Reply #133: At first I suspected boppers and Supertrooper were CIA plants

[mudplanet]

but as the discussion went on it became apparent that at least one is just a garden variety closet fascist.

If you're really for a democracy and rule of law (as opposed to a military dictatorship) you'd recognize that the correct way to remove a president is impeachment, not coup. No, I haven't read the Honduran constitution, but I'd bet my ass that it doesn't say, "If the president acts in an unlawful manner, the army should knock down his door and kidnap him and any other foreign diplomats that may sympathize with the president's policies." There is probably a legal solution that is outlined in the document somewhere.

Allende was a theif and a despot? Chile's economy was headed for the trash can long before Allende, and Allende's major crime was to try to turn Chile into something resembling a Western European liberal democracy. The idea that some resources should belong to the state (nationalization) while it's perfectly ok to own private property isn't particularly revolutionary.

Somebody get this bircher out of here.

"the happiness of the people in getting rid of that dictator-in-training"?? Yea, they're so happy the army has come out in force to keep them from partying too hard. By the way, photos are beginning to surface all over the web of Hondurans that don't look too happy about the coup. Try the BBC.

The Cuban, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans are plotting to turn the country into a communist dictatorship? Jesus wept, from what John Birch daydream did this nonsense come from?