The Green Revolution Exposes Obama

Originally posted on July 7 2009

By: Nick Huftel

Several days ago the Honduran Military escorted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from his home and sent him into exile in Costa Rica. Immediately President Obama denounced Zelaya’s removal as “illegal” and called it a military coup. If that language isn’t harsh enough the interim president’s administration is being called a “regime”, “aggressor”, and in violation of democratic principles. However this spin does not tell the whole story, it does not even tell half of the story. I am going to back up and put the situation into context, analyze the whole story, and see what this all says about Leftism in the Americas.

Over the last several decades Latin American Leftism has become entrenched in the countries of Venezuela and Nicaragua. Marxist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rids himself of the encumbrance of term limits and opens the door for perpetual rule. Chavez then guarantees himself victory in ensuing elections by locating polling places where his supporters are most concentrated and then relocating the opposition to areas with no polling places. Time and again he rejected UN election requirements that were intended to give his elections some semblance of fairness yet the UN was willing to declare him the legitimate winner anyway. It is also instructive that President Jimmy Carter was willing to smile approvingly upon the election practices of Chavez by declaring him the legitimate winner of his elections.

Now to understand what is happening in Latin America it is important to understand what Hugo Chavez is. Chavez has been labeled a Marxist by many however I believe that he better fits the mold of a Mussolini Fascist. At this time it is important to note that I am not saying he is Hitler or his Fascism will tend toward genocide, rather he desires to use the full power of the state to improve the condition of his people. His Socialism lacks the total takeover of industry and the desire to meld seamlessly with other Socialist nations the way Marxism dictates. Instead Chavez nationalizes some industries while forcing the big corporations to capitulate to the desires of the state to avoid nationalization and at the same time limits entrepreneurialism. Chavez uses the nations oil wealth to improve the conditions of the populations just enough to maintain his power. These are all basic tenants of the Fascism practiced by Mussolini. He places everything within the sphere of influence of the state and allows nothing to be done completely outside of the state and all for the betterment of the people. If the parallels were not strong enough already Chavez is adept at the use of Sorellian state myths that unite the people and motivate them toward the desired action. This strategy is quintessentially Fascist as both Mussolini and Hitler declared that the value of rhetoric is not whether it is true but what it motivates people to do.

At the same time as Chavez revived Italian Fascism, this time in Venezuela, he had supported likeminded men’s rise to power in the neighborhood. One of these men is Daniel Ortega and the other is Manuel Zelaya. Now it is instructive that Obama was willing to sit and listen intently as Ortega bashed the Unites States for about an hour then followed the rant by saying “I’m grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old”. We should also understand that during an interview with Sir David Frost for the Al Jazeera English programme Frost Over The World in March 2009, Ortega suggested that he would like to change the constitution to allow him to run again for president. So now Ortega wants to do in Nicaragua what Chavez did in Venezuela! The final member of our three amigos is Manuel Zelaya. As Obama has pointed out over and over again Zelaya was the democratically elected President of Honduras. Unfortunately like Chavez and Ortega the Honduran Constitution was too binding for Zelaya. As a result Zelaya sought to rewrite the Constitution to allow him to be freed from term limits much like Chavez did and Ortega wishes to do.

Now before we get too into the situation in Honduras there is one more bit of background that we need to look at. As we have all witnessed the Iranian people have been in the streets protesting what appears to have been a stolen election. Now of course this is puzzling because the President is a figurehead in Iran since all the power is held by the supreme leader Khomeini. To understand what was happening we must keep in mind what the Iranian people have witnessed. First they saw Saddam get deposed by an American led coalition. It’s critical to remember that there was no more hated individual by the Iranians than Saddam. The reason for this hatred is simple; Saddam perpetrated a brutal war against Iran that inflicted millions of casualties on the people of Iran. When the U.S. deposed Saddam the people of Iran breathed a collective sigh of relief, while the Ayatollah became apprehensive that the war would spread to Iran. Furthermore Khomeini was afraid that the Iranian people would demand the same kind of freedom that the Iraqi people were getting. In short I’m saying that Iran funded the insurgency in Iraq so heavily because they were terrified of the fact that while we were bringing freedom to Iraq, a lust for liberty was on the move in Iran. At the same time the Iranian people were forced to listen to a ridiculous clown of a president begin a 4 year tirade that further turned the national stomach toward the regime. Iran was a fairly advanced civilization and the population was tired of the sectarian darkness they were forced to live under. The time was ripe for change!

We must realize that while the Left was declaring Iraq a failure and saying that it was a recruiting tool for terrorism, really our actions were generating a thirst for liberty. While we were told our actions were strengthening our enemies, really they were being put on the ropes.

In response to the Iranian people being fed up with the status quo Khomeini cooked up a devious little plan. The people wanted a choice, they wanted the same power of self determination that the Iraqi people had gained so Khomeini decided to give them what they wanted. Well at least he decided to make them THINK they were getting what they wanted. Khomeini held an election between the hard liner he liked so much, Ahmadinejad, and a reform candidate that embodied everything the people wanted. He thought that by defeating the people’s candidate in what was to appear to be a fair election the murmuring would stop. The people were to believe that the Ayatollah had a popular mandate to continue things as they were, and anyone who disagreed was to believe that they were in the minority. After all he saw Hugo Chavez do the same thing in Venezuela, why would he believe that it was not going to work? The election did not go as planned when the election was too obviously stolen. The exit polls predicted a victory for the reform candidate before Ahmadinejad was named the winner. What’s more as soon as the polls closed the election was called before it was even possible that the votes were counted. The Iranians and the world were to believe that Ahmadinejad had garnered 57% of the vote before the votes could have even been counted.

