INTERPOL not limited by Constitution in U.S.
Monday, January 4, 2010 at 8:58AM Commentary by Chris Carter
In December Democrat President Barack Obama quietly signed an Executive Order that has elevated the international police force INTERPOL above our Constitution, allowing them to operate on American soil with impunity.
Signed on Dec. 16th and released on the 17th, the order designates INTERPOL as a public international organization effectively allowing it to “enjoy certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities” according to the United States International Organizations Immunities Act.
Language found in section 2(c) of that act is especially concerning:
“Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search […] and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.”
Just what “property and assets” could INTERPOL be hiding?
INTERPOL's U.S. headquarters is conveniently located in Eric Holder's Justice Department, so perhaps there will no longer be a need for Sandy Berger to raid the National Archives.
“Inviolable archives means INTERPOL records are beyond US citizens' Freedom of Information Act requests and from American legal or investigative discovery,” writes Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton at ThreatsWatch.org. But why would the Obama administration want to allow an international police force to operate on American soil without constitutional restraints?
Obama's order actually amended an earlier executive order signed by Ronald Reagan in 1983. The original order recognized INTERPOL as an international organization therefore extending some immunities to the group, but also held the organization accountable to Fourth Amendment search and seizure protections and to the Freedom of Information Act that limit our own law enforcement agencies.
Essentially, INTERPOL is the enforcement branch of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as the FBI is to the Justice Department. While in office, George W. Bush withdrew the U.S. from being a signatory to the Rome Statute – the treaty establishing the ICC – and refused the international court's jurisdiction over U.S. citizens and military members. However when questioned during the campaign, Obama did not oppose giving the ICC jurisdiction over American citizens.
Why is it that the Obama administration offers constitutional protections to self-confessed foreign terrorists who kill Americans, yet at the same time immunizes international police organizations from our Constitution?
Kay B. Day, Editor
Erick Erickson at Red State offers analysis on the executive order related to INTERPOL that, if you think about it, gives the international police force a completely free hand in our country.
In a way, this presidential decision subordinates U.S. law enforcement agencies, because their power is now trumped by an international organization.
As an aside, we'd like to point out your Congress was neutered shortly after Democrats gained control in 2006.
If you're not interested in politics, it's in your best interest to get interested in politics.
Because piece by piece your government is being dismantled and the same thing is happening to U.S. sovereignty.
Where are the neolib voices outraged about the Constitution? This executive order makes the Patriot Act look benign.--the editors
Reader Comments (5)
Look at the BO picture above and other recent photos. Doesn't BO appear to be suffering from a degenerative disease, perhaps Hepatitis C from his drug usage days? Maybe the urgent rush to socialism and destruction of the country is necessitated by his failing health.
Percy, thanks for commenting. I shot the photo from the TV screen on Inauguration Day--it was pretty cold. So I'm thinking it's probably not as complimentary to the prez as it would have been had I had a life photo opp inside where it would've been warm. best, Kay
Plus, going against the will of 200 million-plus Americans for a year has got to be a little bit unsettling.
With the constant pressure being put on Hawaii's Dept of Health to release Obama's records, which to my understanding now stands at very close to having to reveal them due to requests started by Leo Donofrio and being picked up by the Post and Email, is it possible that the various records obama has sealed could be handed over to INTERPOL so that regardless of the law requiring Hawaii DOH to release the records, they could effectively be held outside and above the law?
GW's low point was when he declared that Islam is a religion of peace. But without a doubt, the very best speech he ever delivered was at the U.N. when he explained why America would never grant the International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over our Constitution, the foundation upon which all of our laws and freedoms are based.
Part of what made me admire that speech was not only the way he delivered it, but the knowledge that our President was standing up to the rest of the world on principle, and that he was not about to give them permission to bring him up on drummed-up charges of 'crimes against humanity' - the way we helped them do to Milosevic in the past.
Obama, who is clearly a 'usurper' that has been busy employing 'taquiyya' Trojan Horse deceptive tactics on the American people, and a man who is rumored to be a smart guy (at least according to guys like O'Reilly and Beck.), is apparently not smart enough to see that the very first neck he is placing on the chopping block is his.
Recently, I did some research on what Clinton and NATO did in Serbia. Not only did we let Jimmy Carter’s administration, under the misguided direction of Zbigniew Brzezinski, arm Osama Bin Laden and the Muslim Jihadists to the teeth, but later on, when Bin Laden turned against us, we allowed him to escape justice twice during the Clinton administration because on Monica Lewinsky! And of course, let’s not forget that we also decided to appease Muslim aggression and atrocities against Serbia by “creating a false-flag genocide in Kosovo” so we could participate in the attack on the wrong side of the conflict! Now Obama acts like the Muslim world should be grateful to us for this.
Obama’s obvious ‘divided loyalty’ to Saudi Arabia and all things Muslim, his treasonous behavior in giving terrorists the rights of an American citizen and a grand stage in our courts; plus the straw that broke the camel’s back (No pun intended.) when he decided to use Interpol in a desperate attempt to escape American justice for the ‘Kenyan fraud of the millennium’ have all combined to form a perfect storm with his disastrous and intentional attempts to overwhelm the U.S. economy.
No need to elaborate on the Socialist Health Care Takeover and the NWO Cap and Trade ‘Global Tax Scam’ he is attempting to use to bankrupt our country and destroy it from the inside. Or on the obvious redistribution of wealth from America’s middle class and small business tax-payers to his Federal Reserve Bank Monopoly and Wall Street buddies.
Obama is an illegal president and each and every one of his executive orders, legislative bills and foreign policy agreements since he assumed office are null and void. We cannot allow him to continue his systematic destruction of this country while our fellow citizens are asleep at the wheel. We must wake them up and together restore the Republic and uphold the Constitution – even if that means abolishing the Fed, the IRS, and Income Tax, in favor of ‘sound money’ and a ‘flat, consumption based tax’ without loopholes.
This is modern day Sparta! No surrender, No retreat! And as the progressive liberals currently in power have taught us: We should not let this man-made crisis go to waste.