In the dead of night on December 17, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama placed the United States of America under the authority of the international police organization known as INTERPOL, granting the organization full immunity to operate within the United States.
(AP Photo/Peter Dejong).
According to Threatswatch:
Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order "Amending Executive Order 12425." It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select other "International Organizations" as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945.
By removing language from President Reagan's 1983 Executive Order 12425, this international law enforcement body now operates - now operates - on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
What, exactly does this mean? It means that INTERPOL now has the full authority to conduct investigations and other law enforcement activities on U.S. soil, with full immunity from U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act and with complete independence from oversight from the FBI.
In short, a global law enforcement entity now has full law-enforcement authority in the U.S. without any check on its power afforded by U.S. law and U.S. law enforcement agencies.
A bit of background is in order here, and Hot Air provides it:
During his presidency, Ronald Reagan granted the global police agency Interpol the status of diplomatic personnel in order to engage more constructively on international law enforcement. In Executive Order 12425, Reagan made two exceptions to that status. The first had to do with taxation, but the second was to make sure that Interpol had the same accountability for its actions as American law enforcement — namely, they had to produce records when demanded by courts and could not have immunity for their actions.
Barack Obama unexpectedly revoked those exceptions in a change to EO 12425 last (week)...
Thus, Interpol now can conduct its operations on U.S. soil with ZERO accountability to anyone in this country.
And you beginning to understand now just what the 'end game' is on the part of those who are currently running the U.S. Government?
Let's go a step further in fleshing out exactly what this means in practical terms. It gets ugly...and scary. Again, from ThreatsWatch:
Section 2c of the United States International Organizations Immunities Act is the crucial piece.
Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable. (Emphasis added.)
Inviolable archives means INTERPOL records are beyond US citizens' Freedom of Information Act requests and from American legal or investigative discovery ("unless such immunity be expressly waived.")
Property and assets being immune from search and confiscation means precisely that. Wherever they may be in the United States. This could conceivably include human assets - Americans arrested on our soil by INTERPOL officers.
Why would INTERPOL be arresting American citizens on our own soil, without oversight from our own law enforcement agencies? And remember, citizens who are thusly arrested would have no legal authority to demand full documentation from the International Police concerning the charges brought against them.
Andy McCarthy at National Review asks these crucial, sobering questions of the secretive Obama order:
Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media, and the American people to scrutinize?
At least one answer to these questions is very clear. A coup is underway in the United States of America, the goal of which is to establish complete, unquestioned authority over the citizens--a 'fundamental change' to the United States where citizens have no legal recourse against an authoritarian central government.
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Comments
It appears our only recourse is to kill the foreign SOBs. Clean your weapons, get your affairs in order, organize your equipment and supplies and prepare to defend your freedom from enemy foreign agents!
Personally, I think those who authorized this unconstitutional invasion should be tarred, feathered and HUNG as traitors to the U.S and our constitution.
Apathy got us to where we are and will take us all the way to totalitarianism -- and we DON'T have far to go at this point.
What are YOU going to do?
Personally, as an armed society I think this will end badly. I don't think INTERPOL has ever run up against a C&C permit area so this wont work well. But hey, welcome to the US. And all its loving firearms.
I posted the following on my website at www.frdmftr.net and sent a copy to Interpol via its website:
(Well, I tried to copy and paste it here but there isn't room. Basically I set forth a set of Rules of Engagement for how to deal with armed foreign soldiers on US soil. See the website for details.)
A whole lot of this article plays upon fear and speculation. Where was all of this during the last administration when warrantless wiretapping become commonplace, or when innocent people were taken into custody and left to rot for years by our government? How about Blackwater militia members being given immunity after gunning down innocent Iraqi citizens? Those actually happened, yet where was the outrage exhibited by the author of this article, Mr. Martin? Were those things necessary, or even good, for our country to fight terrorism?
