U.S. rebuked on death row Mexicans

CNN ASIA ^ | March 31, 2004

[Dr. Marten]

The court at The Hague is the U.N.'s highest court of justice.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The International Court of Justice in The Hague has ruled that the United States violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death row and ordered their cases be reviewed.

[Dr. Marten]

If the US government follows the "orders" issued by the Hague Circus Court...we are finished. The US Supreme court will be reduced to a puppet court of the Hague.

Send the Hague an example. Execute all 51!

[Maceman]

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has ruled that the United States violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death row and ordered their cases be reviewed.

"Oh Rubbish. You have no power here. Be gone before someone drops a house on you, too."

[Dr. Marten]

"but wants to make sure its citizens aren't abused by a foreign legal system they don't always understand."

Tell Vicente to teach the little F#@k&R$ to learn English before they come over here to commit crimes.

Better yet, put a leash on them and stop exporting your crimminals to the USA.

[Dr. Marten]

"but he was executed anyway by the state authorities of Arizona."

Priceless!!

[Paleo Conservative]

but wants to make sure its citizens aren't abused by a foreign legal system they don't always understand.

Translation:
Trying them in a legal system where offering a bribe won't get them off.

[navyblue]

Under the court's statute, its judgments are "binding, final and without appeal." Its rulings have rarely been ignored, and if one side claims the other has failed to carry out the court's decision, it may take the issue to the U.N. Security Council.

Tell them to go pound sand! They want to take it to the security council? No problem. We veto it! End of story.

[Richard-SIA]

BFD!

They have NO relevance to anything we do here, we have our national sovereignty and they their delusions of importance.

Execute the criminals today, to send a message to the globalist that we will not tolerate their meddling in our internal affairs!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The scary part is, our own high court justices are looking at legal decisions from Europe. Might as well have the World Court here.

[marron]

Mexico "doesn't contest the United States' right as a sovereign country to impose the death penalty for the most grave crimes," but wants to make sure its citizens aren't abused by a foreign legal system they don't always understand.

Death penalties are not imposed for simple murder but always for murder with "special circumstances"; multiple murder, murder for hire, murder of a policeman, and the like. Those are illegal in every country, so ignorance of the peculiarities of US law wouldn't be much of a defense unless you could show that you thought you were in a country where those things were legal.

I once did some fast talking with a cop who had pulled over a friend for a traffic violation, he was threatening to take him to jail. I said... give him a break, he's new to this country, the traffic laws are different, the style of driving is different... the cop looked at me and said, uh, I think you guys have traffic lights in the US too...

I think multiple murder is illegal in Mexico too.

if one side claims the other has failed to carry out the [World Court's] decision, it may take the issue to the U.N. Security Council.

Oh please, oh please, do it, I beg you.

[Darksheare]

What part of "Murder is illegal" don't they understand?
So, rape followed by murder should be okay in the eyes of the Hague?
I guess they need to apologize to all the Nazis that were executed all those years ago.

[DumpsterDiver]

Y'all might also be interested in this thread, if you haven't already seen it:

Mexico Quietly Moves to Eliminate Death Penalty Ahead of Court Ruling on U.S. Cases
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1108552/posts

[pragmatic_asian]

Maybe they should rebuke those illegal aliens for committing capital crimes. How the heck could their consulate officers have helped them more than their own attorneys? Were they going to hire Johnny Cochrane, et al for them? Death penalty cases get appealed automatically several times. If they're executed, there's very little doubt that they weren't guilty of the crimes for which they will be executed. A consular officer would be useless.

"[The Hague Court] rejected arguments that Washington was powerless to intervene in criminal cases under the authority of the individual states."

These fools really don't understand our laws or system of limited government do they? The Federal government can't overturn state court decisions just because they feel like it. Our judicial system is one of laws and we follow the law. That might just be too difficult for that 'court' to understand.

[Fiddlstix]

[Vision]

World Court?...hehehehe