First, you lie about my position, adding another exampe to the virtually 100% rate of getting it wrong.
Second, you habe't answered the question. How is asking an opinion proposing a change?
If the people votes 'yes' the constition didn't change. If the people voted no - didn't change. THere was no change from the ballot poll.
Oh, I get your position, what you don't get is the principle of the issue.
Simply, any official attempt whatsoever, successful or not, to change or bypass the alternation clause of the Honduran Constitution results in the immediate ending of El Presidente's term in office. That includes soliciting opinion, putting the question to the electorate, etc. etc. etc.
The judicial branch, the legislative branch, the executive branch of government and Zelaya's own political Party agreed that he did this. Therefore, ipso facto, spit spot, he no longer was in office.
Kicking him out of the country was simply an expeditious way to get rid of a potential problem, to wit, that Zelaya and/or his supporters would instigate a coup, an overthrow of the democratic government. So the military was called upon by the entire government and Zelaya's own Party to exercise the independent Constitutional responsibility they have (though they acted in concert with the government, the military is specifically tasked to act with or without concurrence in this circumstance and thus do not require anyone's permission to uphold this tenent of the Constitution) and they bundled him up and kicked him out of the country. No shots fired.
There was no coup as the government stayed in place with an interim President pending election of a successor. A successor was democratically elected, the interim President left office voluntarily (after choosing not to run himself just so as to not complicate the election and the legitimacy of the transfer of power.) How about that? Democracy works again!
The issue came about because the new Obama Administration was not familiar with the country or its history or Honduran Constitutional law; Obama wanted to establish buddy buddy relations with idiots like Chavez of Venezuela; the Administration, including the wonderful Secretary of State Hillary, were misguided by the U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, a mope named Hugo Llorens and the rest is a tragicomedy of errors and willful interference in the domestic affairs of Honduras by such bad actors as the less than democracy friendly Organization of American States and
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President and Chief Meddler of Brazil.
Honduras dodges a bullet to its democratic governance, while the U.S. was crazily pointing fingers at them and accuses them of being not nice to Mr. Want-To-Be-A Dictator-For-Life Zelaya. Out of pure spite, the Obama Administration applies their Chicago political approach of vengeance against anyone who opposes them, right or wrong, into the diplomatic scene. They use the full power and force of the United States to strip the U.S. travel visas of interim Honduran President, now private citizen, Mr. Micheletti, his advisers and cabinet officials and the entire Honduran Supreme Court. Last week it yanked more visas from members of the interim government that did their best to keep Honduras democratic.
Nice, huh? Way to show the U.S. flag!
Willing talking points regurgitators like yourself parrot the Obama company line while willfully ignoring the realities that have been pointed out over and over again.
Believe what you will. The U.S. government officially has egg all over their face with this one. And too much hubris to back down.
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