Hillary, Honduras, and the Murder of My Friend Berta

[JDPriestly]

89. Hillary explained what she should have done.

She should have declared the coup to have been a coup and stopped aid to Honduras.

That's what she should have done.

She argued that had she done that, poor people would have suffered from the lack of aid.

But that was not her concern, the suffering of poor people, when she voted for the Iraq War Resolution. And as it has turned out, a lot of poor people in Honduras suffered as a result of the coup.

That's why we had so many refugees from Honduras after the coup.

This is at best another example of faulty judgment by Hillary (and Obama if you will) or at worst cooperation, perhaps even collusion or conspiracy with the coup leaders. We really don't know that part.

But in our history, we have often quite actively encouraged coups.

One of the reasons I will not vote for Hillary is that she relies on Kissinger for foreign policy advice. Remember the coup in Chile? Remember the events in Cambodia?

You may be too young to remember those horrible times. Kissinger, his lack of humanity and his poor judgment were greatly to blame for those horrors.

Yet Hillary relies on him and prides herself in his approval.

So that is why those of us who support Sanders criticize Hillary about the coup in Honduras. It is part of a sinister pattern, and she relies on one of the authors of that pattern for advice.

Are we assuming that she may have had active or acquiescent support for that coup? Yes. One or the other. One worse than the other, but both unacceptable for the future of our planet and our children and grandchildren.

If Hillary accepts a coup against a democratically elected leader in Honduras, would she also accept one here?

What does she think about the principle of democratic government? Is it really all that important to her? I suspect that she is not as avidly dedicated to democracy as she should be if she is to serve as our president.

This is one of the many reasons I will not be voting for Hillary next Tuesday in the California Primary.