Posted on 01/04/2010 7:29:39 PM PST by Crush
In December Democrat President Barack Obama quietly signed an Executive Order that has elevated the international police force INTERPOL above our Constitution, allowing them to operate on American soil with impunity.
Signed on Dec. 16th and released on the 17th, the order designates INTERPOL as a public international organization effectively allowing it to “enjoy certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities” according to the United States International Organizations Immunities Act.
Language found in section 2(c) of that act is especially concerning:
“Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search […] and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.”
Just what “property and assets” could INTERPOL be hiding?
INTERPOL's U.S. headquarters is conveniently located in Eric Holder's Justice Department, so perhaps there will no longer be a need for Sandy Berger to raid the National Archives.
“Inviolable archives means INTERPOL records are beyond US citizens' Freedom of Information Act requests and from American legal or investigative discovery,” writes Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton at ThreatsWatch.org. But why would the Obama administration want to allow an international police force to operate on American soil without constitutional restraints?
Obama's order actually amended an earlier executive order signed by Ronald Reagan in 1983. The original order recognized INTERPOL as an international organization therefore extending some immunities to the group, but also held the organization accountable to Fourth Amendment search and seizure protections and to the Freedom of Information Act that limit our own law enforcement agencies.
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I think this is simply to protect Interpol from being ruined by judges.
We put a Republican in the White House the Leftwingtards will be the first ones to complain about it though.
“I think this is simply to protect Interpol from being ruined by judges.”
A judge can use the Constitution to ruin INTERPOL??? No law enforcement agency, much less a foreign one, needs to operate outside the US Constitution to be effective.
Can an Executive Order be deemed unconstitutional - if so - how? Any precedence?
Working on it. Stay tuned.
Who’ll be exempted from the Constitution in the U.S. next?
I may be wrong, but I do not believe that an executive order can override the constitution. They are not even provided for in the constitution, and can be challenged come under investigation.
Not the sob terrorists. The are totally subject to it.
FYI - from usconstitution.net...things that are not in the constitution
Executive Orders
Executive Orders have two main functions: to modify how an executive branch department or agency does its job (rule change) or to modify existing law, if such authority has been granted to the President by Congress. Executive orders are not mentioned by the Constitution, but they have been around a long, long time. George Washington issued several Presidential Proclamations, which are similar to EO’s (Proclamations are still issued today). EO’s and Proclamations are not law, but they have the effect of statutes. A typical modern Proclamation might declare a day to be in someone’s honor. Historically, they have had broader effect, such as the Emancipation Proclamation. A typical EO might instruct the government to do no business with a country we are at war with. Executive orders are subject to judicial review, and can be declared unconstitutional. Today, EO’s and Proclamations are sequentially numbered. The average president issues 58 EO’s a year. As of March 13, 1936, all EO’s must be published in the Federal Register. The first to have been so published was #7316, by President Roosevelt.
My response focused on judges ~ and one of our articles of faith at FR is that there are judges who operate outside the bounds of the Constitution for the purpose of destorying freedom.
My further comment was that the second we get a Republican President in place Goober's friends (the Leftwingtards) will be complaining about this EO (since, left unstated, their friends, the activist judges who operate outside the bounds of Constitutinal authority, will feel frustrated).
And your response is relevant in what way?
These Interpol guys may not wear blue helmets, but they may end up like them if they invade our shores.
EO’s may be subject to judicial review, but I doubt anything says they have to. And I doubt that anything specifically states that an EO must be Constitutional.
All the federal government has to do is find the loopholes. There is really no teeth to the Constitution if we the people don’t hold our elected and appointed officials accountable.
The question is: What are you going to do about it?
There are articles about Interpol. It’s a European thing. We keep FBI agents abroad as well.
“On the other hand it looks like they were simply immunized from lawsuits made with the object of seizing their property”
So, when they operate outside the Constitution there is nothing you can do about it. Same thing, different means of getting there. They can operate without regard to being sued.
Oh, I know. But Obama has designs on Interpol having jurisdiction, IMHO.
So, Barry could abolish the Supreme Court, or the House, or the Senate - all by edict? If Interpol can crush the Bill of Rights, what is the difference? I am one pissed off frog in a pot where the water is getting hotter and hotter - I AM NOTICING IT!!!!
I think this has more to do with Obama’s British Nationality in case he is brought into court by Chysler Dealers with the Quo-Warranto filed by Attorney’s Leo Donofrio and Stephen Pidgeon. Interpol could seize Obama’s records foreign and Domestic and wouldn’t have to turn them over if subpoened for Discovery. This order was not intended to benefit the USA but to benefit Obama personally.
Who is going to challenge an executive order issued by someone whose identity has never been scrutinized? Rather complicated, huh?
How many Divisions do those Interpol guys have?
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