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The World Court attempted to assert its authority over the United States Justice System by “ordering” the United States to do everything in its power to delay the executions of five Mexicans currently on Death Row for committing heinous crimes against American citizens.  Here’s what one of the people that the UN’s World Court is fighting for:

The first of the Mexicans, Jose Medellin, is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Aug. 5 for taking part in the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago.

That is the G-Rated version of the crime that Medellin committed.  The details of the atrocity much more heinous.  Let me add at this point that I am not definitively for or against the death penalty.  In certain circumstances, I can see where the application of the death penalty may be justified, however; in general, willfully killing another person is something that I debate the merits and moral justification as opposed to life in prison with no chance of parole.

What is troublesome about this particular case is that the United Nations is ordering the United States to take a certain action, something they have absolutely no authority to do.   It is certainly not authorized by our Constitution nor is it the will of the American people.  Even more troubling is that the Federal Government has decided to stand with Mexico and the United Nations, in a violation of our sovereignty, and essentially attempt to override the 10th Amendment of the Constitution by overriding the laws of Texas and grant reprieves to criminals that were given a fair trial by jury and sentenced according to the laws of Texas.

The documents and laws which govern this nation grant authority, given by the American people, to local, state, and the federal government to administer, enact, and enforce laws within the scope of the Constitution.  While the United Nations (which is funded in great proportion by the United States) can be helpful in terms of bringing to the attention of the international community concerns that the United States has, it is not an overriding authority on this nation.   The United Nations has no mandate over the American people, nor should it ever.  The choice of whether a state should have the option of the death penalty for terrible crimes is the choice of the people of each individual state, in accordance with the Federalist system.  The United Nations cannot and will not tell the United States as a whole, as individual states, what their laws should be and how to administer them.

Instead of the death penalty, imagine the World Court ordering something else.  Here are some possibilities building off the first sentence.

The World Court attempted to assert its authority over the United States Justice System by “ordering” the United States to:

** require that Spanish be taught in all US schools and be a requirement for graduation.
** provide abortion on demand for all women with adjusted gross incomes (1040 line 38) of less that $52,000.
** either return Texas to Mexico or grant full citizenship and welfare benefits to all non-resident Mexicans in the United States.
** expand social security benefits to Mexican citizens.
** extend water supplies from the Great Lakes region to the parched regions of Mexico.
** pay slavery reparations to the decendents of slaves.
** pay Mexico to help build a fence on Mexico's southern border with Guatemala to stem the tide of illegal immigration. 

Mark