The Interpol Exemption

On December 17th, 2009, President Obama issued an executive order that effectively exempted Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, from Constitutional limitations. The "property and assets" of Interpol are now "immune from search" and confiscation, and its archives "inviolable."

What does this mean? "This international law enforcement body now operates – now operates – on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests."

For an added and disturbing wrinkle, INTERPOL’s central operations office in the United States is within our own Justice Department offices. They are American law enforcement officers working under the aegis of INTERPOL within our own Justice Department. That they now operate with full diplomatic immunity and with "inviolable archives" from within our own buildings should send red flags soaring into the clouds.

One might respond to such a thing with phrases along the lines of "Holy Shit."

The linked article goes on to suggest that this is a precursor to returning the United States to the status of signatory to the International Criminal Court, probably with the purpose of allowing foreign governments to prosecute American citizens for war crimes. That’s a travesty in itself. It would subvert American sovereignty to a world government, which seems to be one of Barack Obama’s end-games. But the directly disturbing (if not terrifying) part is that the Justice Department is apparently operating side-by-side with these international bodies already, and has already figured out how to operate outside its Constitutional limits.

Some of us wonder if it’s possible that we’ll wake up one day and America-as-we-know-it will be gone. I think it’s more accurate to say it’s already gone. The framework for flipping the switch seems to be pretty much in place: a rubber-stamp Congress; international super-constitutional police forces; control of health care, industry, and financial systems; Marxist control by labor unions of the education system and the low-skilled work force; overextended military focused on wars overseas. A financial regulatory system that awards the wealthy and privileged at the expense of the lesser 99%.

I don’t know what there is that could stop it at this point.