The Interpol question
Last week, Steve Schippert at ThreatsWatch first raised questions about a White House executive order that appears to give Interpol immunity from American law.
See Steve’s full analysis here.
Andy McCarthy weighed in here with more questions:
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?
Ed Morrissey at HotAir adds:
I seem to recall the Left getting hysterical over the Patriot Act extensions that Obama finally backed. This gives Interpol a much wider operational latitude than anything contemplated in the Patriot Act, and with no accountability at all.
Where’s the MSM, which used to be on every Bush executive order like white on rice? The only MSM interest so far seems to be from ABC White House reporter Jake Tapper, who Tweets that he has asked the Obama administration twice about it with no response.
How long can the stonewall stand?
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It’s just the World President doing what he usually does…. putting the world ahead of the sovereign rights and interests of the United States.
Well, the 2010 elections are coming up… ACORN, anybody ?
The muslims have a right to privacy greater than our own.
I think it was Andy McCarthy who raised the point that this gives them a sort of backdoor way to investigate Bush and some of his people, with impunity, while pretending that the investigation has nothing to do with the administration.
If so, that would indicate the administration is staffed by people who look for loopholes without regard to consequences. That kind of thinking is consistent with their approach to everything else.
We wouldn’t want them to be prosecuted for waterboarding right-wing extremists to find out where they keep their guns and bibles.
The Planet Police. What could go wrong?
Interpol maybe the model Obama wants to use for his “National Police Force” which will probably turn out to be as vital as “Police Squad” from the Naked Gun series.
Seriously, Americans will always be forced to ride in the back of the bus as long as Duh One is the C-in-C.
Kiss your sovereignty goodbye, America!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
More secrecy, hummm. Shows why we must always watch Obama’s other hand. This doesn’t bode well for freedom.
Hmmm, Obama is up to something… and I’m sure it will be unpleasant for We the People.
The question has now become what we as citizens of this nation will do if/when Interpol tries to or does arrest a citizen ie. a former politician or soldier for War Crimes. Will we sit passively by and whine about it or will we stand up and retake control of our nation by whatever means we need to use.
It is time to stand up. Why in the hell is the White House stonewalling. I will demand my elected reps demand an answer.
I suspect that 2010 is going to be very interesting, and frightening and dangerous.
Not a very good idea, though it would have been helpful if Italy had something similar that would have prevented our people from getting caught up in their legal system when we captured and rendered terrorist from their territory.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5A33QB20091104
I’m not saying this means anything, but the Interpol logo bears a strong resemblance to the logo of the evil Terran Empire in the Star Trek universe.
NOW Obama can say, “The system works.”
First we give the terrorists the same rights as we Ameican’s, our military has to give those they want to kill a day to get outta there, our whole nations could be under the un or a world court! I am wondering how the higher ups in the military feel about this? If push comes to shove, will the military say enough is enough or stop this bho? My gut says no, if it comes to us citizens as is in iran, what to do?
L
Well at least your library card is safe from Bush.
Just another piece of sovereignty lost.
We can’t even put up a water fountain in the Grand Canyon National Park without permission from the U.N., since the canyon is a WORLD HERITAGE SITE.
Why doesn’t INTERPOL track illegal aliens coming into the U.S. since that’s part of their job elsewhere?
If there is one thing this president has proven expertise in it has to be the ability to hide what he does not want seen.
Almost a full year into his Presidency and basic questions raised in the campaign still await answers
*A VALID birth certificate
*Occidental School records including Admission
*Columbia School records
*Harvard School records
to name but a few.
And now we are to have a Super Police Force come to our shores and provide a convenient ‘hidey-hole’ for government records that the incumbents do not want revealable under FOI or any other device.
This one sure snuck in under the Radar.
The ability of the Obama Administration to use Ledger-domain to hide what they are doing is unparalleled in American History.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
Since the dinosaur media are not covering this story, let’s tell it, share it, tweet it, email it , blog about it, post it, etc.
Let’s do it over and over.
New media, social media, etc are our friends.
Thanks for mentioning the unmentionable subject that is not, (generally), welcomed on this website. For some strange reason the obvious of Obama hiding certain things in his past, and what that means, are simply off-limits to the media in general. I’m hoping his approval ratings will drop low enough that the fear of discussion of Obama’s past will become less than it has been up to now.
This Interpol thing scares me more than a hundred BVD bombers igniting their jock straps on a hundred planes.
This is truly the stuff of nightmares.
now go here:
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/12/us-government-orders-200-million-rounds.html
The MSM doesn’t want to corroborate what we already came to know about this issue.
Without their help.
http://danielmcandrew.com
coldfront,
That’s another way to soak up the ammo manufacturer’s assembly lines and keep supplies heading AWAY from average consumers.
A Fighting Chance… In Massachusetts??
By PoliPundit ~ December 29th, 2009 @ 5:15 pm 2 Comments »
There’s a special election for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat on January 19. The Democrat candidate, Attorney General Martha Coakley, is the presumptive frontrunner against underdog GOP State Senator Scott Brown.
But, if the results of the November 2009 elections are anything to go by, Brown has a fighting chance. To refresh your memory:
Obama ‘08 Margin Dem ‘09 Margin Change
Virginia +6 -18 -24
New Jersey +15 -4 -19
NY-23 +5 -2* -7
CA-10 +31 +10 -21
Note in particular the Obama +31 seat in CA-10.
Now assuming a similar 20-point swing in Massachusetts, and the fact that Obama won the state by 26 points in 2008, Brown would be just 6 points behind Coakley.
Add in the fact that it’s a special election, and Obama’s (and Obamacare’s) popularity has been dropping since November, Brown could just make this a close race…
We need a poll to confirm this.
