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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 12:19 AM Mar 2016

A bit of information for any pro-choice and LGBTQ supporters of HRC:

From this article about the HRC-orchestrated coup in Honduras:

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-clinton-backed-honduran-regime-is-picking-off-indigenous-leaders/

(the excerpt references President Zelaya, the democratic leader of Honduras ousted on HRC's orders, indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, who was murdered by the Honduran army when HRC ordered the coup)

 (After Zelaya’s ouster, Honduras’s coup congress—the one legitimated by Hillary Clintonpassed an “absolute ban on emergency contraception,” criminalizing “the sale, distribution, and use of the ‘morning-after pill’—imposing punishment for offenders equal to that of obtaining or performing an abortion, which in Honduras is completely restricted.”) He supported gay and transgender rights. (Read this. Among the first to be murdered was Vicky Hernandez Castillo, a transgendered activist in San Pedro Sula. Hernandez left her home on the night of the coup, apparently unaware that the new government had decreed a curfew. She was found dead the next morning, shot in the eye and strangled; Sentidog, an LGBT monitoring group, writes that 168 LGBT people were killed in Honduras between the coup and 2014.) Zelaya apologized for a policy of “social cleansing”—that is, the murder and disappearance of street children and gang members—executed by his predecessors. And he backed rural peasant and indigenous movements, such as the one Cáceres led, in the fight against land dispossession, mining, and biofuels. Zelaya, as president, was by no means perfect. But he was slowly trying to use the power of the state on behalf of the best people in Honduras, including Berta Cáceres.


Yeah, HRC supports "social justice"...in THIS country. When it's safe and nonthreatening.


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