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Posted a12iggymom Blog-By America’s Survival-On July 8, 2011:
“Mr. Leal, convicted of murder during a sexual assault, had grossly incompetent legal representation. If he had been given access to a Mexican diplomat, he would have had a chance at better counsel and likely the opportunity to strike a plea deal, avoiding the death penalty.”
So said The New York Times in a June 17 editorial about convicted rapist-murderer Humberto Leal. Just before his execution, the Times quoted the Associated Press as saying, “In his last moments, Mr. Leal repeatedly said he was sorry, and shouted twice, ‘Viva Mexico!’”
What the AP reported was that he said, “I have hurt a lot of people. … I take full blame for everything. I am sorry for what I did.”
So, in other words, he was guilty as hell. But this had been proven beyond any doubt. Nevertheless, for Leal to shout this from his death-bed was extremely newsworthy and egg in the face of those in the media who had designed their coverage in a manner sympathetic to his well-deserved plight.
The Times story was headlined, “Mexican Citizen Is Executed as Justices Refuse to Step In.”
In fact, he was an illegal alien in the U.S., as the shouts of “Viva Mexico!” attest. He was executed in the U.S. not because he was here illegally, but because his crimes were committed here.
This is the killer that the Times wanted to be able to avoid the death penalty. His victim was a 16-year-old girl, Adria Sauceda. He raped and killed her, obliterating her face and head with a chunk of asphalt, and then left a large stick in her that he had used to sexually assault her.
The Obama Administration intervened to save his life, calling it a “stay of execution.” It wanted the Supreme Court to let him live at least until Congress decided to pass Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy’s bill, theConsular Notification Compliance Act. The copy of the bill on Leahy’s website didn’t even have a number, meaning that it was not a serious piece of legislation. Not even listed on the “legislation” page of Leahy’s website, it was subsequently assigned S. 1194 and has no co-sponsors.
Clearly, he introduced the bill in order to facilitate the activities of the left-wingers anxious to exploit the case for the purposes of creating a massive miscarriage of justice.
Incredibly, in a move that is even more questionable than the jury verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, the Obama Administration asked for the killer’s life to be spared so that the Supreme Court could preserve “its potential future jurisdiction” in the case. This is actually in the brief.
The Supreme Court ruled against Obama. It said that “€¦we are doubtful that it is ever appropriate to stay a lower court judgment in light of unenacted legislation. Our task is to rule on what the law is, not what it might eventually be.”
So why would the Obama Administration go to such drastic and absurd lengths to save the life of an illegal alien killer?
The answer provided by crime blogger Tina Trent, an advocate of victims’ rights, is that Obama’s constituency demanded it. This is the part of the story the Times, The Washington Post, and other liberal media refuse to tell.
These “progressives,” many funded by George Soros as part of the “anti-incarceration” movement, believe criminals are the real victims and that international law should supersede national law.
As Trent revealed, Leal’s attorney, Sandra Babcock, has been funded by the government of Mexico and works at Northwestern University Law School with former communist terrorist Bernardine Dohrn.
Dohrn had participated in a 2003 conference, sponsored by all of the major liberal groups, on how to force U.S. courts to use international law and U.N. treaties in place of laws passed by Congress and state legislatures.
Incredibly, the bomber Dohrn, a friend of Obama’s and former fundraiser for him, is now accepted by the progressive community as an advocate for families and children and spoke on this subject at the conference. They raised a child, Chesa Boudin, whose parents, fellow members of the Weather Underground, went to prison for murder. He became a cheerleader for the Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela and took Dohrn and her husband, fellow terrorist Bill Ayers, on “educational” tours of Venezuela.
The treaty at issue in the Leal case had never been implemented by the Congress.
The Obama Administration argued that the treaty should be observed because legislation to implement it might be passed by Congress, even though the Leahy bill to do so, introduced on June 14, had no co-sponsors.
This would be comical were it not so tragic. It was a fraud on the courts.
One of the participants in that conference, with Dohrn, was Harold Koh, whose name appears on the cover of the Obama brief in the Leal case. Koh is now the State Department legal adviser.
