In 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued an Executive Order which gave permission to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) to operate within the boundaries of the United States. Reagan’s EO put INTERPOL under the same basic guidelines as the CIA, FBI, ATF and other Federal law enforcement agencies.

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Two weeks ago, without any announcement, debate, discussion or inquiry from journalists charged with “speaking truth to power” President Obama issued an amendment to this EO. The amendment removed part of Reagan’s order that kept INTERPOL from having full diplomatic immunity while operating within the United States. In other words: Under Reagan and right up until two weeks ago, INTERPOL was authorized to operate within the USA but they did not have full diplomatic immunity and had to adhere to certain laws set forth for investigative agencies. Laws that prohibit authorities from violating our constitutionally protected rights.

This story has begun to make the rounds at some other blogs and web sites. Some scream about the on-set of the New World Order, some merely question the timing, motives and logic behind such a move while we are still fighting foreign wars and under threat of attack from Al Qaeda and other international terrorist bodies. I certainly don’t walk down the New World Order/One World Government path, I don’t look good in tin-foil hats… but, I do wonder why this move was made so quietly and why the White House Press Corps has not made any hay about it.

I also wonder why my friends on the left, who screamed from the rooftops about phone companies conducting analysis of phone calls made from the US to known over-seas terrorists, about members of the Saudi family being allowed to leave the country in the days following 9/11, about the EVILS of the Patriot Act and how it would lead to the stripping of basic civil rights to anyone checking out a book in a library. I wonder how they feel about the President granting permission to an international organization to operate within our borders under full diplomatic immunity.

One other tasty tidbit: Due to the amended language created by President Obama, INTERPOL is now, no longer subject to Freedom of Information Act Inquiries.

I wonder if during his vacation in Hawaii if one of the intrepid reporters could ask the President:

“Mr. President, is it true that due to your amendment to Executive Order 12425, INTERPOL may break into a home without a warrant, seize private property of a US citizen, hold a citizen for questioning without the right of legal representation and not be subject to any legal or criminal repercussion?”

I’d really like them to ask that question. Wouldn’t you?

Obama is a true one-world government proponent.

And this is why I have such a hard time taking the right seriously anymore. More and more, conservatives are continuing to delve deeper and deeper into paranoia and conspiracy mongering. Obama is for the New World Order! Obama wants to come get our guns! It's crap, and it's sad to see it touted here as if it is gospel truth. My guess is that this author is leaving out some key details here, if his story is even accurate at all. Hell, Breitbart recently sounded the alarms that Obama had been visited by the head of ACORN before the tapes came out, only it didn't actually happen. He had been visted by someone with the same first and last name, but not middle initial.

Conservative commentators, blogs, and columnists have been siezing on any theory about Obama, no matter how far fetched and insane, since the primaries. Be it a non existent whitey tape, a birth in Kenya, gay sex rumors, or this New World Order crap, there seems to be no story too insane for the right wing anymore in this country. Obama's presidency has driven them into an absolute frothing at the mouth frenzy.

Plus, don't they have legal constraints in the EU? To protect the rights of their citizens? I'd say that they can't operate completely without limits.

Too bad it will take a US citizen having their rights violated to have something so stupid be over turned

Too bad it will take a US citizen having their rights violated to have something so stupid be over turned

You're far far too kind.

This executive order is a fantastic thing, if you ask me. It is a clear violation of the Oath of Office. Obama has ceded some part of domestic sovereignty to a foreign entity, and he has done so unilaterally. Too bad really, I had such high hopes for a guy who publicly dismissed the validity of the U.S. Constitution when running for office.