Posted on 10/09/2007 9:46:25 AM PDT by uxbridge
Thanks for the clarification regarding the international courts.LOL. Anytime the UN is involved it is bad news. Now today is the day that supposedly our Supreme Court will rule.
Yea, right! Actually, free traders are beginning to be scarce.
shame on you...
Damn, this case is far more important than most of us realize. Beck is talking about it now and SCOTUS is hearing the case now.
Here is a more active thread on the topic. TomGuy is also following the court proceedings.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909192/posts
I’ll check it out, Thx. I figured Rush may have taken an interest in this but guess not.
Yes, you would be tried under their laws, but you have a right to speak to a U.S. consulate, and they are supposed to inform you of that right.
I assure you that if you found out 50 americans were about to be put to death and were in mexican prisons, having never been granted consultation with the American embassy, people here would be up in arms.
Last time this came up, someone showed me that this was not a signed treaty, if so then probably the courts won’t allow enforcement of it.
If we had a signed and ratified treaty on the subject, the Constitution would give that treaty greater weight than state law. Treaties come just under the constitution itself.
I’ve been told though that the treaty under which this action would fall was never signed and ratified. I don’t have a reference.
If God wanted the guy dead, he'd just smote him. You think God is some whiny liberal who just cries when he doesn't get his way?
Two differences. First, he’s now President charged with enforcing FEDERAL law, and Second, the IJC issued a ruling in the matter.
Bush has said he doesn’t LIKE the ruling, and he doesn’t expect to abide by such rulings in the future. But for some reason unexplained, he feels obligated to attempt to enforce the ruling this time.
I’m not saying it makes it right, just saying there is a good reason why he is acting differently now than then.
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