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Wandering Bananas Zelaya

By John Batchelor on July 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM in Current Affairs

Larry Johnson will likely discuss Honduras tonight on The John Batchelor Show. Check our promo for audio link and times.

Bananas Split comedy continues with the Hugo Chavez stooge Manuel Zelaya rushing about making speeches on TV about how criminals have tossed him out of his beleaguered Honduras. Those criminals turn out to have acted with measured collegiality and with a deal of constitutional sobriety.

Robert Micheletti, the acting president in Tegulcigapas, is confidently insisting that, if and when Zelaya returns, he will be arrested as a pompous criminal.

Zelaya failed to land his plane at his former capital last Sunday and no longer receives serious attention.

After POTUS stumbled the first hours by claiming the flapdoodle was a “coup,” the White House has been silent. State saved POTUS’s face by handing off the negotiation to the heroic blowhard Arias of Costa Rica.  No result after a week of fat-chewing. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Wall Street Journal, a ringing voice of liberty on the Honduran crisis since the start, will join me Sunday 12 to update the shenanigans.

  • Hot Librarian

    “Pompous criminal”-is this some sort of new category?

    • NomNomNom

      pompous criminal n. one who instigates flapdoodles

      • tango

        pompous fraudster n: one who instigates flip flops and chicanery ie, Barack Obama

        Or should we call him Barratry Obama?

  • NomNomNom

    lol, the damage control article. Move along, nothing to see, it was just a flapdoodle. Pay no attention to the SOA generals behind the curtains. (They are large curtains).
    Yet it is now known that Micheletti tried to alter the Constitution to allow more terms for Cordova in 1985.
    He has removed the elected mayor of the 2nd largest city, a mayor who has not been seen from since, and installed his own nephew.
    His military supporters have shot and killed protester and journalist, kidnapped and assaulted government ministers and foreign ambassadors; cut off all opposition media, arrested hundreds if not thousands of citizens, including the father of Isis Obed Murillo, the young protester the military shot dead and from whose body the blood was photoshopped in La Prensa.
    The military coup is lauded by the likes of Pinochet’s daughter and Otto Reich.
    When a head of state is kidnapped at gunpoint in his pajamas, beaten, and illegally flown against his will out the country by School of the Americas generals, and a puppet gets on the air and announces, falsely, that the president has resigned: that is a military coup.

    • http://www.skullduggery.com.au Douglas

      Augusto Pinochet also worked with “measured collegiality”, utilising similar legaloid arguments as Micheletti, to justify his own infamous “flapdoodle”. All in a bid to make it seem that what he was doing was “constitutional”. And we know how that turned out.

      He then proceeded to violate the very constitution he claimed to be championing on a massive and violent scale.

      The Honduran military are currently throwing journalists out of the country, setting curfews, martial law and arresting and dissapearing supposed “dissenters”.

      This isn’t a flapdoodle it’s a damned flibbety jibbet!

      Such shenanigans!

  • Hot Librarian

    Honduara has a gdp per person of 1,800 pa. The economy has risen 7% each year recently so there was some hope. Political instabilty will crush this poor nation.

    as a relative -the other hated countries are Nicaragua at $2,700 & Venezuela at $12,750.

    Honduras is a tiny struggling country . A country with NO politiclrecognition -even for 6 months until elections willsuffer.

    The bottom line is the poorer people of Honduras -does this bring bread & beans. Does it help?

    Without basic money ,anywhere under any politician is sh***t.

    A compromise is needed but which must include the people’s say -not the parliament ,not the courts & not the military.

  • TeakWoodKite

    SOA all the time eh NomNomNom?

    Mr. Johnson might address the current influences of the SOA on the what is unfolding.

    • NomNomNom

      I said way back on “Honduras tells Chavez” Zelaya needs to be handled by the courts. Arrest and trial, yes; military puppet regime, no. How many nations need to have had an SOA trained dictator or SOA trained military officers committing massacres for you to think the SOA connection isn’t significant? SOA was part of the framework for maintaining US interests in South and Central America for decades. It’s been 16 years since the last military coup. Seeing Gens Vasquez and Suazo heading this one ought to disturb anyone.

      Also, SOA, WHINSEC, whatever you want to call it is hardly transparent, the list of those attending and graduating is now classified; even before the current opacity there were those trained by it who were not registered as having been trained by it. I would be surprised if there were not those whose training is documented as minimal, whose training in fact was extensive.
      The McGovern-Sestak-Bishop-Lewis amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2010 has passed the house (it mandates public release of names, rank, country of origin, courses and dates of attendance of WHINSEC’s graduates and instructors to the public) has passed the house, but has yet to make it through the joint house and senate committees.
      If transparency really would bolster WHINSEC’s claims of carefully scrutinizing and training entrants against human rights abuses, they wouldn’t need a freaking law to come clean.

    • NomNomNom

      Spaminated again.

  • Jack

    “Bananas Split comedy”

    Hey John, an error?

    Do you mean “Banana Splits Comedy”, like that of the absurdist slapstick of the long ago childrens’ show,
    or “Bananas Comedy” invoking Woody Allen’s Central American funny film?

    Either way, or both, I like it anyway!

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