hey!! if anyone out there has ever read this post....
you'll know i had a passionate bitching session about this chick
the wild girl escaped
went home
go wild girl
i hope they never bother to try to make you conform again
had to add that because that rocked
read my post somewhere in older posts about the original article if you're interested
hasta
black bird
Thursday, October 11, 2007
our government has an attitude problem
i read an article yesterday about a mexican man on death row that was never told that he could...and subsequently never allowed...to contact the diplomats from his country that might help him
repeatedly they have tried to get him help (hey ...i gotta say i don't know if now he's claiming he didn't do it....they say he made a written confession...i think he's appealing repeatedly because mexico has no death penalty...and so the country objects to our laws and thinks they should be able to extradite him)
there was a treaty put in place in 1968 that allowed provisions for people to be allowed help from their countries diplomats when involved in the US legal system
the international court ruled in 2004 that the US is wrong for not recognizing and adhereing to that treaty and ordered that the guy, and i believe, 50 other people like him, be allowed a retrial
president bush agreed that there should be retrials
congress laughed and said...well i guess you don't need congress then, and the president gets to decide everything
and with a big fat hairy chip on their shoulder, has not followed through, it seems, out of spite
the state of texas says the international court and the presidents ruling have no say over what they decide to do and everyone can go stuff themselves
and everybody
in their sudden tornado of political bullshit
forgets the point
which is:
if the US had some of our people detained in another country, and they were being denied access to our help, not allowed to contact their home for advice or translation or anything; would we tolerate it? how would they feel if it was one of their family members...that guy in congress and the state of texas....would they say fuck that we are AMERICA.....get our people out of there?
one would think we would, no?
and yet, the courts and powers that be are so hypocritical and egotistical that they would deny that same freedom to others
why on earth would we expect people to treat us with respect?
i'm not big on organized religion...but one of the lessons that seems to ring true all over the world is
treat people the way you want to be treated
right?
not all of this other political power play bs
come on america, focus
food for thought
be well wanderers
raven
repeatedly they have tried to get him help (hey ...i gotta say i don't know if now he's claiming he didn't do it....they say he made a written confession...i think he's appealing repeatedly because mexico has no death penalty...and so the country objects to our laws and thinks they should be able to extradite him)
there was a treaty put in place in 1968 that allowed provisions for people to be allowed help from their countries diplomats when involved in the US legal system
the international court ruled in 2004 that the US is wrong for not recognizing and adhereing to that treaty and ordered that the guy, and i believe, 50 other people like him, be allowed a retrial
president bush agreed that there should be retrials
congress laughed and said...well i guess you don't need congress then, and the president gets to decide everything
and with a big fat hairy chip on their shoulder, has not followed through, it seems, out of spite
the state of texas says the international court and the presidents ruling have no say over what they decide to do and everyone can go stuff themselves
and everybody
in their sudden tornado of political bullshit
forgets the point
which is:
if the US had some of our people detained in another country, and they were being denied access to our help, not allowed to contact their home for advice or translation or anything; would we tolerate it? how would they feel if it was one of their family members...that guy in congress and the state of texas....would they say fuck that we are AMERICA.....get our people out of there?
one would think we would, no?
and yet, the courts and powers that be are so hypocritical and egotistical that they would deny that same freedom to others
why on earth would we expect people to treat us with respect?
i'm not big on organized religion...but one of the lessons that seems to ring true all over the world is
treat people the way you want to be treated
right?
not all of this other political power play bs
come on america, focus
food for thought
be well wanderers
raven
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