Executive Order Amended to Immunize INTERPOL In America - Is The ICC Next?
By Steve Schippert, Clyde Middleton
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 o the r "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.
For Immediate Release December 17, 2009
Executive Order -- Amending Executive Order 12425
EXECUTIVE ORDER
- - - - - - -
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 fur the r amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2©, Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes the m.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 16, 2009.
After initial review and discussions between the writers of this analysis, the context was spelled out plainly.
Through EO 12425, President Reagan extended to INTERPOL recognition as an "International Organization." In short, the privileges and immunities afforded foreign diplomats was extended to INTERPOL. Two sets of important privileges and immunities were withheld: Section 2© and the remaining sections cited (all of which deal with differing taxes).
And the n comes December 17, 2009, and President Obama. The exemptions in EO 12425 were removed.
Section 2c of the United States International Organizations Immunities Act is the crucial piece.
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. (Emphasis added.)
Inviolable archives means INTERPOL records are beyond US citizens' Freedom of Information Act requests and from American legal or investigative discovery ("unless such immunity be expressly waived.")
Property and assets being immune from search and confiscation means precisely that. Wherever the y may be in the United States . This could conceivably include human assets - Americans arrested on our soil by INTERPOL officers.
Context: International Criminal Court
The importance of this last crucial point cannot be understated, because this immunity and protection - and elevation above the US Constitution - afforded INTERPOL is likely a precursor to the White House subjecting the United States under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). INTERPOL provides a significant enforcement function for the ICC, just as our FBI provides a significant function for our Department of Justice.
We direct the American public to paragraph 28 of the ICC's Proposed Programme Budget for 2010 (PDF).
29. Additionally, the Court will continue to seek the cooperation of States not party to the Rome Statute and to develop its relationships with regional organizations such as the Organization of American States (OAS), the Arab League (AL), the African Union (AU), the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), ASEAN and CARICOM. We will also continue to engage with subregional and the matic organizations, such as SADC and ECOWAS, and the Commonwealth Secretariat and the OIF. This will be done through high level visits, briefings and, as appropriate, relationship agreements. Work will also be carried out with sectoral organizations such as IDLO and INTERPOL, to increase efficiency.
The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute - the UN treaty that established the International Criminal Court. (See: Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court)
President George W. Bush rejected subjecting the United States to the jurisdiction of the ICC and removed the United States as a signatory. President Bill Clinton had previously signed the Rome Statute during his presidency. Two critical matters are at play. One is an overall matter of sovereignty and the concept of the primacy of American law above those of the rest of the world. But more recently a more over-riding concern principally has been the potential - if not likely - specter of subjecting our Armed Forces to a hostile international body seeking war crimes prosecutions during the execution of an unpopular war.
President Bush in fact went so far as to gain agreement from nations that the y would expressly not detain or hand over to the ICC members of the United States armed forces. The fear of a symbolic ICC circus trial as a form of international political protest to American military actions in Iraq and elsewhere was real and palpable.
President Obama's words have been carefully chosen when directly regarding the ICC. While President Bush outright rejected subjugating American armed forces to any international court as a matter of policy, President Obama said in his 2008 presidential campaign that it is merely "premature to commit" to signing America on.
However, in a Foreign Policy in Focus round-table in 2008, the host group cited his former foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power. She essentially laid down what can be viewed as now-President Obama's roadmap to America rejoining the ICC. His principal objections are not explained as those of sovereignty, but ra the r of image and perception.
Obama's former foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power, said in an early March (2008) interview with The Irish Times that many things need to happen before Obama could think about signing the Rome Treaty.
"Until we've closed Guantánamo, gotten out of Iraq responsibly, renounced torture and rendition, shown a different face for America , American membership of the ICC is going to make countries around the world think the ICC is a tool of American hegemony.
The detention center at Guantánamo Bay is nearing its closure and an alternate continental American site for terrorist detention has been selected in Illinois . The time line for Iraq withdrawal has been set. And President Obama has given an abundance of international speeches intended to "show a different face for America ." He has in fact been roundly criticized domestically for the routinely apologetic and critical nature of the se speeches.
President Obama has not rejected the concept of ICC jurisdiction over US citizens and service members. He has avoided any direct reference to this while offering praise for the ICC for conducting its trials so far "in America 's interests." The door thus remains wide open to the skeptical observer.
