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With the signing of an under-publicized amendment to Executive Order 12425, Barack Obama has fundamentally altered your constitutional rights. His actions are undermining your rights to protect personal privacy from a foreign internationalist police agency named Interpol. A one-paragraph executive order may seem inconsequential to many, but this action has far-reaching implications and threatens the sovereignty of America.

Obama's secretive executive order amended an order issued by President Reagan in 1983. Reagan's order recognized Interpol as an international organization and gave it privileges and immunities commonly extended to foreign diplomats. Reagan opened the door to allow Interpol to operate in partnership with the U.S. but with significant constitutional safeguards. Specifically, Interpol's property and assets remained subject to search and seizure by American law enforcement, and its archived records remained subject to public scrutiny under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Interpol had to answer to the FBI and U.S. courts under Reagan's order. These safeguards were stripped away by Obama's action the week before Christmas without debate or explanation. Obama picked the holiday season to make this radical change, to minimize media coverage.

This order marks a significant change in federal policy and usurps the constitutional power of our government by yielding it to an international organization. Michael van Der Galien writes, "This foreign law-enforcement organization can operate free of an important safeguard against government and abuse. Property and assets, including the organization's records, cannot now be searched or seized. Their physical operational locations are now immune from U.S. legal and investigative authorities."... See More... See More

Obama has given an international organization unsupervised freedom to investigate Americans on our own soil without recourse or the supervision of our own government.

Andy McCarthy writing for the National Review asks some very significant questions: "Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media and the American people to scrutinize?"

Interpol is the enforcement arm of the International Criminal Court, or ICC. The United States never signed onto the Rome Treaty, which created the ICC, because of the potential for abuse by foreign interests. Obama has signaled he may sign the treaty over these objections and subject Americans to prosecution overseas in the ICC. This is harmful for two reasons. First, the U.S. Constitution clearly states that it is the supreme law of our land, and allowing the ICC to supersede the U.S. Constitution violates America's sovereignty. Second, the War on Terror is unpopular with Europeans, and the ICC may attempt to prosecute heroic American soldiers with trumped-up war crimes. Obama is putting brave American men and women at grave risk.

An added wrinkle to this executive order is that Interpol's operations center for the United States is housed within our own Justice Department. Many of the agents are Americans who work under the aegis of Interpol. This order has potentially created the new civilian security force that Obama proposed during his campaign. This group of law-enforcement officials is no longer subject to the restraints enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

The order guarantees that Interpol officers have immunity from prosecution for crimes they may commit in the United States. Ironically, some Interpol nations are attempting to try American intelligence agents for their work abroad in the War on Terror.

This order shows blatant disregard for the U.S. Constitution. While Obama is extending due process rights to terrorists he is weakening those same rights for American citizens. If a citizen were to be prosecuted by Interpol, their newly granted immunity would interfere with the discovery process. Since Interpol files are immune to disclosure, a citizen could be denied his right to see the information used to prosecute him or her.

Obama's executive order has done more to weaken civil liberties than the much-maligned Patriot Act. The silence in the mainstream media on this issue should scare all freedom-loving Americans. Obama just signed away parts of our precious legal protections.

HE JUST GETS DUMBER AND DUMBER EVERY DAY!!!!!!!!!!

quit whining then!!!!!!!

from brainless little acorns volunteers grow powerful union bosses and asshole politicians

Healthcare my not be a right, but access to it IS. To deny, based on health is actually discrimination. Danny, tell me why, if insurers do not want to insure millions of hard-working, tax-paying Americans with pre-existing conditions, why shouldn't their governent offer it to them?

Many of these Americans cant get healthcare at any price. While others with the same pre-existing conditions can, simply because they work for a company with a group plan. And your OK with that?

Jeffrey .. step #1 to getting healthcare .. get a job (try harder than just Walmart greeter).

When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

New, PROPOSED 28th Amendment to OUR Constitution... See More

Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .

On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn that would require all Members and their staffs to enroll in any new government-run health plan. It took me less than a minute to sign up to require our congressmen and senators to drink at the same trough! Three cheers for Congressman John Fleming of Louisiana!

Congressman John Fleming ( Louisiana physician) has proposed an amendment that would require congressmen and senators to take the same healthcare plan they force on us (under proposed legislation they are curiously exempt).

Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go on his Website and sign his petition (very simple - just first, last and email). I have immediately done just that at:http://fleming.house.gov/index.html <http://fleming.house.gov/index.html> .. Please urge as many people as you can to do the same!

If Congress forces this on the American people, the Congressmen should have to accept the same level of health care for themselves and their families.

Please pass this on!! as these Lawyer/Politicians' think You, The American Public are STUPID

Love it!

didnt we just have an election?

Yeah......and a lying socialist got in. But we will show him Change he can believe in.....wait til the 010 elections. Then he's next. He's the Erkel of politics....

Then you should take issue with the 70 million who voted for him. I'd love to bet who has control of Congress after 2010!

unemployment numbers will drop people are running out of theyre unemployment ins then they will be of unemployment

before it's too late!!!!!!!watching obama destroy this GREAT COUNTRY,bowing and apoligizing to the enemies,he needs to reach in michelles purse and dig out his balls and lead this country .Also quit spending he said if his bail out passes there will hardly be any unemployment,it passed then it doubles. come on how long do we have to wait to see "change"for the good!!!!!!!! 3 trillion LATER and still no sign of "HOPE" or "CHANGE"!!!!!

Yeah...you libs let him go on apologizing for this great country. Next he'll be kissing the feet of some Saudi prince instead of kissing his ass like he's been doing...Maybe he'll shine the Iranian dictator's shoes or take out Chavez' trash and wax his limo!.......Loser

This would be more funny if it WEREN'T possible with this current President...

racism? wow

count me in!!

im in for sure!!!!!!!!!!!

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