Legitimate government wins round two
Bad news for the King of Kings and his dictator pals:
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was kept from landing at the main Honduras airport Sunday because the runway was blocked by military vehicles and groups of soldiers, some of them clashing with a crowd of thousands outside.
His Venezuelan pilots circled around the airport and decided not to risk a crash.
Zelaya instead headed for El Salvador, and vowed to try again Monday or Tuesday in his high-stakes effort to return to power in a country where all branches of government have lined up against him.
“I am the commander of the armed forces, elected by the people, and I ask the armed forces to comply with the order to open the airport so that there is no problem in landing and embracing my people,” Zelaya said from the plane,
Not anymore you ain’t. Ed notes something telling:
Many people may not have known that Zelaya’s flight started from Washington, where he apparently has set up his office in exile. White House officials told the Washington Post that they expect him to return to Washington after the aborted attempt to return to Honduras. However, Zelaya says he’ll try landing in Honduras again instead, perhaps as early as today. Micheletti said that they would allow Zelaya to land when the former president was ready to turn himself into authorities “quietly”, and not before then.
And that’s as it should be, tyrants like our jug-eared Messiah notwithstanding. Sad, though, that Washington is now a place of refuge for wannabe dictators. But it was inevitable; our execrable Currant Occupant is the best friend any despot ever had.
Every defeat for these usurpers is a victory for freedom, wherever and whenever it occurs. And every nation that stands up for constitutional government is our ally, and Obama’s enemy.
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