What the fuck is this assclown doing? Wait, I already know the answer.
Hat Tip to Big Government.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued an Executive Order which gave permission to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) to operate within the boundaries of the United States. Reagan’s EO put INTERPOL under the same basic guidelines as the CIA, FBI, ATF and other Federal law enforcement agencies.
Two weeks ago, without any announcement, debate, discussion or inquiry from journalists charged with “speaking truth to power” President Obama issued an amendment to this EO. The amendment removed part of Reagan’s order that kept INTERPOL from having full diplomatic immunity while operating within the United States. In other words: Under Reagan and right up until two weeks ago, INTERPOL was authorized to operate within the USA but they did not have full diplomatic immunity and had to adhere to certain laws set forth for investigative agencies. Laws that prohibit authorities from violating our constitutionally protected rights.
This story has begun to make the rounds at some other blogs and web sites. Some scream about the on-set of the New World Order, some merely question the timing, motives and logic behind such a move while we are still fighting foreign wars and under threat of attack from Al Qaeda and other international terrorist bodies. I certainly don’t walk down the New World Order/One World Government path, I don’t look good in tin-foil hats… but, I do wonder why this move was made so quietly and why the White House Press Corps has not made any hay about it.
I also wonder why my friends on the left, who screamed from the rooftops about phone companies conducting analysis of phone calls made from the US to known over-seas terrorists, about members of the Saudi family being allowed to leave the country in the days following 9/11, about the EVILS of the Patriot Act and how it would lead to the stripping of basic civil rights to anyone checking out a book in a library. I wonder how they feel about the President granting permission to an international organization to operate within our borders under full diplomatic immunity.
One other tasty tidbit: Due to the amended language created by President Obama, INTERPOL is now, no longer subject to Freedom of Information Act Inquiries.
http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/01/executive-order-international-police-granted-full-immunity-in-us-and-not-subject-to-foia-requests/
Here’s THE ONE’s amendment:
The White House
Office of the Press SecretaryFor Immediate Release
December 17, 2009Executive Order — Amending Executive Order 12425
EXECUTIVE ORDER AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL
AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO
ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIESBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 16, 2009.http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
GW limited his surveillance focus to terrorist threats, not expanding the police state to cover innocent American citizens. With this order, Obama has given unlimited, unaccountable rights to a foreign intelligence agency to collect on American citizens and operate carte blanche within our borders. I’m sure he’ll be briefed on everything they do.
Obama, is a stupid, dangerous man with serious megalomanic tendencies. Remember the “report-the fishy-information-about -ObamaCare” to the government website? Remember what he and his myrmidons tried to do to Joe (the plumber) Wurzenbacher? Remember Patrick Leahy’s “Truth Squad”? All that is just a precursor for the crap yet to come. 2012 cannot come soon enough, but we do have a chance this year to start cleaning House and Senate of jack-booted Dems.
It is absolutely terrifying. I used to laugh about the *right-wing fanatics* who were digging bunkers and stockpiling weapons for the *revolution* Now, I’m not so sure they were wrong…..
kjs,
What’s really frightening are leftwingnuts who worship at the altar of a socialist kleptocracy. They’ll go along with Obama regardless of the fact that he’s an out-of-control idiot who’s in way over his head when it comes to the responsibility of being the *leader* of the free world.
When GW enacted the Patriot Act, fought back against Islamic aggressors, and stood his ground against those who would eviscerate the country (like Obama’s doing now), the leftards had an aneurism. There was no shortage of shrieking from A.N.S.W.E.R., Code Pink, and a plethora of other moonbat groups throughout Bush’s tenure. They kept insisting that ‘dissent is patriotic’. Well, we’re dissenting.
SFC MAC