What’s the President’s INTERPOL Game?
In my own mind, I keep trying to give President Obama the benefit of the doubt. I want to believe that he loves America as she is at this very moment, that he’s dedicated to keeping her strong and sovereign. He makes me doubt, though. Oh, how he makes me doubt.
Take this story, for example. What reason would the President have for specifically granting INTERPOL the same immunities we give to foreign embassies (immunities from search and seizuer, from being investigated by law enforcement, from Freedom of Information Act requests, etc)? That may seem a minor thing to you, but Clyde Middleton spells out exactly what it means.
What does this mean? It means that we have an international police force authorized to act within the United States that is no longer subject to 4th Amendment Search and Seizure. The “property and assets of [INTERPOL], wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation.”
INTERPOL, an international criminal police organization, is now poised to reside above the United States Constitution – in a place of sanctity beyond our FBI, CIA, DIA, and all other criminal investigatory domestic organizations.
Note that this was a deliberate act, not a slip of the pen or an unintended consequence of some other action by the President. He issued an Executive Order specifically to delete the restrictions set by President Reagan in 1983. Why?
Well, I have my ideas and I put a couple of them up for discussion on the Steve Schippert Show recorded last night. I don’t know that I have any firm conclusions, but there are some very uncomfortable coincidences (such as where INTERPOL’s HQ in the United States, which is now as inviolable as any national embassy, is located and who controls the building in which it’s housed). It sure seems to me like President Obama has signed away an important chunk of our sovereignty and I can’t for the life of me come up with a reason that jives with what I want to think about the President. If he treasures our freedom and independence, he sure as heck has a funny way of showing it.
Other Posts of Interest:
- President Obama Votes “Present” as the Blood Flows in Iran
- It’s Looking a Lot Like 1979
- “Will a wise man give a sharp dagger to an insane person?”
Category: Law and Order, President Barack Obama, The World At Large
