[Marxism] The Field: Honduras' Coup Congress Cancels Five Basic Liberties

[sabocat59 at mac.com]

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/honduras-coup-congress-cancels-five-basic-liberties


The Oligarch Diaspora - and hey, Larry Birns (yes, you to whom I sent that memo on Sunday) didn't you and your organization COHA find out the hard way this week how they swarm and leech upon NGOs and media organizations to spread their falsehoods, causing your organization to have to issue another embarrassed "clarification"? - will continue to deceive the gullible into thinking they're really of democratic and freedom-loving tendencies. But what they don't tell you is that they don't want those freedoms for all Hondurans, just for the ones with money and property and political power and privilege: themselves. The rest must be subordinated to them and controlled, by force if necessary. And so today, Honduras said goodbye to the following articles of its Constitution: Article 69: "A persons liberty is inviolable and can only be restricted or suspended temporarily through process of law." Article 71: "No person can be arrested nor kept incommunicado for more than 24 hours without being placed before a competent authority to be judged. Judicial detention during an investigation must not exceed six consecutive days from the moment that the same is ordered." Article 78: "Freedoms of association and meeting are always guaranteed when they are not contrary to public order and good customs. Article 79: "All persons have the right to meet with others, peacefully and without weapons, in public demonstration or transitory assembly, in relation to their common interests of any type, without necessity of notice or special permission." Article 81: "All persons have the right to circulate freely, leave, enter, and remain in national territory. No one can be obligated to change home or residence except in special cases and with those requirements that the Law establishes."  The Oligarch Diaspora says that the democratically elected president was removed by force because he supposedly "violated the Constitution" by proposing a nonbinding referendum to ask all Hondurans if they wanted the chance to vote about whether they wanted to rewrite it through a Constitutional Convention. But the coup leaders the Oligarch Diaspora defends just rewrote that same constitution today without any formal process of consulting the people at all. They claim they're fighting for their constitution, but they just ripped it apart. Gone. All gone. Everything they claim to be defending is gone now, destroyed and in tatters at the hands of the very political class that claimed it was protecting them. And now, with the Congress' invitation to enter the people's door, the vampires begin to come out... tonight. 
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