Ah, what a wonderful world you live in Carlos, where everyone has good
intentions and it?s just a case of interpreting their words in a benevolent way
to find glistening pearls in the bellies of the most reprehensible swine. You
bend over backwards to avoid condemnation of the most condemnable actions, it is
an extraordianry feat of moral gymnastics.

What alas you fail to do is analize these situations from a class perspective.
This is not a case of the goodies and the badies, or everyone desserving a
portion of the blame, it is not a school playground, it?s the real world where
the interests of the economic elite must not be threatened by daintities like
democratic process. You threaten the status quo, you challenge the economic and
political interests of the elite, then sod democracy! You?re out!!
Iran and Guatemala in 1953, Dominican Republic in 1965, Chile in 1973, Venezuela
in 2002 and Honduras today.

So Cardinal Maradiaga and yourself will have a compromise, where the status quo
ante is established, peace returns to Honduras and a powerfull message is sent
out the the people; Here is the line that must not be crossed! Democracy will
only be tolerated when it is servile to our interests. You will in other words
establish a pesedence for all future attemts to implement change for the benefit
of the poor.

So if Mauricio Funes dares to take steps to really redistribute the wealth in El
Salvador, ARENA, together with the right wing majority in the Legislative
assembly and their handpicked Supreme court judges can find some obscure
paragraphs in the constitution, scream foul, and return to business as usual.

Archbishop José Luís Escobar Alas and probably yourself can call for moderation
and the status quo ante will return peacefully, the elite can maintain their
overindulgent lifestyles and the poor can wallow in their subhuman, merciless
poverty.

No doubt you?d say there is someting better waiting for them in Heaven!!!!
Dave
http://dave-motherofallbloggs.blogspot.com/



> From: Carlos [CXColorado@...]
> Sent: 2009-07-05 00:27:57 CEST
> To: sanromero@...
> Subject: Re: SV: [sanromero] Cardenal pide evitar "acción precipitada,"
regreso de Zelaya
>
> I saw an interview on Salvadoran TV with Beatrice Carrillo, the former human
rights onbudsman, and what she said made a lot of sense to me. It was along the
lines of a parallel critique of both the golpistas and the Zelaya followers, and
an admonition that they are both driving a hard line toward an irreconcilable
confrontation. What the Cardinal says is along the same lines: Zelaya's return
is unlikely to lead to a unanymous reinstatement of the status quo ante (and
even that would only have Honduras mired in an intractable confrontation), while
the proximity of elections does give Honduras a chance to hit the reset button
on this crisis, in which both sides took part in blameworthy conduct. I thought
that the Cardinal's criticism that the international community was a latecomer
to the crisis rang hollow in light of the fact that this is the Church's first
statement, and a pretty tepid one also. What we have is a constitutional
crisis, an old fashioned crisis, with two pretenders to the throne, both
claiming the color of law, and the question is, how are we going to resolve it.
IMHO, that's what I think we should be driving for -- peacefully, responsibly --
and not trying to add fuel to the fire.
>
>
> --- En sanromero@..., David Watson <dwatson@...> escribió:
> >
> > I saw a youth in a news bulletin with a picture of Archbishop Oscar Romero
on his T-shirt being beaten with battons by Honduran police. His crime; wanting
the return of his lawfully elected president, Mel Zelaya. Cardenal Óscar
Rodríguez Maradiaga, does not want the return of democracy in Honduras, and
clouds his decietful intentions with honorable concern for the possible loss of
life if Zelaya returns.
> >
> > He demands of the international community that they allow Hondurans to
decide their own destiny! Wasn?t that exactly what the youth with the Romero
T-shirt was doing when he was so mercilessly beaten? Shame on you Maradiaga,
shame on the Catholic hierarchy.
> >
> > Long live the Honduran peoples struggle for justice and democracy!
> >
> > Dave Watson
> > http://dave-motherofallbloggs.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> > > From: orientaci0n [orientaci0n@...]
> > > Sent: 2009-07-04 22:01:57 CEST
> > > To: sanromero@...
> > > Subject: [sanromero] Cardenal pide evitar "acción precipitada," regreso de
Zelaya
> > >
> > > CARDENAL MARADIAGA PIDE A MANUEL ZELAYA NO REGRESAR A HONDURAS: El prelado
se une a varios sectores hondureños que exigen a la comunidad internacional
respetar la autodeterminación de los hondureños. En Washington, Estados Unidos,
la OEA determina el futuro de Honduras en el seno de su organización.
> > > http://www.elfaro.net/secciones/Noticias/20090629/noticias20_20090629.asp
> > >
> > > Carlos Dada
> > > Desde Tegucigalpa, Honduras
> > >
> > > El cardenal hondureño Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga advirtió este sábado por
la mañana que si el depuesto presidente Manuel Zelaya regresa a Honduras podría
desatar un baño de sangre, y lo llamó a permanecer en el extranjero.
> > >
> > > "Pensemos si una acción precipitada, un regreso al país en este momento,
podría desatar un baño de sangre. Sé que usted ama la vida, que usted respeta la
vida. Hasta el día de hoy no ha muerto ni un solo hondureño. Por favor medite
porque después sería demasiado tarde", dijo el cardenal, apelando al presidente
Zelaya, en un comunicado emitido por cadena nacional.
> > >
> > > Zelaya, quien fue raptado por un grupo de militares el 28 de junio y
trasladado en un avión a Costa Rica, anunció que volverá a Honduras mañana
domingo, acompañado de sus homólogos de Ecuador y Argentina, para recuperar el
poder, aunque las condiciones no le son favorables.
> > >
> > > Ayer el Secretario General de la OEA, José Miguel Insulza, adelantó que se
reuniría con el depuesto presidente para que él tome la decisión de volver, pero
evitó referirse a la posibilidad de que él mismo lo acompañe.
> > >
> > > En esta ciudad, hoy algunos medios de comunicación hacían eco de los
rumores del inminente retorno de Zelaya, y del incremento de militares y
policías en todos los aeropuertos del país. Pero no hay ningún indicio de que
esto haya sucedido.
> > >
> > > Tras la visita de Insulza, y el anuncio de Honduras de su retiro de la
Organización, el cardenal Maradiaga hizo un vehemente reclamo a la comunidad
internacional, y particularmente a la OEA, a "que preste atención a todo lo que
venía ocurriendo, fuera de la legalidad en Honduras, y no solamente lo sucedido
a partir del 28 de junio pasado. También el pueblo hondureño se pregunta: ¿Por
qué no han condenado las amenazas bélicas contra nuestro país? Si el Sistema
Interamericano se limita a proteger la democracia en nuestras urnas pero no le
da seguimiento a un buen gobierno, a prevención de las crisis políticas,
económicas y sociales, de nada servirá reaccionar tardíamente frente a ellas".
Maradiaga aprovechó para reiterar a la comunidad internacional el derecho de los
hondureños a decidir su propio destino.
> > >
> > > Sus declaraciones representan un nuevo desafío para la OEA, que esta tarde
celebra su Asamblea General y recibe el informe del Secretario Insulza, que ya
adelantó que a partir de hoy Honduras será suspendida de esa organización.
> > >
> >
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