Octavio Sanchez, former Honduran government minister of culture, spells out the Honduran constitution and how former President Manuel Zelaya essentially a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0702/p09s03-coop.html"removed himself from office/a:br /blockquoteUnder our Constitution, what happened in Honduras this past Sunday? Soldiers arrested and sent out of the country a Honduran citizen who, the day before, through his own actions had stripped himself of the presidency.br /br /On June 26, President Zelaya issued a decree ordering all government employees to take part in the "Public Opinion Poll to convene a National Constitutional Assembly." In doing so, Zelaya triggered a constitutional provision that automatically removed him from office. …br /br /Our Constitution takes such intent seriously. According to Article 239: “No citizen who has already served as head of the Executive Branch can be President or Vice-President. Whoever violates this law or proposes its reform [emphasis added], as well as those that support such violation directly or indirectly, will immediately cease in their functions and will be unable to hold any public office for a period of 10 years.”/blockquotebr /Now, re both the Obama Administration and the Organization of American States, but focusing on Team Obama.br /br /Does nobody in the State Department have a copy of the Honduran Constitution? Did nobody bother to read one? Ditto in spades for the National Security Council.br /br /And, did nobody point out to Obama himself how wrong he was?br /br /In other words, did Der Leader go on his merry way of talking about a Honduran coup out of ignorance (bad enough), or with eyes wide open (worse)?div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-2154134167102573492?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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