They expose all of the lies the golpistas told about Zelaya's "crimes"--lies that were relentlessly promulgated in the corpo-fascist press with NO research and verification (as the Lawyers' Guild undertook)--such as that Zelay was trying to extend his own term of office (a lie told over and over and over again by the LYING press). And now the lawyers expose yet another lie--also being promulgated by the LYING press--that 70% of Hondurans voted, while the OPPOSITE is the truth.
It is not enough just to be aghast at these lies, and to protest them wherever we can, but we must also ask WHY the corpo-fascist' news' monopolies have been such lying S.O.B.'s on this subject. This kind of psyops/disinformation campaign--so similar to the media campaign against Chavez, with its relentless, bald-faced lying consistent throughout the media--is the harbinger of war.
"Truth is the first casualty of war," as an ancient Greek playwright is supposed to have been the first to say. (But it is apparently older than that.) First, truth gets speared through the heart, then people. We are seeing the first casualty--the death of the truth--in these 'Big Lie' propaganda campaigns.
Honduras is a prime Pentagon strategic asset for surrounding Venezuela's main, northern oil reserves and operations adjacent to Colombia (seven new US military bases, with NO LIMIT on the number of US soldiers and 'contractors' who can be sent to Colombia) and the Carribbean (Honduran base and port facilities secured; two new US military bases in Panama; the US 4th Fleet reconstituted in the Caribbean).
Honduras is the traditional "stepping stool" for US wars in the region. It had to be maintained, along with a toady fascist government to give it a gloss of Honduran consent. If the prime purpose for this was not war, then there is insufficient reason for the huge embarrassment to the Obama administration that the Honduran coup represents, and the egregious lying about it by the US government and the corporate media. The Pentagon even assisted the coup by permitting the plane carrying the kidnapped president out of the country to stop and refuel at the US airbase in Soto Cano, Honduras.
Events like those surrounding the Honduran coup are not innocent, random, unfocused events. They have a purpose. What can it be? The Obama administration's stated goals of "peace, respect and cooperation" in Latin America are now dead. The deceit and backstabbing of Zelaya, and abandonment of the Honduran people, are known throughout the region. Why was Obama's stated policy so wantonly sacrificed to oust a president who had only six months left to his term?
There has to be something VERY BIG at stake--an overriding reason for this blatant dismantling of a democracy, and the intense disinformation that has accompanied it, and the US just throwing away its chance for new prestige in the region--and I think it all points to war, of which the first casualty is, notoriously and forever, the truth.
That US air base in Honduras was a specific matter of controversy in the leadup to Zelaya's ouster. Zelaya wanted to convert it to a commercial airport. Nikolas Kozloff tells the tale here, adding a fact I didn't know--that Zelaya was going to fund the conversion with financial aid from Venezuela and the Venezuela-organized trade group ALBA.
http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff07222009.html"Zelaya, Negroponte and the Controversy at Soto Cano: The Coup and the U.S. Airbase in Honduras, by Nikolas Kozloff, 7/22/09
"The mainstream media has once again dropped the ball on a key aspect of the ongoing story in Honduras: the U.S. airbase at Soto Cano, also known as Palmerola. Prior to the recent military coup d’etat President Manuel Zelaya declared that he would turn the base into a civilian airport, a move opposed by the former U.S. ambassador. What’s more Zelaya intended to carry out his project with Venezuelan financing." (MORE)
What becomes very clear in this account is that the US wanted NO civilian interference at its Soto Cano air base. Zelaya offered the US military a site better suited to drug interdiction (--that utterly phony excuse for US military activities in Latin America). They refused. And soon Zelaya got his house shot up, and got dragged out of his bed at gunpoint, by the Honduran military, and put on a plane to
Soto Cano and thence to Costa Rica.