Obama signs EO giving INTERPOL Search and Seizure Immunity in U.S.

**vector7** · January 16th, 2010, 07:07

Obama’s Secret Vault

By Chuck Norris, Jan 12, 2010

On Glenn Beck’s Jan. 7 show, he was rightly puzzled regarding the exact purpose of President Barack Obama’s Dec. 16 signing of an executive order “DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES.”

Beck spoke for a host of other government watchdogs when he said on the air: “We’ve been asking ever since it was signed: Why? Who can tell me what special interest group asked for this? If it were about terror, why not tell us that when he signed it? This Congress attacks our CIA and FBI, but Interpol gets immunity? Why? It makes no sense.”

Glenn, I agree. But I think I recently have seen behind the veil on the White House’s covert mission and mystery with Interpol.

The rest of Obama’s executive order reads: “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 further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words ‘except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act’ and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.”

Critical here is Obama’s deletion of Section 2C exceptions, which come from the United States International Organizations Immunities Act: “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.” (As ThreatsWatch noted, “Inviolable archives means INTERPOL records are beyond US citizens’ Freedom of Information Act requests and from American legal or investigative discovery.”)

But why, at this point in U.S. history, would the White House want Interpol to be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the regulations of search and seizure? White House and Interpol officials contend that the only reason for Obama’s executive order was to update Ronald Reagan’s 1983 executive order to accommodate Interpol’s permanent residency and bring equity to its standing among other international organizations.

Many in the conservative world have accused Obama of extending Interpol’s legal exemptions for the purpose of empowering a global police force, but I believe there’s a much closer goal and strategic reason he gave this presidential edict. And it dawned on me when I read seven words said by Interpol spokeswoman Rachel Billington, who explained to The New York Times the applicable location of the president’s executive order: “It’s only for the New York office.”

“Only for the New York office”? Mm.

Is it possible the Obama administration specifically and soon plans to use Interpol’s New York office for some covert purpose that would require Interpol’s exemption from having its property or records subject to search and seizure?

Is it merely coincidental that Obama signed this executive order and that New York is the feds’ city of choice in which to place 9/11 terrorists on trial in federal court?

Is it merely coincidental that Obama signed this executive order and that the feds now have the close proximity of Interpol archives that are exempt from American legal and investigative discovery and the Freedom of Information Act requests by the media and U.S. citizens?

Is it merely coincidental that Obama signed this executive order and that Interpol’s U.S. central operations office is under the umbrella of and within our own Justice Department’s offices? (Interpol — which was started in 1923 and is made up of 188 country members, including the U.S. and Yemen — has its bureau in the Department of Justice.)

Is it merely coincidental that Obama signed this executive order and that an Interpol spokeswoman explained that “it’s only for the New York office,” whose five staff members now have access to law enforcement information submitted by other countries that no U.S. authority, official, agency or citizen can view for any reason (without Interpol’s waiver)?

Again, ThreatsWatch hit the nail on the head: Immunity from search and seizure “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.”

If international terrorists’ criminal records are allowed to pass through or be housed temporarily in New York’s Interpol storage bin, they will be as safe as the gold at Fort Knox. Al Capone’s vault had nothing on Obama’s new Interpol repository!

Of course, it’s not too late for the White House to be transparent and confess exactly why Obama granted Interpol’s exemption from search and seizure laws at this critical point in the war on terror. What we do know now, however, is why the wisdom of President Reagan limited Interpol’s immunities and why Obama’s deletions of Reagan’s executive order should have stayed intact for this international law enforcement agency.

**vector7** · January 21st, 2010, 18:22

Army-sponsored report suggests new 'police force'
Domestic agents could be used in 'shaping an environment before a conflict'

Posted: January 20, 2010
9:16 pm Eastern

By Michael Carl
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

A newly released Rand Corporation report proposes the federal governmentcreate a rapid deployment "Stabilization Police Force" that would be tasked with "shaping an environment before a conflict" and restoring order in times of war, natural disaster or national emergency.