Interpol should realize that Americans, unlike Iranians, can fight back with more than rocks.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? [...] The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Arc
I'm sure the average American will not recognize the so-called authority of INTERPOL, and I doubt they are prepared to exert their authority over an armed populace. It would only take one incident to implode the whole concept; the people would not stand for it.
BTW RoxtarRyan, name one "innocent" person detained and left to rot by GWB.
Wild Bill: Maybe you should read up on Murat Kurnaz. Five years he spent in Guantanamo.
Google for "Interpol Under Siege by Uninformed Bloggers"
And you'll discover that Interpol doesn't actually have officers that run around arresting people. They coordinate activities between law enforcement agencies like the FBI and the RCMP.
Research Mother-farker, Do you know it?
It is all part of The New World Order, and all the asleep sheeple are just going to walk off the cliff.
Isn't the Connally reservation still in effect??
I don't think they ever got it repealed
I suppose the fact that INTERPOL was formed decades ago to coordinate the fight against multinational crime is overlooked by this YELLOW journalist because its inconvenient? Thus any investigation carried out by our police-forces in cooperation with other jurisdictions are to be considered dangerous? Ridicluous! this article is a pack of lies!
I've got 1 Rifle, 2 Military .45,
2 .357 Magnum revolvers and a eight mm mauser in my home right now, along with a .44 magnum 6" barrel stainless S&W and ammo for all of them. Somebody tries to get on my property or get in my home without my permission, I may die, but I'm not going to be alone!
tinker, INTERPOL does have officers according to their website:
interpol.int/Public/IRT/default.asp
i think you've been drinking the kool-aid again.
good points roxstarryan, where was this author back then...then again, this is now and he wrote what he wrote now. i think your complaint is not productive.
you guys and your guns crack me up! when does the killing end? your just like little kids.
This can't be good! Why would any American defend this action?
Three possible motives:
1. Go after law abiding American citizens
2. Go after George W Bush for "war crimes"
3. Make it easier for Interpol to help interdict the same type of home-grown terrorists responsible for the London tube bombings.
Think about it.
Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
Freedom of information act? What's THAT?
My son's friend was arrested two weeks ago in Fresno, California. Following his arrest, he was told that he does NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO A COPY OF HIS OWN POLICE REPORT. According to the Fresno police department, that RIGHT was eliminated under the Patriot Act.
We must find a way to take the super billionaires out of power. Good luck since all the politicians are puppets tot these jerks.
I wish I really had a plan. I don't but I do think most people need a form of 2-way communication outside of the internet.
SICKENING.
Since when does an executive order have supremacy over the US Constitution?
Any writer that starts his piece by using Obama's middle name is more interested in stirring hatred then reporting facts.
trainer needs to shut the f*** up.
Obama is clearly making it so that americans citizens will not have a single right left.
" It means that INTERPOL now has the full authority to conduct investigations and other law enforcement activities on U.S. soil, with full immunity from U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act and with complete independence from oversight from the FBI."
They may have immunity from the FBI...but not from me.
Trainer: Please don't project Leftist tactics onto the rest of us.
"RoxtarRyan says:
Wild Bill: Maybe you should read up on Murat Kurnaz. Five years he spent in Guantanamo. "
Oh boo hoo.. A POW. Big deal.
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It's interesting how Leftists never defend American sovereignty.
I did notice the Reagan EO excluded Section 2D.
That is the only section not named in Obama's amendment.
The law for 2D reads:
Sec. 2.
International organizations shall enjoy the status, immunities, exemptions, and privileges set forth in this section, as follows:
(d) Insofar as concerns customs duties and internal-revenue taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation, and the procedures in connection therewith; the registration of foreign agents; and the treatment of official communications, the privileges, exemptions, and immunities to which international organizations shall be entitled shall be those accorded under similar circumstances to foreign governments.
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What is the impact of leaving that exception in place.. or is it?
I did notice the Reagan EO excluded Section 2D.
