Comments on: Supporting Democracy — Only when it suits Us http://janechastain.com/2009/09/24/another-foreign-policy-fiasco/ Fri, 18 May 2012 03:47:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: PJ Hildebrand http://janechastain.com/2009/09/24/another-foreign-policy-fiasco/#comment-2640 PJ Hildebrand Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:53:16 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=468#comment-2640 Jane, this is a very nice and informative article. Our family does humanitarian work in Honduras, and EVERYONE we have been in contact with since Zelaya was ousted, can't understand why the Obama administration is siding with people like Chavez and Castro on this matter. I wish I had an answer for them. Your article has given me some insight as to why we may be acting the way we are on this matter. However wrong it may be. We have to support our friends in Honduras so they can keep their freedoms, and pursue happiness! How can our government be so blind? God Bless Our Honduran Friends, and let's pray that freedom prevails! Jane, this is a very nice and informative article. Our family does humanitarian work in Honduras, and EVERYONE we have been in contact with since Zelaya was ousted, can’t understand why the Obama administration is siding with people like Chavez and Castro on this matter. I wish I had an answer for them. Your article has given me some insight as to why we may be acting the way we are on this matter. However wrong it may be.

We have to support our friends in Honduras so they can keep their freedoms, and pursue happiness!

How can our government be so blind?

God Bless Our Honduran Friends, and let’s pray that freedom prevails!

]]> By: Linda http://janechastain.com/2009/09/24/another-foreign-policy-fiasco/#comment-2637 Linda Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:29:08 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=468#comment-2637 Great insight! Thanks for standing up for the human rights of people who can not stand up for themselves. Linda Great insight! Thanks for standing up for the human rights of people who can not stand up for themselves.
Linda

]]> By: Ellen Shaw http://janechastain.com/2009/09/24/another-foreign-policy-fiasco/#comment-2636 Ellen Shaw Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:20:36 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=468#comment-2636 It may be unconscionable but it may also be testing the waters. Think about it! It may be unconscionable but it may also be testing the waters. Think about it!

]]> By: Joe S. http://janechastain.com/2009/09/24/another-foreign-policy-fiasco/#comment-2635 Joe S. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:08:20 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=468#comment-2635 Why for heaven’s sake would we miss an opportunity to interfere with a small country like Honduras?? Perhaps it is that they are running their country democratically. It would not look good for us since we are moving swiftly toward dictatorship. Joe S Why for heaven’s sake would we miss an opportunity to interfere with a small country like Honduras?? Perhaps it is that they are running their country democratically. It would not look good for us since we are moving swiftly toward dictatorship.

Joe S

]]> By: Anne http://janechastain.com/2009/09/24/another-foreign-policy-fiasco/#comment-2633 Anne Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:45:45 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=468#comment-2633 Jane, Thank you for this important information. I will share it with others. These are insane times and America's past apathy has come to roost in our own country. Let us help the Hondurans maintain their democracy despite these recent events. Knowledge is power, thanks for the power, Jane! Jane,
Thank you for this important information. I will share it with others. These are insane times and America’s past apathy has come to roost in our own country. Let us help the Hondurans maintain their democracy despite these recent events. Knowledge is power, thanks for the power, Jane!

