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President Barack Obama amended Reagan-era Executive Order 12425 on December 17, which granted agents of the global police database Interpol full immunity from U.S. tax and customs laws, as if they were full ambassadors from other countries.
The original 1983 executive order designated Interpol as an international organization protected by some immunity laws, but Obama’s amendment granted all Interpol employees full exemption from U.S. taxes and customs inspections. Under provisions of Obama’s executive order, Interpol and its employees in the United States won’t have to any pay income taxes, property taxes, or Social Security taxes, in addition to customs duties.

The executive order also notes that Interpol employees and their property “shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/2649-obama-executive-order-on-interpol-gives-fatcats-full-tax-exemption

What this new EO provides is the ability of INTERPOL to be treated with consular like status with such privileges as:

• Freedom from searches or confiscation
• The archives of the organization become inviolable – meaning free from violation or trespass, we cannot touch their documents. (Section 2c)
• The officers, families, servants, employees, or representatives shall be admitted into the country free from customs duties and from of IRS importation taxes. (Section 3)
• This would grant INTERPOL freedom from ALL IRS taxes for wages, fees, salary, employment taxes, communications taxes (like on your phone bill), transportation taxes for persons or property, (Section 4)
• INTERPOL would be exempt from paying any Social Security or FICA taxes (Section 5)
• And finally they would be exempt from all Property Taxes. (Section 6)

http://www.newswithviews.com/LeMieux/michael101.htm

Gene got it bass ackwards.

When Interpol walks into your house and carts you away with no warrants, and then per chance carts you to a foreign nation to be put on trial, then maybe you might see what we are getting “excited” about.

What’s troubling is Obama did not and now will not explain or answer any questions as to why he drafted and signed the order… except to insist that nothing has changed.

http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-c-2010-01-02-241380.112112_Team_Obama_on_INTERPOL_no_change_no_news.html

(New York Times, 10/11/09) Interpol and the United Nations are poised to become partners in fighting crime by jointly grooming a global police force that would be deployed as peacekeepers among rogue nations riven by war and organized crime, officials from both organizations say.

On Monday, justice and foreign ministers from more than 60 countries, including the United States and China, are gathering in Singapore for a meeting hosted by the two international organizations.

It is the first step toward creating what Interpol calls a “global policing doctrine” that would enable Interpol and the United Nations to improve the skills of police peacekeepers, largely by sharing a secure communications network and a vast electronic trove of criminal information, including DNA records, fingerprints, photographs and fugitive notices.

“We have a visionary model,” said Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of Interpol and the first American to head the international police organization, which is based in Lyon. More than 187 member nations finance the organization.

“The police will be trained and equipped differently with resources,” Mr. Noble said. “When they stop someone, they will be consulting global databases to determine who they are stopping.”

Page 917: We will need to surrender national sovereignty to an armed international police force

“If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many of people have recognized this goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization.”

http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/

You can bet Obama, Noble and Holder know.

“No I am not fussy, and neither should you be!”

“We are not afraid of the fussy Americans. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid” (dramatic pause) “and they are condemned.”

“Let the fussy American infidels bask in their illusion”

Watch Ron Noble fuss over a lack of Interpol money:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Interpol_Director_weeps_at_lack_of_1007.html

“It should interest hard-pressed Americans that by giving immunity to Interpol, all its top US personnel can rake in vast sums of money without being taxed by the USA. They will not be subject to customs searches, nor to tax demands. Nor will Interpol open its archives to US searches. Like Obama, they are only ‘transparent’ on paper and in speeches, with no intention of giving out information that will incriminate themselves. No doubt Obama is left alone for that very reason.”

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/18522

Fuss all you like over what you think anyone else should or should not fuss over.

Already emailed my Senators and Representative. I will call them this week. I recommend everyone do the same.

“None of us knows why he signed this executive order amendment. Anyone who says he knows the truth surely doesn’t. Admittedly, I for one do not understand the logic of amending this longstanding order.

We need to ask our members of Congress to find out from the president why he did this. We deserve a straight forward answer so that there is no government secret agenda at work here or unfounded conspiracy at play.”

http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=12&a=431847

My experience (admittedly limited) with Interpol is simply that US authorities would, like law enforcement authorities elsewhere in the world, get data, notices, and bulletins and, in some situations, these data would lead to an arrest by our authorities under our law. I have met law enforcement authorities in the US who have questioned whether Interpol is as useful as its advocates claim, but, on balance, most people I’ve spoken to in the business believe that it provides a valuable information-linking and synthesis function for international law enforcement efforts.

http://cgi.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=18590

Ronald K. Noble is the first American citizen ever to head Interpol. A former Clinton Administration appointee in the Treasury Department, he authored the official report on what went wrong in the 1993 Waco, Texas, conflagration.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w112.html

Every member country designates a central contact for Interpol. In the US it is the department of justice. The only employees it has are American civil servants and American law enforcement officers. Interpol does not own any property in the US and the only records it has are those sent by Interpol to every other police force in the world, those requested by the US from other police forces via Interpol and those collected by US law enforcement at the request of Interpol. In other words, the American Interpol is an American department of Law enforcement dealing with international crime.

It just so happens that the current head of Interpol is not only an American, but a brother at that. The last head was another brother, from South Africa( This guy, South African National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7183569.stm) He was removed when the South African government charged him with corruption.

In other words, a US government department with US government employees dealing with crime by or against Americans has just been given complete immunity from American laws. There are some similar instances in the convoluted world of politics, both the SS and the KGB

For more information on this Executive Order, go to http://threatswatch.org/analysis/2009/12/wither-sovereignty/

To wit:

After initial review and discussions between the writers of this analysis, the context was spelled out plainly.

Through EO 12425, President Reagan extended to INTERPOL recognition as an “International Organization.” In short, the privileges and immunities afforded foreign diplomats was extended to INTERPOL. Two sets of important privileges and immunities were withheld: Section 2© and the remaining sections cited (all of which deal with differing taxes).

And then comes December 17, 2009, and President Obama. The exemptions in EO 12425 were removed.

Section 2c of the United States International Organizations Immunities Act is the crucial piece.

Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.

Inviolable archives means INTERPOL records are beyond US citizens’ Freedom of Information Act requests and from American legal or investigative discovery (”unless such immunity be expressly waived.”)

Property and assets being immune from search and confiscation means precisely that. Wherever they may be in the United States. This could conceivably include human assets - Americans arrested on our soil by INTERPOL officers.

More baseless fearmongering from Greg.

I really like the way you contards get all worked up over this. “Derp! Derp! Dey’s takin’ away our raaaaahhghts!!!” But when the Bush Administration was pumping out warrantless wiretaps and National Security Letters faster than Rush Limbaugh tossing back the Oxies, you just stuffed your head in the sand.

You are truly, truly pathetic. I’m sorry the current President isn’t white enough for you all, but you really really need to lay off the paranoid nonsense.

Have a Happy New Year.

This is just another act by a liberal who believes International law trumps our domestic laws.

Of course obama is hoping that only conservatives are affected by this.