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Why Honduras and our apparent support of dictatorships should matter to you
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Last week saw controversy, a fraudulent election result, protest by freedom loving people, and several murders of freedom loving people in Iran. The official position of the United States was one of isolationism. We the people were told that the United States does not mettle in the affairs of others. We the people were told that the Obama administration had “no observers on the ground”, and therefore could not take a stand for the unarmed masses facing the threat of tear gas and guns. In less political terms, the United States of America under the Obama administration refused to take a stand for the forces of freedom.
Fast forward to this week, and the Obama administration could not have been faster in meddling in the affairs of Honduras. The media has reported a “military coup” in Honduras, as President Manuel Zelaya attempted to oust the Constitution of Honduras, and run for a second term. Moreover, the Constitution of Honduras calls for those that attempt to change the term limit stipulation to be removed from public office and prohibited from running again.
Constitutions are established as the supreme law of the land that it is established for. In this case, Manuel Zelaya was actually attempting a coup himself. That is to say that the military was correct in defending their Constitution, and preserving the rule of law in Honduras. Nonetheless, our dictator loving media is attempting to paint the military in Honduras as some kind of a rogue element that just overthrew their government. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Obama administration is indeed siding with our media and the law breaking, would be dictator Manuel Zelaya. One week after refusing to be a strong vocal leader for the forces of freedom in Iran, President Obama (along with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez) is a strong vocal supporter for the forces of tyranny in Honduras. Yes, as he sees no problem with the fraudulent and illegal regime in Iran, Obama seems all too willing to denounce the actions of the Honduran military as illegal. Let us explore why.
President Obama, far from respecting the supreme law of our land, sees a friend in leaders that can manipulate their nation’s documents to suit their own needs, or outright disregard said documents. President Obama has proved sympathetic to those that wish to rule with an iron fist over their people. He wants Americans to respect Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Ahmendinijad, and Zelaya. All of whom are Marxists, all of whom disregard the laws that provide checks and balances upon their powers. The President of the United States is aligning himself with brutal dictators. The President of the United States may be devolving into a dictator himself.
During the campaign, Obama said that the Constitution is flawed in that it does not give the federal government the authority to do things for the people of the United States. True, our Constitution does not allow the federal government to manage our health care, redistribute our hard earned dollars, dictate how much a private citizen may earn, or tell us what light bulb we have to use in our homes. Yet, President Obama has put all of these things into motion.
When looking at our Constitution, the document that would birth the most prosperous and freest people the world has ever seen, President Obama does not see the wisdom of our founding. He does not see a carefully constructed set of laws with wisdom drawn from thousands of years of the human experience. He cannot understand why the individual pursuit of happiness, through success and failure, is more important than a government that promises everything to everybody. No, when President Obama looks at our Constitution, he sees only his reflection on the glass that encases it. In his reflection, he sees a man hell bent on overthrowing the basic tenets and principles that are upheld in the Constitution. He sees a budding dictator, a soft dictator like Franklin Roosevelt, but a dictator nonetheless. That is to say that he believes that nations are governed by the whims of men, not by the rule of law and timeless principles.
The paragraph above details our President’s ideology, and why he so admires dictators around the world. He wants to work closely with these people because he understands the dictatorial mindset, one that he is most comfortable with. This mindset allows him to declare the legal actions by the military in Honduras as illegal. We had better hope that this mindset does not allow him to claim his own illegal actions as legal. Could our President be sympathetic to Manuel Zelaya because he would also like to overthrow our Constitution and the Presidential term limits therein? Troubling to ponder, but under the mantra of hope and change, change is proving to be limitless.
