Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques/Sapphire
Third District Congressman Walter B Jones, Jr.
January 17, 2010
We published this article on January 4 as a follow-up of three earlier articles January 2, December 27, and December 26. Thus, the Beaufort Observer was one of the first to pick up on the Obama Administration’s action with regard to INTERPOL.
Our readers may be interested to know that the article published on January 5 was picked up by some of the national sites and blogs and garnered more views than any article we have published in the last year. Over 300,000 people viewed the piece before the traffic crashed our servers, we moved the article and shut off the logs.
Now, Reps. Mike Rogers (the primary sponsor and former FBI agent), Vern Buchanan, Kenny Marchant and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen have introduced HR 4453. HR 4453 would simply revoke Executive Order 13524 and thus reverting the wording back to the original EO 12425.
It should be remembered that Team Obama has contended that “EO 13524 did not change anything.” So one would assume President Obama would not oppose HR 4453.
In addition to the original sponsors, now North Carolina Congressman Walter B. Jones of the Third District has signed on as a co-sponsor. Rep. Jones’ office issued the following statement Friday (1-15-10):
” For quite some time I have been deeply troubled by our government’s willingness to give away our sovereignty to supra-national organizations like the United Nations (UN) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). As you know, these global bureaucracies rarely, if ever, have America’s best interests in mind. The latest cause for concern is President Obama’s recent Executive Order granting the international police organization Interpol immunity to operate in America beyond the confines of our laws and Constitution, and without oversight by any American law enforcement agency. I have been outspoken in sounding the alarm about President Obama’s Executive Order but unfortunately the President does not seem interested in reconsidering his decision. That is why I’ve joined Michigan Republican Congressman and former FBI agent Mike Rogers as a cosponsor of H.R. 4453 – The INTERPOL Immunities Oversight Act. This important legislation would repeal President Obama’s Executive Order. Rest assured that Congressman Rogers and I will continue to press this issue and stand up for the laws and sovereignty of the United States.”
We don’t have a lot of optimism this resolution will go anywhere but congratulate Rep. Jones and we thank him for standing up for the Constitution. We’ll keep you posted.
We have talked to a Congressional staff person who is not authorized to speak on the record but was willing to tell us off the record what they believe is behind the Administration’s effort. It is gun control.
Recently the Obama Administration signaled through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it was interested in working with the UN on an international treaty to control firearms being sold across international borders. The action to give INTERPOL immunity from the U. S. Constitution (in this case the Second Amendment) is, according to this source, directly related to establishing the groundwork for an enforcement mechanism for such an international gun control treaty, the details of which are not settled yet, but it is apparent that to make any treaty work there would have to be an enforcement mechanism. Using domestic law enforcement agencies, such as the ATF, FBI and even local agencies would present problems because they could be challenged under the Second Amendment. INTERPOL having immunity would get around that “problem.”
For the best summary of EO 12425 we have found click here.
http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-c-2010-01-15-241697.112112…
