Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The Global Sword

We've been talking about the INTERPOL Executive Order Barack Obama recently issued, here and here. It made me recall a post from October where I sarcastically suggested "just give them diplomatic immunity."

Anthony Martin has a hornets' nest going on over at Columbia Conservative Examiner, and I see Bob Unruh at WorldNetDaily is also on the story. The globocop logo they illustrate their column with has a familiar configuration:


Everybody remembers the seal of the evil alternate universe Terran Empire from Star Trek's "Mirror Mirror" episode, right?

Note symbol on turbolift door (click to enlarge)

I'm not the first to notice.
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3 comments:

  1. zach12/29/2009 10:59 AM

    Interpol. Now that I think about it, how many stories have I seen in passing where they use their only one status to run child rape/ kidnapping rings? Oh, but they're here to save us from al-quaeda.

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  2. Chris K.12/29/2009 11:56 AM

    Yeah, its the terran empire symbol I'm looking at....

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  3. Dedicated_Dad1/07/2010 4:47 PM

    Here's the "act" in full: --> http://www.ipu.org/finance-e/PL79-291.pdf

    Here's the MOST troublesome bit IMHO. I've [paraphrased] only for clarity:...

    =======================================
    ...
    Title 1,
    Section 2
    (a) [Interpol] shall, to the extent consistent with the instrument [which] creat[ed it], possess the capacity to... institute legal proceedings.

    (b) "[Interpol]...shall enjoy the same IMMUNITY FROM ... EVERY FORM OF JUDICIAL PROCESS AS IS ENJOYED BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS [unless interpol expressly waives said immunity]..."

    (c) "Property and assets of [interpol], wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search... and from confiscation [unless interpol expressly waives such immunity]. The archives of [Interpol] shall be inviolable.

    (d) "Insofar as concerns... the registration of foreign agents; and the treatment of official communications, the privileges, exemptions and immunities to which [Interpol] shall be entitled shall be those accorded under similar circumstances to foreign governments."
    ...
    =======================================

    Personally I don't believe most who are worried about this are worried ENOUGH. Think of all the stories of crimes committed by those with "diplomatic immunity" - cops can't even stop a car with diplomatic plates or detain an individual with diplomatic ID.

    Non-citizen cops with no constitutional limits.

    What country is this again?

    DD

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