July 8, 2009 It is a sore day, a red day when the United States of America abandons its principled position as defender of God's inalienable rights and to act under its own laws and norms which includes due diligence, factual analysis, due process of law and the base line that one is innocent until proven guilty. These primary tenants of free people everywhere of course no longer exist in Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela even as the Obama team de facto follows suit, stripping away two hundred years of trust and credibility, no matter how imperfect the USA was and remains....it still had a solid track record of defending due process. Not any more.
 
The Obama team continues to lie that Zelaya was removed from Honduras in an illegal coup. At the same time, caught with their pants down, the Obama team has been saying they want to "unwind" from the positions on Zelaya.
 
Unwinding their position has led to the recent week end theatrics, blessed by the Obama-Clinton team of staged events in the Honduran fly over, buzzing the capitol city and terrorizing its residents, and gifting Chavez's TELESUR media monopoly with fake journalism, all staged in advance. A farce has been sold to the public based on lies and theatrics from governments whose view of reality is based on a soap opera mentality and an IQ formed by soap operas and not based on fact but fiction. The perils of uneducation do matter.... a lot. Comes now Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama to star in their own version of America's Funniest Home Videos, a primary favorite for all Latin cable viewers only this is not funny and it is not honest and it is, however acceptable to the manipulated and vapid Latin mindset, illegal. And the Hondurans are begging for the facts to be told and their story- not the made up story in as in Latin media- to be told. They are now begging for international prayers. God will listen to their prayers but obviously Hillary and Obama will not. Nor will Chavez and Correa's media monopolies.
 
Today in Washington, Mrs. Clinton will repeat her embrace of PLO chief [now dead, most assuredly from HIV-AIDS] Yassir Arafat, Rafael Correa, George Soros, and Jose Miguel Insulza [to whom she gifted his last week's incompetent and illegal behaviors at the OAS] and will embrace Zelaya, the drug king pin of Honduras. How the Chavez-Correa media moguls of deceit will spin this has yet to be observed. What we do know is that this is the moment of truth for Mrs. Clinton and Zelaya and the world will be watching. We have our doubts.
 
We know, as you know, that not once- not once- in all this has been the essential of decision making: due diligence of facts and due process. Mrs. Clinton and her team have been so busy manipulating and lying to the public writ large about their own illegal behaviors to build the communist cartel ALBA take overs that they have spent no time- no time at all on fact building. The entire Honduran matter has to date been built by Obama-Clinton-Restrepo-Chavez-Correa-Castro-Kirchner, with back room help from LuLa and Ortega, on lies. This is disgusting and has gone too far. The lying, manipulative adolescents have the keys to the family car of statehood and their late night drives are full of criminality and deceit. Mrs. Clinton needs to grow up and herself be a steward of US norms and laws, which to date she has abandoned for the tender mercies of the Obama White House of propagandists and non truth tellers. She is about to go down with Restrepo for all her foolishness and incapability of standing for anything except appeasement. The peoples of this hemisphere deserve better than Hillary now trying to paint the evil in all this as exclusively derives from Chavez. The essential ingredient in all this was always evil: power lust, drug running, non-truths. There can be no aiding and abetting this evil but that is exactly what Obama-Clinton have been doing. Now they whine that they "want out" and how they will break their Faustian Bargain with Chavez-Correa and the Soros minions of legalizing all that should never be legalized is anyone's guess. Like all good telenovellas, this one will not have a happy ending because none of this should have been occurring.
 
Here is why Mrs. Clinton and her armies of mayhem, called non profit organizations, are illicit....they do not build democracy but lie a lot and sell non democracy in Honduras, Ecuador and all over the Americas:

American Thinker
July 06, 2009
Honduras, the Last Bastion of Democracy
James Simpson
It should be no surprise that Barack Obama, sides with Chavez and Castro against tiny Honduras.

Many other Latin-American countries have been manipulated, pressured and subverted by the OAS, the Leftist press, and two-faced American diplomats into allowing communists to take over, with disastrous consequences for their people and the region.

