An open letter to the Democrats in power in Washington D.C.

November 2, 2010 — the most important election in my lifetime!

Yeah, I’m hyperventilating a bit — make that A LOT! While all of us have been freaking out over Obamacare and Copenhagen and the upcoming Cap & Trade nonsense, this administration has quietly handed over the sovereignty of our country to INTERPOL!

Yep — ya read that right ladies and gents. Here’s the deal.

In 1983 President Reagan signed Executive Order 12425 granting INTERPOL “International Organization” status, giving it many of the same rights as embassies, with a few caveats thrown in to protect the rights of US citizens. Just this last Thursday, President Barack Hussein Obama issued an Executive Order — Amending Executive Order 12425 that takes away those caveats and a whole lot more:

EXECUTIVE ORDER
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AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL
AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO
ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 16, 2009.

Huh? You say? What’s got the ol’ Okie so all excited? Well, The Patriot Room explains what all that mumbo jumbo means:

What does this mean? It means that we have an international police force authorized to act within the United States that is no longer subject to 4th Amendment Search and Seizure. The “property and assets of [INTERPOL], wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation.”

INTERPOL, an international criminal police organization, is now poised to reside above the United States Constitution – in a place of sanctity beyond our FBI, CIA, DIA, and all other criminal investigatory domestic organizations.

President Obama has just placed our Constitutional rights under international law.

Got that? NoisyRoom.net breaks it down even further:

Nudge, nudge folks… This seems a minor change but let us break it out for you as we see it. Let’s look at the section from Executive Order 12425.

Here’s the text of 2(c), which this Executive Order now has applying to Interpol:

(c) 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.

This now says that Interpol is no longer subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Their premises or staff can no longer be searched either. Their files are not subject to legal subpoena or discovery. Our government could just hand documents and files over to Interpol and Americans would no longer have access to them. Interpol can legally keep files now on all citizens of the US with no right to redress.

In reality, we have just handed over our sovereignty. Interpol headquarters in the US is currently headquartered in the Department of Justice. A ‘separate’ Interpol agency has been created in the DOJ – let that sink in for a moment. Interpol has been granted diplomatic immunity now by Obama – they have exemption from being subject to search and seizure by law enforcement, US taxes and immunity from FOIA requests, etc. This action could also be used to divulge American military secrets and a whole host of horrific practices having to do with going after our military. It’s the road to internationalism on steroids.

I contend this is the foundation for an international governing and policing body. A modern day SS here in the US if you like. Remember how Obama wanted to create a civilian police force? Well, it’s here, just from a direction I never saw it coming from. I really believe you will see Interpol police forces on US soil in the near future. It will resemble the Gestapo and their intelligence gathering techniques. This police force would not be subject to our normal Constitutional oversights – remember, no search and seizure etc. You have to admire the evil genius behind all this. Just stunning.

Terrifying! Death by 1000 Paper Cuts gives us even more to be afraid of:

That’s quite a bad scenario. In fact, it’s quite bad–but it’s not the only horrifying scenario.

Now for another scenario.

Here’s an entity–residing in the Department of Justice–to which files, executive branch information, in short, any information that the President does not want Congress or the press to see–where “inconvenient” info can be dumped that’s beyond the power of most to bring to the light of day.

The government has plans which some might see as unconstitutional? Drop the file off at Interpol and–voila!–it’s no longer a problem for congressional subpoenas.

That takes care of any changes in Congressional make-up that might come about due to the 2010 tsunami that’s building off-shore right now.

And, when The Anchoress is this worried, I get a lot worried!

A few days ago, I wrote: the Democrats are conspicuously unworried about upcoming elections. Perhaps they are not worried because they know something that all the angry voters do not seem to understand: that they no longer have to give a damn; they will not have to worry about future elections; they will not have to care what anyone thinks of their governance, and they have no worries about the press, either. There are no Woodwards or Bernsteins on their horizons.

Socialism, like the Chicago fog, creeps in on little cat feet. That doesn’t make it less nefarious.

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I know it is very difficult to get anyone interested in this Executive Order, because the dishonest Obamacare bill is dominating the day. This is part of the problem: Obama and his team have started so many fires that while one is being fought in one place, another is taking hold, elsewhere. But the thing is, the fires are all connected, and they come from the same source.

With the White House Christmas Holiday Tree adorned with ornaments featuring Chairman Mao, a famous transvestite and the Chosen One Obama his own self, and with Harry Reid having built a clause into the Senate’s Health Care Bill that ensures that the Health Rationing Panels can NEVER be rescinded, with the Obama administration committing to the world that we’ll curtail our CO2 emissions regardless of the economic fallout we will face — what’s the big deal about silently signing over the sovereignty of this great land to the likes of INTERPOL?

Makes havin’ “sex with that woman” seem like child’s play.

Is this act of Obama covered by the phrase “High crimes and misdemeanors”?

Just asking . . .