]]> By: Richard L. Whitford http://janechastain.com/2009/09/24/another-foreign-policy-fiasco/#comment-2632 Richard L. Whitford Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:39:05 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=468#comment-2632 Being born in the United States is not what makes you an American. What we are up against with Zelaya is world Socialism that has at least two distinct and separate levels of governance. One level which is being pitched to the world is something for nothing. Winning the lottery instead of earning your wealth. The next layer is the tyranny at the top that always winds up in control of the respective government. After this poverty comes like a flood. All the good expectation turn out to be illusions. Zelaya is backed by a global entity bent of universal control for the express benefit of the controllers. These are the Mafia of governance. they have the same drive and the same justification. We need to consider the rights of our neighbors first so we can preserve our own rights. Does my neighbor have a right to his own earnings? If he has I also have a right to my own earnings. I have a right to accumulate private property and I have a right to use some of that property to help my neighbor. If I have capital I have wealth to loan, whether I charge interest or not is my decision. Even when interest is charged it can give the borrower a ramp that he can use to gain a higher level of wealth and provide jobs for those who can use them. Nevertheless, there is not nor can there ever be a right to a job. Neither should I be forced by the government to pay a higher wage than the job is worth to me. If you don't want to work for that price that is your choice. You can start at the bottom and climb the ladder a rung at a time but, without those rung you can't get to the top. Since choice is involved this cannot be legislated It can be abused from both sides. The labor unions have forced up wages but lost the jobs they sought. Business has depressed wages with the concomitant loss of paying customers. There are natural laws that, when properly honored, gives the greatest lift to our potential prosperity that can be achieved. Under Socialism the state has all rights to my property so they can deprive me of my living when and if it suits them to do so. This is part of and inseparable from the total package. The poor are led to believe that the government cares what happens to them but the facts are the government has no such care. Richard L. Whitford Being born in the United States is not what makes you an American. What we are up against with Zelaya is world Socialism that has at least two distinct and separate levels of governance. One level which is being pitched to the world is something for nothing. Winning the lottery instead of earning your wealth. The next layer is the tyranny at the top that always winds up in control of the respective government. After this poverty comes like a flood. All the good expectation turn out to be illusions.

Zelaya is backed by a global entity bent of universal control for the express benefit of the controllers. These are the Mafia of governance.
they have the same drive and the same justification.

We need to consider the rights of our neighbors first so we can preserve our own rights.

Does my neighbor have a right to his own earnings? If he has I also have a right to my own earnings. I have a right to accumulate private property and I have a right to use some of that property to help my neighbor.

If I have capital I have wealth to loan, whether I charge interest or not is my decision. Even when interest is charged it can give the borrower a ramp that he can use to gain a higher level of wealth and provide jobs for those who can use them. Nevertheless, there is not nor can there ever be a right to a job. Neither should I be forced by the government to pay a higher wage than the job is worth to me. If you don’t want to work for that price that is your choice. You can start at the bottom and climb the ladder a rung at a time but, without those rung you can’t get to the top. Since choice is involved this cannot be legislated

It can be abused from both sides. The labor unions have forced up wages but lost the jobs they sought. Business has depressed wages with the concomitant loss of paying customers. There are natural laws that, when properly honored, gives the greatest lift to our potential prosperity that can be achieved.

Under Socialism the state has all rights to my property so they can deprive me of my living when and if it suits them to do so. This is part of and inseparable from the total package. The poor are led to believe that the government cares what happens to them but the facts are the government has no such care.
Richard L. Whitford

]]> By: Don Sansone http://janechastain.com/2009/09/24/another-foreign-policy-fiasco/#comment-2631 Don Sansone Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:17:10 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=468#comment-2631 Jane, A great article. I was married to my wife who is Honduran (but now a US Citizen) 21 years ago, and though imperfect as you say, Hondurans love freedom and continue to look to the US as the shining light of freedom on the hill. Even in our imperfection, we still manage to give their people hope. As you may or may not be aware, since it doesn't hit the English speaking news, a stash of computers were confiscated shortly after Zelaya was ousted with the falsified results of the referendum he was trying to make happen against the constitution. It's a shame we never get to hear that wonderful part of Zelaya's democratic side. Thank you and keep up the fight for the people of Honduras! Jane,
A great article. I was married to my wife who is Honduran (but now a US Citizen) 21 years ago, and though imperfect as you say, Hondurans love freedom and continue to look to the US as the shining light of freedom on the hill. Even in our imperfection, we still manage to give their people hope.
As you may or may not be aware, since it doesn’t hit the English speaking news, a stash of computers were confiscated shortly after Zelaya was ousted with the falsified results of the referendum he was trying to make happen against the constitution. It’s a shame we never get to hear that wonderful part of Zelaya’s democratic side.
Thank you and keep up the fight for the people of Honduras!

]]> By: Larry Dorazio http://janechastain.com/2009/09/24/another-foreign-policy-fiasco/#comment-2630 Larry Dorazio Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:13:56 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=468#comment-2630 Jane, After President Obama's ANTI-American speech before the UN do you really think any decisions that comes from this White House will promote freedom for other countries? Jane,
After President Obama’s ANTI-American speech before the UN do you really think any decisions that comes from this White House will promote freedom for other countries?

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