Zelaya Supporters Clash With Honduran Police

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Jester666 has to be one of the rnost insidious of all the trolls on newser. He is a pure propagandist with no regard whatsoever for fact or fair play.That Zelaya chose the Brazilian embassy as where to make his stand undoubtedly with the approval of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva despite denials, is a strategic masterstroke, for it shifts the away from Venezuela and Hugo Chavez (as the Honduran plotters have tried to frame the crisis) and toward Lula, everyone's favorite democratic leftist. Brazil's Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, responded to the coup government's demand that Brazil turn Zelaya over by saying that any threat to the legitimate president or the embassy would be a grave breach of international law. Those backing the coup perhaps sense that their game is up; a communiqué issued by the National Front Against the Coup reports that some businessmen and military leaders who supported Zelaya's overthrow are leaving the country. Meanwhile, back in the US, the Washington Post has decided to actually forgo reporting on the story, instead allowing Michelletti space on its op-ed page -- in a piece probably written by one of the coup's US flaks, like Otto Reich or Lanny Davis -- to make one last pitch for the November election, which he promises will be a "constitutional expression of self-determination and a demonstration of national sovereignty." Reich or Davis -- ur, I mean Micheletti -- forgot to mention that the coup government, in effort to ensure high turnout, has threatened to throw in jail anyone who doesn't vote in that election, and has revoked the citizenship of the environmentalist Catholic priest José Andrés Tamayo, born in El Salvador but living in Honduras since 1983, for calling for a boycott of those elections. If this is a moment of truth for Honduras, it is also one for Washington. Greg Grandin http://www.commondreams.org/vi...

I suspect that you are as willing to throw out the US Constitution as you expect Honduras to do. You need to read the articles about what the Honduran Constitution does day - and then you'll see the error of your premise. That you won't honor and protect the rights of Hondurans to follow the laws in their own form of government, I wonder what you really think about our Supreme Law of our Land?

Zelaya should get some common sense and return to the US. Van Jones has gone and there is an opening in Obama's administration to fill. Zalaya would fit in perfectly with Obama and the rest of his czars.