Honduras had the foresight and singular courage to get rid of Zelaya and his thugs before they had time to become irretrievably entrenched. It was a wise move, and entirely legal - not a coup.

I have heard from American military personnel serving in Venezuela about friends in the Venezuelan military that have simply disappeared. Chavez is quietly murdering regime opponents while he nationalizes businesses and consolidates power. Similar things are happening in Bolivia and doubtless in Ecuador.

But this is no surprise. It is doctrine for communist leaders to murder their opponents as soon as is practicable. Only then can they engage in the kind of unchallenged power grabs we have seen for example, in Venezuela.

Surprisingly though, there are no Washington Post expose's, no breathless reporting from Anderson Cooper's 360, no interviews with regime victims on Larry King Live. Somehow all those storied "investigative journalists" in the U.S. media keep missing the scoops. Instead, they lambast Honduras for resorting to what can only be described as a last-ditch effort at survival.

And our hapless "President" who last week wouldn't touch Iran's brutal oppression, suddenly finds the voice to demand "Justice" for Honduras's thug, Zelaya?

Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media has posted a great article on the AIM website describing how Hondurans feel about their betrayal by America. A worthwhile read. 

In the meantime, this might be the time to call and/or write your Senator/Congressman and ask them to defy our anti-American President and his Leftist press lapdogs by showing support for this Democratic ally that is trying to save itself from the despots.
 

And when we say that Chavez is playing Obama for a fool, it is because that is what Chavez does. Here is a superb review:

Hugo's Hands Are All Over Honduras
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Leadership: The U.S. put on a halo of global citizenship in joining the OAS to condemn Honduras for its "coup." But it was an ill-advised move that will undercut American interests and democracy. Advantage: Hugo Chavez.

Never has the U.S. bent over so far backwards to accommodate an tyrant. After Honduran President Mel Zelaya was thrown out June 28 for trying to make himself dictator for life, the U.S. showered him with solicitude and support for his reinstatement. It even voted with the crowd Sunday to suspend Honduras from the Organization of American States, all in the interest of supposedly defending democracy against coups d'etat.

Zelaya's response was to blame the U.S., which shows how badly America is misreading events. Going along with the OAS crowd, it's in reality empowering Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan dictator who is driving the entire circus.

His agenda is to reinstate Zelaya, blame the U.S. and extend his influence as hemispheric leader. And with the Obama administration going along and accommodating his every step, Chavez has a clear shot at succeeding.

Zelaya's blame of the U.S. is echoed in Caracas. On Saturday, Chavez loudly condemned the U.S. as responsible for the "coup" and blasted it for not pulling its ambassador and aid. He spread strange claims about a tiny military training base on Honduran territory being the root of the "coup."

It's not the first message Chavez has twisted. That was defining the constitutional action in Honduras on June 28 as a "coup d'etat." Chavez had gotten out front early with that semantic manipulation, using the term well before the court acted to remove Zelaya.

Chavez has also Zelaya with material support. First, he paid for and transported the ballot papers to be used in the attempted illegal Honduran referendum that Zelaya attempted to bull through even against the Court order.

He also provided the PDVSA Venezuelan state oil company jet to Zelaya to use on his travels to the U.S. and the United Nations seeking support. Chavez also controlled the media access to Zelaya on his weekend travels, with his state propaganda organ TeleSur monopolizing the televised news coverage.

But Chavez is at his most insidious in using international bodies to advance his own interests. These pawns are proving his most potent weapons. Chavez has caught on that Obama has delegated most of his foreign policy to the multilateral consensus, making groups such as the OAS and U.N. perfect instruments for neutralizing the U.S. as a global leader.

By nature, these groups seek to preserve the status quo, something that bodes ill for anyone trying to change a tyranny into a democracies. But it's worse because there's a leadership problem, and the heads of both organizations are Chavez pawns.

Chavez's man at the OAS is Jose Miguel Insulza, a leftist Chilean politician who won election in 2005 after a bitter battle with the Bush administration. His catspaw at the United Nations General Assembly is Miguel d'Escoto, a communist priest who was once part of Nicaragua's Sandinista oligarchy.

