"New Year" Could Have A Whole New Meaning

Imagine waking up on New Years Day - perhaps just a tad hungover - to the sight and sound of two strange men rifling through your sock drawer. Imagine that you learn - during the course of your loud, indignant demands - that they are Russian policemen from INTERPOL. Now imagine that you do not live in Moscow or St. Petersburg but Manhattan or perhaps Boise, Idaho.

Then, imagine your outraged frustration upon learning that your own local police are powerless to help you and, further, that you have virtually no recourse in restitution or retribution, and that as you clean up the mess they've made of your quarters, your only option is to grin and bear it. They can't be touched.

Think it can't happen here? Think again. For some inexplicable reason, President Barack Hussein Obama has decided to erase the restrictions put in place by President Ronald Reagan that have previously prevented this very scenario from occurring in America.

Diplomatic immunity has been something that diplomats have enjoyed around the globe for quite some time now, but more obviously here in the United States, home of the United Nations building. The city of New York has been, shall we say, particularly inconvenienced by this protocol as a result of the audacity of that immunity, mostly in the form of unpaid tickets by foreign dignitaries who cannot be prosecuted.

While there have certainly been cases where family members of these diplomats - or in some cases, the diplomats themselves - have committed more serious crimes which were equally immune from prosecution, they are too few to have had a dramatic impact on our society. I'm sure that more than one cop has been driven to distraction by the frustration of it all, but there has been no lasting or noticeable impact on the lives of ordinary Americans. That may all be about to change.

On December 17th, 2009 U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama signed Executive Order 13524 which significantly amends Ronald Reagan's Executive Order 12425, much to the detriment of the nation to which Obama swore an oath on January 20th. That oath on Inauguration Day to serve the American people and protect their constitution has been betrayed by one swift stroke of the Presidential Pen.

Reagan's Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983 was a protective measure against possible abuses of the 79th Congress' International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945. Known in its final Congressional form as Pub.L. 79-291, the Act was responsible for the freedoms that today's foreign diplomats enjoy. Reagan's order was a safeguard against those same immunities being applied to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), which was initially included en toto under the umbrella of Pub.L. 79-291.

Perhaps realizing that - for 38 years under the Act - INTERPOL officers had the authority to operate unimpeded within our borders, Reagan issued Executive Order 12425 to disqualify the organization from the same protections as their more benign counterparts, the diplomats. Those 38 years posed little threat of actual INTERPOL activity on our shores by virtue of the difficulty of travel, but now anyone can be in another country within hours.

The original Pub.L. 79-291 was enacted to protect visiting diplomats from harassment by a countries law enforcement bodies. That seems a reasonable motion since we didn't want our own emissaries harassed abroad. They were all subsequently considered "untouchable", a status that, as I mentioned above, has been taken to extremes but has not altered our way of life. Then Reagan issued Executive Order 12425:

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including Section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669, 22 U.S.C. 288), it is hereby ordered that the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), in which the United States participates pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 263a, is hereby designated as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions and immunities conferred by the International Organizations Immunities Act; except those provided by Section 2(c), the portions of Section 2(d) and Section 3 relating to customs duties and federal internal-revenue importation taxes, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act. This designation is not intended to abridge in any respect the privileges, exemptions or immunities which such organization may have acquired or may acquire by international agreement or by Congressional action.

The sections highlighted in red are the provisions that President Reagan put in place to ensure that international police were not free to usurp our Constitution using the same privileges as diplomats, and are the very protections that Obama has removed with his Executive Order 13524.

Why would the POTUS reverse a predecessor's order that was specifically designed to protect the people from Constitutional abuses? Why would the POTUS issue an order that freed INTERPOL to operate unfettered in our country while our own law enforcement is severely hamstrung - albeit thankfully - by that very document?

And the biggest question of all is, why is this story such a non-story in a nation where the press hammered away for months at "warrantless wiretaps" directed at the genuine enemies we face?

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The U.N. And The Snake Oil Salesman Exposed

This argument has been raging between the deniers and the purveyors of anthropogenic global warming for years now, and it's always been about whether the motives were genuinely noble or covertly nefarious. Now the proverbial cat is out of the bag, as Fox News has unearthed a United Nations document on climate change that will be distributed next week to a contingent of cronies who share that body's vision of a "new world economy".

According to Fox News, the document outlines the pending disaster preachers' planned machinations that will "likely [involve] trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body."

These are the projected consequences that will arise from the implementation of the Copenhagen Accord, a dressed up "improvement" on the Kyoto Treaty, which the United States has thus far rejected. The bad news is, President Obama has already signaled that he is in favor of this abomination. Perhaps that is why the U.N. has been so careless with this document that Fox discovered its existence. They may feel that, with his perceived popularity, Obama will be able to singe-handedly abet in the restructuring of the global economy. They underestimate the American people. I just hope that enough of them learn of this cabal since the mainstream media will probably largely ignore its significance.


In other news, Al Gore has also tipped his hand. On his "lecture and slide-show tours", he promotes investments in products that will benefit him personally. After telling his audiences that we must change our laws as well as our light bulbs, and calling for prohibitive taxes on carbon, he shows on screen some companies that people should invest in and acknowledges that he "has a stake" in them. In the video below - which is a long one - you can watch him at the fifteen minute mark go into sales-pitch mode.




Somewhat related to all of this is the fact that Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann has introduced a resolution that would prevent the U.S. dollar from being replaced by a multi-national currency. This is in response to calls from China, Russia and other countries calling on the International Monetary Fund to look into that very thing. Chris Matthews of Hardball indirectly called her crazy and paranoid, saying, "It's not clear why she did it since nobody on the planet, least of [all] here in America, is talking about switching to some new multi-national currency here." Maybe someone should direct his attention to the news of the U.N. document.

I have complained for years that leftists in this country and around the globe have been creeping out of the shadows and telling us what they plan to do. Now they are shouting it from the rooftops and yet still insist on telling us we're imagining things when we rail against their telegraphed intentions.For that reason, I am going to say this loud and clear and people can choose to believe me or believe that everything will be just fine.

The U.N., Al Gore et al, and developing countries around the world who have always been envious of America and successful western nations, are absolutely planning to change this world by making every country virtually equal in the misery-sharing index.

Do not let that happen.

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Brett Noel, Patriot Art

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