Zelaya threatens insurgency

a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090801/wl_afp/honduraspoliticsmilitarycoup_20090801092824"AFP:/abr /br /blockquote Ousted span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1249119079_0"President Manuel Zelaya/span has threatened the interim government of Honduras with "generalized violence" if he is not restored to power. p "Either the coup is reversed or generalized violence is coming," Zelaya warned the interim government headed by Roberto Micheletti in an interview Friday with span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1249119079_1"Nicaragua/span's state-owned Channel 4 TV./p p "The people have the right to protest, to insurrection. This is the case of the Honduran people, which is being brutally repressed," he said./p p Soon after, around 100 Honduran men belonging to Zelaya's "popular army" began training exercises in a camp on the span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1249119079_2"Nicaraguan/span side of the border with Honduras, an AFP journalist witnessed./p p The recruits -- mostly young men and all unarmed -- exercised, marched, and carried out maneuvers under the direction of leaders who said they were Honduran army veterans./p p According to the leaders, other similar camps had been set up along the border./p p Zelaya announced on Wednesday that -- with permission from leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega -- he would organize his own army based on the more than 300 Honduran supporters that gathered at his base at the border town of Ocotal, 226 kilometers (140 miles) north of the Nicaraguan capital span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1249119079_3"Managua/span./p p This will be "the popular militia that will guard the president upon his return," Zelaya said./pp...br //p/blockquoteZelaya continues to embarrass himself and his followers with foolish pronouncements. He is running out of time as the election that will replace him will be held in a few months and his cause will fizzle out, or he will live down to the allegations against him of trying to act unconstitutionally. br /br /Only the leftist seem to think he has some cause worth supporting and that includes whomever in the State Department who still thinks he has a case. It should be noted that the administration has yet to make the case for their support of this fruit cake who clearly violated the Honduran constitution. How they can claim to be on the side of the rule of law is never explained. They just keep ignoring the obvious. We need to ask why they have chosen to be on the side of the bad guys?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5051247-4389688543541700307?l=prairiepundit.blogspot.com'//div

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