CONCLUSIONS
In light of what we know and can observe, it is our logical conclusion that President Obama's Executive Order amending President Ronald Reagans' 1983 EO 12425 and placing INTERPOL above the United States Constitution and beyond the legal reach of our own top law enforcement is a precursor to more damaging moves.
The pre-requisite conditions regarding the Iraq withdrawal and the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility closure will continue the ir course.. meanwhile, the next move from President Obama is likely an attempt to dissolve the agreements made between President Bush and o the r states preventing the m from turning over American military forces to the ICC (via INTERPOL) for war crimes or any o the r prosecutions.
When the paths on the road map converge - Iraq withdrawal, Guantánamo closure, perceived American image improved internationally, and an empowered INTERPOL in the United States - it is probable that President Barack Obama will once again make America a signatory to the International Criminal Court. It will be a move that surrenders American sovereignty to an international body who's INTERPOL enforcement arm has already been elevated above the Constitution and American domestic law enforcement.
For an added and disturbing wrinkle, INTERPOL's central operations office in the United States is within our own Justice Department offices. They are American law enforcement officers working under the aegis of INTERPOL within our own Justice Department. That the y now operate with full diplomatic immunity and with "inviolable archives" from within our own buildings should send red flags soaring into the clouds.
This is the disturbing context for President Obama's quiet release of an amended Executive Order 12425. American sovereignty hangs in the balance if the se actions are not prevented through public outcry and political pressure. Some Americans are paying attention, as can be seen from some of the earliest recognitions of this troubling development here, here and here. But the discussion must extend well beyond the Internet and social media.
Ultimately, a detailed verbal explanation is due the American public from the President of the United States detailing why an international law enforcement arm assisting a court we are not a signatory to has been elevated above our Constitution upon our soil.
By Steve Schippert on December 23, 2009 3:00 AM
After reading this, I am totally convinced that Obama is a Terrorist!!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Final Thoughts For 2009
2009 has been the worst year on record that I can remember, and I go back well over 50 years. I have not only lost most of what I had, but I also cannot get work to try and save what I have left, but I am not on the government’s doorstep looking for a handout or a free ride. I am not the only one, many people are suffering at the hands of our stupid politicians and most everyone out there has not been immune to the disastrous progressive socialist agenda that our current politicians in power are desperately shoving down our throats. Of course if you are the likes of ACORN, SEIU, AIG, Citibank, Bank of America or all the corrupt people holding offices and are associated with the likes of Obama and his Chicago style politics, such as those who adorn his administration and the Czars who are being illegally handed our country on a silver platter and who have received billions of taxpayer dollars to bail them out or rather to line their pockets, then of course you have no worries!
The healthcare bill is being muscled through by way of payoffs to politicians in order to get them to play ball with Obama, who refuses to listen to the will of the people who are screaming about his actions louder than they did Hillary care. Some of the politicians such as the likes of Senator Mary Landrieu who was against the health care bill have caved in to payoffs such as the 300 billion dollar payout Landrieu will receive for her state of Louisiana for switching her vote to support Osama’s health care bill. Our president is nothing more than a lying deceitful self proclaimed Muslim who shows us daily that he has no regard for the American people but rather his loyalties to those who are intent upon destroying us and while the press keeps his big mouth wife under wraps because she hates America and is so vocal about it, we still actually have people in this country that are so damn stupid they cannot see the obvious. Just look at what he did on December 17th 2009 signing and amending executive order 12425 to immunize INTERPOL in America. You will need to read my next post to get all the details; it is guaranteed to piss you off!!
I love this country and know that it was created under the direction of God to allow us a nation where we would be free to practice the religious beliefs that our forefathers stood for so many years ago. It is the responsibility of each and every American to stand against the evil that is trying so desperately to destroy us from within and I for one will not be deterred, I will stand for what God and my forefathers worked so diligently to create and protect. My deepest appreciation goes to those who have fought and died to protect this great country and the Constitution, but as we have all seen, Obama has no regard for the military or what they stand for.
As we approach a new year I urge everyone to become heavily involved in the process of removing these thugs from office and replacing them with people who will stand for America and the Constitution protecting them at all costs. I am tired of all the rules we are being subjected to about political correctness and minority rules. The majority of this country are religious God fearing people who have worked hard for what they have and frankly it is total BS that they are required to hand it over to some low life illegal or lazy good for nothing minority who feels that they are due a reward from others just because they happen to be alive and living in this country, and our politicians see nothing wrong with it. Doing the math I have come to the conclusion that it would have been much cheaper to round up all the low life’s in this country and ship them off to places like Iran, Iraq or Venezuela where they would get just exactly what they deserve, a place where they could live under socialistic rule having the government take total care of them and treating them like the scum they have become.
