Honduran Intransigence

What on earth is the matter with all those countries of the world that stand in judgement of Honduras? Most particularly the United States, where the President and the State Department keep urging the interim government to permit the ousted and discredited former president Manuel Zelaya to be reinstated. Theoretically, very temporarily. He, of course, has other plans.

Inspired by his friendship with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to aspire to a lifetime presidency of his country, and supported by the like-minded pseudo-democratic socialists practising their version of totalitarian rule, he revels in their support and fully intends to re-implement his aborted attempt to change the law for re-election, flouting the country's constitution.

The Honduran judiciary and its politicians and most of its population condemned the ambitions of Manuel Zelaya whose rule of the country has been degraded, and on order of the high court, ordered him deported, taken elsewhere, anywhere, out of the country, to be rid of his machinations, his manipulative, self-availing insistence that he be ruler-for-life.

The man deliberately violated his country's constitution. His presidential powers were revoked by order of the country's federal judiciary. Who brought in the military to forcibly remove him from further destabilizing the country. Logically, his next-in-command temporarily took office, until such time as the duly elected future president could take office.

Because Hugo Chavez and his revolutionary cohorts and their collaborators in specious 'social justice' insist that democracy has been stained in this unusual response to an unusual and officiously-denigrating spurning of Honduran values and laws, the international community has also, and mysteriously, reacted to support Mr. Zelaya.

Direct interference in the concerns of an sovereign country. One which has evoked its own system of laws to support the removal of a president who could not respect his own country's laws. This is a respectable country, one whose concern for its people is paramount. After November 29 the country will have a new president, and the interim president will step down.

The embassy of Brazil within Honduras should invite Mr. Zelaya to remove himself from their protective auspices, and seek forgiveness from Honduras for their unneeded intervention. The United States should recognize the inappropriateness of their condemnation of a country that has the right to determine its own destiny.