A Free and Sovereign Nation

The United Nations' highest court has ordered the United States to halt the planned executions of five Mexicans on death row in Texas while their cases are being reviewed.

On June 24, 1993, José Ernesto Medellín and several other gang members raped a 14-year-old and 16-year-old girl for an hour in Houston, Texas. The rapes were part of a gang initiation. Both girls were killed to prevent them from identifying their assailants. Medellín, who confessed, strangled one of the girls to death with her own shoelaces.

Aside from having withdrew from general International Court of Justice jurisdiction on October 7th, 1985, and from the optional protocol to the Vienna convention on 7 March 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States has also spoken:

"A treaty is not binding domestic law, it said, unless Congress has enacted statutes implementing it or the treaty itself conveys an intention that it is "self-executing." "None of the relevant treaties—the Optional Protocol, the U.N. Charter, or the ICJ Statute—were self-executing, and no implementing legislation had been enacted".

One of the judges voting against the United States was Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor, the judge from Mexico... so, how do you say conflict of interest in Spanish?

I have a suggestion for Senor Amor... keep your gang-banging felons on your own side of the border and we won't have any problems like this, you certainly have some cojones ojete.

“Bilateral relations between the United States and Mexico” will “unquestionably” be affected by these cases, Mexico’s brief said... as if the senseless slaughter of our innocent children isn't reason enough. What we ought to do is challenge the Chinese for the 'great wall' title.

In the words of Robert Frost... 'good fences make good neighbors'.

~Finntann~