Everyone in this country has always had the opportunity to succeed, but if you were foolish enough to believe that the government was there just for you, then I say it's too damn bad you didn't succeed and it’s time for you to pack your bags and move on. We have got to stop living in fear of the government and under the current rule of tyranny that is plaguing us at this time. Wake Up America, come to your senses and stand up for what you believe. There are millions of us that are already doing just that and it is time for the rest of you to wake up and come to the party!
The healthcare bill is being muscled through by way of payoffs to politicians in order to get them to play ball with Obama, who refuses to listen to the will of the people who are screaming about his actions louder than they did Hillary care. Some of the politicians such as the likes of Senator Mary Landrieu who was against the health care bill have caved in to payoffs such as the 300 billion dollar payout Landrieu will receive for her state of Louisiana for switching her vote to support Osama’s health care bill. Our president is nothing more than a lying deceitful self proclaimed Muslim who shows us daily that he has no regard for the American people but rather his loyalties to those who are intent upon destroying us and while the press keeps his big mouth wife under wraps because she hates America and is so vocal about it, we still actually have people in this country that are so damn stupid they cannot see the obvious. Just look at what he did on December 17th 2009 signing and amending executive order 12425 to immunize INTERPOL in America. You will need to read my next post to get all the details; it is guaranteed to piss you off!!
I love this country and know that it was created under the direction of God to allow us a nation where we would be free to practice the religious beliefs that our forefathers stood for so many years ago. It is the responsibility of each and every American to stand against the evil that is trying so desperately to destroy us from within and I for one will not be deterred, I will stand for what God and my forefathers worked so diligently to create and protect. My deepest appreciation goes to those who have fought and died to protect this great country and the Constitution, but as we have all seen, Obama has no regard for the military or what they stand for.
As we approach a new year I urge everyone to become heavily involved in the process of removing these thugs from office and replacing them with people who will stand for America and the Constitution protecting them at all costs. I am tired of all the rules we are being subjected to about political correctness and minority rules. The majority of this country are religious God fearing people who have worked hard for what they have and frankly it is total BS that they are required to hand it over to some low life illegal or lazy good for nothing minority who feels that they are due a reward from others just because they happen to be alive and living in this country, and our politicians see nothing wrong with it. Doing the math I have come to the conclusion that it would have been much cheaper to round up all the low life’s in this country and ship them off to places like Iran, Iraq or Venezuela where they would get just exactly what they deserve, a place where they could live under socialistic rule having the government take total care of them and treating them like the scum they have become.
Everyone in this country has always had the opportunity to succeed, but if you were foolish enough to believe that the government was there just for you, then I say it's too damn bad you didn't succeed and it’s time for you to pack your bags and move on. We have got to stop living in fear of the government and under the current rule of tyranny that is plaguing us at this time. Wake Up America, come to your senses and stand up for what you believe. There are millions of us that are already doing just that and it is time for the rest of you to wake up and come to the party!
Is Anybody Paying Attention??
$34,000:
The amount of federal taxes that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner (D) failed to pay during his employment at the International Monetary Fund despite receiving extra compensation and explanatory brochures that described his tax liabilities.
True: http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/01/timothy_geithner_obamas_nomine.html
$75,000:
The amount of money that the head of the powerful tax-writing committee, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), was forced to report on his taxes after the discovery that he had not reported income from a Dominican
Republic rental property. His excuses for the failure started with blaming his wife, then his accountant
and finally the fact that he didn't speak Spanish.
True: http://www.nypost.com/seven/09102008/news/regionalnews/rangels_spanish_excuse_128444.htm
$93,000:
The INCREASE in the amount of petty cash each of our Congressional representatives voted to give themselves in January 2009 during the height of an economic meltdown. That's a $40 + million INCREASE!
True: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot..com/2009/01/its-recession-congress-gives-lawmakers.html
$133,900:
The amount Fannie Mae "invested" in Chris Dodd (D-CT), head of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, presumably to repel oversight of the GSE prior to its meltdown. Said meltdown helped touch off the current economic crisis. In only a few years time, Fannie also "invested" over $105,000 in
then-Senator Barack Obama.
True: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html
$140,000:
The amount of back taxes and interest that Cabinet nominee Tom Daschle(D) was forced to cough up after the vetting process revealed significant, unexplained tax liabilities.
