Secretary of State Hillary Clinton perseveres with Obama administration efforts to topple a Latin American democracy by forcing Honduras to accept its former president Manuel Zelaya as dictator. Meanwhile a legal review of the facts surrounding Mr. Zelaya's removal, recently filed by the Congressional Research Service, concludes that Honduran judicial and legislative actions were consistent with the Honduran constitutional and statutory law. This cuts no ice with Hillary who has sanctioned the country's independent judiciary.
The upshot is that the U.S. is trying to force Honduras to violate its own constitution and is also using its international political heft to try to interfere with the country's independent judiciary.
Hondurans are worried about what this pressure is doing to their country. Mr. Zelaya's violent supporters are emboldened by the U.S. position. They deface some homes and shops with graffiti and throw stones and home-made bombs into others, and whenever the police try to stop them, they howl about their "human rights."
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In its actions toward Honduras, the Obama administration is demonstrating contempt for the fundamentals of democracy. Legal scholars are clear on this. "Judicial independence is a central component of any democracy and is crucial to separation of powers, the rule of law and human rights," writes Ahron Barak, the former president of the Supreme Court of Israel and a prominent legal scholar, in his compelling 2006 book, "The Judge in a Democracy."
Obama's contempt for the fundamentals of democracy was already apparent here at home. All we need to do is look at his intrusions into the marketplace. Massive bailouts and stimulus packages have given Obama leverage to fire the CEO of GM, to dictate executive pay in the financial sector. And now he wants to take over the nations health care industry.
If more evidence is needed, there are those connections to ACORN, the organization which has racked up several convictions for voter registration fraud. Obama's 2008 presidential campaign paid an ACORN subsidiary $800,000.00 for get-out-the-vote services. This was originally misrepresented in campaign reporting to the FEC as payment for as "polling, advance work, and staging major events." ACORN's get-out-the-vote activities were intended to rig our elections, which is what Manuel Zelaya hoped to achieve in Honduras with his unconstitutional referendum. How sad that he continues to enjoy the full support of the Obama administration in his efforts to do it.
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