Okay, if this is really about upholding the rule of law, why didn't the army arrest/expel Michelleti as well, given that it's quite public that Michelleti is guilty of the crime of supporting extended term limits for the president?
doczinn, it's interesting that you have that take about the "constitutionally prescribed" method of responding. Not only is the Honduran constitution silent as to the military's authority to expel the president, the military-controlled media have already reported that the military's lawyers acknowledge the lack of any constitutional grounds for an expulsion. That was just an "oops."
Micro, there is no need to bribe the Honduran supreme court - it is loaded with corrupt officials who regularly issue "legal" opinions for their own interests. It is, without exaggerating, literally in competition for the title of most corrupt state institution in latin america.
Yet the orders of that same court are supposed to represent law and order.
What I see here is not technicalities or a "different take" on politics. Folks are jumping on board with the coup because Zelaya was a leftist, plain and simple. And jumping on board with misuse of state authority for any purpose is, imho, a recipe for disaster in every case: it turned out to be true with "anti-terror" measures advanced by the right, it turned out to be true with "save the children" measures advanced by the left, and it is already demonstrably true in this particular case.
The military in Honduras is shooting protesters and banning any media critical of the government, along with intermittently imposing curfews - because an election is coming, and we can't allow freedom to get in the way of a democratic election, can we?