Insulza and d'Escoto have since proven their worth to Chavez by imposing the harshest penalties on Honduras for its resistance to Chavista tyranny.

D'Escoto directed a 192-member U.N.condemnation of the tiny state, and Insulza threw Honduras out of the OAS, refusing even to allow it to resign. Both acts open Honduras to sanctions and isolation.

They also stand out for hypocrisy: More than half the U.N. states that condemned Honduras are not democracies themselves. Meanwhile, coups have been numerous since the 2001 democracy charter. The OAS did nothing after Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia experienced real coup d'etats.

Worse still, the OAS has sat silent as democracies have been destroyed from within by the Chavista caudillos — in Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela.

In the absence of U.S. leadership, Chavez has an open field to maneuver the U.S. into a corner, leaving it floundering around on the definition of democracy as forces that don't respect law advance.

This bodes ill for the future of the hemisphere and amounts to an abdication of U.S. leadership. The Obama administration needs to take a second look at what's happening and recognize who's driving events. If it doesn't, Hugo Chavez wins.

And here more from the freedom lovers:

American Thinker
July 07, 2009
Choosing Che in Honduras
George Joyce
Liberals in the media have been trying over the past few days to nuance the Honduran situation.  For example, over at the Washington Post Edward Schumacher-Matos grudgingly extends support for those who ousted the Chavez-clone Manuel Zelaya but at the end of his essay he simply can't shake the liberal nuance bug:

"President Obama was correct in calling Zelaya's ouster illegal, while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declined to call the action a coup -- in hopes of bringing Zelaya back into government but with wings clipped. In this instance, the U.S. government played the morally right hand."

A recent LA Times photograph in Honduras however might help the left to overcome their nuance disease.  Note the young man below in the red t-shirt and ball cap.  After several days listening to the U.N., the White House, and the liberal press one would think the young Honduran would be sporting portraits of Thomas Jefferson rather than Che Guevara. 

The current unrest in Honduras is nothing other than a Hugo Chavez and Manuel Zelaya sponsored Leninist uprising.  In other words, it's an uprising pitting unions, peasants, university students and intellectuals against the Honduran middle class.  The first nation to come to the defense, both economically and militarily, of those Hondurans seeking to protect their constitution will be the next leader of the free world.  For that you can thank Barack Obama.

Here in full is an excellent review:
       

Don't give up on democracy in Latin America
By: Julie Mason
Washington Examiner White House Correspondent
July 7, 2009
Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza has done little to assuage concerns that the Organization of American States (OAS) he leads has given up entirely on its original mission of defending democracy in Latin America. Attending a summit of ALBA, the Venezuelan-sponsored alternative to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (a sort of Chavista Warsaw Pact), Insulza threatened to expel Honduras from the OAS lest it allow the safe return of ex-president Manuel Zelaya. Interim president Roberto Micheletti put country above comity and rightly responded: We'll pass on that and, by the way, we're out of the OAS, too.

Micheletti is right. After all, thanks to the OAS's inaction, Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez has used his country's oil wealth to prop up such dictatorial regimes as those of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador. The OAS even opened the door to Cuba's readmission into its ranks despite Castro's blatant disregard for the democratic principles allegedly at the center of the OAS charter. These regimes share an utter disdain for democratic, constitutional authority, and an absolute unwillingness to abdicate power. Yet the OAS has stood by them during the Honduran crisis rather than castigate Zelaya for running roughshod over the constitutional rule of law of his own country.

The Honduran constitution was adopted in 1982, after several previous incarnations that overextended the power of the executive. The 1936 constitution, for instance, was frequently amended to extend the original four-year term of then-dictator Tiburcio Carias Andino, who ruled for 16 years. The 1982 constitution, on the other hand, is very strict: One four-year term for the president, no ifs, ands, or buts. It's easy to see why Zelaya's actions, then, made the military eager to expel him from the country. Honduras' courts and Congress lawfully ruled Zelaya's efforts to extend his term by referendum unconstitutional - going so far as to describe it as a coup d'etat. Even so, Zelaya led a mob of civilians to storm government buildings to "liberate" the Venezuelan-printed ballots supporting his referendum.