That is the only section not named in Obama's amendment.
The law for 2D reads:
Sec. 2.
International organizations shall enjoy the status, immunities, exemptions, and privileges set forth in this section, as follows:
(d) Insofar as concerns customs duties and internal-revenue taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation, and the procedures in connection therewith; the registration of foreign agents; and the treatment of official communications, the privileges, exemptions, and immunities to which international organizations shall be entitled shall be those accorded under similar circumstances to foreign governments.
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What is the impact of leaving that exception in place.. or is it?
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Obama's power ambitions are beyond the U.S., he wants the United Nations and for that is capable to sell his soul. He wants it all. That's the main reason he has betrayed this country and bows –literally- to every king, czar, etc. of ANY other country on his international tours, to gain their sympathy. The U.S. is cause of international laughter, so much as the idiot, vulgar third world’s president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez prides to insult us publicly.
you sheeple are soooo frackin' stupid. the true injustice done to the american people and the future rights of its citizens, is our horrible excuse for an education system that mass produces such incredibly small minded, short sighted hate mongers like this poster here...and the sheeple herd bahhing behind him and the million more posters behind him that repeated this exact dribble..their jobs are all copy and paste. obama is exactly as evil as the average of all potus before him..they are ALL fascistic and you are ALL undereducated enough to remain sheep led to the slaughter....or in this case repeating what you hear on radio and tv to each other until you all believe its true...purely an education, and mental health issue.
Have any of you that think interpol is coming after you even done any research? Are you all too busy watching the hate mongers of fox noise? Those f&ckers have the IQ of a potato, just like their viewers! Wake up! Educate yourself with something other than Beck and Limbaugh. Then maybe you will get a clue as to what's really going on while you stare at all those "cartoons"! Just look at the source once in a while, and quit listening to vegetables!!
@sickofstupid ... okay, I'll bite. What's your informed and logical explanation for this EO?
Most likely Interpol wants to catch illegal drug smugglers and other criminals who flee to other countries for safety. It is kind of hard to stop on a dime at the border... any border.
This is also leading toward the longed=for "open borders" in the entire world, which I don't think will happen.
SickofStupid--I would imagine that you stay sick of yourself quite a bit...
Have any of you that think interpol is coming after you even done any research? Are you all too busy watching the hate mongers of fox noise? Those f&ckers have the IQ of a potato, just like their viewers! Wake up! Educate yourself with something other than Beck and Limbaugh. Then maybe you will get a clue as to what's really going on while you stare at all those "cartoons"! Just look at the source once in a while, and quit listening to vegetables!!
This is about taxes!
PROTIP: Throwing "Hussain" in every time you mention the president makes you sound like a wing-nut.
It's about time that the U.S. played by the rules set by EVERYONE and not their own set of rules!
Imterpol having power to conduct investigations unhindered on US soil shouldn't scare anyone, unless you're a criminal, or a conspiracy theorist. We are a part of this world. I agree it's time we started acting like it. Perhaps we would get farther in our attempts to spread democracy throughout the global community if we began acting like we were a part of said community. Or perhaps we can just keep p@*sing off the world with our superiority until more people bomb us.
If using Obama's middle name is insighting hatred than why mention anyone's middle name? I did not know calling someone bythe middle name was an insult! I am much more concerned about Thea anger building because of his communist policies!
INTERPOL will be monitored globally, therefore any action they might do that gives the immunity will be scrutinized by the entire world. The FBI and the White House need someone to watch over what they do as they should not be allowed to freely do as they please. The FBI conducts all kinds of illegal 'experiments' to help progress the corporate agenda! And corporations that KILL you and me are protected by lobbyists and the FBI, they need to follow the law too!
Additionally, Bush gave immunity to himself and all others in his cabinet so that they don't get charged with things like 'crimes against humanity', why don't we hear anything about that?
And "communist policies"?
You know what else is also deemed "socialist" or "communist"?