The story is not a “Mexican national” being executed in violation of a treaty that has never been implemented. That is a bad enough version of the story. The story is that the “progressive” community, with some Republican dupes, wanted to have the courts implement a treaty, in the absence of congressional action, so that international lawyers and their media allies could use Leal to press their ultimate objective €”abolition of the death penalty in the U.S.
I wrote about this campaign over 10 years ago, in a report entitled, “Saving the Lives of Killers, Traitors, and Spies.”
And yet the Supreme Court rejected this ploy only by a 5-4 vote. This is as shocking as Leal’s in-your-face acknowledgement of his crimes and tribute to Mexico.”
Source:
http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/good-riddence-to-bad-and-illegal-rubbish/
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
I. Obama Tells Supreme Court To Stop Execution of Mexican Murderer!
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Posted on Examiner.com-By Jim Kouri, Law Enforcement Examiner-On July 7, 2011:
“As per a Mexican government directive, Obama wants Texas to stop this week’s scheduled execution of 38-year-old Humberto Leal, who was convicted nearly two decades ago and has lost a myriad of appeals. Leal has lived in the U.S. illegally since he was a toddler and in 1994 kidnapped, raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio.
In a political maneuver following the receipt of the Mexican government’s “written orders,” President Barack Obama asked U.S. Supreme Court justices to halt the execution of an illegal immigrant convicted of bludgeoning, raping and murdering a teenage girl because it would do “irreparable harm” to U.S. interests abroad.
Mexico has no death penalty and refuses to extradite criminals who flee the U.S. unless prosecutors assure they won’t seek capital punishment. Over the years a number of hardcore felons—including child murderers and rapists—who would ordinarily face death in the U.S. have fled south of the border. Mexican authorities only return them if prosecutors vow not to pursue death, according to a public-interest group that fights government corruption, Judicial Watch.
As per a Mexican government directive, Obama wants Texas to stop this week’s scheduled execution of 38-year-old Humberto Leal, who was convicted nearly two decades ago and has lost a myriad of appeals. Leal has lived in the U.S. illegally since he was a toddler and in 1994 kidnapped, raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio.
“Every American should be calling the White House and complaining about this typical left-wing response to justice. Obama and his ilk have no problem killing millions of unborn babies in America, but worry about executing a man who brutally raped then murdered a 16-year old kid,” said former NYPD detective Mike Snopes.
Besides opposing capital punishment, Mexican officials claim that Leal’s rights were violated because San Antonio police failed to tell him that, as a Mexican national, he could contact Mexico’s consular officials.
“In the early hours of May 21, 1994, 16-year-old Adria Sauceda and dozens of others attended a raucous Southside house party on Vincent Street, where witnesses reported seeing a dazed Sauceda — pumped full of alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana — pulled to the backyard. There she was stripped and circled by eight or nine men, each “taking turns” on the disoriented teenager. Friends who came to her aid were told to shut up, drink, and quit spoiling the party.
Humberto Leal later abducted this already brutally savaged teenager and raped her some more before finally ending your misery by crushing in her skull with a 35 lb chunk of asphalt. When police found her dead and ravaged body on the side of the dirt road where Leal left her, there was still a large stick that had a screw protruding from it that Leal left jammed up her lifeless body after he raped her with it.”
Ironically, the San Antonio Police Department has a don’t-ask-don’t-tell mandate forbidding officers from inquiring about suspects’ immigration status. Evidently the city’s sanctuary policy, backed by Mexico because it prevents racial profiling, hurt this particular illegal immigrant. Police did not know the suspect was an illegal alien when he was arrested.
The bottom line remains that Leal confessed and powerful DNA evidence and witness testimony proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The illegal immigrant received great legal representation and got a fair trial, according to appellate decisions upholding the conviction. In fact, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that Leal was“overwhelmingly” guilty and that a new trial would only produce the same outcome.
Yet, the United States government is bending over for our neighbor to the south and has asked the nation’s highest court to delay the execution until Congress can enact legislation to save Leal and foreign nationals like him facing death.
