disrupter
07-06-2009, 06:12 AM
Now this coup of the elite power brokers against a president who had begun to work for the people, the mostly poor people of Honduras,
has just reportedly killed the first protester against it & for the duly elected president Zelaya.
They did a complete media blackout. A reasonably effective denial of truth to the Honduran people. They did manage to choreograph some reasonably large crowds of coup supporters, but clearly there is a very large portion of the population who's opinion is being suppressed with threats of violent, murderous reprisals by the military, backed by the outlaw elites.
The elite law breaker spiders are once again trying to spin their predatory webs as 'legitimized'.
We can not allow ourselves to be easily fooled.
Honduras slides toward greater instability
Will Weissert And Jeanneth Valdivieso, Associated Press Writers, 6 July 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Already volatile Honduras slid toward greater instability after
soldiers blocked an airport runway to keep ousted President Manuel Zelaya from returning, and protests that had remained largely peaceful yielded their
first death.
Police and soldiers blanketed the streets of the capital overnight Monday — enforcing a sunset-to-sunrise curfew with batons and metal poles.
The extended curfew added to the tension after a turbulent Sunday that saw soldiers clash with thousands of Zelaya backers who massed at the airport in hopes of welcoming home their deposed leader.
Zelaya's plane, on loan from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, arrived to find the runway blocked by military vehicles and soldiers under the command of the government that has ruled this Central American country since Zelaya's ouster last weekend.
His Venezuelan pilots circled around the airport and decided not to risk a crash.
Zelaya instead headed for El Salvador, and vowed to try again Monday or Tuesday in his high-stakes effort to return to power in a country where all branches of government have lined up against him.
"I call on the Armed Forces of Honduras to lower their rifles," he said late Sunday at a news conference, flanked by the presidents of El Salvador, Argentina, Paraguay and Ecuador, and the secretary-general of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, who flew there from Washington.
"I am risking myself personally to resolve the problems without violence," said Zelaya, who planned to fly later to Nicaragua. He urged the United Nations, the OAS, the United States and European countries to "do something with this repressive regime."
Insulza said he "is open to continuing all appropriate diplomatic overtures to obtain our objective."
But interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti said he won't negotiate until "things return to normal."
"We will be here until the country calms down," Micheletti said. "We are the authentic representatives of the people."
Clashes broke out Sunday afternoon between police and soldiers and the huge crowd of Zelaya supporters surrounding Tegucigalpa's international airport. At least one man was killed — shot in the head from inside the airport as people tried to break through a security fence, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene. At least 30 people were treated for injuries, the Red Cross said, after security forces fired warning shots and tear gas.
When Zelaya's plane was turned away, his supporters began chanting "We want blue helmets!" — a reference to U.N. peacekeepers.
Karin Antunez, 27, was in tears.
"We're scared. We feel sad because these coup soldiers won't let Mel return, but we're not going to back down," she said. "We're the people and we're going to keep marching so that our president comes home."
Zelaya won wide international support after his ouster, but several presidents who originally were to accompany him decided it was too dangerous to fly on Zelaya's plane, which carried only his close advisers and staff, two journalists from the Venezuela-based network Telesur and U.N. General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, a leftist Nicaraguan priest and former foreign minister.
Honduras' new government has vowed to arrest Zelaya for 18 alleged criminal acts including treason and failing to implement more than 80 laws approved by Congress since taking office in 2006. Zelaya also refused to comply with a Supreme Court ruling against his planned referendum on whether to hold an assembly to consider changing the constitution.
Critics feared Zelaya might try to extend his rule and cement presidential power in ways similar to what his ally Chavez has done in Venezuela — though Zelaya denied that.
But instead of prosecuting him or trying to defeat him at the ballot box, masked soldiers flew the president out of the country at gunpoint, and Congress installed Micheletti in his place.
The military solution drew international condemnation, and Honduras was suspended by the OAS. Many called the coup a huge step backward for democracy, and no nation has recognized the new government. President Barack Obama has united with Chavez and conservative Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in insisting on Zelaya's return.
Speaking on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the State Department, senior U.S. officials said the United States and other OAS member countries are coordinating contacts to facilitate a resolution, despite their insistence on having no formal relations with the interim government.
Without OAS membership, Honduras faces trade sanctions and the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidized oil, aid and loans for the impoverished nation.
Moments after Zelaya's plane was turned away, trucks filled with police ordered everyone off the streets.
"This is a war," said Matias Sauceda, 65, a human rights activist. "Imagine — things are so bad, that the president is in the air and they don't let him land." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090706/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup;_ylt=A2KIKv5Hw1FKHzwA9G2s0NUE;_yl u=X3oDMTJobTF2aGkzBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNzA2L2x0X2hv bmR1cmFzX2NvdXAEY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMyBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3 RvcnkEc2xrA2hvbmR1cmFzc2xpZA--
This is clearly a theft of democracy from the hands of the long abused people of Honduras,
a theft at the hands of the violent, outlaw right that has for too long persisted in control of much of Central & South America,
That almost invariably a formerly treacherous United States has supported.
Let us step forward for democracy.
Democracy that favors healthier economics & prosperity.
Let us be in favor of something that is both righteous as well as in our ultimate self-serving interests.
In some ways these criminal insiders are not unlike the corpo-government closed & self-rationalized circuit that has hijacked the US away from the best interests of the American people.
