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by The Southern Avenger
14 October 2007
When illegal immigrant Jose Ernest Medillin confessed to the rape, torture and murder of two teenage girls in Houston in 1993, the state of Texas handed down the only possible verdict it could – execution. One would imagine most Texans would have preferred a swifter justice, and in a perfect world Medellin would have been hung, shot or gored to death by a Texas longhorn by now. But being a civilized people, where we often treat criminals better than we do victims, Medellin has quietly sat on death row awaiting his sentence and his end. But as of this week, it looks like that day might never come.
Just one week since South Carolina State Senator Glenn McConnell called for a states' rights solution to illegal immigration, not only are states' rights being trampled on, but America's national sovereignty – all over an illegal immigrant. As a Mexican national, President Bush and the Supreme Court are arguing that Medellin deserves a new trial because an international court believes the convicted murderer was not informed of his right to contact a Mexican consulate. In other words, international law should take precedent over not only Texas state law, but the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the United States.
Just when you thought the presidency of George W. Bush couldn't get any worse, as a man who has zero respect for his own country's sovereignty by refusing to enforce the borders, as man who has zero respect for the sovereignty of other nations through his use of "pre-emptive war," and as man who has ignored world opinion, the Geneva Conventions, foreign diplomats, prime ministers, foreign presidents, the Vatican – you name it – why is Bush so concerned with international opinion now? Hell, when it comes to cutting the United States off from the rest of the world, Bush just might be the most isolationist president in history.
When some Americans express concern over the loss of national sovereignty, trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA, the North American Union and other international agreements, they are often dismissed as kooks and conspiracy-theory nut jobs. Mainstream politicians and pundits consider such people fools, as they encourage them to grow up and pay attention to important issues like Fred Thompson's acting career or Barack Obama's religion.
Read National Sovereignty and Our Nutjob President
by The Southern Avenger
14 October 2007
When illegal immigrant Jose Ernest Medillin confessed to the rape, torture and murder of two teenage girls in Houston in 1993, the state of Texas handed down the only possible verdict it could – execution. One would imagine most Texans would have preferred a swifter justice, and in a perfect world Medellin would have been hung, shot or gored to death by a Texas longhorn by now. But being a civilized people, where we often treat criminals better than we do victims, Medellin has quietly sat on death row awaiting his sentence and his end. But as of this week, it looks like that day might never come.
Just one week since South Carolina State Senator Glenn McConnell called for a states' rights solution to illegal immigration, not only are states' rights being trampled on, but America's national sovereignty – all over an illegal immigrant. As a Mexican national, President Bush and the Supreme Court are arguing that Medellin deserves a new trial because an international court believes the convicted murderer was not informed of his right to contact a Mexican consulate. In other words, international law should take precedent over not only Texas state law, but the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the United States.
Just when you thought the presidency of George W. Bush couldn't get any worse, as a man who has zero respect for his own country's sovereignty by refusing to enforce the borders, as man who has zero respect for the sovereignty of other nations through his use of "pre-emptive war," and as man who has ignored world opinion, the Geneva Conventions, foreign diplomats, prime ministers, foreign presidents, the Vatican – you name it – why is Bush so concerned with international opinion now? Hell, when it comes to cutting the United States off from the rest of the world, Bush just might be the most isolationist president in history.
When some Americans express concern over the loss of national sovereignty, trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA, the North American Union and other international agreements, they are often dismissed as kooks and conspiracy-theory nut jobs. Mainstream politicians and pundits consider such people fools, as they encourage them to grow up and pay attention to important issues like Fred Thompson's acting career or Barack Obama's religion.
Read National Sovereignty and Our Nutjob President