The magic law, obviously crafted to appease Mexico, was introduced a few weeks ago by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vermont Democrat Patrick “Leaky” Leahy. Leahy was dubbed “Leaky” when he had been removed from the Senate Intelligence Committee for leaking classified material regarding President Ronald Reagan’s fight against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
In a brief filed a few days ago by Obama’s solicitor general, the president asked the Supreme Court to stop Leal’s execution because it would cause “irreparable harm” to U.S. interest abroad and “would place the United States in irreparable breach of its international law obligation.”
This will lead to “serious repercussions for United States foreign relations, law-enforcement and other co-operation with Mexico, and the ability of American citizens traveling abroad to have the benefits of consular assistance in the event of detention,” according to the brief.
The White House filed the document and Democrats introduced legislation shortly after receiving a written mandate from Mexico. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan demanded that the“U.S. government support Mr. Leal’s request for a stay of execution in the U.S. Supreme Court.” Sarukhan also threatens to pull his country’s commitment to the U.S.-Mexico “bilateral agenda” if Leal dies and says another execution of a Mexican national will “undoubtedly affect public opinion in Mexico.”
A few days after receiving the Mexican directive, Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder thanked Leahy in writing for his “extraordinary efforts to enact legislation” that could halt Leal’s execution and, in turn, offer an “essential legislative solution” to a bigger issue. In a three-page letter to Leahy, Clinton and Holder point out that his measure is “particularly important” to the nation’s “bilateral relationship with Mexico.”
Source:
http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/stop-execution-of-mexican-murderer-obama-tells-supreme-court
II. Why Did The President Defend Torture-Killer Humberto Leal?-Posted on Crime Victims Medial Report-By Tina-On July 6, 2011:
http://crimevictimsmediareport.com/?p=3866
III. In a Death Penalty Case, Texas Battles Mexico, Washington (and the World)!-Posted on American Thinker-By David Paulin-On July 6, 2011:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/in_a_death_penalty_case_texas_battles_mexico_washington_and_the_world.html
IV. Soros meddles in courts, attempts to buy Leftwing judges!-Posted on National Examiner-By Anthony Martin-On June 27, 2011:
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/soros-meddles-courts-attempts-to-buy-leftwing-judges
V. New Soros Agenda: Stacking The Courts!-Posted on The Blaze-By Tiffany Gabbay-On June 27, 2011:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-soros-agenda-stacking-the-courts/
VI. A Preference for Discrimination!-Posted on National Review Online-On July 6, 2011:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271150/hed-tk-editors
VII. A Horrible Racial Preference Ruling in Michigan!-Posted on American Thinker-By Jeffrey Folks-On July 5, 2011:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/a_horrible_racial_preference_ruling_in_michigan.html
VIII. 49 Congressmen Demand Investigation Into Elena Kagan’s ObamaCare Lies!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On July 1, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/investigate-elena-kagans-obamacare-lies-49-congressmen-demand/
IX. Supreme Court: California Cannot Ban Sales of Violent Video Games to Kids!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press-On June 27, 2011:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/supreme-court-california-cannot-ban-sale
X. Have the ‘Supremes’ Gone Plumb Loco?-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Ron Ewart –On June 11, 2011:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37445#When:21:40:37Z
XI. The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&utm_campaign=43b350b9f6-EO_04_27_20114_27_2011&utm_medium=email
Note: It seems to me that what we are currently witnessing are the shocking results of George Soros’s meddling with the courts and the buying-off of Left wing judges to use them as pawns to implement some of his many agendas that are meant to destroy our country from within, which are “anti-incarceration” because he believes that criminals are the real victims and that international law should supersede national law and the abolishment of judicial elections and the reshaping of America’s courts. His deplorable agendas are meticulously outlined on the following web site and reports-You Decide:
I. Geroge Soros!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977
II. The Anti-Incarceration Movement: A Crisis Not Wasted!-Posted on The Capital Research Center-By Joseph Lawler-On May 2009:
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1241118291.pdf
III. OSI’s $45MCampaign to Abolish Judicial Elections and Reshape America's Courts!-Posted on American Justice Partnership-By Colleen Pero-On September 2010:
http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Progressive group maps out President Obama’s strategy for next 2 years!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/progressive-group-maps-out-president-obama’s-strategy-for-next-2-years/
What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-about-the-president’s-background/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/
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Jake