True: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123335984751235247.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
$356,000:
The approximate amount of income and deductions that Dasc hle(D) was forced to report on his amended 2005 and 2007 tax returns after being caught cheating on his taxes. This includes $255,256 for the use of a car service, $83,333 in unreported income, and $14,963 in charitable contributions.
True: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123335984751235247.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
$800,000:
The amount of "sweetheart" mortgages Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) received from Countrywide Financial, the details for which he has refused to release details despite months of promises to do so. Countrywide was once the nation's largest mortgage lender and linked to Government-Sponsored Entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Ma c. Their meltdown precipitated the current financial crisis. Just days ago in Pennsylvania, Countrywide was forced to pay $150,000,000 in mortgage assistance following "a state investigation that concluded that Countrywide relaxed its underwriting standards tosell risky loans to consumers who did not understand them and could not afford them."
$1,000,000:
The estimated amount of donations by Denise Rich, wife of fugitive Marc Rich, to Democrat interests and the William J. Clinton Foundation in an apparent quid pro quo deal that resulted in a pardon for Mr. Rich. The pardon was reviewed and blessed by Obama Attorney General and then Deputy AG Eric
Holder, despite numerous requests by government officials to turn it down.
True: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/20/nation/na-holder20
$12,000,000:
The amount of TARP money provided to community bank OneUnited despite the fact that it did not qualify for funds, and was "under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses." It turns out that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a key contributor to the Fannie
Mae meltdown, just happens to be married to one of the bank's former directors.
True: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258284337504295.html
$23,500,000:
The upper range of net worth Rep. Allan Mollohan(D-WV) accumulated in four years time according to The Washington Post through earmarks of "tens of millions of dollars to groups associated with his own business partners."
True: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/14/AR2006051401032.html
$2,000,000,000:
($2 billion) the approximate amount of money that House Appropriation s Chairman David Obey (D-WI) is earmarking related to his son's lobbying efforts. The son, Craig Obey, is "a top lobbyist for the nonprofit group" that would receive a roughly $2 billion component of the "Stimulus" package.
True: http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/a_plan_for_stimulus_money_national_parks/C530/L37/
$3,700,000,000:
($3.7 billion) not to be outdone, this is the estimated value of various defense contracts awarded to a company controlled by the husband of Rep. Diane Feinstein (D-CA). Despite an obvious conflict-of-interest as "a member of 20 the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms?."
True: http://www.sfgatecom/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL http://www.bohemian.com/metro/01.24.07/dianne-feinstein-0704.html
$4,190,000,000:
($4.19 billion) the amount of money in t he so-called "Stimulus" package devoted to fraudulent voter
registration ACORN group?under the auspices of "Community Stabilization Activities". ACORN
is currently the subject of a RICO suit in Ohio .
True: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/stimulus-economy-percent-2295331-bill-pelosi
$1,646,000,000,000 ($1.646 trillion):
The approximate amount of annual; United States exports endangered by the "Stimulus" package, which provides a "Buy American" stricture. According to international trade experts, a "US-EU trade war looms": which could result in a worldwide economic depression reminiscent of that touched off by the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act.
True: http://www.asiaing.com/2008-national-export-strategy-the-new-global-main-street.html
http://www.powerlineblogcom/archives/2009/01/022685.php
Background: Smoot-Hawley Act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot-Hawley_Tariff_Act
It's not just a culture of corruption; it's a culture of corruption and stupidity. In addition, these folks appear to be above the law. All of the afore mentioned are still in office, ruling like royalty they've become.
All this happened in just the FIRST QUARTER of 2009. Look at where we are now!
The amount of federal taxes that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner (D) failed to pay during his employment at the International Monetary Fund despite receiving extra compensation and explanatory brochures that described his tax liabilities.
True: http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/01/timothy_geithner_obamas_nomine.html
$75,000:
The amount of money that the head of the powerful tax-writing committee, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), was forced to report on his taxes after the discovery that he had not reported income from a Dominican
Republic rental property. His excuses for the failure started with blaming his wife, then his accountant
and finally the fact that he didn't speak Spanish.
True: http://www.nypost.com/seven/09102008/news/regionalnews/rangels_spanish_excuse_128444.htm
$93,000:
The INCREASE in the amount of petty cash each of our Congressional representatives voted to give themselves in January 2009 during the height of an economic meltdown. That's a $40 + million INCREASE!
