Honduras Freedom Fighters Win

I hope our military will be as vigilant as the Hondurans when the shit comes down!

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran army ousted and exiled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War, triggered by his bid to make it legal to seek another term in office.

President Barack Obama and the European Union expressed deep concern after troops came for Zelaya, an ally of socialist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, around dawn and took him away from his residence. He was whisked away to Costa Rica.

Zelaya, who took office in 2006 and is limited by the constitution to a four-year term that ends in early 2010, had angered the army, courts and Congress by pushing for an unofficial public vote on Sunday to gauge support for his plan to hold a November referendum on allowing presidential re-election.

Why is Øbama "concerned" that the military is defending the Honduran constitution? Zelaya is an ally of Chavez, who's made himself 'president for life' in his own tin pot dictatorship. I guess the Hondurans weren't that crazy about the idea. At least those who undoubtedly swore an oath to "defend the Constitution" of Honduras.

I guess big fat, powerful tyrants never like to see other big, fat, powerful tyrants go down.

From Yahoo News:

Zelaya denied resigning and insisted he would serve out his term, even as the Supreme Court backed the military takeover and said it was a defense of democracy.

His ouster came hours before polls were to open on a constitutional referendum that Zelaya was pushing ahead even after the Supreme Court and the attorney general said it was illegal. The constitution bars changes to some of its clauses, such as the ban on a president serving more than one term, they said.

More from BBC News

Chavez and Øbama have found more common cause. Calling this a "coup". Me, I suspect freedom and real democracy has been served.

And on CNN

The coup came on the same day that he vowed to follow through with a referendum that the Honduran Supreme Court had ruled illegal.

So...the Military is bad because it prevented the wannabe dictator from breaking the law in order to make himself an actual dictator??

Typical argument of the Left. Make the good bad and the bad good.

Here's commentary:

Rick Moran at American Thinker

I think his take is the right one.

The Gunslinger