You gotta laugh, or you just might have to cry. Right wing bloggers tried their damnedest to push the Resko/Obama house deal to the forefront, but the MSM just wasn’t havin’ any of it. That last month before the election word got out that Rezko was singin’ like the proverbial canary and that the Illinois Governor was going to be “touched” by the scandal. We all wondered if any of the wind-carried excrement would stick to the Democratic nominee, but he did a great imitation of the Teflon-don and won on 11/4. Now this happens! Wild . . .

Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested by FBI agents on federal corruption charges Tuesday morning.

Blagojevich and Harris were arrested simultaneously at their homes at about 6:15 a.m., according to Frank Bochte of the FBI. Both were transported to FBI headquarters in Chicago.

In one charge related to the appointment of a senator to replace Barack Obama, prosecutors allege that Blagojevich sought appointment for himself as secretary of Health and Human Services in the new Obama administration, or a lucrative job with a union, in exchange for appointing a union-preferred candidate.

Another charge alleges Blagojevich and Harris conspired to demand the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members responsible for editorials critical of him in exchange for state help with the sale of Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs baseball stadium owned by Tribune Co.

Check out the remarks of U.S Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald:

“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement.

“They allege that Blagojevich put a ‘for sale’ sign on the naming of a United States senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism.”

In a press conference held today, Obama said that he had no contact with Blagojevich about filling his soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat — none! ABC’s Jake Tapper reminds us that in November Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said something very different:

While insisting that the President-elect had not expressed a favorite to replace him, and his inclination was to avoid being a “kingmaker,” Axelrod said, “I know he’s talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.”

Crazy! More when I can get back to the computer . . .

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Hugh Hewitt links to the Chicago Tribune on the Gov’s only options: “To sing loud and long.”

The only real decision Gov. Dead Meat has to make is when he’ll start blubbering into a federal tape recorder and how much he’ll say. The guys behind the guys aren’t amused. To them, this Blagojevich isn’t funny anymore.

Someone who knows where all the bodies are buried probably wonders if he’s soon gonna be one! Michelle Malkin has lots more, and the link to The Smoking Gun’s excerpt of the criminal complaint.

[H/t: Glenn - Mustang, OK]

Some of you might have caught last month’s announcement by Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) that October was the hottest October on record and wondered to yourself — what are these guys smokin’ cause were freezin’ our keisters here? There is an explanation for this madness, and it’s once again bad data from our main Global Warming hysteric, and good ol’ buddy to Al Gore, Dr. James Hanson. Christopher Booker at the Telegraph.co.uk has the skinny:

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China’s official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its “worst snowstorm ever”. In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.

So what explained the anomaly? GISS’s computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.

Innocent error, or intentional manipulation of the data sets because the reality of the situation just doesn’t fit into the Anthropogenic Climate Change catechism? Shoot, I don’t know. But, the Global Warming proponents have been willing to use funny numbers before. At the very least it’s sloppy work that went unnoticed by GISS because the information was exactly what they wanted to see. Booker continues:

The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs – run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious “hockey stick” graph – GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new “hotspot” in the Arctic – in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year.

A GISS spokesman lamely explained that the reason for the error in the Russian figures was that they were obtained from another body, and that GISS did not have resources to exercise proper quality control over the data it was supplied with. This is an astonishing admission: the figures published by Dr Hansen’s institute are not only one of the four data sets that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) relies on to promote its case for global warming, but they are the most widely quoted, since they consistently show higher temperatures than the others.

If there is one scientist more responsible than any other for the alarm over global warming it is Dr Hansen, who set the whole scare in train back in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Again and again, Dr Hansen has been to the fore in making extreme claims over the dangers of climate change. (He was recently in the news here for supporting the Greenpeace activists acquitted of criminally damaging a coal-fired power station in Kent, on the grounds that the harm done to the planet by a new power station would far outweigh any damage they had done themselves.)

Yet last week’s latest episode is far from the first time Dr Hansen’s methodology has been called in question. In 2007 he was forced by Mr Watts and Mr McIntyre to revise his published figures for US surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s, as he had claimed, but the 1930s.

That little whoops by Hanson was covered in Aug. of last year. He sure has a way with numbers don’t he?

So, here we find ourselves with a new President-elect who has totally bought into the Global Warming hysteria of Al Gore and Co. along with what is looking like a iron-fist-Nancy Pelosi controlled House and a near, or even an actual, filibuster-proof Democrat-controlled Senate, both of which scream constantly that we MUST SAVE THE PLANET FROM GLOBAL WARMING!

I don’t drop the “F” bomb lightly — Folks, “We’re F___ed!” Booker explains why:

But whether, on the basis of such evidence, it is wise for the world’s governments to embark on some of the most costly economic measures ever proposed, to remedy a problem which may actually not exist, is a question which should give us all pause for thought.

Our new leaders aren’t pausing for much thinking — this is just too ripe an opportunity to do what they have wanted to do for decades — tax, Tax, TAX! and spend, Spend, SPEND!!!!! And, cripple the U.S. business community along the way. And, take ever more control over our personal lives along the way.

When, make that IF, we ever wake up from this Democrat-controlled nightmare, this Progressive-drunken bacchanal of Liberal Fascism — the hangover is gonna be a doozy!

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