Executive Order 12425

I asked in a previous post, 'Who is this man?' in reference to President Obama. Piece by piece the answer will be fleshed out over time. Here is a piece of that mosaic.

I have seen "talk" of this executive order, but like others have found it unlikely President Obama would have signed off on such an abdication of sovereignty. It seemed a little tinfoil and I have been skeptical, but now I see it is on the radar at The Anchoress and Erick Erickson at Red State. I am not so sanguine now. Color me enlightened. In fact, I find it somewhat frightening when The Anchoress posts:

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.

I’ve linked to it a few times, lately, but I am going to fully repost something I wrote 4 years ago, about how to recognize a coup and stop it. If it is not too late, it is very nearly too late.

Ed Morrisey over at Hot Air asks:

Does the White House intend to treat Americans worse than the terrorists we’ve captured during wartime?

It certainly seems so to me. Any interpretation of this Executive Order leads one to believe that an arm of law enforcement exogenous of constitutional reach is being granted operational rights and privileges beyond what is normally within the scope of American law enforcement.

Update:
A translation of the Order from Noisy Room:

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.

Just how does we defend ourselves if arrested by interpol without discovery?


Update:

How does this executive order differ from the complaints Liberals and Democrats had during the Bush years? You know, the "shredding of The Bill of Rights" squawking.

I believe the primary difference is that the rights being abdicated during the Bush years were in essence handed over to American authorities whereas the rights Obama has signed away are being granted to an intra-governmental organization operating outside the constraints of the constitution, but still on American soil.


Update:
The NY Times connects this Executive Order to the UN. Remember Lord Monckton's warning that the UN Climate Change treaty to be signed in Copenhagen was an attempt at World Government. It certainly seems that Interpol would be the perfect form of enforcement if the US is subordinated to it.







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