Ed Pearl: Dowd: White Man's Last Stand, Golinger: Washington and the Coup D'etat in Honduras

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White Man's Last Stand

By MAUREEN DOWD
NY Times Op-Ed: July 14, 2009

Washington

You can't judge a judge by her cover.

Despite the best efforts of Republicans to root out any sign that Sonia
Sotomayor has emotions that color her views on the law, the Bronx Bomber
kept a robotic mask in place.

A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often
than not know that a gaggle of white Republican men afraid of extinction are
out to trip her up.

After all, these guys have never needed to speak inspirational words to
others like them, as Sotomayor has done. They've had codes, handshakes and
clubs to do that.

So when Republican Senator Jon Kyl, without so much as a howdy-do, went at
Sotomayor, and soon was asking her if she agreed with Barack Obama's
contention, when he voted against John Roberts, that a judge's heart is
important, the would-be justice was as adroit as her idol Nancy Drew.

"No, sir," she said, indicating that the only bleeding-heart thing about her
was the color of her jacket. She added that "it's not the heart that compels
conclusions in cases. It's the law."

President Obama wants Sotomayor, naturally, to bring a fresh perspective to
the court. It was a disgrace that W. appointed two white men to a court
stocked with white men. And Sotomayor made it clear that she provides some
spicy seasoning to a bench when she said in a speech: "I simply do not know
exactly what the difference will be in my judging, but I accept there will
be some based on gender and my Latina heritage."

The judge's full retreat from the notion that a different life experience is
valuable was more than necessary and somewhat disappointing. But, as any
clever job applicant knows, you must obscure as well as reveal, so she
sidestepped the dreaded empathy questions - even though that's why the
president wants her.

"We apply law to facts," she told Kyl. "We don't apply feelings to facts."

She even used a flat tone when talking about the "horrific tragedy" of 9/11,
when she was living near the World Trade Center. And she was mechanical in
explaining to a grumpy Senator Orrin Hatch that banning nunchaku sticks did
not dent the Second Amendment because the martial-arts weapons' swing "can
bust someone's skull."

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer gamely tried to make the judge seem even
more coldhearted. Recalling the sad plight of poor families from the Bronx
who sued T.W.A. after a jet crashed off Long Island in 1996, he quoted the
Bronx jurist's dispassionate dissent: "The appropriate remedial scheme for
deaths occurring off the United States coast is clearly a legislative policy
choice, which should not be made by the courts."

Schumer also cited the case of an African-American woman who filed suit
after being denied a home-equity loan, even after the loan application was
conditionally approved based on her credit report.

Sonia Legree ruled that the woman's claim was filed too late, the same
argument that the Supremes used on Lilly Ledbetter when she belatedly
learned that her male coworkers were much better paid. President Obama has
cited the Ledbetter decision as a reason the court needs a more "common
touch."

"The law requires some finality," Sotomayor explained about her case, with
an iciness that must have sent a chill up the conservative leg of Alabama's
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, even as it left Obama hanging out on an
empathy limb.

Republican Lindsey Graham read Sotomayor some anonymous comments made by
lawyers about her, complaining that she was "temperamental," "nasty," "a bit
of a bully." Then he patronizingly lectured her about how this was the
moment for "self-reflection." Maybe Graham thinks Nino Scalia has those
traits covered.

But the barbed adjectives didn't match the muted performance on display
before the Judiciary Committee. Like the president who picked her, Sotomayor
has been a model of professorial rationality. Besides, it's delicious
watching Republicans go after Democrats for being too emotional and
irrational given the G.O.P. shame spiral.

W. and Dick Cheney made all their bad decisions about Iraq, W.M.D.'s,
domestic surveillance, torture, rendition and secret hit squads from the
gut, based on false intuitions, fear, paranoia and revenge.

Sarah Palin is the definition of irrational, a volatile and scattered
country-music queen without the music. Her Republican fans defend her lack
of application and intellect, happy to settle for her emotional electricity.

