Posted on 07/06/2011 4:17:02 AM PDT by marktwain
President Barack Obama is attempting to block the execution in Texas on Thursday of a Mexican man because it would breach an international convention and do irreparable harm to US interests, Guardian.co.uk reports.
Humberto Leal Garcia was convicted in 1994 of the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio. Few question that he was responsible for the killing but the Texas authorities failed to tell Leal that under the Vienna convention he was entitled to contact the Mexican consulate when he was arrested.
Ah. So he did it. But overlooking a procedural step informing this monster of his entitlements under international treaty was overlooked. But he still did it. This big, brave piece of cowardly offal raped and killed a little girl. And 15 years later, the rabid animal is about to be put downexcept Obama worries the Mexican government will get mad at us if we do.
How telling that he does not place his emphasis or concern on an operation conducted under the authority of his administration that has resulted in estimates that up to 150 Mexican nationals may have been killedpeople who were never given due process and their day on court, that is, people who were legally innocent. And how many more Mexican and U.S. citizens have suffered on our side of the border remains to be seen.
But while occupying their concerns with a treaty-driven entitlement technicality, the administration has stonewalled Congress every step of the way on basic matters of Congressional authority, U.S. law, Mexican law nope, no chance of doing irreparable harm to U.S. interests there
That may be changing thoughat least as far as the administrations ability to keep up with the directed non-cooperation and at the same time keep the noise level down on it. From Fox News:
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Perry has his good points and some bad points, but he is much better than the squatter who now occupies the WH. I wish everyone here (especially those posting about Perry being al gore's campaign manager) would take the time to read the Texas' Reagan revolution before attacking Perry. Here is one excerpt from the article:
The swing state that had voted for Democrats in four of the previous five presidential elections turned into a deep red one that has chosen Republicans for president eight straight times and does not have a single Democratic statewide elected official.
Do the execution and let Mexico know that if they don’t want their illegals whacked, then do something about their “invasion” of our country. GO TEXAS GO!!!!!
so - how does this work? Local and state law enforcement can’t ask them any questions about immigration status etc or country of origin when you arrest them? That is reserved for the FEDS This is just another example of BHO having it both ways.
This is what happens when a country encourages their residents to violate the laws of another country.
And as it was pointed out to me yesterday, the pyscho in question had been living in the US for 36 years PRIOR to the arrest. Now why exactly would they think of telling him to notify the Mexican Consulate??
Good job Arrowhead1952
Thanks
“They send drugs and illegals to America in invasion numbers. They attack and kill Americans along the border on a regular basis.”
The solution to this is, of course, to bomb Libya/sarcasm
“Got to wonder why Obummer is kissing up to Mexico??”
Because Soros ordered him to?;)
Ping!
LLS
I thought the majority (at least in Texas) support the death penalty??
I would say yes to that question. We keep electing the right people to make sure guilty criminals are put down.
I was saying that Obama is against the death penalty. His request for clemency for this punk is for two reasons - to show opposition to the death penalty and to try to put Perry on the spot. Neither ploy will be successful
I am a strong Perry supporter. There seem to be a lot of Texas Freepers who are against him for various reasons, the biggest I suspect is that they now favor another candidate and fear Perry like the Democrats fear Palin and Bachmann.
They talk about two things - the Trans-Texas Corridor that would have allowed a Spanish company to build two tollways across Texas, one from NE to SW and the other NW to SE. The company would have born the cost but shared the income with the state. They say that the farmers and land owners complained about losing their land to eminent domain but the plan gave the landowners a choice to join the consortium and participate in the profits if they didn’t like the price being offered for their land.
The other issue was his effort to have all girls of 12 and 13 vaccinated to prevent STDs and cervical cancer. The parents had the right to not have their daughters vaccinated if they so chose. The drug was Gardisil and it was made by Mercke. Mercke had hired one of Perry’s political buddies to lobby for the law and contributed $6,000 to Perry’s campaign fund. Sounds like quid pro quo but I don’t know if it really was or not. I would be surprised if his detractors are as pure as they insist he be.
Regardless, I support him.
What?
No, seriously . . . . WHAT!!???
Good info all,
I’ll keep an open mind but I can tell you I already like the guy loads better than Mitt, Newt, T. Paw etc.
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