True: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot..com/2009/01/its-recession-congress-gives-lawmakers.html
$133,900:
The amount Fannie Mae "invested" in Chris Dodd (D-CT), head of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, presumably to repel oversight of the GSE prior to its meltdown. Said meltdown helped touch off the current economic crisis. In only a few years time, Fannie also "invested" over $105,000 in
then-Senator Barack Obama.
True: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html
$140,000:
The amount of back taxes and interest that Cabinet nominee Tom Daschle(D) was forced to cough up after the vetting process revealed significant, unexplained tax liabilities.
True: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123335984751235247.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
$356,000:
The approximate amount of income and deductions that Dasc hle(D) was forced to report on his amended 2005 and 2007 tax returns after being caught cheating on his taxes. This includes $255,256 for the use of a car service, $83,333 in unreported income, and $14,963 in charitable contributions.
True: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123335984751235247.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
$800,000:
The amount of "sweetheart" mortgages Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) received from Countrywide Financial, the details for which he has refused to release details despite months of promises to do so. Countrywide was once the nation's largest mortgage lender and linked to Government-Sponsored Entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Ma c. Their meltdown precipitated the current financial crisis. Just days ago in Pennsylvania, Countrywide was forced to pay $150,000,000 in mortgage assistance following "a state investigation that concluded that Countrywide relaxed its underwriting standards tosell risky loans to consumers who did not understand them and could not afford them."
$1,000,000:
The estimated amount of donations by Denise Rich, wife of fugitive Marc Rich, to Democrat interests and the William J. Clinton Foundation in an apparent quid pro quo deal that resulted in a pardon for Mr. Rich. The pardon was reviewed and blessed by Obama Attorney General and then Deputy AG Eric
Holder, despite numerous requests by government officials to turn it down.
True: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/20/nation/na-holder20
$12,000,000:
The amount of TARP money provided to community bank OneUnited despite the fact that it did not qualify for funds, and was "under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses." It turns out that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a key contributor to the Fannie
Mae meltdown, just happens to be married to one of the bank's former directors.
True: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258284337504295.html
$23,500,000:
The upper range of net worth Rep. Allan Mollohan(D-WV) accumulated in four years time according to The Washington Post through earmarks of "tens of millions of dollars to groups associated with his own business partners."
True: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/14/AR2006051401032.html
$2,000,000,000:
($2 billion) the approximate amount of money that House Appropriation s Chairman David Obey (D-WI) is earmarking related to his son's lobbying efforts. The son, Craig Obey, is "a top lobbyist for the nonprofit group" that would receive a roughly $2 billion component of the "Stimulus" package.
True: http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/a_plan_for_stimulus_money_national_parks/C530/L37/
$3,700,000,000:
($3.7 billion) not to be outdone, this is the estimated value of various defense contracts awarded to a company controlled by the husband of Rep. Diane Feinstein (D-CA). Despite an obvious conflict-of-interest as "a member of 20 the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms?."
True: http://www.sfgatecom/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL http://www.bohemian.com/metro/01.24.07/dianne-feinstein-0704.html
$4,190,000,000:
($4.19 billion) the amount of money in t he so-called "Stimulus" package devoted to fraudulent voter
registration ACORN group?under the auspices of "Community Stabilization Activities". ACORN
is currently the subject of a RICO suit in Ohio .
True: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/stimulus-economy-percent-2295331-bill-pelosi
$1,646,000,000,000 ($1.646 trillion):
The approximate amount of annual; United States exports endangered by the "Stimulus" package, which provides a "Buy American" stricture. According to international trade experts, a "US-EU trade war looms": which could result in a worldwide economic depression reminiscent of that touched off by the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act.
True: http://www.asiaing.com/2008-national-export-strategy-the-new-global-main-street.html
http://www.powerlineblogcom/archives/2009/01/022685.php
Background: Smoot-Hawley Act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot-Hawley_Tariff_Act
It's not just a culture of corruption; it's a culture of corruption and stupidity. In addition, these folks appear to be above the law. All of the afore mentioned are still in office, ruling like royalty they've become.
All this happened in just the FIRST QUARTER of 2009. Look at where we are now!
