Posted on 11/24/2007 5:14:29 AM PST by fweingart
In several speeches he gave across the country, former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton revealed that President George W. Bush and his administration are buckling under pressure from this nation's Internationalists in the current controversy over Mexico and the International Court of Justice.
The Mexican government is attempting to save an illegal alien convicted of participating in the savage rape and murder two teenage girls from being executed in Texas for his crimes.
Death penalty opponents in both the US and Mexico are trying to place this nation under the control of a world court, according to critics of the Bush White House.
"[President George Bush's position is] a bad mistake, but one of many mistakes, I'm sad to say, the administration has made recently," Bolton told syndicated radio talk show host Laura Ingraham.
Bolton believes that President Bush is helping Mexico and the International Court block the death sentence for a Mexican rapist-murderer. He called Bush's actions "ridiculous."
"Bolton is a true patriot. That is why the liberals in the Democrat Party and the phony conservatives in the GOP were so eager to remove him from his seat at the UN. Bolton believes the UN is corrupt and he's opposed to placing the United States under the jurisdiction of any international entity," claims conservative political consultant Michael Baker.
"When it comes to US sovereignty, Americans would be better served listening to Ambassador Bolton rather than our closet Internationalist President," he added.
Baker points to phony conservatives such as Ohio's Senator George Voinovich who shed tears during Senate confirmation hearings for Bolton to serve at the United Nations. "Voinovich feared Bolton's anti-UN positions would hamper US involvement in the New World Order," claims Baker.
In early October, the US Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the impending execution of Jose Medellin, who confessed to police in 1993 to raping and murdering two Houston, Texas, teenagers -- Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena. The girls were sodomized and strangled with their own shoe laces, according to court records and police reports.
According to Houston Police detectives' reports, Medellin boasted that he kept one victim's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of his heinous crime. Medellin and four other attackers were convicted of capital murder and are awaiting execution on death row.
The intervention in the case by the Bush administration comes after the International Court of Justice in the Hague found Medellin -- who entered the United States illegally -- was not informed of his right to contact the Mexican Consulate for legal assistance.
"Bush's support of the World Court decision jeopardizes the cases of about 50 Mexican Nationals sitting on death row," said former NYPD Det. Sidney Francis.
"Once again, President Bush is stabbing law enforcement officers -- and the people they serve -- in their backs," said Francis.
Det. Francis points to the erosion of the enormous support of law enforcement officials and organizations enjoyed by President Bush in the 2004 election.
"President Bush was endorsed by the nation's largest police organizations including the 350,000-member Fraternal Order of Police, the Police Benevolent Association and other law enforcement and security organizations and unions," said Michael Baker.
"Now his popularity among cops has hit bottom because of his refusal to protect the US from illegal aliens who cross our borders at will," he said.
Ambassador Bolton told talk host Laura Ingraham that the U.S. has no obligation to the world court in this case.
"It is ridiculous," he said. "The Vienna Convention on consular relations does not create rights personal to the individual. It's a state-to-state agreement."
Lawmakers in Washington, DC, who signed the treaty, did not believe they were creating a way for criminals on death row to "get around our judicial system," Bolton explained to Ingraham. "They haven't had enough due process? They've had the full panoply of constitutional protection, and now they're trying to create something else."
The Bush Administration became involved in the Medellin case in 2003 when President Vicente Fox's government sued the US over the consular issue in the UN's world court.
The court ruled in Mexico's favor in late 2004 and ordered the US to reconsider the Mexican inmates' murder convictions and death sentences. In February 2005, Bush announced that while he disagreed with the decision, the US would comply. He ordered courts in Texas and elsewhere to review the cases.
The Supreme Court, which had agreed to hear Medellin's case, dismissed it in order to allow the case to play out in Texas. Then in November 2006, the all-Republican Texas Court of Criminal Appeals balked at the president's order, saying Bush had overstepped his authority.
The Texas court ruled that the judicial branch -- not the White House -- should decide how to resolve the Mexican cases. It also said Medellin wasn't entitled to a new hearing because he failed to complain at his original trial about any violation of his consular rights and had therefore waived them.
Then Medellin's defense attorney appealed again to the US Supreme Court, which announced last May it would hear the case. His lawyer, Donald Donovan of New York, argued that Bush was correct when he took action to comply with the world court's decision.
Recently, for his achievements in both international arbitration and international human rights, Donovan was awarded the Premio Nacional de Jurisprudencia by the Mexican Bar Association, the first non-Mexican so honored.
What the U.S. government wants in the Medellin murder case is "bizarrely grotesque," according to a statement by the chief counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.
The warning from ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull notes that the case, being pursued by President Bush through the Department of Justice, could result in US laws being subjugated to UN resolutions and rules to the point that local police officers will have to spend more time studying international law than catching criminals.
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The article being discussed in the thread is the hit piece....the fact this guy is a Paulinista explains the reason for it.
it was all revealed by playing Sr's "Thousand Points of Light" speech backwards. Where have you been?
Jorge is on his way out. Be more concerned that we do not elect a socio/communist who will actually turn this nation over to the UN.
what makes you think he is not already setting the stage. Remember the Clintons are Bushs’ buddies.
"The president is out to lunch and cannot be disturbed."
I’m not a Paulinista, but please point out the parts that are not true.
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When our government no longer enforces the laws it sets, it is time for the American people to start taking the law into their own hands.
Bush has really blown it on domestic policy. Some blame needs to go to his advisors. They are the ones who convince the President where his agenda needs to go.
But ultimately, this problem of border and immigration law enforcement falls directly on Bush.
Is there anyone who can save our country anymore?
Is there any politician with the desire and the gonads to not compromise our sovergnity??
Confidence is low.
Bumping for great justice.
You are right. Being an internationalist himself, Bush feels no pressure and doesn't need to buckle. Bolton is being charitable toward his former boss.
There are a lot of "new world order' traitors in our government, both Democrat and Republican. We need to get them ALL out.
bttt
With the elite political class ensconced in the Washington DC area, the nation is beginning to look like Madrid before Generalissimo Franco began marching north.
Regardless of what we do at the polls these elite socialist pansies refuse to follow the will of the majority.
We continally get poltically correct hogwash shoved down our throats, our borders are wide open, our nation is full of the castoff scum of Mexico, et al, our president entertains, with a white house dinner, the people who would like to see all of us either dead or bowing toward the east, our courts by and large, consist of judges who thwart and make a mockery of the Constitution, we aren't able to drill for oil in our own country, our industries were burdened with excessive bureaucratic regulation and our president is ready to join the socialist congress in turning over our sovereignty to the United Nations.
We're in deep trouble!
>LOL! Who’s kidding who here?
LOL! Exactly! How does one "buckle under pressure" from onesself?!?
Sad, but true. In these time, laying down is like hoping it will go away. Bush has lost lots of respect with those that believed in him. So many mistakes.
Parts of what?????
The biggest of which I made was ever supporting Bush.
Indeed!
Only one small one: Ramos and Campeon!
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