As a result of the obvious scam of an election the Iranian people were apoplectic. People took to the streets and protesters numbered in the 100,000’s. The people were fed up and they were willing to fight and even die for freedom. A once in a lifetime opportunity presented itself to the West, and was placed directly on the desk of Barack Obama and what did he do??????? Nothing. With an immense amount of leverage sitting literally next door Obama sat on his hands. He said that it would be foolish to meddle; an American president can’t be seen as meddling in Iranian affairs. As a result Iranian blood began to flow in the streets and the last best hope for peace and freedom in Iran is breathing its last breath. Ahmadinejad has declared that the “soft overthrow” is over. We did not want it to be said that the U.S. was behind a regime change, well guess what, they are blaming the rebellion on us anyway. What’s worse is that through our inaction we have enabled another dictatorship to survive in the world. Through our inaction another cry for liberty was brought down to a whimper, and squashed. I sure am glad the French did not have the same attitude toward our revolution.

Now I know what most of you are thinking. You are thinking “shouldn’t we just let the Iranian people worry about Iran”. Persians born in that distant nation may not seem like our brethren but were they not born with the same birthright of liberty as us? I argue that wherever the cry for freedom goes out in the world we must answer that call. After all if we do not fight for them, who will? This isn’t 1776. Tyrant’s armies are not armed with mere muskets. All that is needed for evil and tyrants to succeed is for good men and the US to do nothing.

Fresh on the heels of the Iranian debacle Manuel Zelaya is removed from his office in Honduras. The background is critical in this story as well. Zelaya, imitating Chavez, decided that the term limits needed to be done away with. Zelaya chose to hold a referendum that would allow him to assemble a constitutional committee which would be able to rewrite the constitution according to his liking. Thankfully the supreme court of Honduras declared such an action Illegal. Zelaya did not care, he wanted perpetual power and was going to hold the referendum anyway and violate his constitution and the trust of the people that elected him. This is the backdrop to the military of Honduras escorting Zelaya out of the country. Zelaya was replaced with a member of the same liberal party that Zelaya was a member of. It can not be stated strongly enough that Zelaya acted in defiance of the Honduran Constitution and the Supreme Court of Honduras. This is why he had to be removed from power.

As the Honduran Constitution was upheld and protected from a Fascist tyrant what did Obama do? Did he praise the Hondurans military for bravely defying the tyrant and acting in the best interests of the people and the Constitution? NO! Obama condemned the action and called the removal a coup, what’s more the interim administration is being called a regime. After he was removed from his home Zelaya changed from his stately attire into a plane T shirt so that he could more easily gain the sympathy of the world by making it look like the Military came for him in the night and threw him out of the country while still in his PJ’s. Next he appealed to the UN and made his rounds in the U.S. As it stands now Zelaya is going to return to Honduras with the backing of Obama; constitutionality and legitimate democracy be damned!

Now the question you should be asking yourself is why does Obama seem to like tyrants so much? Through his inaction we saw a repeat of Tienanmen Square and the perpetuation of one dictator, and now through his decided course of action he is returning another tyrant to power. Obama seems to have some kind of fascination and approval of dictators. Why do I think this is? I think that this is the case because deep down Obama dreams of overturning the 22nd amendment and manipulating future elections with the help of his buddies over at ACORN and serve as the benevolent dictator of the United States. The reason that Obama did not object when Ortega ranted for nearly an hour about the evils of the United States is because he agrees with and admires Ortega. Obama has stated that he thinks the Constitution is full of negative liberties that limit what the government can do for people, so is it so hard to believe that he won’t try to be like his buddies in Latin America and simply serve for as long as he wants to? There is no limit to what Obama is willing to do to advance his radical world view. Obama is willing to destroy the economy with Cap and Trade in order to bring about his Hegelian Utopia. Obama is willing to risk destroying capitalism and the health care system to bring our nation closer to that old Fascist dream of “everything within the state, nothing outside the state”.

The one thing that Obama can not control is us. He can’t stop us from gathering and sharing our ideas. He can’t stop us from retaking the Republican Party and returning it to the Classical Liberal doctrines of limited government, personal liberty, and property rights. What Obama can’t stop is the next election. The mantra of hope and change is past, and now everyone who is willing to see is aware of what Obama and the far left is up to. Big brother may be watching but we can still give him a bloody nose. The next round of elections is ours for the taking; we just need to find the right leadership. We need to find the candidates that will stand firm in their convictions and not be ashamed be cling to their guns and religion. We need to stand up to the climate change hoax and get our Senators to stop Cap and Trade. We need to get our representatives to stand against Obama care as it is surely a stepping stone to the same kind of disastrous health care that Canada and Britain have. We need to stand up to members of our own party and never again elect Presidents that are as enamored with big government as the Liberals are.

Here in Wisconsin Scott Walker is a start. In 2010 taking back Congress is another good step. However we will not win anything till we get our own house in order. We need to stop putting our faith in men who disappear for days to have affairs in other countries. We need to stop putting our faith in men who say what we want to hear to get elected then become addicted to power after only a short tenure. We need men and women of character who can win this war and preserve our great country as the final bastion of liberty in a world gone mad. The radicals have overreached and will continue to overreach because their answer to every question is “more government, MORE! MORE!! MORE!!!!” The next round of elections is ours for the taking, the only people who can stop us, is us.