George W. Bush: Crusader for Mexican death row murderers and international law meddlers, continued
Andy McCarthy roasts President Bush over his support for Mexican Death Row double-murderer Jose Medellin over the state of Texas and American sovereignty. His damning conclusion:
At bottom, the case is about the freedom of Texans to govern themselves, to put sadistic murderers to death if that is what they choose democratically to do, as long as they adhere to American constitutional procedures in carrying out that policy choice. Sure, it offends Mexicans, Europeans, international law professors, and a motley collection of jurists who see themselves as a supra-sovereign tribunal. But that is not a basis for the President to interfere.
The administration has made a great show of promoting democracy. Democracy, however, begins at home.
Phyllis Schlafly connects the dots between the Medellin case and the Law of the Sea Treaty:
Just this week, the United States Supreme Court gave us an important look into what kind of global power grabs we face if the Senate ratifies the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). On October 10, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Jose Medellin, an illegal alien rapist-murderer now on death row in Texas. Medellin, a citizen of Mexico who lived illegally in the United States, was convicted and sentenced to death after he confessed in 1993 to the brutal rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston.
Long after Medellin had received the full due process of the American legal system, in 2003 the Mexican government sued the United States in the International Court of Justice (known as the “World Court”), an agency of the United Nations which sits at The Hague in The Netherlands.
In 2004 the World Court ruled in favor of Mexico and ordered the United States to give Medellin another hearing, or perhaps another trial, at which he could receive the assistance of Mexican consular employees.
A 1963 treaty known as the Vienna Convention, which both the United States and Mexico have signed and ratified, provides that aliens who are accused of crimes in a foreign country are entitled to request the assistance of consular officials of their home country. Medellin never requested such assistance until long after he was tried, convicted and sentenced, and after all his appeals were denied.
Of course, Medellin did receive the assistance of competent American legal defense lawyers throughout the process, and there is no reason to think that the presence of a Mexican consul could have made any difference in the outcome.
Incredibly, the Bush Administration has knuckled under to the World Court and tried to order the Texas courts to give Medellin another hearing. The Texas courts properly refused to honor this unconstitutional interference, and the Texas decision was upheld by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
This case shows why the U.S. Senate should not agree to diminish American sovereignty by ratifying another UN treaty called the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)…
As I mentioned, the White House supports LOST, too.
A wholly fitting acronym…
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Its bad enough Bush isn’t doing much to control our borders, but to go out of his way to pander to foreign criminals is pathetic while three of Border agents are in prison for doing their job.
Makes me ashamed for even voting for him twice
I voted two times for this man and I do not understand his actions. I also thought about our two Border Patrol agents rotting in prison for shooting a drug smuggler in the butt.
Can somebody please explain George Bush to me? Anybody?
Wow color me surprised that Bush is siding with the Mexicans.
At what point did we start letting foreign politicos dictate the law of our country?
I can’t understand why our President and congress are bowing down to this. Are they that eager to give away control of our country?
I guess ‘protectionist’ is becoming a 4-letter word in Washington.
I was dismayed by the MSNBC Republican debate this weekend. I heard ALOT about Trade, Trade, and more Free Trade. I guess they do want a “North American Union.” I’m beginning to see why Bush and his crowd are not enforcing the borders. They want a homogenized North America.
Only Tancredo and Hunter had the ‘right’ approach. (I hadn’t heard much of either of them. Too bad they don’t have the money to be the front runners.)
Sorry for getting off-topic.
I hate to say it - and I’m greatly saddened by it - but I think the President is now bowing to two notions. 1) It’s time to work on his legacy and 2) If he plays nice nice with the left, they will like him. Both may be rolled up into the same item actually. Of course, those of us not in the fishbowl of his job know both 1) and 2) are completely nonsense. Great people do what is right not worrying about legacy. The left will never ever like a man who called himself a Christian no matter what he does.
No statute of limitations? A lot changed in 44 years and since the Mexican Monster was convicted for the horrific crime(s)committed against those beautiful girls. What
the hellis Bush thinking?I’m waiting for the photoshop of the American Flag flying upside down under the U.N. flag……..