Government and the People
When a government founded by the people for the people enacts something that a over whelming majority of its citizens do not want then this is a government controlled by special interests or a government interested in control. The new administration promised us change, fundamental change and transparency in government. Yet they write new legislation, that everyone agrees will have a huge significant effect on America, behind closed doors. Why? Legislation that if passed into law will impact everyone of us and control a significant part of the economy. Legislation that has far reaching tentacles into all of our lives and more control than most of us even know about or realize. Why? If you wonder why like I do I suggest reading some of the bills that are being passed, there's a whole lot that concerns me and should you to!
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." "A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" - Thomas Jefferson
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." "A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" - Thomas Jefferson
Makes Perfect Sense To Me
"When the people fear their government there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson
Proposed Amendment 28
Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United
States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives,
and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or
Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the
United States .
when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson
Proposed Amendment 28
Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United
States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives,
and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or
Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the
United States .
This Says It All
THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for that gives them secure jobs, lifetime healthcare,
great retirement benefits and the opportunity to vote for their own pay raises, solitaire, Facebook, checking baseball scores while convened to vote on a new budget.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Why is Islamberg Now a Ghost Town?
Dr. Paul L. Williams, PhD
Why Is Islamberg Now a Ghost Town?
December 22, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports this week that U.S. investigators are discovering that more and more young Muslims are vanishing from mosques, madrassas, and Islamic centers.
The disappearances, the Journal notes, are raising grave concerns among FBI and Homeland Security officials who fear that an onset of jihadist activity will take place on American soil in the near future.
Hundreds of Muslim men are also missing from Islamberg and this is not a propitious omen.
The sentry post is gone and no guards are in sight at the entrance to the 70 acre Islamic settlement located in the dense forest between Deposit and Hancock in upper New York State.
Young men in Islamic garb no longer congregate before the makeshift mosque, and no students are in attendance at the one room shack that serves as Sheikh Gilani's “International Quranic Open University.”
Gunfire no longer can be heard from the firing ranges along the eastern parameter of the property – and no grunts come from new recruits at the obstacle course.
A new sign at the entranceway reads, “Welcome to Holy Islamberg: The International Quranic Open University.” Next to this sign, which features the image of a mosque emerging from the mountains, is a pot of plastic carnations. Another sign proclaims that the community is home to the “United Muslim – Christian Forum.”
Such statements of welcome are offset by the “No Trespassing” signs that have been nailed to trees throughout the compound.
On the opposite side of the road leading into the community is a rack of metal mailboxes bearing such names as Abdul-Haqq, Abdul Jalil, Mumim Roberts, Abdullah Simonds, and Salam Insan.
What has happened to this once bustling complex of radical Islamists – a place where the cries of muezzins were accompanied by the incessant rat-tat-tat of machine gunfire? Where are the Arab dignitaries that used to visit this remote community in chauffeur-driven limousines? Where are the armed sentries who warded away all intruders?
A handful of children play in the mud and muck before rows of rusty old trailers, and a few women in full burkas walk along the rutty dirt road that leads to the heart of the squalid Muslim compound.
The few residents who remain in the settlement are not environmentalists. Sewage seeps from septic tanks and outhouses into the creek that flows at the base of the settlement. Bags of rotting garbage remain stacked between the trailers. And the once pristine countryside is now littered with junk cars, moldy mattresses, empty tanks of propane, and old appliances.
Where are the men?
What has happened to this bustling center of jihadi training?
Why has Islamberg become a ghost town?
The same phenomenon of vanishing Muslim men is taking place at mosques, madrassas, and other Islamic communities throughout the country and at other Jamaat ul-Fuqra paramilitary compounds, including one in Red House, Virginia.
U.S. investigators have now discovered that many of the missing Muslims are showing up in the killing fields of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
Five American Muslims recently were arrested in Pakistan following a raid at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Muhammad, a Pakistani movement designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2001.
The five American Muslims – identified as Ahmed Abdullah, Waqar Hassan Khan, Eman Hassan, Yasir and Rami Zamzam – were planning to join forces with the Taliban to fight the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Zamzam is a graduate dental student at Howard University, where he served as president of the Muslim Student Association.
David Coleman Headley, another Muslim who disappeared, is a native of Chicago who attended Lashkar-e-Toiba-operated terrorism training camps in Pakistan and helped Lashker-e-Toiba members and others plan and execute the attacks in Denmark against the newspaper which published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, which Muslims found offensive, as well as the violent attack in Mumbai, in about 170 people died.
At the same time Headley was taken into custody, U.S. investigators discovered that 20 Somali immigrants, who were reported missing from a mosque in Minnesota, had joined the Islamist insurgent group, al Shabaab, and were engaged in fighting Somalia's U.S.-backed government.
