Mr. Obama seems a tad unclear on the concept
President Obama has opined that this past weekend's coup ousting Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was "not legal."
Thank you for clarifying that point, Mr. President. After all, most countries have provisions in their constitutions allowing for coups, don't they? After all, a legal coup is one thing, but...
Oh? They don't? Well,imagine that!
Legality was no more the issue here than it was when Abe Lincoln- illegally, but necessarily- suspended habeus corpus during the Civil War. The same question Lincoln asked then can be asked with regard to the Honduran coup: "Should all the other laws go unenforced, so that one law may be kept?" If you're interested in what really happened in Honduras (as opposed to what the Castro/Chavez/Obama axis is telling us happened), read this cogent summary by former Polk County GOP chair Ted Sporer.
"Legal" or not, the Honduran military was acting to enforce a decision of the nation's Supreme Court, and to prevent Zelaya from becoming a dictator. Would that have been "legal?"
HT: Drudge
Thank you for clarifying that point, Mr. President. After all, most countries have provisions in their constitutions allowing for coups, don't they? After all, a legal coup is one thing, but...
Oh? They don't? Well,imagine that!
Legality was no more the issue here than it was when Abe Lincoln- illegally, but necessarily- suspended habeus corpus during the Civil War. The same question Lincoln asked then can be asked with regard to the Honduran coup: "Should all the other laws go unenforced, so that one law may be kept?" If you're interested in what really happened in Honduras (as opposed to what the Castro/Chavez/Obama axis is telling us happened), read this cogent summary by former Polk County GOP chair Ted Sporer.
"Legal" or not, the Honduran military was acting to enforce a decision of the nation's Supreme Court, and to prevent Zelaya from becoming a dictator. Would that have been "legal?"
HT: Drudge
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