Posted on 12/24/2009 4:34:46 PM PST by Starman417
It's Chrismas Eve, and instead of sugar plums dancing in my head, I can't get Wordsmith's post about Obama's latest Executive Order out of my mind. It is like a kid getting his first jigzaw puzzle... my mind twists and turns with the repercussions.
I've been pondering the implications... since pondering and speculation is all we can do at the moment. I've also been searching codification docs, old EOs, wondering if this is business as "usual" or what. I am also seeing many blogs are misinformed, thinking INTERPOL is a newly added organization to the immunity list of IOIA. Not true. So let me fill you in on a few basics.
Granting immunities under the International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945 since EO 9698 in 1946, plus various subsequent EOs adding designated organizations to that list isn't unusual. It lies within POTUS power to alter any varying degree of that immunity under that Act. We are not talking about an infringement on the Constitutional powers by the Executive Office here. That argument should fly right out of the window.
The IOIA, from what I understand, differs from the blanket immunities granted to sovereign nations under the FSIA (Foreign Sovereignty Immunities Act) by granting immunities to the designated int'l organizations in two distinct classes: international organizations as one class, and their property and assets as the other.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
But for an entirely different reason I would imagine. Harry Truman refused Secret Service protection and regularly walked the streets alone, with his umbrella.
http://www.newswithviews.com/LeMieux/michael101.htm
President Obama has also made no secret of his support for the United Nations and their mission. An INTERPOL web site press release (PR200992) stated they had the support of over 60 nations for INTERPOL becoming the “United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and were participating “governments establish a plan of action to promote international police peacekeeping as an essential counterpart to the military…”
BTTT - This needs to be this week’s top item!
Our police participate as INTERPOL, does that mean as members of INTERPOL do our federal, State and local police have diplomatic immunity as well?
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