And there is the case of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old resident of Denver, who made a trip to Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2008 for the stated purpose of visiting his wife only to show up at an al Qaeda training camp where he received instruction in making and detonating explosives. In September, Zazi was collared by federal officials as he made his way to New York City to carry out attacks with the same back-pack bombs that were used to blow up a train station in Madrid and several subway stations in London.
Where are the Muslim men from Islamberg?
The answer comes from a heavy-set woman in a long black burka who stops to check her mail box. “The men – all gone,” she says in halting English. “All – in Pakistan.”
Islamberg was established in 1980 by Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, a Pakistani cleric who served as the imam of the Yasin Masjid in Brooklyn. A quack practitioner of something called “Koranic psychiatry,” Sheikh Gilani presented himself to the Brooklyn congregation as "the sixth Sultan ul Faqr,” with a lineage that dates back to the prophet Mohammed. He claimed to have supernatural powers that came from his regular reception of visits by jinn and “non-human beings.”
Sporting ammunition belts, Gilani called upon members of a Black Muslim street gang known as Dar al-Islam (DAR) to take part in the holy war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Hundreds answered the call and headed off to training camps in Pakistan, which had been established by Osama bin Laden, and other members of the mujahadeen.
Under Gilani’s direction, the DAR transformed into Jamaat ul-Fuqra (“the community of the impoverished”) and continued its prison ministry under Muslims of the Americas, a new, non-profit corporation. The sheikh soon came to realize that it would be financially advantageous to train new recruits for the holy war on American soil rather than shelling out the freight of sending them to Lahore and Peshawar. He purchased a 70-acre parcel of land near Green Haven, set up a firing range and an obstacle course, purchased a slew of old single-wide trailers and created a paramilitary compound called Islamberg.
When released from the federal prison, former convicts now received not only the customary $10 and a suit of clothes but also a one-way ticket to Gilani’s compound.
What took place at Islamberg and the International Quranic Open University?
The answers came from Sheikh Gilani in his recruitment videos: “We give [students] specialized training in guerilla warfare. We are at present establishing training camps. You can easily reach us at Open Quranic offices in upstate New York or in Canada or in South Carolina or in Pakistan.”
Similarly, in a handbook, published by the university, Gilani wrote that the foremost duty of all students is to wage war against “the oppressors of Muslims.” The students are expected to sign an oath that reads: “I shall always hear and obey, and whenever given the command, I shall readily fight for Allah’s sake.”
Now that the recruits at Islamberg have been trained in the basics of guerilla warfare, they have been deployed to Pakistan for advanced courses in explosives and weapons of mass destruction.
They will be returning home soon.
Why Is Islamberg Now a Ghost Town?
December 22, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports this week that U.S. investigators are discovering that more and more young Muslims are vanishing from mosques, madrassas, and Islamic centers.
The disappearances, the Journal notes, are raising grave concerns among FBI and Homeland Security officials who fear that an onset of jihadist activity will take place on American soil in the near future.
Hundreds of Muslim men are also missing from Islamberg and this is not a propitious omen.
The sentry post is gone and no guards are in sight at the entrance to the 70 acre Islamic settlement located in the dense forest between Deposit and Hancock in upper New York State.
Young men in Islamic garb no longer congregate before the makeshift mosque, and no students are in attendance at the one room shack that serves as Sheikh Gilani's “International Quranic Open University.”
Gunfire no longer can be heard from the firing ranges along the eastern parameter of the property – and no grunts come from new recruits at the obstacle course.
A new sign at the entranceway reads, “Welcome to Holy Islamberg: The International Quranic Open University.” Next to this sign, which features the image of a mosque emerging from the mountains, is a pot of plastic carnations. Another sign proclaims that the community is home to the “United Muslim – Christian Forum.”
Such statements of welcome are offset by the “No Trespassing” signs that have been nailed to trees throughout the compound.
On the opposite side of the road leading into the community is a rack of metal mailboxes bearing such names as Abdul-Haqq, Abdul Jalil, Mumim Roberts, Abdullah Simonds, and Salam Insan.
What has happened to this once bustling complex of radical Islamists – a place where the cries of muezzins were accompanied by the incessant rat-tat-tat of machine gunfire? Where are the Arab dignitaries that used to visit this remote community in chauffeur-driven limousines? Where are the armed sentries who warded away all intruders?