Obviously Article IV section 4 of the US Constitution is no longer valid entitling each state a Republic form of Government and protection from invasion. This is not the United States of the World living at the mercy of their draconian laws. The world organizations including the UN (Useless Nations) do not have jurisdiction in this country (except where we have lost our sovereignty through treaties ratified by the Senate). Now the rule of law to include full due process no longer matters. Didn’t we fight a little war during the 1860s to settle States Rights vs. Federal Government Rights? We are quickly reaching anarchy. I guess I am an idiot for being a law abiding citizen. Thank God our founding fathers put the 2nd Amendment in the US Constitution in the end it may be the only mechanism to stop the madness.
I’m slightly disapointed…
When this showed on my RSS feeder, it said “George W. Bush: Crusader for Mexican Death”…
Apparently I should increase the size of that window.
At this point Bush is more worried about his Legacy than this country.
I too have been questioning Bush’s motives. One can only imagine.
He knows that the majority of US citizens are against illegals running amok in this country, yet he ignores those who voted him into office.
He’s got some explaining to do.
He’s turned on his own party…wimp.
At this point Bush is more worried about his legacy.
Maybe we need to inform the President that a Legacy is a car built by Subaru.
I am at a loss to understand President Bush anymore. It is so disappointing to read stuff like this. He is wrong on this. Very, very wrong.
I’ve finally decided that the two worst Presidents in American history are:
1. Jimmy Carter
2. George W. Bush
He’s trying to hard to appease the very people who’ll hate him anyway - the open-borders, illegal immigrant amnesty pushing lefties.
I am disappointed in Bush. Extremely.
#13 LOL!
I think the Mexican murderer should be given hearing. During the hearing, the Mexican Consular should advise Medellin not to struggle when they strap him to the gurney.
Bush is only interested in protecting his business interests that put him in office. He is a pro-business idealist that is convinced a “North American Union” consisting of Canada, America and Mexico is the way to go. Sure it is for big-business but not for the sovereignty and middle-class of the United States. This would explain his unwillingness to protect and seal our southern border.
This man has all but ruined the Republican Party and made conservatives outcasts in their own country! His prosecution of the war in Iraq is a sad joke! His bumbling foreign policy headed by Rice is ineffective to say the least!
Bush and Carter are the worst Presidents in this century.
Texas - Time for justice! Ignore this confused President.
I don’t understand President Bush, I really don’t!
For the leftist trolls that frequent here:
Stop slamming Michelle for being one-sided. She has a mind and will slam the right with equal enthusiasm when deserved as in this case.
I voted for Boosh twice as well. The saving grace behind that is the fact that we did not end up a Kerry or (gag) AlGore. On this issue though, Boosh is just out of his tree. Imprison the border patrol agents for wounding a drug dealer (who got zero time) and free the rapist/murder.
Get you head out of you rectum – sir!
Nice try JonR…but having been an executive in a major corporation, I honestly can’t say that the business was interested in open borders. We desired less red-tape (read that non-productive stupidity) but I never once heard any desire to minimize borders. In fact, my recollection of our position on the EU was we preferred it as separate countries. The trouble with the EU - they settle at the lowest denominator and then enforce that…kinda like liberalism. Find the sob story, then make that the model for everything
“The rot of globalism runs deep in this capital city.”
George W. Bush, Globalist
One other comment - I was challenged this weekend - “Ok, you pick on the president - what would you differently (given the current MSM, congress etc)”. I know in many cases, exactly what I’d do differently - but not in all cases. So to say I’d run foreign policy differently or run the war differently or or or…exactly how. You can’t not like the outcome and then decide you would have done it differently.
Its all part of the plan folks.
People laugh about the North American Union, and yet thats the way this exact precedent is pointed.
This gives an International Court precedence over a State Supreme Court.
The NAU will be based on a treaty obligation, run by an “arbitration board” and the International Court. We’ve already been found guilty by this court for not fully implementing the Truck policys of NAFTA, and this gives the President the power he needs to force the US, without Congress’s consent, to enforce this on States as well.
NAU will not come in with a bang… but it’ll slip in the back door…
JonR:
I think you’re stretching it a bit. I can think of quite a few ‘big businesses’ that have little or nothing to gain by Illegal immigration and the like. Trust me, Microsoft, Oracle and Google are chomping at the bit of highly educated guys from India/Korea/China etc - not low/unskilled workers from Mexico. If it was about pandering to “Big Business” as opposed to landscapers and chicken processing plants, then we’d be making it easier for Indian Ph.D’s to get into this country and harder for unskilled workers, instead of the other way around. Not a whole lot of market to break into there either. “Big Business” isn’t nearly as labor intensive as many would have you believe and I honestly think it’s way more than Big Business that’s driving this nonsense.
