Did the US Government get cold feet and turn on a caution
light to the coup the Honduran military carried out against its
own democratic and legitimate president, Manuel Zeleya by
kidnapping him and forcing him into exile in Costa Rica and
installing Roberto Michilleti, an opponent of Zeleya's as the
military despot to do the will of the rich and super rich in Honduras,
with such a swift condemnation of same by the European Union and
the Organization for American States along with the United Nations
General Assembly pressing for an emergency session on the
same day?

If what the quite reliable Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan president has
had to say is true, then this seems all the more likely. Chavez has
said he thinks the USA was in on the coup. With it the characteristics
MO (criminal method of operation) of the USA. Now Barak Obama,
the pied piper of neo con policies who campaigned against same is
condemning this coup.

The coup has already resulted in the imposition of martial law on the
country, electricity has gone out, all power for the internet has gone,
the lights are going out all over Honduras, but the people continue to
resist this right wing military coup and tyranny and are doing so all across
that country. The light can come back on when the coup and its gangsters
have backed off their power grab. Of course, the Honduran people are
fighting against the same "landed gentry" which Martin Luther King Jr
in his day said the United States was aligned with, and unfortunately
the USA is still aligned with those Dr King warned against his country
aligning itself with.

The kidnapping of ambassadors from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua,
countries friendly to Zeleya, even though now released, given the beatings
by the Honduran military as well as the beating and kidnapping of Patricia
Rodas, the Honduran foreign minister whose whereabouts are currently
unknown show just how completely outrageous this coup is.

This is coup which surely should not only be condemned, but reversed
if at all possible by the same avenue as a nominally Democratic president
reversed the military coup against the democratic government in Haiti,
albeit without same arm twisting of this Honduran president that that
US president in 1994 applied to that Haitian president to let big US
business interests have a free reign of his country. This would simply
involve going to the UN Security Council to call for a resolution authorizing
whatever force in necessary to restore the democratic government of Honduras
and vetoes would be extremely unlikely as they proved to be then.

This coup has united the indigenous people in the Civil Council of Popular
and Indigenous Organizations with others to defend their right to democratic
government. In this struggle the people defending their right to democracy
in government are standing up to tanks. They deserve our support, and if
the president will stop being so much of a cynical Daley machine politician,
he could lend his tangible, and not just rhetorical support, as well.

The Honduran people deserve our support as they wage their struggle against
a corrupt system of oppression in the form of this coup just as Dr King said
all people rising up against such systems in his day deserved our support,
and the USA can provide by taking their case to the UN Security Council
and backing their right to have a democratic and legitimate government
restored.

In the United States today all too many in the media
and others are equating the current US health care hodge-
podge mess with the single payer health system as an extreme,
and this isn't just simplistic and reductionist non sense, though
it is that, but an outright fallacy of the false equation. Something
such as single payer which provides high quality health care
for all at much less expense than the status quo rip off with
choice of providers and true health care democracy, with the
people through their government in charge is clearly not extreme
in any sense, but in the sense of being extremely good. But
then ethics has never been a strong suit for neo cons and
their types historically with their ethically challenged background
going back to their ideological ancestors saying monarchs in
England and the rest of Europe ruled by the grace of God. What
could be expected from such morally inferior types, and yes
that's what the hell they are.

But those who would get single payer must recognize that they
have the deck getting stacked against them, with the president
already tipping his hand toward a minimalist of the worst type
weak kneed commitment to an almost nothing public health care
option which would give a built in advantage to the privately
funded and private health industry controlled plans for health
care in the USA. This is made worse by evidence continuing
to mount and being reported in the alternate media of health
insurance and pharmaceutical industry monetary influence on
key players in the debate in the US Senate. The more this is
exposed the more it will at least help to put these individuals
on the defensive about opposing single payer as well it should.
But even more brazen is the fact that all in the US Congress including
the strongest opponents of single payer for this country's people
get that "terrible form of socialized medicine" for themselves with
not one of said strong opponents of single payer ever refusing
such health care coverage for themselves like the proverbial
hypocrites they are. This needs to get out. The truth on this is essential
to bring much needed pressure to bear to force action on these
phonies and those who are weak kneed.

Of course, this weak kneed president is simply a cynical Daley
machine politician in the first place, and not the change we "can
believe in" as his hagiographers are so hell bent on saying he is. But
be that as it may, we have the power to put pressure on him and on
other big time politicians by exposing the real truth about them and
what they're really all about including their conflicts of interests fueled
by the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries buying up of stock in
them.

We need health care "of, by, and for the people," a "radical idea,
but what the hell let's do it anyway regardless what the US mainstream
overrated media have to say as an echo chamber for the quid pro quo/
status quo and the rip off and corruption of the old and older order
made more corrupt as it has had too much power for too long with all the
privileges, pomp, circumstance and all the rest along with it. Oh, and
"roll over Katie Graham/tell Obama the news." Because we uppity
progressives already know and have been speaking truth to power
about it, and as some might say, "Ding dong the wicked witch is dead,"
the wicked witch of the US mainstream media that is or "Do not send
to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for them." Put bluntly the era of
"Elmer Fudd nation" and the sleeping dog mainstream media in a happy
convergence seem to be coming to an end. The laptops of today's
progressive/alternative media have now begun pointing a bright floodlight
at the corruption and injustice of the system in a way that Graham warned
against, thus an opportunity is upon us, and we progressives must seize it
and while we're at get single payer for all as well. Those with the power
won't give up without a fight and probably fight dirty, but this an unprecedented
time of opportunity for us progressives.

Worst case scenario, we should only allow multi payer systems of health care
such as those in France or Germany which I just got back from vacation
in which (1) only allow those in private sector to sell basic health
insurance which are non profit organizations, (2) are strictly regulated by
the central government, and (3) aren't allowed to refuse coverage to
people based on their health conditions.

Absolutely we need to avoid the Dutch error of letting for profit health
insurance companies getting their foot in the door on health care, which
has led to 250,000 people losing coverage and another 250,000 who are
behind on payments. This all got started in 2006 when the Netherlands
first allowed non profit organizations providing health care to change
over to for profit companies and for profit health insurance companies
to come into being. With British health care, beginning in 2002, profit
making health insurance companies started getting their foot in the
door of British health care initially only with elective surgery, but then
for treatment of diabetes, and then other care, until in 2008 for
profit health insurance companies are moving toward dominance
and displacing the National Health Service and leading much lower
quality of health care including destroying doctor-patient relationships
and continuity of coverage. United Health, based in Minnesota is one
of these companies, as well as one indicted "for swindling taxpayers and
patients. . ." This move in the direction of privatization of health care
has produced terrible results, with efficiency only for these companies
and anything but efficiency for patients in their health care. When
those on the right want to point their fingers at problems with British
health care, they need only look at the fact that the health insurance
industry has got its foot in the door. The facts about the British health
care trends have come out in a British magazine I subscribe to.

Now is the time for people in the United States to contact their congresspersons and senators to get them to bring a screeching halt to the F22 pork barrel project that will cost over a trillion dollars that the US House Armed Services in the dead of the night last Wednesday voted to sneak through and doing so follow the sage advice of Dwight D Eisenhower to "guard against the growth of the military industrial complex. . ." After all Ike cut the Pentagon budget in 1955 and 1960 in the heyday of the Cold War when the USA and its allies faced the East bloc and no harm came to our national security, and today we surely face no such military power. The Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has even said we don't need this F22 project.

People should also urge their senators, if needed, to filibuster against this silly, off the wall pork barrel project. Let's move now to stop this rotten pork barrel project of waste which we can't afford.