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.