While America's attention is distracted by:
Health Care reform. Trying to stop the bleeding of our heavy industries, textiles, and manufacturing plants closing forever. The systemic shock to our national pride and honor of shipping of millions of more jobs overseas. Re-creating or replacing millions of jobs lost during this Great Recession. Fighting two wars on a global front simultaneously. Stimulating from the top-down--not the bottom-up a jobless economic recovery that has done virtually next to nothing for a beleaguered middle class on the verge of extinction. Bailing out the "too big to fail" Banksters and Wall Street gambling casinos so they can give themselves obscene "performance" bonuses & use our free money to lend it back to us with usurious interest. Coming to grips with our furious, white-hot anger over the SCOTUS' fulfilling the corporatists' wildest dreams of neo-fascist control over our Congress, and with it the concomitant effect of corporate near-total command and control of our electoral system.
Follow me under the fold as we now we learn that our Dem President Obama signed a new Executive Order on December 16, 2009 giving INTERPOL full diplomatic immunity to operate within the United States.
Let us examine the deleterious impact of giving an international police force such unbridled power over our citizens, and the dire implications this newest assault has on the Constitution, our national sovereignty and our unalienable individual rights and freedoms.
Executive Order -- Amending Executive Order 12425
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL
AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO
ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES
"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes them."
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 16, 2009.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/...
Before 1983, foreign military, intelligence, and police organizations were restricted from operating in the United States without the direct oversight of Congress, or through its watch dog subordinate operatives, i.e. the CIA, FBI, Departments of Defense, State--or through the direct authorization by the Executive Orders of the President.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12425 that allowed the International Criminal Police Organization [interpol] to operate within the sovereign US territory, within the same constitutional guidelines required of our domestic(US) law enforcement officers --who swear an oath to obey the law and defend the Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic-- subject to the same threat of penalties, fines and imprisonment laws that restrict CIA, FBI and other Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
Translated into plain English, this meant that INTERPOL (foreign) agents --who do not swear any oath to uphold our laws-- were nonetheless not immune from being prosecuted or sued civilly for violating American laws-specifically 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that is, until Obama signed this new Executive Order.
The effect of Obama's amendment is that foreign agents working for, and under the umbrella of INTERPOL will now enjoy the very same the same protections and immunities from US prosecution in US courts that foreign diplomats have here. It is that immunity that has been used by other countries as a cloak to conceal their espionage operations on the United States since the end of WW2.
Diplomatic immunity, for all intents and purposes, means that an American citizen seized by INTERPOL agents on US soil can be secretly renditioned out of the country, and in a matter of hours find themselves inprisoned in any number of gulags of INTERPOL's own choosing in secret locations throughout the world.
Outside the protective arms of US sovereignty, the jurisdiction of US courts, their Miranda and Habeas Corpus rights being then permanently stripped from them and nullified without the due process of law, our own citizens could be held forever with no warning, no goodbyes, with no or trumped-up charges, inprisoned indefinitely--or summarily executed. So much for the politics hope --at least for them-- until this order is challenged by Congress or the SCOTUS and/or rescinded.
And with diplomatic immunity, which this new Executive Order suggests, INTERPOL could quite possibly be also exempt from American extradition laws, meaning they can operate freely under the color of our laws with impunity, all thanks to one Executive Order signed by a sitting US president.
And with the Bill of Rights fully made null and void and without effect, INTERPOL agents could conduct unconstitutional warrantless searches and seizures of a person's home, personal property, papers and effects in direct defiance of the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments.
In short, the powers that President Obama gave INTERPOL would have the exact same effect of declaring martial law and police state, without deploying the first troop, rolling the first Abrams tank down an American street-or firing the first shot in anger at us and bloodying their own hands. It brings us a new meaning for "privatization".
And the beauty of it is, this secret police-enabling action gives our government all of the plausible deniability that it needs to shield itself, all the cover that it can use to successfully defend themselves from the charges of treason and criminal complicity, not the least of which, is the damnable and unforgiveable charges of conspiracy to overthrow our Constitution and subvert our government that are sure to follow.
I can just hear the teabaggers, the Obama is Marxist conspiracy theorist repubs now, "wailing and gnashing their teeth":
And they didn't even have to burn the "reichstag" to commit their coup d'etat!
So the question that is burning the words TRAITORS and TYRANTS into my mind --at least until Obama further elaborates, defines, and clarifies himself-- is this: Why would any sitting American president grant such sweeping dictatorial powers to a foreign organization, unless they were hell-bent for leather to wage war on the American people themselves? Inquiring minds would like to know why our Congress sits idly by, while our nation is taken over by foreigners without even firing a shot!?
And the foreign agents working for INTERPOL are headquartered in Lyon, France, which is governed by an Executive Committee --there is not a single American, either elected representative or political appointee on it-- elected by the 123 member nations though the General Assembly. Their power is exercised by thirteen members of the Executive Committee. It is headed by KHOO Boon Hui of Singapore.
Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" comes readily to mind. We Americans are a good-hearted, trusting people, --too naive or busy with trying to survive these perilous times to read the handwriting on the wall-- but now it seems we are most inconveniently distracted by a tsunami flood of national emergencies that have hijacked, if not completely T-boned us, consumed our attention and that of the corporate-owned msm.
Who is minding the store? Where is our Congress when it's not crawling on its belly giving-in to the special monied interests: the Military-Industrial Complex, the Health Care-Industrial Complex, the Banking, Credit, and Wall Street-Industrial Complex that really rule this nation?
We know where the SCOTUS stands --at least, we know where Roberts, Scalia, Alito, Kennedy and Thomas stand-- on protecting the Bill of Rights and US sovereignty from foreign intervention.
And why is this not being debated in the national discourse by ANYONE?