The Art of Politics

World Court Breaks Serve

The International Court of Justice - isn't that where the SuperFriends worked?

It appears that the United States has violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death row by finding them guilty of crimes they committed.

The Internationcal Court of Justice has "ordered" Washington to review their cases, and a State Department spokesman stated that the Court's decision would be 'studied carefully' - then wadded up and throw into the brown plastic tub under his desk marked 'File 13'.

Alot of politics in this mess - internationalism, national soveriegnty, Euro-US enmity, and not the least of course death penalty politics. Mexico doesn't have the death penalty, though Mexican nationals in America have consistently appointed themselves judge, jury, and executioner of American police officers, people in their own beds, and of course, their own families.

This is an instance of opportunity for the Bush campaign to hang the albatross of the true nature of internationalism around the Kerry campaign's neck, as well as the death penalty topic, which is another area where Kerry will be on the defensive at some point during the campaign.

Judicial activism in this country has a bad enough reputation without importing it from Europe...

Posted by MEC2 at March 31, 2004 11:34 PM