Arias the president of Costa Rica carried on a big battle to change the Costa Rican constitution to allow more than one term but there is not a peep about that.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3755227-changing-constitutions-and-term-limits-for-presidents Not only did Arias the president of Costa Rica change the constitution so that he could run again so did President Uribe of Colombia an ally of the U.S. ""...... another U.S. ally, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe changed his Constitution to allow for his third re-election. Neither Washington nor the mass media objected. Anti-Castro Miami moguls hailed this "democratic" move."" So one must understand that extending term limits is fine if those involved are not opposed to U.S. policy. Otherwise they are evil plots of bad guys to remain in power--of course they have to be voted back in but that doesn't seem to register. JOKE OF THE DAY: "Why haven't there been attempted coups in Washington DC? Because there's no U.S. Embassy there." (Joke told by Chilean journalist to President Obama during President Michelle Bachelet's White House visit.) Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html --- On Tue, 8/11/09, c b <[email protected]> wrote: > From: c b <[email protected]> > Subject: [Pen-l] Now we know: Obama is a Marxist.. > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 4:08 PM > On the writer's notion of > dictator-to-be, the Honduran events are > causing rightwingers in Honduras and the US to expose their > complete > ignorance and disdain for the fundamentals of > democracy. The first > principle of democracy is popular sovereignty, as in the > _theory_ of > the US Constitution by which all power derives from "We, > the People" > as a whole. For Honduran President Zelaya to propose > a Constitutional > Convention and vote of the whole Honduran People on their > Constitution > is the most democratic , anti-dictatorial proposal he could > make.. > There can be nothing more democratic than a vote of the > whole People > on the fundamental law of the land. > > As a side note, there is nothing dictatorial about > Presidents having > more than one term, especially when a vote of the > People changes the > Constitution to allow it. Does the writer think that the US > Presidents > who have had second terms are dictators ? The > rightwing objections to > the wave of Constitutional changes made by the Peoples of > several > nations in South and Central America expose these > rightwingers to the > world as anti-democrats and the true would be dictators > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