Let us stand up for our own interests, unafraid,
& let us stand up for our oppressed Honduran brothers & sisters, who need us now.
has just reportedly killed the first protester against it & for the duly elected president Zelaya.
They did a complete media blackout. A reasonably effective denial of truth to the Honduran people. They did manage to choreograph some reasonably large crowds of coup supporters, but clearly there is a very large portion of the population who's opinion is being suppressed with threats of violent, murderous reprisals by the military, backed by the outlaw elites.
The elite law breaker spiders are once again trying to spin their predatory webs as 'legitimized'.
We can not allow ourselves to be easily fooled.
Honduras slides toward greater instability
Will Weissert And Jeanneth Valdivieso, Associated Press Writers, 6 July 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Already volatile Honduras slid toward greater instability after
soldiers blocked an airport runway to keep ousted President Manuel Zelaya from returning, and protests that had remained largely peaceful yielded their
first death.
Police and soldiers blanketed the streets of the capital overnight Monday — enforcing a sunset-to-sunrise curfew with batons and metal poles.
The extended curfew added to the tension after a turbulent Sunday that saw soldiers clash with thousands of Zelaya backers who massed at the airport in hopes of welcoming home their deposed leader.
Zelaya's plane, on loan from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, arrived to find the runway blocked by military vehicles and soldiers under the command of the government that has ruled this Central American country since Zelaya's ouster last weekend.
His Venezuelan pilots circled around the airport and decided not to risk a crash.
Zelaya instead headed for El Salvador, and vowed to try again Monday or Tuesday in his high-stakes effort to return to power in a country where all branches of government have lined up against him.
"I call on the Armed Forces of Honduras to lower their rifles," he said late Sunday at a news conference, flanked by the presidents of El Salvador, Argentina, Paraguay and Ecuador, and the secretary-general of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, who flew there from Washington.
"I am risking myself personally to resolve the problems without violence," said Zelaya, who planned to fly later to Nicaragua. He urged the United Nations, the OAS, the United States and European countries to "do something with this repressive regime."
Insulza said he "is open to continuing all appropriate diplomatic overtures to obtain our objective."
But interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti said he won't negotiate until "things return to normal."
"We will be here until the country calms down," Micheletti said. "We are the authentic representatives of the people."
Clashes broke out Sunday afternoon between police and soldiers and the huge crowd of Zelaya supporters surrounding Tegucigalpa's international airport. At least one man was killed — shot in the head from inside the airport as people tried to break through a security fence, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene. At least 30 people were treated for injuries, the Red Cross said, after security forces fired warning shots and tear gas.
When Zelaya's plane was turned away, his supporters began chanting "We want blue helmets!" — a reference to U.N. peacekeepers.
Karin Antunez, 27, was in tears.
"We're scared. We feel sad because these coup soldiers won't let Mel return, but we're not going to back down," she said. "We're the people and we're going to keep marching so that our president comes home."
Zelaya won wide international support after his ouster, but several presidents who originally were to accompany him decided it was too dangerous to fly on Zelaya's plane, which carried only his close advisers and staff, two journalists from the Venezuela-based network Telesur and U.N. General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, a leftist Nicaraguan priest and former foreign minister.
Honduras' new government has vowed to arrest Zelaya for 18 alleged criminal acts including treason and failing to implement more than 80 laws approved by Congress since taking office in 2006. Zelaya also refused to comply with a Supreme Court ruling against his planned referendum on whether to hold an assembly to consider changing the constitution.
Critics feared Zelaya might try to extend his rule and cement presidential power in ways similar to what his ally Chavez has done in Venezuela — though Zelaya denied that.
But instead of prosecuting him or trying to defeat him at the ballot box, masked soldiers flew the president out of the country at gunpoint, and Congress installed Micheletti in his place.
The military solution drew international condemnation, and Honduras was suspended by the OAS. Many called the coup a huge step backward for democracy, and no nation has recognized the new government. President Barack Obama has united with Chavez and conservative Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in insisting on Zelaya's return.
Speaking on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the State Department, senior U.S. officials said the United States and other OAS member countries are coordinating contacts to facilitate a resolution, despite their insistence on having no formal relations with the interim government.
Without OAS membership, Honduras faces trade sanctions and the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidized oil, aid and loans for the impoverished nation.
Moments after Zelaya's plane was turned away, trucks filled with police ordered everyone off the streets.
"This is a war," said Matias Sauceda, 65, a human rights activist. "Imagine — things are so bad, that the president is in the air and they don't let him land." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090706/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup;_ylt=A2KIKv5Hw1FKHzwA9G2s0NUE;_yl u=X3oDMTJobTF2aGkzBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNzA2L2x0X2hv bmR1cmFzX2NvdXAEY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMyBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3 RvcnkEc2xrA2hvbmR1cmFzc2xpZA--
This is clearly a theft of democracy from the hands of the long abused people of Honduras,
a theft at the hands of the violent, outlaw right that has for too long persisted in control of much of Central & South America,
That almost invariably a formerly treacherous United States has supported.
Let us step forward for democracy.
Democracy that favors healthier economics & prosperity.
Let us be in favor of something that is both righteous as well as in our ultimate self-serving interests.
In some ways these criminal insiders are not unlike the corpo-government closed & self-rationalized circuit that has hijacked the US away from the best interests of the American people.
Let us stand up for our own interests, unafraid,
& let us stand up for our oppressed Honduran brothers & sisters, who need us now.