Latin America has no shortage of "strong men," but it does suffer a shortage of durable institutions that preserve the rule of law. This is the only way to ensure peace and continuity between governments. If OAS leaders were serious about ensuring democracy in Latin America, they would defend Honduran institutions in deciding the fate of their country, rather than dancing to the tune of a chorus of Chavez-wannabes.

ECrisis insists that everyone review the full weight of these paid so called NGOs, the real armies of the night- the long night of communism such as WOLA and the hundreds of Soros groups selling communism, funded by the USA, in Honduras:

Marxist Mel's Martyrs By: Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, July 07, 2009

During the 1970s and 1980s, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), then based in the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill, vigorously lobbied for Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, the Cuban-style Marxist regime that shot its way to power in 1979. Today, WOLA pretends it is concerned about the rule of law in Honduras after the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court supported removing the leftist president for defying its constitution. WOLA and Jim Wallis' publication Sojourners have teamed up to spin Honduras' defense of its democracy as another example of a U.S.-supported, imperialist military coup.

The constitutional coup in Honduras was actually precipitated when President Mel Zelaya organized a mob of supporters to storm a military base and seize ballots for a national referendum that the Supreme Court had already ruled illegal. That Zelaya was an aspiring president for life who had aligned with Venezualan demagogue Hugo Chavez and communist Cuba did not disturb WOLA, which insisted after Zelaya's exile that such "affronts to democracy will not be tolerated."

Writing for Sojourners, WOLA staffer Ashley Morse mourned that Zelaya had been "awoken suddenly as masked soldiers burst into his home." She noted that the "elected head of state" was degradingly still in his pajamas as he was "forced onto a plane and shipped out of the country." It was all a "chilling reminder that the days of military coups in Latin America are not quite over."

WOLA has consistently opposed non-leftist military coups in Latin America. For much of its history, WOLA preferred another form of armed power grab: Marxist guerrillas overthrowing regimes, elected or not, so as to construct police state socialism. It was never disturbed by the uniformed Marxist Sandinista commandantes who despotically ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s, thanks to its alignment with the Soviet bloc. Nor was it disturbed by FMLN Soviet-backed insurgency against El Salvador's fledgling democracy in the 1980s. Neither the Sandinistas nor the FMLN were concerned about the rule of law or the niceties of democratic governance. But groups like WOLA found their brand of revolutionary violence and suppression to be inspiring.

WOLA was founded in 1974 by United Methodist missionary Joe Eldridge with help from senior staffers at the National Council of Churches and the U.S. Catholic Conference, ostensibly to help U.S. churches lobby for human rights in Latin America. Eldridge had been a devotee of Marxist President Salvador Allende during Eldridge's "missionary" days in Chile. WOLA's founders were also mesmerized by the romanticism of Castro's Cuba, where, according to one article in 1976, they saw that the "prayers for the poor and the needy of their society were being answered by Castro's Marxist policies." WOLA then received financial support from the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM), the National Council of Churches, World Council of Churches, and the Maryknoll Fathers. The GBGM still makes annual grants to WOLA.

In the 1980s, WOLA was unimpressed by El Savador's elections, and questioned Honduran democracy then because both were supported by the United States. Naturally, WOLA condemned the 1983 U.S. military action to restore democracy in Grenada, when a Castroite regime seized power by force. But today, WOLA seems committed to ousted President Zelaya's Chavez style of mob rule "democracy."

Morse's essay for Sojourners nonchalantly mentioned that "many critics" of Zelaya worried that the referendum he sought would ultimately allow him another term, which she called a "reform." But she cited other "analysts" who understood the "urgent need" to update a now dated Honduran constitution. After the Honduran Supreme Court ruled Zelaya's referendum to be illegal and the "military refused to help him administer the vote," Morse wrote that  Zelaya "decided to go forward with the referendum and was poised to do so until the military forcibly removed him the morning on which the vote was scheduled." She omits that Zelaya's idea of going "forward" involved organizing a mob to storm the military base in the hopes of forcibly seizing the ballots to facilitate an illegal plebiscite giving him the reigns of power indefinitely.

