U.S. sued in Hague over Mexicans' death sentences
Posted on 01/11/2003 6:39:57 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
U.S. sued in Hague over Mexicans' death sentences
01/11/2003
MEXICO CITY - Last summer, President Vicente Fox canceled a trip to Texas to protest the execution of a Mexican citizen. Now, Mexico has taken its case against the U.S. death penalty to the World Court.
The Foreign Ministry asked the international tribunal to order U.S. authorities to review the death sentences of 54 Mexican citizens in the United States, including 16 in Texas.
In a suit presented Thursday in The Hague, Netherlands, Mexico accused U.S. authorities of violating the 1963 Vienna Convention of Consular Relations by not informing the 54 defendants of their right to speak with Mexican consular officials.
That assistance could have resulted in better legal representation and avoided some of those death sentences, Mexico has argued.
The Foreign Ministry said it decided to present the suit after years of opposing the U.S. death penalty. Mexico does not have the death penalty except in military courts.
U.S. officials said they were studying the suit. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said federal authorities have worked with state officials to make sure they fulfill their obligations under the Vienna Convention.
Mr. Fox canceled a trip to Texas last August to protest the execution of Javier Suárez Medina, who admitted killing a Dallas police officer during a drug bust.
In that case, Mexico accused Texas authorities of not informing Mr. Suárez of his right to speak with Mexican consular officials. U.S. officials said it was not clear at the time that he was a Mexican citizen.
Mexican officials downplayed the possibility that the suit would damage U.S. relations.
The case "is an action to reaffirm Mexico's confidence and commitment to the principle of the peaceful solution of controversies," the Foreign Ministry said.
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Mr. Fox canceled a trip to Texas last August to protest the execution of Javier Suárez Medina, who admitted killing a Dallas police officer during a drug bust.
Nice. He kills a policeman and then his buddy tries to steal from the dead policeman:
But they do shoot outside of the courts system in that country, where you are guilty until proven innocent and you may never see the inside of a court room. Look to Mexico’s southern border for real time, in your face murder.
The United Nations in partnership with Vincente Fox et al, are poised to undermine American Sovereignty anyway they can; starting years ago, they have stepped up the attack.
E-mail the Texas DCJ’s criminal report to all your news papers and all your friends. Many thanks for that MeeknMing!
The controversy: who gets the cocaine and the money.
The Mexican Principle of Peaceful Solution: Gun down the American and steal the drugs and money.
Apparently The DMN misunderstood, it is the Principle of Appeaseful Solution, where the US takes the usual role as the one grabbing the ankles.
OK, if Vicente Fox considers it OK to randomly murder people out of greed and hate, yet considers it literally a matter of international crisis to go through multiple trials with multiple juries to pronounce a US commitment to the Principle of Freedom and Justice (doing away with proven cold blooded murderers generally goes a long way towards promoting peace). Then maybe we should return tit for tat and just incarcerate those the police feel may be a perp in an outdoor pen surrounded by insurmountable chainlink and constatina wire down range to a public rifle and pistol facility. And in an honor and tribute to the Mexican president, we can make The Fox Principle of Peace Exemption that promises peace by not investigating any stray rounds, or prosecuting any Carlos Hathcock wannabe who may be on the line.
Just as long as there is no color of law involved, Fox should be happy.
Translation: "could have resulted in better legal representation and avoided some of those death sentencesresponsibility for their crimes, Mexico has argued"
Well, these scum weren't IN Mexico now were they? THAT is the problem! Maybe if they'd committed this crime in their own country they'd still be breathing.
Actually, it is quite difficult to convince the American sheeple to do anything under principle, since looking for a label on a product informing the customer of its origin is too bothersome a task, and saving money on inferior trinkets from the south is of far greater importance. Besides, what part of your GM car are you going to strip out of it because those parts came from Mexico? Also, more economic distress placed on Mexico exacerbates the illegal immigration problem.
The people of Arizona deserve the traitor they voted into office. If Arizonians are too stupid and lazy to defend their own borders and instead vote in seditionists and America haters, then its the other states that needs to defend themselves from the fools in Arizona. Since the border states can't be trusted to act as a barrier, and instead they have become a facilitator, then the other states needs to step up the Federal presence on the border.
One sure fire method for doing this is to recall our 37,000 nuclear hostages from Korea and give them temporary assignment doing complete and thoroughal inspection of every car, truck, trailer, ship and railcar with a Mexican origin. Exemptions can be made, of course, for perishable goods, a Fasttrack of sorts, though manifests and driver's logs will be heavily scrutinized. This will have the effect of a boycott since something made in Q1 won't make it to the shelves until around Christmas. A side benefit of this is that we establish precedent by first saying "National Security" and therefore not go against the NAFTA agreement which somehow would end up costing us money in the world courts.
Maybe when a few more airlines go under and the travelling public is reduced to a more managable number, the would-be layed off Security personnel could be reassigned to the border crossing stations and told that even more sloth, belligerance and contempt will be handsomely rewarded, not even Fox will be able to come over to this country to make even further demands on us.
We are talking about our National Sovereignty here along with law: if you break an American law, you pay for it, and being an illegal alien is also breaking the law. Presidente Fox is truly below the belt with this one, but I am sorry to say...historically very Hispanic in the way they treat agreements and treaties. Our politically correct and far too diplomatic leaders need to hear from each and everyone of us....don’t let them down!
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