A handful of children play in the mud and muck before rows of rusty old trailers, and a few women in full burkas walk along the rutty dirt road that leads to the heart of the squalid Muslim compound.
The few residents who remain in the settlement are not environmentalists. Sewage seeps from septic tanks and outhouses into the creek that flows at the base of the settlement. Bags of rotting garbage remain stacked between the trailers. And the once pristine countryside is now littered with junk cars, moldy mattresses, empty tanks of propane, and old appliances.
Where are the men?
What has happened to this bustling center of jihadi training?
Why has Islamberg become a ghost town?
The same phenomenon of vanishing Muslim men is taking place at mosques, madrassas, and other Islamic communities throughout the country and at other Jamaat ul-Fuqra paramilitary compounds, including one in Red House, Virginia.
U.S. investigators have now discovered that many of the missing Muslims are showing up in the killing fields of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
Five American Muslims recently were arrested in Pakistan following a raid at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Muhammad, a Pakistani movement designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2001.
The five American Muslims – identified as Ahmed Abdullah, Waqar Hassan Khan, Eman Hassan, Yasir and Rami Zamzam – were planning to join forces with the Taliban to fight the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Zamzam is a graduate dental student at Howard University, where he served as president of the Muslim Student Association.
David Coleman Headley, another Muslim who disappeared, is a native of Chicago who attended Lashkar-e-Toiba-operated terrorism training camps in Pakistan and helped Lashker-e-Toiba members and others plan and execute the attacks in Denmark against the newspaper which published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, which Muslims found offensive, as well as the violent attack in Mumbai, in about 170 people died.
At the same time Headley was taken into custody, U.S. investigators discovered that 20 Somali immigrants, who were reported missing from a mosque in Minnesota, had joined the Islamist insurgent group, al Shabaab, and were engaged in fighting Somalia's U.S.-backed government.
And there is the case of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old resident of Denver, who made a trip to Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2008 for the stated purpose of visiting his wife only to show up at an al Qaeda training camp where he received instruction in making and detonating explosives. In September, Zazi was collared by federal officials as he made his way to New York City to carry out attacks with the same back-pack bombs that were used to blow up a train station in Madrid and several subway stations in London.
Where are the Muslim men from Islamberg?
The answer comes from a heavy-set woman in a long black burka who stops to check her mail box. “The men – all gone,” she says in halting English. “All – in Pakistan.”
Islamberg was established in 1980 by Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, a Pakistani cleric who served as the imam of the Yasin Masjid in Brooklyn. A quack practitioner of something called “Koranic psychiatry,” Sheikh Gilani presented himself to the Brooklyn congregation as "the sixth Sultan ul Faqr,” with a lineage that dates back to the prophet Mohammed. He claimed to have supernatural powers that came from his regular reception of visits by jinn and “non-human beings.”
Sporting ammunition belts, Gilani called upon members of a Black Muslim street gang known as Dar al-Islam (DAR) to take part in the holy war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Hundreds answered the call and headed off to training camps in Pakistan, which had been established by Osama bin Laden, and other members of the mujahadeen.
Under Gilani’s direction, the DAR transformed into Jamaat ul-Fuqra (“the community of the impoverished”) and continued its prison ministry under Muslims of the Americas, a new, non-profit corporation. The sheikh soon came to realize that it would be financially advantageous to train new recruits for the holy war on American soil rather than shelling out the freight of sending them to Lahore and Peshawar. He purchased a 70-acre parcel of land near Green Haven, set up a firing range and an obstacle course, purchased a slew of old single-wide trailers and created a paramilitary compound called Islamberg.
When released from the federal prison, former convicts now received not only the customary $10 and a suit of clothes but also a one-way ticket to Gilani’s compound.
What took place at Islamberg and the International Quranic Open University?
The answers came from Sheikh Gilani in his recruitment videos: “We give [students] specialized training in guerilla warfare. We are at present establishing training camps. You can easily reach us at Open Quranic offices in upstate New York or in Canada or in South Carolina or in Pakistan.”
Similarly, in a handbook, published by the university, Gilani wrote that the foremost duty of all students is to wage war against “the oppressors of Muslims.” The students are expected to sign an oath that reads: “I shall always hear and obey, and whenever given the command, I shall readily fight for Allah’s sake.”
Now that the recruits at Islamberg have been trained in the basics of guerilla warfare, they have been deployed to Pakistan for advanced courses in explosives and weapons of mass destruction.
They will be returning home soon.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
Monday, December 28, 2009
An American
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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