[Mavdog]

Originally Posted by dude1394

I also think you are being pretty naive to be imposing your beliefs of what would be happening here to what might be happening in Honduras.

yeah, "imposing [our] belief" in the rule of law is just so damn naive.

Those countries have a pretty big problem with despots taking over the governments and it appears the hondurans are very,very sensitive to that...as they probably should be.

uh, those "despots", esp in the case of honduras, have been the military leaders, the generals who use the guns of the army to seize power. the people are very sensitive to the military stepping in and acting outside the legal system.

That's why they claim it treason for someone that is not the congress to try and enact constitutional changes.

that is not at all what this is all about. the president wanted to have a referendum by the people on if they wanted to change the constitution (this vote was not to make changes to the constitution). the court said the law stated these votes (there is another election scheduled) cannot be within a specific time from each other, and the president's plan to hold the referendum was in violation of that law, ordered the vote to be stopped. the president said he would hold the election anyway and that's when al;l hell broke loose.

again, charge the president with a crime and hold the trial to determine guilt or innocence. that's what the law says to do, not to stahe a coup and put the offender on a plane to costa rica.

With our much more open and wealthy society barry couldn't pull this off at all, but someone in honduras might. See the above parrots.

that's very interesting...so you see the problem in honduras being due to their not being an "open" society and their relative poverty?