I believe the Obama administration is
preparing to control a possible mass
revolt here in the USA.........
With the signing of an under-publicized
amendment to Executive Order 12425,
Barack Obama has fundamentally altered
your constitutional rights. His actions
are undermining your rights to protect
personal privacy from a foreign
internationalist police agency named
Interpol. A one-paragraph executive
order may seem inconsequential to many,
but this action has far reaching
implications and threatens the
sovereignty of America.
Obama's secretive Executive Order
amended an order issued by President
Reagan in 1983. Reagan's order
recognized Interpol as an
International Organization and gave
it privileges and immunities
commonly extended to foreign
diplomats. Reagan opened the door to
allow Interpol to operate in
partnership with the U.S. but with
significant constitutional
safeguards. Specifically, Interpol's
property and assets remained subject
to search and seizure by American
law enforcement, and its archived
records remained subject to public
scrutiny under provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act. Interpol
had to answer to the FBI and U.S.
courts under Reagan's order. These
safeguards were stripped away by
Obama's action the week before
Christmas without debate or
explanation. Obama picked the
holiday season to make this radical
change to minimize media coverage.
This order marks a significant
change in federal policy and usurps
the constitutional power of our
government by yielding it to an
international organization. Michael
van Der Galien writes, "This foreign
law enforcement organization can
operate free of an important
safeguard against government and
abuse. Property and assets,
including the organization's
records, cannot now be searched or
seized. Their physical operational
locations are now immune from U.S.
legal and investigative
authorities."
Obama has given an international
organization unsupervised freedom to
investigate Americans on our own
soil without recourse or the
supervision of our own government.
Andy McCarthy writing for the
National Review asks some very
significant 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?"
Interpol is the enforcement arm of
the International Criminal Court
(ICC). The United States never
signed onto the Rome Treaty which
created the ICC because of the
potential for abuse by foreign
interests. Obama has signaled he may
sign the treaty over these
objections and subject Americans to
prosecution overseas in the ICC.
This is harmful for two reasons.
First, the U.S. Constitution clearly
states that it is the supreme law of
our land and allowing the ICC to
supersede the U.S. Constitution
violates America's sovereignty.
Second, the War on Terror is
unpopular with Europeans and the ICC
may attempt to prosecute heroic
American soldiers with trumped up
war crimes. Obama is putting brave
American men and women at grave
risk.
An added wrinkle to this executive
order is that Interpol's operations
center for the United States is
housed within our own Justice
Department. Many of the agents are
Americans who work under the aegis
of Interpol. This order has
potentially created the new civilian
security force that Obama proposed
during his campaign. This group of
law enforcement officials is no
longer subject to the restraints
enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
The order guarantees that Interpol
officers have immunity from
prosecution for crimes they may
commit in the United States.
Ironically, some Interpol nations
are attempting to try American
intelligence agents for their work
abroad in the War on Terror.
This order shows blatant disregard
for the U.S. Constitution. While
Obama is extending due process
rights to terrorists he is weakening
those same rights for American
citizens. If a citizen were to be
prosecuted by Interpol their newly
granted immunity would interfere
with the discovery process. Since
Interpol files are immune to
disclosure, a citizen could be
denied his right to see the
information used to prosecute him or
her.
Obama's executive order has done
more to weaken civil liberties than
the much maligned Patriot Act. The
silence in the mainstream media on
this issue should scare all freedom
loving Americans. Obama just signed
away parts of our precious legal
protections
