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U.N. official deplores Texas execution (story uses Ft. Hood shooting memorial picture)
UPI ^ | July 8, 2011

Posted on 07/08/2011 1:29:03 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

UNITED NATIONS, July 8 (UPI) -- The Texas execution of a Mexican national puts the United States in violation of international law, the U.N. human rights chief said Friday.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said federations like the United States have a responsibility to ensure that individual states "respect the international responsibilities assumed by the country as a whole."

...."I am very disappointed that neither the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles nor the governor took steps open to them to prevent this breach of the U.S. obligations under international law from occurring," Pillay said.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: baitandswitch; deathpenalty; dontmesswithtexas; execution; fauxtography; justice; mexico; navipillay; pravdamedia; texas
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"We decline to follow the United States’ suggestion of granting a stay to allow Leal to bring a claim based on hypothetical legislation when it cannot even bring itself to say that his attempt to overturn his conviction has any prospect of success. We may note that in a portion of its opinion vacated by the Fifth Circuit on procedural grounds, the District Court found that any violation of the Vienna Convention would have been harmless." - U.S. Supreme court ruling
21 posted on 07/08/2011 1:46:57 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He’s to be considered an “undocumented” American in employment and elections but when he rapes and murders a child, he’s a foreign national.

What a system.


22 posted on 07/08/2011 1:47:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask Barack Obama this election if he believes Jesus Christ rose from the dead and walked among men.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

When are we going to finally flush the UN out of our national system?


23 posted on 07/08/2011 1:49:35 PM PDT by fwdude (Prosser wins, Goonions lose.)
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To: Beaten Valve

There are plenty of rapists serving within the United Nations. Just follow the “unsexscandals” keyword.

It’s a culture of corruption and positively anti-American.


24 posted on 07/08/2011 1:50:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask Barack Obama this election if he believes Jesus Christ rose from the dead and walked among men.)
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Har Har Hardee Har Har!


25 posted on 07/08/2011 1:52:03 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Purge the Legalize-Drugs Cop-Hating Pro-Homosexual-Marriage Liberaltarians from FR.)
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To: American Quilter

I agree!


26 posted on 07/08/2011 1:53:19 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I’m liking Perry more and more, regardless of Gardacil-gate and Texas DREAM Act.


27 posted on 07/08/2011 1:53:43 PM PDT by fwdude (Prosser wins, Goonions lose.)
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To: American Quilter

I remember back in the sixties seeing a John Birch Society billboard that had that exact phrase on it. How right they were!


28 posted on 07/08/2011 2:00:52 PM PDT by Big_Harry (Ecc10:2 "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Deplore away, you POS! Talk about the chutzpah of criticizing the spek in your host country’s eye and ignoring the plank in your own.

This UN functionary is a South African who might well spend a bit more time deploring the injustices occurring in her own country and its neighbors. Frankly, I’d like to see the UN relocate to sub Saharan Africa, if only to free up parking space in midtown Manhattan.


29 posted on 07/08/2011 2:04:18 PM PDT by Mobties (Reduce the government footprint! Let the markets work!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

.in Islamic countries execute gays and for alleged blasphemy...
the United Nations have protested...?


30 posted on 07/08/2011 2:04:24 PM PDT by californian by choice
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Time to get rid of the UN and tell all The U.N. Officals to kiss my royal A$$


31 posted on 07/08/2011 2:04:58 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

P-ss on his victim, to hell with her, that’s what this is all about. Pure and simple, p-ss on his victim.


32 posted on 07/08/2011 2:07:10 PM PDT by Waco (Nominate Palin or forget 2012 you lost)
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From left; Fort Hood commander U.S. Army Lt. General Robert Cone, First Lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry attend the attend a memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas, for the victims of the Fort Hood shootings, Nov. 10, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
33 posted on 07/08/2011 2:08:56 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Beaten Valve
The UN has allowed far more people to be murdered than Texas will ever execute...

The U.N. Sex Scandal "......Allegations of sexual abuse or misconduct by U.N. staff stretch back at least a decade, to operations in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. A 2001 report, released by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Save the Children, found that sexual violence against refugees in West Africa was endemic (though some of its findings were denied by a subsequent U.N. team). A year later a coalition of religious organizations sent a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell urging the United States to send more human rights monitors into Congo. The U.N. then introduced a "code of conduct" to help prevent future abuses, including prohibitions against sexual activity between staff and children and the exchange of money or food for sex....."

34 posted on 07/08/2011 2:12:08 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: American Quilter

They are going to push hard on getting that one world government established.


35 posted on 07/08/2011 2:12:59 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hey UN:

Why don’t y’all send some blue helmets down here to Texas to talk about it? Send lots.

Don’t bother booking return air fare for ‘em...

/a Texan


36 posted on 07/08/2011 2:18:59 PM PDT by piytar (The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
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To: wolfcreek
Most Mexican ¨migrants¨ believe this to be Aztlan so US sovereignty
doesn´t mean a damned thing to them, and I´m sure the UN agrees.
37 posted on 07/08/2011 2:21:09 PM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“U.N. official deplores Texas execution”

Really. Well, how about this: FUNP - and, while we’re on topic, FUBO for trying to interfere in matters that are not within your purview as pResident.

All real Texans deplore the UN, hellhole home of brutal tyrants, child molesters and the most corrupt people on the planet. The UN could disappear with all employees in an instant, and we in Texas wouldn’t be phased in the least. FUUN!


38 posted on 07/08/2011 2:27:50 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: piytar
High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said federations like the United States have a responsibility to ensure that individual states "respect the international responsibilities assumed by the country as a whole."

July 6, 2011 - AP: LOS ANGELES —Texas Gov. Rick Perry ridiculed Washington leadership Thursday on a whirlwind trip through California, positioning himself as a champion of limited government, states' rights and low taxes as he edges toward a decision on whether to enter the 2012 presidential campaign.....On Wednesday in San Diego, Perry called the federal government "rudderless" and said he sees a lack of courage in Washington...."

39 posted on 07/08/2011 2:28:05 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

40 posted on 07/08/2011 2:34:30 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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