Reluctantly, Morse admitted there are "many discussions about whether Zelaya's actions were legal." And Zelaya's popularity was "demonstrably low." But the military was never justified in forcing his removal, she insisted, as a "coup is a coup and [a] breach of legality." She also opined that the Honduran Constitution, despite its "shortcomings," allows for lawful "impeachment" rather than "military ambush." Morse lamented that a "long and unfortunate history" of military coups in Latin America had kept democracy weak.

Morse did not mention that military coups have in fact been mercifully sparse in Latin America since the Cold War's end, and that the latest threat to democracy has been Hugo Chavez-style "democratic" authoritarianism, where lawful liberties are extinguished gradually in the name of the people. The Honduran Supreme Court, Congress and military may or may not have acted precipitously. But their fear of Chavez-style "democracy" was not irrational. And by most accounts, it is Zelaya who precipitated the crisis through his defiance of Honduran law in pursuit of personal rule. 

Along with Morse's analysis, Sojourners carried another piece denouncing Zelaya's removal, pointing out that the Honduran military commander graduated from the U.S. Army's supposedly infamous School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. "So now the SOA has one more portrait for its Hall of Shame," the screed concluded. Ultimate blame for tumult in Honduras belongs to America, of course.

Faulting America is easier than blaming aspiring dictators such as Zelaya, and his patron, Chavez, whose "democracy" smothers all viable opposition.

We at ECrisis remind Mrs. Clinton that by her addiction to bend over backwards for liars and manipulators, as she has done all her life both personally and professionally, she actually will get a kick in her rear. One cannot love the truth and love deception at the same time. Of course Rafael Correa's mother will tell you that you can: she has been hiding the Correa family jewels and escaping the law for years- quite successfully in the USA.
 
Mrs Clinton should be asking of her incompetent US ambassador in Honduras: who made the fancy outfits for the paid pro Zelaya protesters on Sunday? And why the random Dolce & Gabanna designer tee shirt? Who paid for this and who dressed these actors ?

 

(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
 
Or maybe it was the same costume- errr uniform- company that made all of Raul Reyes's under panties seen on all his dead FARC friends the night of his last orgy in the jungles of Ecuador when his drunken, drugged partiers ran out in the night and  killed themselves on Raul Reyes's own lethal and illegal landmines? Who makes their outfits and who does their look? Who dresses these people?
 
And Correa himself crafted and led a full team of non state actors on Sunday to finalize their illegal end run against the people of Honduras, complete with TV script and unauthorized acts to maximize their dishonest gamesmanship. This was all organized and staged under the protection of the United States, provided by this White House which knew very well that Correa was holding a nasty cartel club staging event at the property owned by the people of Ecuador called the ambassador's residence at 2320 Bancroft Place, N.W. - two blocks or so from the Vice president's home in Washington, protected and guarded by the Secret Service. Everyone knew that Correa was hosting these unauthorized and illegal moves against Honduras, also called a true crime, and not one person from the US State Department, the OAS nor this White House said one word against these non state actors plotting unauthorized, illegal acts against Honduras, complete with buzzing the capitol and frightening the daylights out of the population by air and staging a series of fake journalistic triumphs as cheesy and fake as telenovellas. No indeed- the US of Obama was aiding and abetting these illegal actors to commit crimes against the people of Honduras. Hillary has much explaining to do. This is not diplomacy and everyone in attendance at Correa's complot confab on Sunday, July 5, 2009 must face the consequences of their illicit acts. They belong in jail. they certainly belong nowhere near Washington, D.C. and they certainly do not deserve to be called by Obama as dear friends and allies of the USA. they definitely deserve not one penny of USA monies and warranties, as has been the case. For what Correa did do on Sunday, the United States has no choice but to revoke his special friend status and take back the ATPDEA designation of a worthy partner for he is not. Correa used the sanctity of the USA and played its protection of his little nasty complot traitors to stage his illegal end runs. This is not what friends do.Correa is no ally of the U.S. people no matter how much Obama and Mrs. Clinton and the US Department of State do lie about Correa....and they lie a lot.
 
