tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059984115781174052.post1319095322824130613..comments2024-01-22T04:58:09.005-04:00Comments on Overseas Territories Review: U.N. Support to Territories AdoptedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1059984115781174052.post-69520846605182521042008-08-07T11:13:00.000-04:002008-08-07T11:13:00.000-04:00As always, we thank you for your valuable informat...As always, we thank you for your valuable information. I would like to hear your opinions on the request by the Decolonization Committee to the GA to include the question of Puerto Rico in the 2009 plenary session. I don´t know if you are aware that the U.S. Supreme Court in Boumediéne v. Bush, in deciding (correctly) to recognize the access to habeas corpus for prisoners detained in Guantánamo, Cuba, nonetheless resorted to US Law and case law of the early 20th. Century, the so called Insular Cases (Downes v. Bidweel, Balzac v. US), reaffirming the validity of the ¨non incorporated¨ territorial status öf Puerto Rico and restating the power to acquire territories and to govern them by Congress with plenary powers. The Puerto Rico Bar Associatin will soon issue a denunciation of this nefarious immperialist decision.<BR/>The US Suprem Court did not directly or indirectly apply or recognize principles of international law and recognition of law applicable to people under territorial occupation by foreing power. So the principle that Treatys are part of the supreme law of the land (US) is dead letter.<BR/>Thank you, Wilma E. <BR/>Reverón CollazoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com