A Brief History…

Senator Jim Demint has traveled to Honduras to meet with the government there and let them know that not all Americans are supporting Zelaya and the Chavez thug brigade. Senator DeMint has previously declared himself in support of the Honduran constitutional government.

DeMint, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, criticized Zelaya as a “Chavez-style dictator” referring to leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a frequent thorn in the side of the U.S.

“The Honduran Congress, the Honduran Supreme Court, and the Honduran military have acted in accordance to the Honduran constitution and the rule of law,” DeMint said in a statement today. “Zelaya’s open defiance of democratic norms has set Honduras on a path toward violence, instability, and tyranny.”

DeMint further sought to tie Obama’s condemnation of the coup as an indication of the president’s willingness to open dialogue with hostile foreign leaders.

“I am hopeful that as President Obama grows in office, he will eventually turn away from despots like Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, and Zelaya, and give the United States’ full-throated support to the people of any country who are fighting for the same values we cherish and defend in America,” the South Carolina lawmaker said. “President Obama’s call for the reinstatement of Zelaya is a slap in the face to the people of Honduras…The rule of law is working in Honduras. President Obama should not undermine the democratic institutions that guarantee freedom by forcing an illegitimate President back into power.”

He attempted to use government transportation to met with the Honduran officials this week but Senator Kerry, who met with the North Vietnamese in 1972 when he was still a naval officer, blocked the trip. DeMint has found other transportation and is representing those of us who are not in love with leftist dictators.

Frederick Jones, communications director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a Kerry spokesman, explained the distinction to us: Kerry was not blocking DeMint from going to Honduras — any American can legally travel there — but the issue was over government funding and plane travel for an official fact-finding mission. “Clearly, as an American citizen, Sen. DeMint is free to travel to Honduras commercially.”

I guess Kerry used private transportation to Paris in 1972 when he met with the North Vietnamese who were killing US troops. Or maybe the NVA paid for his trip.

Thanks to Washington Monthly for the heads up.

UPDATE: More at Big Lizards. He has linked Miguel Estrada’s piece on the Zelaya removal. Since I no longer read the Times, I missed it.

UPDATE #2: Zelaya certainly has some interesting advisors.

The latest on that front comes from his chief propagandist, David Romero Ellner, who came out with these pearls of wisdom:

There are times when I ask myself if Hitler was or not correct in finishing with that race with the famous Holocaust. If there are people that do damage in this country, they are Jewish, the Israelis. I want to name, this afternoon here in Radio Globo, by name and last name, who are the two officers of the Jewish army who are working with the Armed Forces of our country and who are in charge of carrying out all these conspiracy activities and undercover actions and everything else that is happening to the President of the Republic.

After what I have learned, I ask myself why, why didn’t we let Hitler carry out his historic mission. Forgive me for the grotesque expression. But I ask myself after I have realized this and many other things. I believe it should have been fair and valid to let Hitler finish his historic vision…

Yes, that our president’s side in this controversy. Maybe we should look harder at his side.

Not long after ousted wannabe Marxist dictator Manuel Zelaya issued a bizarre rant about Israelis attacking him with high frequency radiation and toxic gases, his chief propagandist, David Romero Ellner, who heads up Honduras’ Radio Globo went on the air to suggest that Hitler had been right and that it was unfortunate that he had not gotten the chance to finish off the Holocaust.

David Romero Ellner and Radio Globo are significant because the media aims to make them into the newest martyrs of the Honduran government’s “crackdown” on civil rights. Reuters and other media outlets are already carrying touching narratives of the police raid on Radio Globo and David Romero Ellner continuing to carry on broadcasting over the web.

This is what the leftists at Washington Monthly are talking about when they accuse Honduras of “closing down radio stations.”

The line looked a little foolish when the de facto government shut down Honduran media outlets and suspended constitutional civil liberties in the country.

And this was what the tragic martyr, David Romero Ellner said on Radio Globo;

“There are times when I ask myself if Hitler was or not correct in finishing with that race with the famous Holocaust. If there are people that do damage in this country, they are Jewish, the Israelis. I want to name, this afternoon here in Radio Globo, by name and last name, who are the two officers of the Jewish army who are working with the Armed Forces of our country and who are in charge of carrying out all these conspiracy activities and undercover actions and everything else that is happening to the President of the Republic.

“After what I have learned, I ask myself why, why didn’t we let Hitler carry out his historic mission. Forgive me for the grotesque expression. But I ask myself after I have realized this and many other things. I believe it should have been fair and valid to let Hitler finish his historic vision…”

David Romero Ellner, currently being praised as a hero of the free press by the liberal media, began his career as an activist with the Communist party. He co-founded the People’s Revolutionary Union, better known for its Cinchoneros armed wing which carried out numerous terrorist attacks. In 1981 they hijacked Flight 414 to New Orleans and took its crew and passengers hostage, demanding the release of other Honduran leftists.

In 1988 they carried out an attack on US servicemen in Honduras wounding four outside a disco. Their overall attacks on US troops claimed 28 casualties. They also kidnapped the Vice President of Texaco and seized an OAS office and took hostages. And ironically, considering David Romero-Ellner’s outrage over the raid on Radio Globo, seized radio stations to broadcast leftist propaganda.

Yes, this is their side in the controversy.

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