Oops, I almost forgot - irrespective of what’s driving it, things like this are a pure disgrace
Either this is just another appeasement to Mexico, and our related surrender to the third-world invasion, or Bush is suffering from mental problems.
Only we the people can save this country and we have to begin by stopping the mindless re-election of the same traitors in Congress. If we can’t do at least that much, then we will get the representation that we deserve.
It is official, Mr. Bush is a Globalist, not a Nationalist.
William, just so you know, landscaping and chicken ARE big business!
Tyson Foods (which I know uses illegal workers from experience) is the world’s largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, the second-largest food company in the Fortune 500, employs over 107,000 people, and is a member of the S&P 500.
As for landscaping, there are more than 145,000 businesses in the United States classified as ‘landscaping services’ that employ more than 700,000 people.
Do some research before you decide what’s big business and what isn’t.
Guys,
Someone is benefiting from all of these illegals pouring into this country and Bush is supporting them. No question. No matter what your definition of “big business” is, companies are using this foolish President to gain cheap labor to increase their profit margins. OK, not all are but the point I am making is that Bush is putting these businesses and globalism above the well being of the American People! This goes against his promise/oath to defend the Constitution of the United States big time!
I voted for this man twice because the Democrats that ran against him were so bad. They still are but now Bush has poisoned the Republican Party! He has taken a stand against the sovereignty of the United States to benefit certain businesses and countries. Now, can anyone really argue against that statement?
Tyson may have the political clout to get the president to behave like this but I doubt the landscapers do.
This president has from the beginning said stuff approximating “goverment should be an agent of good”. So he thinks it’s the job of gov’t to do good. And one of his definitions of good is that all these poor immigrants are here just to do the jobs Americans won’t do. I honestly don’t think it’s a pandering to so called big business.
Further, as I said before, I think it’s legacy and a mis-guided attempt to win favor from the left.
I don’t think he’s trying to win favor from the left. I also don’t think he’s looking for a ‘legacy’.
I think his goal is a North American Union (maybe he does want that as his ‘legacy’*shrug*).
I heard Tom Tancredo on a talkradio interview clearly say that the President and many members of Congress want a NAU. It jibes with his actions.
As W continues to strive for his ultimate goal of blanket amnesty, it surprises me that he would do something so stupid. Arguing on behalf of this disgusting murderer only calls attention to the criminal element within the illegal alien community. During the whole amnesty debate this past summer, one who didn’t know better would be led to believe that ALL illegals are otherwise law-abiding “citizens” that are just doing the jobs Americans won’t do. Now more people will know the truth.
Our friend Bill Gates uses the H-1B visa program rather than cheap illegal Mexicans (average having less than a 5 grade education). There are 65,000 H-1Bs issued per year that lets Bill use various highly educated foreigners at a much reduced pay scale and do on-site work in the U.S., train the worker on the company’s needs and then ships the H-1B work visa holder back to where ever, along with most of the software coding work.
But this is not the point. If the point is what makes the Decider, decider; I have a saying: That of America Bush can not sell he will give to the illegals. This mess is a mix of selling out America and pulling up the covers in Bush’s Mexican bed. Remember, Ron White said you can’t fix stupid.
ANNEX MEXICO!
Well, it appears the majority of commenters on this blog wouldn’t have nominated Bush had they only known what he’d do to us with illegal immigration…
Count me in as a very disgruntled Republican.
Too bad our only other choice was McCain. As it turns out, we likely would have ended up with much of the same, except with no tax cut and no Roberts or Alito.
Ironically, it could be Roberts and Alito that have to be the ones to stop Bush at the Supreme Court. Maybe this explains the Harriet Miers nomination.
In other news…just a couple of weeks after Officer Erfle was laid to rest, another Phoenix police officer has allegedly been shot by another illegal alien. Thankfully, this officer survived.
I’ve always wondered why the Mexican government doesn’t worry about its citzen’s economic situation before they have to move up north to the U.S.A. When the illegals get into problems here the Mexican government seems to want to interfere in the judicial, social,and legislative laws of the United States. The Mexican Government should worry about giving its citzens a first world economy instead of complaining of the American government’s treatment of Mexican nationals. One more thing if Mexico can’t provide social justice and jobs for its own people how would it benefit the people of the southwest if the southwest was reconquered by Mexico? Eventually the southwest would be as poor as present day Mexico. I can’t see much help coming from the Mexican Government in improving lives if they did take the southwest over.