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Originally posted by celticniall
Did this slip past un-noticed? Is this legit? If so, this is a step towards the global police state that some have been warning about.
Originally posted by andy1033
reply to post by dragonsmusic
I thought the fbi can do this already to anyone in the world, except china and russians, anyway.
So why should you americans be special. Your country does all this all over the world, and you want to be free from it,
Why and how should you be?
Originally posted by Polynomial C
reply to post by dragonsmusic
You people are looking into this way too much .. Nations have given INTERPOL international immunity for years .. almost every nation in the WORLD has permitted INTERPOL to operate freely .. AND NOTHING HAS HAPPEN .. NO BIG EVENT .. NO POLICE-STATE..
They do not arrest RANDOM CITIZENS .. they are the INTERNATIONAL POLICE .. they arrest criminals who are wanted on INTERNATIONAL level ..
Unless you are a Drug Lord , Kidnappers, Kidney Harvester , Human Trafficker, etc.. etc.. you should not be worry about this ..
.. You people are way too paranoid .. stop listening to Alex Jones
[edit on 28-12-2009 by Polynomial C]
Originally posted by moniker
Originally posted by dragonsmusic
reply to post by celticniall
"Thus, Interpol now can conduct its operations on U.S. soil with ZERO accountability to anyone in this country"
That's crazy.
Just as crazy as that the CIA has been able to do that on other countries' soil for a long time, with zero accountability to anybody in those countries.
Originally posted by SphinxMontreal
This is all about giving power to police agencies which are not appointed and have no accountability to American elected officials. Basically, it bypasses the democratic process of electing officials and leaves the people absolutely powerless. If you think this is not a big deal, don't give up the crack pipe.
This is the whole premise of globalization, whereby corporations and other agencies which have absolutely no accountability to anyone, can run roughshod over the people by telling them how to live their lives. If you wanted to put a death nail into a sovereign representative form of government, this is one textbook example of how you would go about doing it.
"So many people in America think this does not affect them. They've been convinced that these programs are only targeted at suspected terrorists. I think that's wrong. Our programs are not perfect, and it is inevitable that totally innocent Americans are going to be affected by these programs," former CIA Assistant General Counsel Suzanne Spaulding tells FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith in Spying on the Home Front.
"I'm sure that the government does a lot of things that I don't know about, and I've always been OK with that -- until I found out that I was included."
The new standard, Swire says, is: "Check everybody. Everybody is a suspect."
Spying On The Home Front
Originally posted by dragonsmusic
"Thus, Interpol now can conduct its operations on U.S. soil with ZERO accountability to anyone in this country"
they have unlimited power and nobody to regulate them!
President Barack Hussein Obama placed the United States of America under the authority of the international police organization known as INTERPOL, granting the organization full immunity to operate within the United States.
(AP Photo/Peter Dejong).
According to Threatswatch:
Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order "Amending Executive Order 12425." It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select other "International Organizations" as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945.
By removing language from President Reagan's 1983 Executive Order 12425, 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.
What, exactly does this mean? It means that INTERPOL now has the full authority to conduct investigations and other law enforcement activities on U.S. soil, with full immunity from U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act and with complete independence from oversight from the FBI.
In short, a global law enforcement entity now has full law-enforcement authority in the U.S. without any check on its power afforded by U.S. law and U.S. law enforcement agencies.
Thus, Interpol now can conduct its operations on U.S. soil with ZERO accountability to anyone in this country.
Originally posted by ADVISOR
Did you even bother to read the article, or do you not know what "diplomatic
Originally posted by Polynomial C
INTERPOL has been operating freely in almost every 1st and 2nd World Nation ..
AND NOTHING HAS HAPPENED ..!!!
Also .. the Interpol is not a freaking armed army that comes to the streets of a nation and starts arresting random citizens .. they are an investigating team .. they catch the bad guys (International Criminals) .. (Drug dealers,Kidnappers, etc..)
[edit on 28-12-2009 by Polynomial C]