Senator Graham said Sotomayor would be confirmed unless she had "a
meltdown" - a word applied mostly to women and toddlers until Mark Sanford
proudly took ownership of it when he was judged about the wisdom of his
Latina woman.

And then there's the Supreme Court, of course, which gave up its claim to
rational neutrality when the justices appointed by Republican presidents -
including Bush Sr. - ignored what was fair to make a sentimental choice and
throw the 2000 election to W.

Faced with that warped case of supreme empathy, no wonder Sotomayor is so
eager to follow the law.

***

From: Sid Shniad

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=8860

Washington and the Coup D'etat in Honduras: here is the proof

by Eva Golinger

The State Department had previous knowledge of the coup.

The State Department and US Congress financed and advised the
Honduran actors and organizations which participated in the coup.

The Pentagon trained, financed, and armed the Honduran army which
perpetrated the coup and which continues to repress the honduran people.

The US military presence in Honduras, which occupies the military
base at Soto Cano (Palmerola), authorized the coup with its tactical
complicity and refusal to withdraw military support to the honduran
forces.

The US ambassador to the United States in Tegucigalpa, Hugo Llorens,
coordinated the expulsion of president Manuel Zelaya, together with
the Subsecretary of State Thomas Shannon and John Negroponte, who
actually works as a consultant to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

From the first day of the coup, the government in Washington has
spoken of the "two parties" involved and the need for "dialogue" to
restore the constitutional order, legitimating in this way the
coupsters.

The State Department has refused to certify legally the events in
Honduras as a "coup", it has not suspended nor frozen financial
support or trade with the country, nor has it taken steps to pressure
effectively the de facto regime.

Washington manipulated the Organization of American States to
increase the time devoted to debate what needed to be done and in
this manner did not support the immediate return of president Zelaya
to power, as part of a strategy to legitimate the de facto government
and wear down the honduran people, who continue to resist the coup.

Secretary of State Clinton and her spokespersons stopped speaking of
the return of president Zelaya to power and later designated Costa
Rican president Arias as a mediator, and have now referred to the
dictator who assumed power illegitimately during the coup, Roberto
Micheletti, as an "interim president".

The strategy of "negotiating" with the coupsters was imposed by
Obama's government as a way of discrediting president Zelaya--holding
him responsible for provoking the coup--and legitimating the coupsters.

United States congressional representatives--democrats and
republicans--organized a visit by representatives of the coupsters to
Washington, and received them with distinction at a variety of
institutions in the US capital.

In spite of the fact that republican senator John McCain coordinated
the visit of the coupsters to Washington through a lobbying
organization called the Cormac Group, actually Bill Clinton's lawyer
and close friend of Hillary, Lanny Davis, was contracted as a
"lobbyist" to gain public acceptance of Washington for the de facto
government in Honduras.

Otto Reich and venezuelan Robert Carmona-Borjas, former lawyer to
dictator Pedro Carmona during the coup in Venezuela in April 2002,
helped from Washington to set the stage for the coup against
president Zelaya in Honduras.

The planning team for the coup in Honduras designated by Washington
also included a group of US ambassadors recently named to central
american countries, experts in the destabilization of the cuban
revolution, and also Adolfo Frank, formerly in charge of USAID for Cuba.

No one can doubt the involvement of Washington in the coup in
Honduras against president Zelaya that began this past june 28. Many
analysts, leaders, as well as presidents, have denounced it.
Nonetheless, the majority concur that the administration of Barack
Obama had no role in the honduran coup, holding responsible in its
place remnants of the government of George W. Bush and the hawks who
continue to walk the hallways of the White House. The evidence
demonstrates that yes, it is certain that the hawks and the usual
suspects of coups and sabotage in Latin America have participated
this time, and there also exists ample proof of the role of Obama's
government as well.

Eva Golinger
Rebelion

Ed Pearl

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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