Friday, October 9, 2009

DeMint gets a love letter from Honduras

Posted by Chris Haire on Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:05 AM

Jim DeMint and me. We are not friends. Probably never will be. I think he is a blowhard, and he ... probably doesn't know who the hell I am. He's got bigger enemies to worry about, like newly declared Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama. (Really? For what? Getting elected?) and, more likely than not, Manuel Zelaya, the former democratically elected president of Honduras who was ousted during a recent military coup.

Unlike the majority of world leaders, including the big BO, South Carolina's junior sensei DeMint supports the military overthrow. In fact, he returned from a meet-and-greet with Honduras' new leaders, who have imposed marshal law on the civilian population.

I don't know about you, but I seriously doubt DeMint will be honored with a Nobel anytime soon. But I could be wrong.

Which brings us to a letter we recently received at the CP HQ purportedly from Honduras. I can't vouch for the veracity, but it's worth sharing nevertheless. Here goes:

Mr. Haire, I live in San Pedro Sula, in northern Honduras. I cannot comment on your description of Sen. DeMint as a far right reactionary in your article Jim DeMint is a blowhard (Aug 5,2009). I do not know enough about him, South Carolina's politics, nor about you. But what I can tell you with 100% certainty is that in our case, Sen DeMint is on the right side.

Our ex-president Zelaya was for a time surreptitiously maneuvering to impose upon us a Chavez/Castro type dictatorship. Eventually, since every institution (Congress, Supreme Court, Catholic and Evangelical churches, business groups, 4 political parties as well as his own, etc) lined up against his ruse, his maneuverings became flagrant breaches of our Constitution and violations of court rulings that contravened his dictatorial aspirations.

You affirm so assertively, as the Grand Inquisitors from the ‘international community’ have done, that it was a coup d'etat without even taking the time to carefully (or at least superficially) study what happened. Perhaps if you did, you would know that scholars in jurisprudence and international law at the Law Library of Congress, after studying Zelaya’s removal for 3 months, came to the conclusion that his impeachment had been executed according to rule of law dictated by our Constitution.

I assume that to you, we are nothing more than a banana republic; therefore we do not have the institutional capability to impeach a president following the rule of law. I live here Mr. Haire. I was witness to Zelaya's chaotic, erratic and above all, abusive administration. So this time I can vouch that Sen. DeMint is actually in the side of democracy and freedom.

Even if you find this too implausible, checks and balances actually worked in this banana republic and Sen. DeMint is helping us that it keeps working.

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A wonderful win for DeMint.
Including the Financial/Auto Bailouts, Universal Healthcare, The Fairness Doctrine, I can say, without a doubt in my mind, the biggest travesty of Obama's presidency has been the denial of support to constitutionally democratic society that overthrew an overtly corrupt President.
This was the time for America protect the tried-and-true system that has made us the last Superpower standing. ...And we blew it.
Jim, you have earned my vote, my money, and my time.

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Posted by Twelvetime on October 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM

Jim DeMint is an archaic remnant of Bush era politics! Doesn't anybody else think this reeks of a plant? Jim DeMint is perhaps one of the most ignorant politicians in South Carolina politics. Given his previous foibles, I seriously doubt the veracity of the letter. Additionally, this article's ignorant quip about Obama's Nobel Peace Prize demonstrates a complete obliviousness to the suffering of Americans of Middle Eastern descent, particularly during the scaremongering politics of the previous administration.

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Posted by Educated Southerner on October 9, 2009 at 11:35 AM

I assure as honduran that letter reflects the thinking of 80% of us, is not the same to see things from far that to seem them from nearby. From this event IŽll never trust news, somewere a US newspaper claimed that we were starving, looted stores food were in fact what was stole were LCD tvs, refrigerators and cell phones (yes we use them here in this banana republic), and that existed martial law (jeje) exception rule is far from a martial law (and only lasted 1 day and a half because growing concerns of violence of Zelaya fallowers, they have to do this because there small number and to make their actions have somehow relevance they recurr to violence, if not, we even know of their existence) Zelaya is a dictator aprentice and a corrupt leader that used our money to buy and mantain pure breed horses(great society concern this guy is, donŽt you think so?) collect Harley Davidson motorcycles, and buy expensives wines for his parties (not goverment ones but personal) with our taxes. Here in Honduras we are so stunned how you defend this corrupt that had honduras without a budget for almost 9 months to use the money as he pleased.

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Posted by hlmm on October 9, 2009 at 7:00 PM

I admire DeMint's consistency in opposing big government domestically, but usually disagree with him on foreign policy and his support of big government abroad. I've made this very clear:

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charles…

But DeMint is right on Honduras. A. It's none of our business, and B. If we chose to make it our business (as the US always does, unfortunately) a Honduran president trying to circumvent his own country's constitution is not worthy of American support.

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Posted by Jack Hunter on October 10, 2009 at 1:20 AM

DeMint called Zelaya a Chavez-style dictator. He was the democratically elected president, not a dictator. Maybe he wanted to be a dictator.

That type of tea-bag rhetoric only serves to divide. Honduras is a united country. Last night was amazing. That last thing they need is the U.S. style "us vs. them" rhetoric that is tearing this country apart.

Go Home Gringo!

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Posted by ChubbyDave on October 11, 2009 at 10:53 AM
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