Posted by
Ron Smith on Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:32:22 PM
MESSAGE TO SUPREME COURT:
JUST SAY “NO” TO NONSENSE
The Bush Justice Department is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to order the State of Texas to set aside the conviction and planned execution of a confessed rapist and murderer because a foreign court disapproves. The International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled that Texas violated the rights of José Ernesto Medellin, a Mexican national and illegal alien, when it failed to inform the Mexican consulate after his arrest.
A high court ruling against Texas would establish the legal precedent that the U.S. Constitution IS NOT AND NO LONGER WILL BE the supreme law of the land. Instead, it will be subservient to the political agenda and rule-making decisions of the United Nations with all the adverse consequences that implies.
The facts of the Medellin conviction, though beyond dispute, are irrelevant to the case before the Supreme Court. What is being argued is a much larger legal principle: should the United States invalidate the rulings of its own legal system simply because a foreign court disagrees with its procedures or rulings?
Our nation’s sovereignty is already in jeopardy because we have a government that is unwilling to secure its borders, enforce its laws and protect its citizens. A court ruling invalidating the rights of states to convict criminals simply because they are foreigners would pound more than one nail into our national coffin.
We, the people of these United States, should be outraged that the question is even being entertained by the Supreme Court, and even more so that the Bush Administration is arguing in its favor. People who are in this country illegally already have too many legal rights, since the protections that the Constitution guarantees to its citizens have already (and wrongly) been extended to non-resident aliens who are here illegally.
No other nation on earth treats its foreign population so magnanimously. And no other nation on earth would even consider giving more rights and protections to aliens, illegal or otherwise, than it gives to its own citizens. Why is it that the U.S. promotes such buffoonery to its own destruction? If the Supreme Court does not save us from ourselves, we, the United States, are history.