Based exclusively on the news citations provided in the comments of a previous post where I took a cheap shot at Obama, I now imagine the Honduran coup* taking place something like this:
President Zelaya: I really like being in charge. I think I'm going to stay in charge. Now what to do about that pesky constitutional presidential term limit? I know! Elections dudes - prepare a referendum to allow the people to express their overwhelming love for me!*May or may not be a coup, depending on your definition.
Elections Dudes: Um, Supreme Court? This seems bad.
Supreme Court: Don't be a douche Mr. President. There will be no referendum.
President Zelaya: Screw you hippies. Army dudes - hold the referendum for me.
Chief Army Dude: No way you asshole.
President Zelaya: Fine - you're fired! I'll just have my buddy Hugo Chavez ship in some helpfully pre-completed ballots to get this show on the road.
Ex-Chief Army Dude: Wah! Wah! Supreme Court, the President fired me without just cause!
Supreme Court: As we've seen in the USA, there is no limit on court authority, so we hereby reinstate you and order you to arrest that asshole Zelaya for treason.
Chief Army Dude: "Arrest" my ass. Nobody gets a second chance to fire me. You're outta here President Lame-o. Wait, why did I bother going to the Supreme Court anyway? Doing things my way is a whole lot more efficient.
Congress: Wow, that saved us from a really tedious impeachment. Rather than worrying about the massive corruption in our political, military, and judicial systems, let's just rubber stamp the army's actions and just promote the next guy in line to President.
Obama: Somehow the thousands of morons employed by the State Department completely missed this. Um, hey you guys, take back your loser of a president. Or we'll kick you out of some union or another. Until you elect a new president at least, so really this threat is meaningless.
4 comments:
Things are much more clear now ... Funny. :)
That's about the size of it.
(A few minor points: I think the military are the election dudes in Honduras, but I might be wrong. The supreme court didn't say Zelaya should be removed at the same time they reinstated Vasquez. Some part of the US government knew about the coup (at least to the extent that they claim to have "tried to head off a possible coup"), although I'm guessing you're right and it wasn't the State Department.)
Too busy coming up with juvenile insults - no time for fact checking!
Why do people keep trying to educate me about this topic?
From my xth cousin n times removed, who happens to live in Honduras (Blackberry induced typos corrected):
Well, not bad for the cliffnotes version
what's missing is the minimum wage controversy;
the entrenched establishment is angry that zelaya got it raised, then factories laid off workers, blaming the increase rather than the economy and lack of orders from US companies.... That country is hurting for jobs, both for money and to give people something to DO...... It's the restlessness and lack of direction or hope for the future (partly cultural fatalism) that makes the situation so explosive..., and they are excitable, prone to grandstanding
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