Albeit, the US State Department, with the OAS & the Honduran Government (at least the USA recognized that!) have agreed with Mr. Zelaya's major face-saving request, and compromised to permit another vote of record on the return of Mr. Zelaya; the affair smells of a major and malicious squeeze play.
For Mr. Zelaya, demogogue, Constitution Contemptor, and law-breaker to return to office, would be a disaster for Honduran Constitutional Democracy. Honduras' Congress will, however, vote on the issue, and that will be for advocacy on the question when considered.
The Constitution of Honduras is firm, and spoke properly prior, on Mr. Zelaya.
He battled it and the other SHARED powers of government to the point of self-empowerment, by mob advocacy, and constitutional breach.
Further, the Honduran Government may be asked by others powers to act in a manner which would be -ultra vires- to do anything more than to weigh and re-consider the Zelaya question for a resolutory finding by its Congress sitting and voting the matter. Honduras Government should do nothing more pertinent to that international entreaty.
Honduras Constitution controls her Government's power, and protects her peoples rights, power ceded without material change now, by her people 25+ years ago.
Honduran presidential elections are being held as scheduled and have been due by Constitution schedule for the new or non-continuing Administrations of either Sr. Micheletti or Sr. Zelaya, in Novermber.
By Constitution, the Presidency of the prior Zelaya, now the Micheletti Administration ends firmly in January. Its electoral contract ends by law and Constitution.
Sr. Micheletti acquired office only by that law and Constitution.
Hopefully Congress will compromise and at least on the issue, continue by affirmation, Sr. Micheletti. And if they do, that legitimization, AGAIN, will end the diplomatic strait jacketing placed illogically on the Micheletti Administration. A fate of sad counter-constitutional CAPRICE of the OAS, which caprice is even more irrational & worse than Sr. Zelaya's (which is evidently why he played to its predeliction as a body).
The OAS is not FEDEERATIVE, and not a higher power. An appeal to reason for the future, is needed and must be recognized as at option to the UN or similar. A "republican" governement must dwell in REASON or it ceases to exist. It is a right in the "republican form" of government guaranteed by explicit mention in the USA's Constitution.
A worse scenario exists in the Obama Administration in its wash of this, and its failure to improve and rationalize the proceedings of the OAS' emergency committee.
It will be a sad judgement of President Obama and his Administration of their yielding to the uncontrolled institutional binding & inertia to produce "ersatz" decrees of institutions. In frankness, the OAS' attempt at conclusory process would not have met the muster of a Federal Court's standard protection against arbitrary decision or ruling when weighing a ministerial decision
Let Mr. Zelaya RANT .. he is so heard now; but do not let him escape the principle of law and its cousin therefor: REASON.
