, their friend Mr. Chavez. If that had been the case, we’d most likely be sending flowers to the next of kin via Danny Glover.

However, the reaction from the Washington Post, in lock step with the administration, was the same as Hillary Clinton and the President; return President Zelaya to power now!

When does the soverniety of a nation’s constitution take precidence over partisan politics? When do we as Americans, say enough, to what appear be Marxist tears for foreign leaders, who despise us, from our own leaders?

Suppose President Obama decided he wanted to abolish the Twenty Second Amendment, limiting him to a maximum of two terms. Would the Washington Post, Secretary of State Clinton, Hugo Chavez and the OAS protest? Hopefully, we’ll never know.