Honduras Leader Zelaya: "Mercenaries" Are Out To Kill Me

McClatchy:

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- It's been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power. He's sleeping on chairs, and he said his throat is sore from toxic gases and "mercenaries" are torturing him with high-frequency radiation.

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Comments

[Peter007]

10:24 AM on 09/25/2009

Now, because he is holed up inside a closet, Zelaya is becoming a cartoon character. He has no control over his Public Relations and message. The objective of every politician is to avoid becoming a joke.

[sticksnstones]

11:33 AM on 09/25/2009

That's your best today, Pete ??

I would suggest that your own objective should be to avoid becoming a joke subsequent to inane comments.

[toltec998]

11:56 AM on 09/24/2009

Zelaya is the rightful President, gang. Ousted by a military coop. He belongs back in office, not in jail. Those that would yank him from office, after being elected by the people, may be the ones to see the inside of a prison cell, if justice prevails.

[MosheDayanHero]

12:15 PM on 09/24/2009

The fact ttah ex-President Zelaya was elected doesn't give him divine powers.
People who are elected can be lawfully removed. Zelaya was ordered arrested by the Supreme Court, supported by Attorney general in full accordance with the law.
After the trial, If he's found innocent, he walk out a free man. But his Presidency is over.
La Commedia è Finita

[toltec998]

12:37 PM on 09/24/2009

No one is suggesting Zelaya possesses divine powers as a result of winning an election, my friend. He was not lawfully removed. He was drug from his home in the middle of the night by men with guns and flown out of the country. Would that be a lawful way to remove a President in any country? I believe impeachment is the lawful way to remove an elected official. You can get a judge to say anything when a gun is pointed at his head.

This whole circumstance reeks of lawlessness. I believe we are not done hearing from Zelaya. It appears Brazil agrees with that.

[sticksnstones]

06:38 PM on 09/24/2009

" People who are elected can be lawfully removed. "

That is the problem in a nutshell, Moshe. There was nothing "lawful" in the way President Zelaya was removed from office. The unelected coup regime has readily admitted as much too many times in the past two months and three weeks for anyone to miss, unless of course one choosed to cherry-pick his facts.

Here's another inconvenient truth: The Honduran Constitution provides for three co-equal branches of government. The executive branch retains the authority over the Honduran military. The judiciary and legislative branches had no authority whatsoever to order the kidnapping and forced exile of the president by that same military. None. Zero. Zip. You can't wrap yourself around the rule-of-law banner and at the same time applaud extrajudicial, illegal, and wholly unnecessary violations of the rule of law when it suits your peculiar political agenda.

Makes you appear to be a tad hypocritical.

[MosheDayanHero]

01:42 PM on 09/24/2009

Zelaya removal from office was order by unanimous order of Supreme court, as requested by Attorney General. This action was confirmed by elected congress which appointed a President in strict accordance with Constitution.
Zelay belongs in jail to stand trial for his violations of Constitution and the law.
If he loses. he will remian in jail. If he wins, he's a free private citizen.
But Presidency is no longer his to have.
Regardless his term was about to expire. That's the reason he was desperately tying to cahnge the law.
He gambled and lost.
ciao bambino.

[piul05]

04:53 PM on 09/24/2009

You do spout a lot of misinformation wherever you go - do you really like to have your a$$e kicked with FACTS that often?

It certainly doesn't do your causes any good.

PS - On the subject in hand, go back to some of my latest post.

[MosheDayanHero]

11:42 AM on 09/24/2009

Protect Zelya where he belongs-- in jail.As ordered by the Supreme Court.

[CoronaDischarge]

11:31 AM on 09/24/2009

Playing the martyr/paranoia card is a dangerous game. He might actualize his rhetoric? I don't see courage or machismo there so much as stupidity.

[JerryLevy]

09:57 AM on 09/24/2009

Ahhh, the would be despot is accusing his own supreme court, popular government, and army of being mercenaries. He is also calling for riots and violent uprisings against the current government. He seems to really care about his country and is willing to subordinate his own desire for power for the good of the people. Yeah, right, about the same as Chavez

[toltec998]

11:37 AM on 09/24/2009

Same as Chavez? Yes, both are the democratically elected President of their countries. I wonder how civil things would be here, or any country, if a military coop removed the President that was elected, democratically. Despot is a ruler with absolute power. I see Zelaya just trying to get back to doing the business of the people, as he as elected to do.

I would not expect him to just walk away.