Zelaya Denounces De Facto Government’s Plan to Assassinate Him TONITE

[Downwinder]

http://hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/zelaya-denounces-de-facto-governments-plan-to-assassinate-him-tonite/

[Judi Lynn]

1. He wouldn't have traveled so far, under such difficult circumstances if he had any intention

of killing himself. That's not possible.

No one would buy it, clearly. Maybe that doesn't matter to them as long as no one can prove they did it.

The whole world is watching these monsters.

Thank you, Downwinder.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Fascists have only one script: beat, torture, kill, rob, humiliate, oppress.

I was going to say "rightwingers" instead of "fascists," but I think there is a spectrum of greed and violence. A fascist strain runs through every rightwing group and set of ideas--a strain that can turn to hysteria and result in horrendous violence. It is not always apparent at first. We are seeing that hysteria in rightwing groups in the US, although I think it is tremendously over-played by the corpo/fascist media. Rightwing fascism is always a minority.

In any case, the hysteria-ridden fascists in Honduras have militarized the entire zone around the Brazilian embassy, for three miles (I read somewhere) and are occupying adjacent buildings. Zelaya and staff and family, and Brazilian officials in the embassy, have great reason to be afraid of snipers and even storm troopers. These fascists running the government had no hesitation in shooting up Zelaya's home and kidnapping him at gunpoint, initially. And they are likely even more desperate now. But they are making a very big mistake, based on the typical fascist script: beat, torture, kill, rob, humiliate, oppress. They think if they can just get rid of Zelaya, and engage in strategic murders around the country, as well as brutalizing the people, their fortunes are secure. They have nauseatingly similar tyrannies in Latin America's past half century as their model. But the political landscape of Latin America has vastly changed for the better, and the US--whatever the ambivalencies and hesitations of the Obama administration (and whatever their causes)--has to operate in this new context, and in a new larger context in the world as well, in which the US war on Iraq and the Bushwhack Financial 9/11 have vastly damaged US reputation and power.

Fascists are inflexible and non-creative (same script) and that is their fatal flaw. Their gains are always temporary, and their structures of power--however impervious they appear--are always fragile. Democracy's gains, on the other hand, are long term and profound, due to the flexibility and creativity that is inherent in all human beings (suppressed in fascists) and that democracy is premised upon. Latin America now has a democratic context surrounding Honduras--leftist governments elected in every adjacent country (Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala) and throughout South America. The Honduran coupsters are in dinosauric mode, with no support (unlike in the 1970s and 1980s)--or, I should say, with no support in Latin America and only far rightwing support in the US (If my read on the Obama administration is correct--whatever their initial policy, or internal struggles over this, they now want the coup out). And even the few centrist or rightwing governments in Latin America (like Mexico) don't want to see this kind of ugly, overt, "banana republic"-type coup. (And I think even Alvaro Uribe in Colombia may fear a military coup--fascist shit that he is.)

I think maybe it's time for Miami to prepare some more luxury digs for some more Latin American fascist criminals. Alas, this is where they flee to, when their brittle fascist schemes collapse.