Zelaya is an outlaw

Amy Goodman’s column (“U.S. must get tough on coup,” Sept. 25) in support of leftist Manuel Zelaya paints a very unbalanced picture of the situation in Honduras.

Does she really not know why the Honduran government ousted Zelaya? Is it true that a peace-loving, unselfish leader was unjustly arrested and deported in some kind of rebellious coup d’état? If Amy thinks so, she doesn’t have the story straight. Zelaya’s insistence in trying to establish himself as dictator (directly against the constitution) and alignment with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez have given him this well-deserved exile.

Since when has the U.S. begun supporting crooks and scheming would-be dictators. I thought law-breakers were criminals regardless of whether they were democratically elected or not. Even if he has crowds of supporters and a heroic return story, he is still a lawbreaker and needs to be dealt with accordingly.

The real question is why has the Obama administration condemned this constitution-defending action. I’m afraid it’s because they don’t want to offend the majority led by Hugo Chavez that condemns the new Honduran president. So our decision is based on popularity and not justice. That’s not what Mom taught me.

Moses Martin

Deer Park