greg334
Veteran Expediter
....lost by our president
I awoke this morning to an email in my box with a link to this article “Bush, Texas at Odds Over Death Caseâ€, AP
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCOTUS_MEXICAN_NATIONAL
And want to know what the h*ll is going on here.
We have a state, Texas who has convicted and about to execute a Mexican who murdered 2 girls after raping them as part of a gang is now facing halting this execution and possibly retrying him and others because the president is siding in a rare moment the world court who said that his rights were violated because he was not offered under Miranda his access to the Mexican consulate.
This mind you is the same world court that has not condemned things happening in Africa or the Middle East and wanted to try US soldiers for war crimes – just to put it in perspective.
Mexico sued the US in world court over this and 50 other convicted criminals who should be put to death, removing our rights to protect ourselves as a sovereign nation. The president has decided to side with the international court instead of the citizens of the US on this issue but apparently only on this issue - time will tell if that is really true.
To me it is not simply a matter of enforcing a decision from a court that has overstepped it boundary but rather a more complex issue of why is any access given to Mexican nationals in the first place under our Miranda laws when it clearly circumvents our rights as a country and further when there is no access given to US citizens in other countries under this treaty, like Mexico.
In addition when you look at the entire Mexican problem we are faced with the dismantling of our country by our leaders and some of the actions of Bush and the Justice Department are in fact grounds for impeachment but no one wants to tackle the issue because they will be deemed racists. So I assume like other issues of race, words are more important than principles and rights.
I awoke this morning to an email in my box with a link to this article “Bush, Texas at Odds Over Death Caseâ€, AP
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCOTUS_MEXICAN_NATIONAL
And want to know what the h*ll is going on here.
We have a state, Texas who has convicted and about to execute a Mexican who murdered 2 girls after raping them as part of a gang is now facing halting this execution and possibly retrying him and others because the president is siding in a rare moment the world court who said that his rights were violated because he was not offered under Miranda his access to the Mexican consulate.
This mind you is the same world court that has not condemned things happening in Africa or the Middle East and wanted to try US soldiers for war crimes – just to put it in perspective.
Mexico sued the US in world court over this and 50 other convicted criminals who should be put to death, removing our rights to protect ourselves as a sovereign nation. The president has decided to side with the international court instead of the citizens of the US on this issue but apparently only on this issue - time will tell if that is really true.
To me it is not simply a matter of enforcing a decision from a court that has overstepped it boundary but rather a more complex issue of why is any access given to Mexican nationals in the first place under our Miranda laws when it clearly circumvents our rights as a country and further when there is no access given to US citizens in other countries under this treaty, like Mexico.
In addition when you look at the entire Mexican problem we are faced with the dismantling of our country by our leaders and some of the actions of Bush and the Justice Department are in fact grounds for impeachment but no one wants to tackle the issue because they will be deemed racists. So I assume like other issues of race, words are more important than principles and rights.