If we need anything, we’ll just get Sandy Burglar to get it for us!
ACLU Statement of outrage in 9, 8, 7, 6….
/SARC
ssnark said:
Or at least a Joel Rosenberg novel.
He is very angry angry angry that his polls are down.
He is only happy when 200% are worshiping him.
We are all in very big trouble gang………….
Oh, it means something allright.
Do you think it’s any mistake at all that the name “INTERPOL” sounds like something taken from a particular George Orwell novel?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
We are getting closer to a nation being openly run by despots. We need to be reading up on our history. Study the writings of the framers of the constitution and the Federalist Papers for guidance into the mindset that produced our system of governement and law. You can learn the outs we the people can take when it gets out of hand. As it has already done. May God continue to protect and to bless us.
Amen, trav.
Here’s a platform that should guide voters of this stripe quite well. Even those who plan to hang with the Republicans should be using it as a guide for voting.
Check it out!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
True to my word, I’ve tweeted this over and over.
Let’s keep spreading this story.
Good Golly Miss Molly, this scares the absolute @#$% out of me. How can America be being taken away from its citizens in such a short period of time and our representatives just keep raking in “the money and the chicks are free” (Dire Straits – seemed appropriate to me)
We need to fall on our knees and pray for Gods help in this time of peril.
On December 29th, 2009 at 11:22 pm, swmbo said:
Dire Straits indeed.
But in the words of a certain minister one fine Sunday morning on 7 December 1941 said to an amazed gunners mate who found his gun manned by said ‘man of the cloth’ in answer to the question “Padre, what are you doing?”. His reply and much more the way I feel is, “God helps him who helps himself. So, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.”
Just curious about something… What sort of ties does the UN have in all of this? Does this have anything to do with “International Law” and OUR Second Ammendment?
As long as ace reporter Katie Couric can stay in the Pike Position.
I wonder when the Black Panthers, The SEIU, and ACORN will become part of Interpol?
True Americans of any political leaning better wake up real damned fast … or there won’t be any more “free” elections!
Yes! But, it’s even more insidious than that! This traitorous administration is allowing foreign controlled secret police to operate with impunity against anyone with our boarders for any reason! They obviously will target guns, as well as anyone who exercises “true” free speech, and many other “American” values that don’t set well with the foreign dictators and “globalists”!
That’s all we need! A bunch of Euro-weenies running around the USA trying to enforce laws here!
But, at least we know if you stomp your foot and yell, “Boo!” at them they’ll jump back and pee their pants!
This is all a part of subjecting Americans and our men and women in our military to the International Criminal Court.
Obama is NOT working for the American people. He is working AGAINST us and FOR his WORLD government view of the planet.
This man is poison to us all.
but but but, the interpol force is european, you know sophisticated, socialist, progressive, fair. they would never do anything illegal like those bush and cheney people. the patriot act wanted to look at whether muslim named people in the u.s. were reading books on how to make nuclear bombs, while in europe they have cameras on every corner, whole body scans in airports looking at grandma’s saggy boobs, and vans which can patrol the streets and see into houses looking for meetings of subversives in christian prayer meetings.
Does anyone know whether our law enforcement would be required by law to submit to an international body in certain scenarios?
If this doesn’t scare the BJZS out of you, folks, then you’re just not paying attention.
If our law enforcement wants to submit, then there is nothing we as individuals can do about it the way we could resist if it was only our law enforcement doing something unconstitutional to us.
This is, in fact, a coup. We knew Obama was going to do this for certain ever since he backed Zelaya against the Honduran people, their Congress, their Supreme Court and their Constitution.
It probably will not seem like there has been a coup for some time. It will come in steps, as the new powers are slowly exercised more and more aggressively.
The first people seized here and sent to the ICC will be the likes of Serbian war criminals. They will eventually get around to all of us, including those of us violating international ‘law’ by criticizing Islam.
They have us in the pot. Now they have turned on the burners. The heating process will be very gradual so we won’t jump out until it’s too late.
I must admit, this is the first time I’ve seen the Interpol logo and I find it a bit disturbing. A globe with a sword through the axis?
You, if you hollowed out a Koran and stuck a .45 in there, no one from this administration would ever touch it…
should be “You know, if you…”
unless I have the dates wrong:
obambi signed this executive order
WHILE he was in coppenhagen.
If that is the case just who was in the room with him.
Obama is a traitor
Everything he does is designed to break the system.
Well I think this settles the issue of rather or not elections will solve anything…
Interpol on US soil with full authority, that will open many cans of worms more so when fire arm bans and “free election” laws of the UN are attempted. If any of those agents wide up in a ditch thanks to vigilantisim can’t say I’ll miss them. Though it may be what they want to happen, it allows UN peace keepers on US soil, and with the bulk of out military overseas, not pretty.
That tyrant make no mistake about it, will not leave the oval office it seems.
Agreed, this usurper is taking our rights away one by one, piece by piece removing our sovereignty until there is a complete take over of America.
Did anyone really think these hateful, left wing, Marxists were going to just sit back and let this negative momentum grow against them without doing everything they can to keep control.
Did you really think they were going to sit back and watch odopo’s numbers slide to where they’d lose control of congress in 2010 elections, without fighting back?
These scum bags do not play by the rules. As we lose one more freedom, one more independent state of mind, I ask myself just when is enough, enough? Surely not when it is too late, is it?
INTERPOL with complete Diplomatic Imuinity… Think hard on this people!!
They are hiring AMERICANS-Working in OUR Justice System…This is Dirty Harry times 10! These people have the RIGHT to totally disreguard OUR Constitution,Obama has plans… And they do not have the American Peoples best interest at heart.