As ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya continues to scream like a toddler kicked out of a sand box, his supporters are enforcing their version of the Fairness Doctrine in his old country. The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports:
Honduran media have been the focus of tensions since the June 28 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.The AP went on to report that four of its journalists had been detained by Honduran authorities as well.
The attack early Saturday was the sixth against media outlets and other institutions critical of Zelaya.
Zelaya ally Hugo Chavez recently shut down several radio stations in Venezuela and Zelaya is the guy he needs in power to help him with his income streams from that country.
Now we have belligerent pro-Zelaya protesters added to the list of examples demonstrating that the sitting Honduran government was probably justified in removing Zelaya.
Earlier, I was questioning the Micheletti-led government of charging protesters with sedition but fire bombs being hurled at the buildings of media outlets critical of Zelaya is quite extreme.
h/t to DRUDGE
Sedition is well defined in my WordWeb (freeware) dictionary as: "An illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government". Sedition also means, in Canadian Constitutional law, the inciting of one's fellow citizens to disaffection with each other, as well as with the government.
ReplyDeleteZelaya supporters are an armed, incendiary minority violently attacking infrastructure and fellow citizens in an effort to force the democratic majority to overrule the lawful actions of Honduras Supreme Court and Congress under that country's Constitution. They are openly attempting to sow discord amongst the citizens. They are ignoring the civilized routes available for dissent in a Constitutional democracy, including suing for relief.
I think sedition charges against Zelaya and any ringleaders would be a good idea. If only so we don't get confused between what's "political" (not lawless violence) and what's "civilized" discourse in a democratic society.
If Manuel Zelaya truly felt wronged by the Supreme Court of Honduras, and by its Congress, he would hire a competent lawyer to file a Constitutional challenge. After all, he was lawfully removed as a consequence of legal proceedings. He was not removed by a mob storming the palace.
http://honduras-not-a-military-coup.blogspot.com
Kathleen Moore
HABEAS CORPUS CANADA
The Official Legal Challenge
To North American Union
www.habeascorpuscanada.com
My videos: http://hccvideocatalog.blogspot.com