freecounterpoint: Give Chávez credit

Monday, June 29, 2009

Give Chávez credit

he knows an act of war when he sees one. When Litvinenko (a UK citizen) was knocked off by the Russians, the Brits lay prostrate.

14 comments:

Tecumseh said...: He said that if a new government is sworn in after the coup it would be defeated.

"We will bring them down, we will bring them down, I tell you," he said, while hundreds of red-shirted supporters gathered outside Venezuela's presidential palace in solidarity with Zelaya.

Is Pepe's shirt red, or pink?; 6/29/2009 3:15 AM
Tecumseh said...: Wiki: President Manuel Zelaya, who was insisting on holding a referendum which had been declared illegal by Congress and both the nation's highest courts, was arrested by the military acting on the orders by the Supreme Court of Honduras. The Supreme Court's ruling was supported by Congress, the country's attorney general, top electoral body, and the country's human rights ombudsman, who all said that Zelaya violated law.

Duhhh.
The international reaction to the military's forced removal of Zelaya has been universally negative. Many governments and international media have described the events as a coup d'état.

We are all Chávezian now!

President Barack Obama is said to be "deeply concerned" about the developments in Honduras. ... Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, "The action taken against Honduran President Mel Zelaya violates the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, and thus should be condemned by all."

Let's sing The Internationale.; 6/29/2009 4:03 AM
Tecumseh said...: Fidel joins hands. Pepe in pinko ecstasy.; 6/29/2009 4:06 AM
Mr roT said...: Obama is showing his true stripes here. Again, consistently choosing the side that's about political prisoners...; 6/29/2009 6:40 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Whether left or right, coups seem pretty much S.O.P. in meso- and South-America, no?; 6/29/2009 9:05 AM
Tecumseh said...: Used to. Less so, nowadays. At any rate, from what I gather, this was not really a coup. Rather, Chavez' and Fidel's buddy tried to bypass the Constitution, and get himself elected El Presidente for Life, in the grand ole Pepean tradition. Pandemonium ensued. Hasta la vista, baby. Now the US is siding with the pinko guy. Of course. I guess we've replaced Brezhnev's Soviet Union in propping up commies in the Western Hemisphere.; 6/29/2009 9:31 AM
Pepe le Pew said...: >>this was not really a coup

also known as, "if it's a left-winger being ousted, it is not a coup". a true fcp gem.; 6/29/2009 9:50 AM
Tecumseh said...: As usual, you're full of shit, Pepe. Have you read any of the news linked in the posts below, or any of the comments. But reading is not enough: the pea-brained pinko mind cannot comprehend basic definitions, such as the one in my second post above, which I will repeat, for the benefit of your IQ-impaired, neuron-deprived pinko mind:

The ongoing 2009 Honduran political crisis is a constitutional crisis triggered by President Manuel Zelaya's and his supporters' decision to follow through with a referendum rejected by Congress and ruled illegal by the nation's two highest courts. Zelaya was arrested one hour before polls were due to open for the referendum, by soldiers acting on the orders of the Supreme Court of Honduras.; 6/29/2009 10:30 AM
Mr roT said...: Pepe, read the piece.; 6/29/2009 1:06 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: I read it. Even if you think it's justified, it's still a coup.; 6/29/2009 1:20 PM
Mr roT said...: A coup by definition, should be something illegal, no?

The Hondurans are going about this in the most punctiliously legal way I could imagine and you and Hillary are calling it a golpe.

That's bullshit. The president Zelaya was trying for a coup and got stopped.

Simple as that.; 6/29/2009 1:49 PM
Tecumseh said...: Pissing up a rope, Mr Rot. You know, and I know, and perhaps even Pepe knows in the deep recesses of his mind, that the pinko mind is impervious to rational thought and cartesian logic. Precise definitions and logical inferences are as foreign to a true blue gauchiste as to a Neanderthal caveman. In situations like this, even more so.; 6/29/2009 1:56 PM
Tecumseh said...: My beef is with Pepe. It's all his fault!!!!; 6/29/2009 4:18 PM
Mr roT said...: I thought Kayla's beef was with Pepe... Oh well. To each his own.; 6/29/2009 4:19 PM