While Americans recover from the Independence Day festivities, the international community has continues its relentless assault on Honduran sovereignty and democracy. With the mainstream media and international organizations calling the court-ordered arrest and expulsion of ex-president Mel Zelaya a coup d’etat, Honduras has had to withstand threats of invasion, threats of sanctions, the cutting off of US aid, the cutting off of World Bank aid, demands to violate the Honduran Constitution, demands to restore the criminal Mel Zelaya to power, and threats of further isolation.

Let’s be absolutely clear: Mel Zelaya was, according the the Honduran Constitution, their Supreme Court, their legislature, his own political party, the Catholic Church in Honduras, and the military, attempting a power-grab that is 1) illegal and 2) treasonous. The Honduran Constitution calls the succession process from one president to the next an integral and inviolable part of said document, something that Zelaya was trying to change. The Honduran Constitution explicitly calls for the defense of the Constitution as the principal duty of all branches of government and of the military. Constitutionally, the courts, the legislature, and the military were obligated to stop Zelaya.

Despite this fact, the Organization of American States issued an ultimatum to restore Zelaya to the presidency by today. Honduras resisted. The president of the United States demanded the restitution of the socialist criminal Zelaya. Honduras resisted. Zelaya was attempting to re-enter Honduras accompanied by the UN General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto, the head of the OAS, the leftist Presidents Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, and Fernando Lugo of Paraguay. Honduras resisted. They, as a sovereign nation, limited access to their airspace and national territory in order to avoid the inevitable bloodshed that would ensue if Zelaya could rally his extremist supporters, pictured below, to riot.

What is the world coming to when a sovereign nation that has not threatened anyone, cannot choose, via elected representatives of the people, to defend their own Constitution? I hope that the situation in Honduras gets resolved soon and I denounce every single person and institution that is taking the side of communist dictatorship under Zelaya over the will of the free and proud people of Honduras. To surrender their national sovereignty to the whims of unelected, foreign, and international powers is to invite the very thing that Zelaya’s removal intended to prevent: dictatorship over the Honduran people. Socialism is spreading in the Americas and it is about time that someone stood up and declared “NO MORE.”

-AG