Let us now praise famous men and their good deeds. This short list does not include Barack Obama, Mrs. Kirchner, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Zelaya, Mr. Ortega, Mr Chavez and their circus of deceivers' organizer of crime, Rafael Correa. Another way of factually assessing these ongoing acts is to state that Correa has engineered acts of terror against an innocent nation while abusing the graces of the USA and forcibly abusing its own tax dollars. That anyone at State Department did not stop this crime is too much to consider.
 
It is incumbent on the people of the free world to ask....what did Hillary and Restrepo-Obama-Soros know and when?

We would have answered honestly these questions:
 
1. how much US money was spent on fake democracy building programs in Honduras that actually built the community organizing wonderland to install the ALBA communist cartel?
2. what instructions did State Department give to the US ambassador to protect and warehouse Mrs. Zelaya, herself complicit in her husband's money laundering and how much does this cost?
3. when will the USG apologize to Hondurans for doing what Congressman Engle says they did- lie about the facts and that there was no coup and no cause juste for the USA's funding to craft harm, to Honduras?
4. Who on the Obama team called Bob Zoellick to force him  to cut Honduras? Who made that call and why? Or was it Mark Malloch Brown himself doing what he always did at the world Bank and still does for Soros- spread more lies? As there was no coup, will Zoellick apologize?
5. Defining rule of law is not complicated. It is time for Restrepo and Hillary to state the five key ingredients thereto and what they intend to do to uphold real rule of law.
6. When will State Department and this White House cease breaking US laws and release full data from the US governmental agencies regarding Zelaya's drug running, money laundering, financial crimes and kidnapping-murders as the cartel crimes grow?  Will a US IG be appointed to review why State Department thinks it can help this White House by gagging all other lawful entities except their pet Soros-backed liars club called NGOs who apply fake facts?
7. How much did Dan Restrepo's fake media round up call on Sunday, June 28, 2009 cost the US taxpayers and when will he apologize for using public monies to lie to the public? Why did Obama and Clinton authorize and approve this?
8. Why did no one- no one at all- stop Correa from his communist confab-conspiracy to harm Honduras on Sunday, July 5 in Washington? When will Obama-Paul Kirk cancel Correa's gifts from the US taxpayer for this criminal adventure?
9. this week, how much money is State department spending to contractors to gin up fake rule of law analyses about Honduras? Why did Reagan's UN ambassador Valladares quit in a principled move from an NGO, tax exempt  group currently scribbling more fake analysis about Honduras based on politics and with no known expertise in rule of law analysis, as with each and every single person from the Obama-Correa-Chavez team on this Honduran matter?
10. How much of Ecuador's money did Correa spend to build his ALBA team to take over Honduras? To this must be added jet fuel, food and massive payments to lawyers and propagandists and his co owned Telesur production team for fake news coverage, also called lies to the public.
11. How much has this fraud- this abuse of the people of Honduras cost the Hondurans? Who will refund their losses for what Chavez and Obama have blessed?
12. When will the USA state the fact that it has long known that Correa and Chavez have essentially merged, as stated often by Correa, and when will the Obama team stop lying to the U.S. public, Congress and its peoples about this in order to aid and abet the growth of ALBA cartels?
 
Follow the money. This is not complicated and it is not rocket science.
 
There are too many facts to spin this one away. There is no joy in our hearts over this heartbreaking criminality to deceive. And frankly, we all have better things to do with our days than watch a slow motion suicide plot by Correa-Chavez and Iran for the USA and how it treats its friends. The best way to have a friend is to be a friend. The only way to be honest is to be honest....and these unfriendly and illegal acts by Correa and the Obama team are not honest, they are not democratic and they are deserving of the full weight of U.S. law. That is precisely why there is fear behind Hillary's eyes.
 
A horrible thing is coming this way. Prayer is needed. And so too is accountability, transparency and stewardship of the public trust. Without it, everything is nothing.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis