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Recently, Interpol, an international police organization, was granted certain extended rights here in the United States with regard to privileges and immunities. These immunities were granted under Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1983. At that time Interpol did not have an office here in the US and was only granted immunity from lawsuits and prosecutions for official acts so they could hold their annual meetings in this country.
Times they have changed. In 2004, Interpol opened a liaison office at the UN in NYC. Hmm you say, so what’s the problem? Well. Mr. Reagan’s order did not include certain privileges that would be needed if Interpol had a physical office on US soil, like immunity from certain tax requirements and from having its property or records subject to search and seizure. Now, this was supposed to have been addressed by the Bush administration but like so many other things it was left for Pres. Obama. These are the same immunities granted to other International organizations like the International Red Cross.
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So, still you ask, what’s the fuss. Well, OMG, Pres. Obama has given away the “store”, given up our sovereignty to the UN and Interpol, according to Larry O’Connor, writing for Breitbart he states this executive order grants to international police full immunity in the US and they are not subject to FOIA requests.
Well, that’s a load of hooey. The spokesperson for the Justice Department’s Interpol division, LaTonya Miller, states that it routinely receives and responds to Freedom of Information Act requests and will continue to do so.
Before we go any further, let’s clear up any misconceptions and myths about what Interpol is.
INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 188 member countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime.
INTERPOL aims to facilitate international police co-operation even where diplomatic relations do not exist between particular countries. Action is taken within the limits of existing laws in different countries and in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. INTERPOL’s constitution prohibits ‘any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character.’
They do not have a police force that conducts investigations and makes arrests. It is a clearing house for information about criminal activity around the world. If you think otherwise, you’ve been watching to many grade “C” spy movies.
As per Interpol spokes person from an article in the NYT
“We don’t send officers into the field to arrest people; we don’t have agents that go investigate crimes,” said Rachel Billington, an Interpol spokeswoman. “This is always done by the national police in the member country under their national laws.”
But that doesn’t stop Mr O’Connor from making this wild accusation
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.
I wonder if during his vacation in Hawaii if one of the intrepid reporters could ask the President:
“Mr. President, is it true that due to your amendment to Executive Order 12425, INTERPOL may break into a home without a warrant, seize private property of a US citizen, hold a citizen for questioning without the right of legal representation and not be subject to any legal or criminal repercussion?”
I’d really like them to ask that question. Wouldn’t you?
Uh, Mr. O’Connor, I can answer that question. NO, because the executive order only pertains to taxing Interpol’s property and protecting their records.
Duh! Try reading the law. Darn that wouldn’t be any fun and wouldn’t have given the wing nuts the opportunity to have Twitter fits. like this from Scott Groves of NC
We’ve been twittering about this all week long, and no one from any news organization has touched this story. Jake Tapper asked a couple of questions about it to the WH and was ignored, then after that, Tapper wrote a fluff piece saying this was no big deal. Tapper is a closet commie like the rest of the news agencies are. I’ll be very disappointed if Beck, O’Riely (sic) or Hannity don’t cover this story. If they don’t, we’ll know that they are going along with this agenda also and can’t be trusted.
We are no longer the USA with this Executive Order signed, we have lost our sovereignty to the UN. Our politicians and media have sold us out to the global governance of the elites. The Constitution has now been totally shredded, and is no longer a valid document according to the traitors in DC.
Oh, noes!!! It’s the New World Order and the MSM is ignoring it all. Mr. O’Connor, Mr. Groves, who plans to run for the NC-12 congressional seat and all the other twitters are grasping for any straw. These conspiracy theorists who read Mr Breitbart’s publications and watch to many grade “C” spy movies, will believe any thing they are fed.
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that the right is freaked out by anything that includes the word international.
I wonder if they have thought about calling for a tea bagger ban on IHOP.
exist maybe as a distraction to funnel skepticism of official accounts. Nevertheless, I think their suspicious minds are on the right track. In my view, there is a shadow world government though hardly centralized or resembling the fantasies of the right who try to use nativist fears of foreigners invading Holy America to misdirect the ignorant.
But they are correct in their instincts and we should not be making fun of them because they are led to red herrings and wild-goose chases that obscure the actual conspiracies that are fairly obvious to most of us here.
creepy in the least. If we are going to have police, why freak out when those local police are given the right to utilize foreign police forces in other countries or vice versa?
Dunno, don’t get it.
What is scary is that our own police do kick down doors without a warrant, no need for a foreign government to tell them to.
This doesn’t have all that much to do with you post but I thought I would think this out, in the nice cool relaxing atmosphere of DD:
I wanted to come out on my position on CTs. I am not that into them. I think a person has every right to develop them, and to propose hypotheses. I have no problem with that. The announcement of the intention to collect evidence should be met with applause. But all you have to do is acknowledge that more evidence is needed. And if you have enough, then present it.
What I object to is ostracizing people for presenting hypotheses and that people have the need to go into hysterics about questions. If they are stupid questions, just walk away or disprove them(Which I think you proved sufficiently). If there are good questions and with reasons argued persuasively but lacking full evidence then there is a need for further investigation.
I know, I know, that position is boring.
I guess problems arise around from who you can accept evidence. If it is the person you are accusing that is presenting evidence there is already a conflict of interest issue – It doesn’t help that with a lot of CT there is a breakdown of trust between parties. I would guess the theorist would need third parties to verify it, with sufficient measures to prevent the corruption of the appointed third party. Hard to find that.
Anyways, thanks for the essay TheMomCat.
and that our own government has usurped the Constitution and can no do whatever they want with us.
So … BLAME THE FORRENERS!
I looked up what Obama did. Iread the language of the original and what the amendment meant, and the subsection language.
My husband answered the brain dead email we got saying how Obama gave away the US to the NWO by amending the powers their GAHD Raegan gave them.
Here’s what he wrote back:
before it! It lends itself well to wholesale craziness.
the right, the concepts of “the right” thus easily allowing “the left” to place such people in the neandertal mouth breather category.
Now outside of Obama being THE most influential front man for the Satanic all controlling Illminati New World Order the current program priority is divert, distract and divide. You just can’t have the peasants united with some Ghandi like figure.
See Prof Panarin’s seven regions of the former United States.