Wednesday, March 31, 2004

World Court Rules Against the United States

(The Hague, Netherlands) The people who want the United States to be subservient to the United Nations will be happy with this story. The International Court of Justice, known as the World Court, has ruled that the laws of the United States have violated the rights of 47 Mexicans on death row and ordered the cases to be reviewed. The United Nations' highest judiciary ruled in a case filed in Mexico that the convicted murderers had not received their right to assistance from their government.
"The U.S. should provide by means of its own choosing meaningful review of the conviction and sentence" of the Mexicans, presiding judge Shi Jiuyong said.
It appears now that state judiciaries and the US Supreme Court no longer have the final say on cases involving foreign nationals. All court decisions can now be appealed to the World Court. Mexican lawyers want to start the legal processes all over again, a new trial.

Juan Manuel Gomez said that Mexico "wants to make sure its citizens aren't abused by a foreign legal system they don't always understand." Bizarre statement since it's generally recognized that Mexico doesn't do a great job of protecting its citizens from abuse when they're in Mexico.

Let's review. Mexicans sneak into the US and are called 'undocumented immigrants' by the media and are given free health care, education, and other benefits. After they commit a capital crime and are condemned to death, they all of a sudden become Mexicans and receive legal recourse to the World Court.

Just ducky.

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