Public roads - roads shared by everyone! Libraries - books shared by everyone! Soup kitchens - food shared by everyone! Public schools - education shared by everyone! Social services - help and aid shared by everyone!
But these are all horrible things right?
@sickofstupid ... okay, I'll bite. What's your informed and logical explanation for this EO?
It might be hard for Europeans, or our home grown European wannabe's to understand why some object so strongly to this. but on the whole the US Constitution main purpose is to limit the power of the government. The idea of a police force operating in the US who does not fall under the control of an elected (or appointee of an elected) American official is disgusting.
I am not a 'citizen of the world' and I have/will take no oath to that effect. Nor do I recognize international buerocrats as having any authority over me. For the Obama administration to allow this is Treason against the American People..
I'll admit this has its pros and cons. I don't think this is going to turn into some sort of holocaust against the American citizens, just an international check and balance for the scandalous citizens. But for them to have absolute power, it could have dire consequences. Not to mention if you were being arrested by some one who's not from your own country, chances are you'll give them a big f*#k you, or go out fighting.
Glenn Beck keeps us informed very well, and I have not heard that he has been wrong yetand he is a very careing person I would vote for him if he were to run for president,he would sure beat what we have now.
ohh man funniest piece of sarcasm i read in a long time. Interpol being used to establish a police state. That's hilarious on a total moron would believe that. Good job at catching the tone of those nut job right wingers who thinks Obama is out to get them but didn't mind when bush introduced the patriot act allowing the USA to detain any individual for indefinite time and warrantless wire tapping. Yeah definitly Obama turning the USA into a police state.
I love how he's just changing so much its kind of like communism but instead of soviet russia its in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
All of you are goldfish, Cannot for the life of you remember what has been going on for the past 9 years. Does anyone see the bigger picture? Did anyone REALLY believe Obama would be any different than bush? Who the f'n'h do you think is running the show here? Do you understand that this company can hire "Who ever it feels like?" Lets get a legion of American hating foreigners to wander your street and point a gun at your family. They won't mind. For those that object, I offer our private contracting services in Iraq as proof of our 'Fantastic' foreign relation concern. But, it doesn't matter anyway, by the time we wake up it will be to late. I will have you know also that the "Greys" are ordering this to be handled swiftly so they can return "Jesus" aka Mothership to earth and end all life. It is really happening people, don't be fooled... oh, and they are doing this before December 21st 2012 because.... duh, the Earth is going to end anyway HellOoOo...
Ohh i just realized this was supposed to be serious after reading some of the comments here. and i have a reply to them,
@sick of obama please learn how the united nations work the leader of the general assembly can never be Obama first of all for the reason that Obama does not have one of the US seats.
@Chuck how come that every presidents middle name is only an intital George W. Bush, John F. Kennedy, i could go on.
@Tim You are a citizen of the world whether you like it or not and whether we like it or not. Crime does not stop at borders, every country has a national responsibility to bring criminals to justice doing this will only reduce red tape and make it easier for criminals to be brought to justice. Also unless you are an internationally searched criminal you have nothing to worry about from Interpol. Your goverment how ever is notorious for causing civil unrest, political assassinations and torture on it's prisoners. I'd be more scared of that than Interpol.
@sickofstupid ... okay, I'll bite. What's your informed and logical explanation for this EO?
Why is Obama a communist? By that standard Bush was a Dictator in his own right. No, you all fail. We don't have a Democracy any longer. Not with the signing of this act. This goes against everything America stands for. Could you imagine if all of the awful laws and bills and acts of the past 9 years were signed in one day and released to the public? We would go insane and murder people. I seriously doubt that if these laws were passed in the 1950's a coup d'etat would have taken place by our citizenry. No way, would the American's that had just saved the world from tyranny allow it to happen in their own country. Good thing they are all dead and buried, everyone of them is doing a barrel role in their grave. Wake up Goldfish.
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