“…we’re pandering to a corrupt and immoral government for nothing.”
Today I had the distinct honor of getting to see Duane “The Dog” Chapman at Kahala Mall for a book signing. Needless to say, I wasn’t too impressed by this guy in person, he’s exactly like he is on TV, if not a little more full of himself. But he does good work, so he’s still alright in my book. Anyways, he let the audience know that today he found out he won’t be extradited to Mexico on what is basically kidnapping charges of Andrew Luster, murderer of the heir to the Max Factor throne. And this news got me thinking about other extradition cases involving Mexico, and I realized that Mexico needs a good, hard bofetón, which I shall deliver with full windup and sufficient followthrough.
What happened in Dog’s case is rare – Mexico actually dropped the charges against him, after months of American court battles, petitions, and televised interviews. Why they did this I’m not sure, but I’m guessing it’s because we were willing to extradite Dog, while Mexico is unwilling to extradite many of our fugitives who fled to Mexico after committing their crimes.
“…grieving families…get no sense of closure back in the States.”
The reason Mexico won’t extradite a lot of our fugitives is because many of them have committed crimes worthy of capital punishment, which Mexico doesn’t agree with. Ever wonder why Scott Peterson dyed his hair, was using false identification and had over $300 cash on him speeding towards Mexico after he killed his wife? Or why cop killers and people like Andrew Luster end up in Mexico? The dirty little secret is they know that once they cross that shabby red, white, and green overhang guarded by policia with automatic rifles they will be home free, drinking fifty-cent margaritas and nibbling on the best $1 lobster tacos they will ever find, completely escaping justice while the grieving families of their victims get no sense of closure back in the States.
So while we were more than willing to give up Dog to what would have most likely been his murder in a Mexican prison, Mexico ended up dropping the charges for what I can only assume is to avoid an apparent double-standard.
But this doesn’t really help anything. Why should Mexico care what we do with our criminals? Why should we care what Mexico thinks? They are obviously more dependent on our good relations than we are theirs. I say we send in all kinds of bounty hunters to extradite all the fugitives that ran from the U.S. so we can get them back and give them the justice they deserve. What is our government afraid of? Are they afraid that Mexico will stop supplying us with cheap, illegal labor or drugs? To me it seems like we’re pandering to a corrupt and immoral government for nothing. Seriously, what does Mexico do for us other than supply us with illegals willing to work for pennies a day and drugs? The only thing I can think of is cheap land and labor in Mexico for the assembly of many of our products, and a huge stretch of land where Hollywood goes to film movies at. And if this is why we’re so afraid of them that we are willing to give up a law-abiding citizen on a silver platter who was just trying to make sure a murder gets his due process, and so afraid of them to force them to give us our criminals back or just go in and take them ourselves, then that’s pathetic. Truly pathetic. American government, you deserve a slap too.
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