David beats Goliath — Again
Despite the immense pressure placed upon them by leftist leaders in South America to accept a tyrannical dictatorship, yesterday the Honduran people decided instead to support democracy and freedom. With reports indicating a 61% voter turnout, the Honduran people chose their new president: Porfirio Lobo. In spite of the bombings and riots being committed and organized by leftist thugs in Honduras to intimidate and terrorize the population and keep them away from the polling stations, the turnout was higher than the last election in 2005 that brought to power the Honduran national nightmare, Mel "the Israelis are trying to kill me with poison gas and high-frequency radiation" Zelaya.
All of this comes on the heels of last week's recommendation by the Honduran Supreme Court to congress in the form of a ruling that Zelaya cannot be reinstated as president until he stands trial for his criminal violations of the Honduran constitution. Even with the support of powerful South American countries such as Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela, today Zelaya finds himself falling deeper into the pit of irrelevance. Zelaya and his international supporters committed the gravest of errors: They severely underestimated the will and resolve of the Honduran people to live in a free and democratic society.
With the backing and support of these international Goliaths, Zelaya thought it was only a matter of time before David was trampled and he would finally realize his dream of installing himself as dictator for life. But just as it happened in the Biblical story, David's aim was once again true. With one shot on Sunday, the Honduran Davids killed the Goliath of leftist oppression and slavery.
Obviously unaware of the irony of his statement, leftist Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said from Portugal that failure to oppose free and fair elections in Honduras "would encourage other 'adventurers' to stage coups in Latin America." I hope da Silva is right; the last thing the leftist Goliaths want is for the rest of the slaves in South America to think that they, too, are entitled to a democracy. I hope the events that transpired in Honduras yesterday inspires many more Davids in Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and any other country that is being terrorized by Marxist tyrants. I hope they realize that they can also sling that rock of democracy and topple the lumbering Goliath that wants to enslave them.
Alberto,
During this crisis Lula totally displayed his red colors. Now Zapatero in Spain is following suit but, at the end David will defeat the lefties.
They will ignore the overwhelming turnout yesterday at the Honduras polls and that fact will be their undoing.
These lefties bastards only talk about Democracy and free elections when it allows them to get into power.
Once they hold the highest office they try to perpetuate themselves on it for life.
Lefties players like Lula, Insulza and Zapatero will end up totallly discredited out of this Honduras situation, the monkey clown Chavez will get eggs on his face and loose a lot of cash in the process, and el Cagalitroso in Havana will drown in his own feces out of disgust.
At least the anti-American bullshit artist running our country finally decided to acknowledge the Honduran elections results. I wonder what or whom made him reverse his Marxist instincts.
Claude Cartaginese at News Real Blog gets it : "Americans who are enamored of Socialism, believing that it is the best way to govern a nation, do not know their history. They don’t know that Socialism has only one end result for those unfortunate enough to be trapped living in a Socialist state: misery and death."
FreedomForCuba,
Obama has not reversed his Marxist instincts. He saw a losing battle and under the bus went Zelaya. Now, let's give Obama lots more losing battles.
Alberto, I can't tell you how much this tale of Honduras inspires me.
I remember when Reagan was ridiculed for going into Grenada. But John O'Sullivan on a National Review cruise, discussing Grenada, remarked that all over the gulags and communist tyrannies came a realization. "It can be reversed!"
From small acorns....
I'm holding off on the celebrations a bit...Pepe Lobo is an old friend of Zelaya, from the same neighborhood, and also a reputed populist/narco-trafficker.
More interestingly, Lobo is a graduate of Moscow's Patrice Lumumba Univ.
Was the recent (relative) compliance of Zelaya (and especially Hugo Llorens!) regarding the elections due to some deal between Lobo and his chum Zelaya????
Granted, on my Honduras trip my hosts were mostly Liberal Party people, so I may have gotten an "intransigent" "hard-liner" viewpoint. But still.....
Again, I'll hold of a bit...until the smoke clears.
The only thing I'm celebrating, Humberto, is that Lobo got into office via a democratic election. He does have a nefarious past and you are right, it was he that Thomas Shannon "reached out" to for help in securing the reinstatement of Zelaya. I wrote about that in a post back on November 2nd.
That was a month ago, however, and Zelaya is in a much worse position today after Lobo's promised help than he was before. Who really knows what the conversation was between Lobo and Shannon and who really knows if Lobo was just playing both sides of the controversy. The important thing is that the Hondurans came out en masse to determine their own future and president. They did not bow down to leftist tyrants, meddling foreign governments, or obnoxious international organizations.
Good stuff, Alberto!
Alas, as a hopeless reactionary I have little faith in the wisdom of "the masses"
And ESPECIALLY--Latin-American "masses." (Peron, Arbenz, Allende, Chavez, Ortega, Morales, Correa.)
Many honest and well-informed Cubans admit that Fidel Castro would have won (and by a landslide!) any Cuban election until, say, 1961.
"He who robs Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.")
(And the loot from the Peters was starting to run out about 1961.)
I have it from many Brigadistas, Escambray rebels, former political prisoners, etc.--serious "intransigents" in other words, who were neck deep in the Cuban political milieu in those years, that Castro would have won any election handily.
It pains me to disclose this.
I, too, have little faith in the wisdom of the masses, Humberto. But I do have faith in a democratic constitution and the separation of powers such a constitution calls for. Without it, a democracy would be nothing more than mob rule.
You must have laws and checks and balances to keep both the individual despot in check, and to avoid mob rule.
Oh, and in regards to Castro and his popularity during the revolution, it is true that the majority of Cubans on the island would have most likely voted for him in an election. But lets also remember that most of the people that would have voted for him were a)not communist, and b)believed the cuento he was giving that he was going to restore the democratic Cuban constitution of 1940.
The sad part is that he kept everyone thinking he was going to restore the constitution in the beginning just long enough for him to secure his iron grip on power. Once he did, the democratic constitution was out the window and that opened the door for his dictatorship.
Even if this guy turns out to be no good, I hope the government of Honduras and its constitution will be able to hold if this guy tries to take hold like Zelaya did.
Would Obama, the OAS and the rest make the same mistake twice if this guy tries to pull a Zelaya? I hope not. I hope by this time next year Obama has very little support in congress because a lot of his buddies are out. I hope the world senses that the times they are a changing.
This may not be a perfect situation for Honduras, but it is a better one than the dreaded alternative.