Friends Of Tyranny

It looks like, from the last two months events and the various apology tours, that the current administration is a good friend of every two cent tyrant currently circulating the world stage. May he be the theocracy in Iran or the Venezuelan Chavez, Obama & Co. are very much taking a position of tacit support.
The former president of Honduras fits perfectly with the current White House behavioral pattern. After he was ousted by the military upon orders from the Judiciary of that country, Manuel Zelaya was sent packing into exile, sparking the reaction of another totalitarian-friendly organization called United Nations.

The turmoil in Honduras started when Zelaya attempted to run a referendum, which would give him the ability to subvert the country’s constitution and allow him to circumvent the “one term limit” clause every president is held to. Basically Zelaya tried to render the country’s constitution useless and consequently be able to assume absolute powers. His mentor in this endeavor has been no other than Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who did the same and is now the dictator of his country.

Smelling the rotten deal, the Honduras Supreme Court ordered the Military to depose Zelaya and send him packing, while the reins of Honduras were passed to the new leader of the country, one Roberto Micheletti.
The latest development is that the president of Costa Rica Oscar Arias is going to assume the role of mediator between Zeleya and the current leadership of Honduras, which, by the way, is not military as the Media in the US would like you to believe, but civilian.
Yesterday, Sec. of State Clinton met privately with Zelaya in Washington in a meeting she described as ‘productive’, which is a scary thought.

Obama has been less than consistent in his approach to foreign policy as it referred to the Iranian events and the Honduras crisis.
As the Iranian protestors were been slaughtered in the streets of Teheran and other cities, Obama had but a very tepid reaction to the cries for freedom coming from the people, excusing his lack of uevos stating his reluctance to meddle in the internal affairs of the country.
But Obama gained instantly the previously missing uevos when he openly condemned the actions of the Honduras Supreme Court and Military, suddenly not too concerned any longer of the danger of meddling in that country’s internal affairs.

Now, as I witness the double standard approach from good old Obama toward Iran and Honduras, I cannot help but have some personal thoughts.
Since Obama has stated on several occasions that he was willing to talk with the enemies of America without any preconditions, it is almost clear to me that he, for some sinister reason, is bent on having communication established with Ahmedinajad. The reason? Maybe because the Iranian nutcase is a conduit toward the Islamic Council, the religious extremists who really control the country and maybe they are the ones he is trying to reach. After all, he did bow to the King of Saudi Arabia.
The protests happening on the streets of Iranian cities were a distraction and a disturbance for the President, who would have preferred to just have the dinner-jacketed moron just win outright so things could stay the same. Not being interested in supporting liberty around the globe, an American tradition he is hard at work to erase, the hunger for freedom demonstrated by the Iranian protesters was an uncomfortable occurrence, best countered by just being apathetic and wimpy in response.

On the other hand, the principle of refrain from meddling in another country’s affair was unmercifully rolled over by Obama when it came to Honduras, as Obama probably saw a really ugly precedent in the events in Tegucigalpa: one branch of the government taking it upon itself to counter another for the maintenance and respect of the constitution, and utilizing one of the arms of the government, the military, to get the job done. Too close to home, Mr. Obama?
There is no military junta controlling Honduras. But what instead can be found is open support for the country’s constitution and the rule of law.

The events in Honduras not only proved to be disturbing for Obama, but our President finds himself in good company, as criticism and outrage and even military threats are expressed, with great freedom champions like Higo Chavez and Daniel Ortega and Raul Castro.
If I was the President, the last thing I would do is to align with well known thugs whose goal is dictatorial powers. Unless, of course, Obama identifies with these kind of people.
But there is a basic, visceral, core difference between Obama and me. I believe in the goodness of America, because I saw it personally; I believe in America being the beacon of freedom and self-reliance; I believe in America being the very last bastion of resistance against chaos and blood shed on a scale of unimaginable proportions. And Obama doesn’t.

And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”