Honduras Defends Its Democracy; Castro and Hillary Clinton Object

Hugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution.

It seems that President Mel Zelaya (Chavez wannabe) miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking.

But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton (US Secretary of State) and, of course, Hugo himself.

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.

But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. I would not be surprised if Chavez did not apply for Stimulus funds from Supreme Leader B. Hussein and have ACRON assist in the bogus election; something they at which they excel!

But why should a little thing like the rule of law and a constitution bother a true liberal socialist? All Zelaya had to do was use the playbook written by the current gang of Chicago thugs in the US White House. If you want to do something a democratic constitution might frown upon, just appoint a Czar (or a few dozen), unelected and unaccountable to the public, and do it anyway.

It is not surprising that Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration would want to thwart democracy in Honduras. They are busily doing the same thing here.

So Much for Superior Latina Judgment!

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision Sonia Sotomayor (now Supreme Court pretender) endorsed as an appeals court judge. The same Supreme Court nominee who said that a Latina (Hispanic female) would make a better Justice than a white male because of her 'rich life experiences.'

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide and make it harder to prove discrimination when there is no evidence it was intentional.

Thank goodness that the adults on the Court prevailed. For way too long, the “aggrieved class” of minorities have held businesses hostage in fear of ‘offending’ someone.

The lower court ruling endorsed by Sotomayor was a perfect example of Liberal thought:

Do not reward hard work and excellence and encourage others to strive for more, but punish success and lower the standard of all to the level of government dependents. Politicians cannot make you dependent upon them as long as hard work and study are allowed to advance success. No one is to be smarter than anyone else and no one is to earn more as a result than anyone else. But instead of setting the threshold at the level of success, set it where all you can be is what the government allows.

I wonder what will happen when the ego maniacal politicians that crave unrestricted control over their subjects will do when there are no longer any successful people from which they can re-distribute wealth to the un-washed masses?

This ruling by the Supreme Court is a small step in reversing a half-century of reverse discrimination and long overdue.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who are not." -- Thomas Jefferson