I will answer your statement to the best of my abilities, if it is not good enough, I apologize in advance.

Honduras has one of the best track records for respecting the rights of its citizens and for allowing freedom of speech.

It most definetly has a better record that the Soviet Union did, or Red China, or Korea, or Cambodia, or Communist Germany, and many of the so called “Workers Paradises” that for the last 100 years or so have been exploiting the ignorance of their people and offer them an imposible to achieve future, one that sounds great but it is nothing more than a lie.

Oops, I forgot Cuba and Venezuela on that list, and of course a few more followers of those two so called leaders, Castro and Chavez.

I do not know if you partake in your opinion, with the Human Rights Organization and with that other foe of civility and humanity known as Amnesty International, but I tell you I do not.

And that may be the difference between you and I, for to me, all Humans have rights, not only the violent rioters and communists, I did not hear anybody from those organizations even attempting to defend the rights of the many thousands of Honduran children who did not have a chance to attend school because their leftist teachers decided to go on strike, nor did I hear anybody from their group defending the rights of the business owners who had their locales attacked and some times destroyed, or the rights of the people who worked in those places, the ones that lost the right to feed their children because they had no means to earn a living.

If you consider a show of freedom of speech to have some animal like Zelaya calling for people to go and destroy private property and to attack private citizens simply to instill fear in the community, than we have a very different view in what freedom of speech entails.

Do not forget also, every right that humanity has carries with it a duty and responsability.

Expressing your opinion is not the same thing that impossing your beleves.

Wisen up, wake up and smell the coffee, there is a lot of ignorant people in the world, but also some people that know how to properly interpret what they read.

There are Human Rights Violations in every country, including the powerful USA. Now nobody says that the USA government is illegitimate. The human rights violations in Venezuela and Cuba are extreme, yet those governments are recognized. Chavez uses mobs (mercenaries), cuts funding, threatens firerings, to push his people around, but his government is recognized. Honduras has had a great track record through that last 20 years, better than most of the countries of the world.

Now, as for the constitution, for a country it is basis for all the laws in ther country (not for other countries). Honduras has a working constitution, and it should be respected and followed to avoid the breakdown of the society or the creation of tyrants (like Venezuela and others in ALBA). It has a prescribed process for amendments, this is also a protection to prevent the strength of the constitution from being weakend to serve one man’s ambitions (Chavez in Venezuela). Zelaya did not follow the process and paid the price. Pepe will have to follow the process or pay the price as well.

The Honduran Constitution may not be perfect (no constitution is), but it was able to do something that Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Ecuador have failed to do – prevent one man form gaining too much power and become an intrenched tyrant. History will show how strong the Honduran Constitution is, how well it protected the rights of Hondurans to freedom of choice and livelyhood, and how little Honduras stood up to the world to protect it.

- Free Honduras

But we have to swallow our pride. Not everything ehere is good and dandy! We have to better the way our government is being runned or next time we will have a more clever and dangerous President to deal with

Peace and again my respects to all

You stated: ” you make it sound as if they are not repected and granted in my country, Honduras.”

I lived in your country and I don’t know the people you know, but there are human rights violations in Honduras! That is a known fact! Maybe, you have never met anyone who has been a victim.

I’m sure that Honduras is not heaven on earth. The Constitution is not the Bible. Maybe to some people, but no one can say, it is the Bible to “everyone” in Honduras. It is not perfect and I personally know many Hondurans who are saying the same thing. The Constitution needs improvement! And I hope Pepe Lobo sees that too!

Peace

Change is needed in Honduras, yes, but it has to start with prevention of and to fight off corruption, for it is the core of the problems in our beloved country.

Pepe Lobo has the oportunity to do the right thing for Honduras, the simple fact that the whole world will be watching very closely should give him the ecouragement and the excuse to say no to all the corrupt people that are sure to come looking for ways to act and behave corruptly arround and in the new government.

But it still bothers me that the issue of freedom of speech and the protection of basic rights keeps on being adressed as if it was a current problem in Honduras, it is not.

Again I say, we have some of the best record on those issues.

Now, if you want to tell me that we did wrong for arresting the rioters and violent protesters who were threatening the rights and safety of law abiding citizens, then we have a problem.

It has been the norm for many years that when people fail to respect the rights of other people, they loose some rights also in the eyes of the law.

So, if you are going to adress this issue, after what my country just went thru, I ask of you, at least be responsible for the way you express your concerns.

I do not hear you condemming the way in which that monster Zelaya was calling for bloodshed, chaos and destruction, seeking instability and possible violent armed respnoses by the military, which by the way, behaved exemplary well.

It is not ignorance to defend your own country specially the governing laws of your country. Honduras defended very well what is right for their country and not for the convenience of others to manipulate this very loving country. I am not from honduras nor a citizen of honduras but i followed thru from the very start what happened. I just can’t take that such a fool with no heart can do this to his own country. “mwateful” we have different views and i respect that, but would you take a chance to put this “lunatic guy” back to power and wait for things to happen with uncertainty? When Noriega in Panama was taken by the U.S Army and that is not even their country, how come there was no condemnation on that action? So, tell me which one is right and wrong now…the people that defends their own governing laws or foreigners that tresspasses affairs of others?

What I do not understand is your stance clamoring for the right to free speech and respect for liberties, because you make it sound as if they are not repected and granted in my country, Honduras.

For your information Honduras has been known to have some of the best track records on both of those.

The Human Rights organization has had so much influence in Honduras that now the criminals are running the country, since their representative over there, Ramon Custodio decided that only criminals are Human and their right are the only ones to be protected.

Freedom of speech has always been present in my Honduras, the problem we normally face is that some people confuse free speech with irresponsible and documented lies.

In the event that you may have been following the situation in Honduras, you will see that the ones complaining about lack of respect for those were Zelaya’s followers.

Do you even wonder why??

Zelaya called for people to not go out, to stay away from the ballot boxes, to decry a wrong that never was.

The people of Honduras did not listen to him, they came out to vote in record numbers.

Does that tell you anything??

The Constitution of Honduras clearly states when certain legal proceedings can take place if a certain type of violation occurs.

As does article # 239, and that is the one that guided the decision process that the Supreme Court followed.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

Note: I am not a Zelaya supporter. This is my first time to this site, and miraclemant has taken my aforementioned comments, and portrayed me as someone else. And this is the kind of ignorance we have to deal with in the Honduran government

Peace

Sorry to dissappoint you, but how is changing the constitution, has to do with being a United States citizen.

Did I say I was a U.S. citizen???

Sorry, but if you love your people, you will improve your Constitution – simple

Peace