Thread to support President Obama's call for the restoration of the rightful Honduran government

President Obama, unlike all his predecessors, is doing the right thing in response to a Latin American military coup. Let's back the man up on this!

YES WE CAN!

OAS has now made that decision: that the deposed president must be re-installed. Let's urge our President to say likewise!

Nice try, though.

And when the military arrests the elected civilian president, it's a military coup.

Stop defending right-wing takeovers.

That's 3 "C's"

The only thing he has going for him is unitary executive power.

Those institutions are controlled by the elite in Honduras.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/kristin-bricker/2009/06/honduran-military-assassinates-leftist-presidential-candidate

Just admit it's fascism already. You've got no honorable reasons to defend this.

And how does it specifically relate to this coup?

Oh OK. I see now. The President has political views that you support. So the fact that he was acting in violation of the law, according to the Congress, the Constitution, and the Courts, doesn't matter because

a) The Congress isn't leftist enough for you
b) The Courts aren't leftist enough for you
c) The Constitution isn't leftist enough for you
d) The duly-enacted law is invalid because it doesn't support leftist outcomes
e) The concept of the "rule of law" is also invalid because it doesn't support leftist outcomes

Pat Buchanan recently said the following on Hardball:

"I think a devoutly Christian, conservative, traditionalist country, even if it's a monarchy, is fine with me."

From reading your replies in your other thread about this, it seems that you would agree with that statement, if you replace "devoutly Christian conservative traditionalist" with leftist (or some other word that describes your political views).

And Honduran politics has traditionally been controlled by the elite. Does the term "demonstration election" mean anything to you?

The whole constitutional arrangement there was created to appease the military and keep them in the barracks. Why shouldn't a document like that be torn up?

YOu can't honestly believe that there could be a legitimate justification of military takeovers of power.

The truth is, most of Honduras is poor.

Most Hondurans aren't represented in the existing political arrangements.

The term "Liberal Party" is meaningless in the American sense, referring simply to one group of political aristocrats squaring off against the other in contests for power in name(since the Liberal and Conservative parties in Latin American countries agree on all major issues).

40-50 years later, and we can still justify over-riding a nation's constitution.