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Published: 05 July, 2009, 11:43

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As the ousted President of Honduras vowed to try to retake power, web journalist Lori “The Resident” Harfenist went onto the streets of New York to find out for RT what people think of the coup.

Manuel Zelaya was seized by the army last week and flown into exile, but has promised to return.

Thousands of his supporters have launched demonstrations, but the military-backed interim government has warned they plan to arrest him if he returns.

His opponents accuse him of trying to change the constitution to prolong his rule, but he calls them “traitors” and accuses them of genocide.

Zelaya – who was fully-backed by the United Nations this week – has been urged not to return by the Honduran Roman Catholic leader, who said he fears a “bloodbath” if Zelaya goes back.

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Kathleen Moore August 13, 2009, 17:18
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Honduras is fortunate to have the Constitutional allegiance of a courageous and highly professional judiciary. The interim and de jure Micheletti government and the Congress are also under astounding duress from corrupt international actors including the UN, the USA, and the OAS, who are attempting to intimidate Honduras into destroying their own lawful Constitution. Their great courage to date of these people is an example to all who value true freedom, which is only available under the true Rule of Law. Events in Honduras since late June of 2009 are being widely and unfairly misrepresented as a military coup. The military did not oust Zelaya, the Supreme Court did pursuant to the institution of legal proceedings and evidence laid before them. In fact, Mr. Zelaya ousted himself by the very terms of the Constitution he swore to uphold. The Supreme Court merely acted to make good those terms. Mr. Zelaya perjured his public oath to uphold the Constitution by attempting to usurp the constitutional powers of another branch of government; by deliberately attempting to contravene specific provisions of the Constitution; by inciting insurrection and by seducing naive people to violence against their fellow citizens in an effort to overthrow the Constitutional majority of Honduras by force. If Mr. Zelaya disagrees with the measures ordered by the Supreme Court of Honduras pursuant to legal proceedings taken under the Constitution, then why did he not retain the professional services of a lawyer to mount a constitutional challenge? Instead, Mr. Zelaya engaged the services of a frequently violent mob, apparently largely supported by communists and a major North American illegal drug supplier. Kathleen Moore HABEAS CORPUS CANADA