Page 16 of the 213-page report says the new elite unit's purpose depends on where it is and who would be in command.

"The answer to this question (about its purpose) depends on the situation into which an SPF might be inserted. The SPF could be used for missions such as: shaping an environment before a conflict; law enforcement duties in an active conflict environment; or security, stability, transition and reconstruction (SSTR) operations after a conflict. It could operate as an independent entity under a U.S. ambassador or a U.N. Senior Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG), or as a force element reporting to a Joint Task Force (JTF) commander," the report states.

The purpose statement doesn't say where the new unit would be deployed. However, Rand Corporation report co-author Terry Kelly said the Army-commissioned study primarily focuses on a force that would be sent overseas.

"The unit is supposed to deploy to places like Iraq or Afghanistan or maybe even places like Haiti where there's a tremendous disaster," Kelly said.

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"Really, the purpose would be to help our military forces or whoever is in charge of maintaining stability to catch terrorists or prevent major criminals from operating," he added.

Mark Taylor, a private investigator and intelligence analyst with experience in Iraq, says he can't see the purpose for such a force.
"With regard to overseas missions, there is the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. If they need assistance, you have private military contractors such as XE and DynaCorp," Taylor said.

"In my case, the company I worked for moved in, did the mission and left. Period. In the case of a federal bureaucracy, you will fund it and it will do nothing but grow into a bureaucratic nightmare," Taylor said.

Taylor believes the additional force would just add to the confusion in any overseas situation.

"In addition the military and private contractor options, there are always the United Nations blue helmets, for whatever good they do. A federal police force would amount to nothing more than another colored helmet," Taylor said.

Taylor's comments about the U.N. point to the command structure of the overseas force. One of the statements in the report says the unit could serve under a U. S. foreign service officer or under U.N. authority.
Kelly admits the U.N. connection.

"It might be a U.S. ambassador who is in charge. It could work for the U.N. because there are plenty of U.N. missions that are working in different countries," Kelly said.

"That would be the decision that our government would make that this unit would work under U.N. authority. Usually when we have our forces under U.N. authority they're operating for a U.S. commander who is working with the U.N.," she said.

Although the report by the federally funded think tank spends most of its pages on overseas deployment, civil libertarians wonder if the proposed unit will only focus on foreign operations.

Kelly confirmed the force could be deployed in the United States.
"If there were a major disaster like Katrina it could be deployed in the U. S. but that's not the purpose of the research," he said.

"It's important to point out that the goal was to create a force that's deployable overseas. If it's to be used in the United States it would be a secondary thing and then only in an emergency," Kelly said.

But Taylor believes there is no need for a federal police force to function in the U.S.

"I cannot see any positives in setting up a national police force. Cities, counties and states have control over their own law enforcement and it should remain that way. Granting the federal government the power to police each individual locality is a Gestapo waiting to happen," Taylor said.

"If it became necessary to supplement local law enforcement in the case of another New Orleans, where a disaster situation is made more dangerous by lawless thugs looting, it would be more practical to hire a private contractor such as XE or DynaCorp to send their highly trained professionals jobis done, they go on to the next (assignment)," Taylor said.

Darrell Castle is a retired Marine Corps officer with service in Vietnam, a practicing attorney and the Constitution Party's 2008 vice presidential nominee. Castle is skeptical of the report and believes the unit could be used in the U.S. against Americans.

"First, you have to approach anything done by or for the federal government in light of what I believe the ultimate goal of the federal government to be," Castle said.

"As I see it, the goal is to do the bidding of the international cartel of central bankers and financiers in order to assist them in building a world government police state which would entail total surveillance, total control, and the absence of what we think of as constitutional rights," he said.

Castle added that even though the report focuses mostly on foreign deployments, some of the language leaves open the possibility for domestic use.

"To that end, the question becomes, how does a stability police force for the United States move the federal government closer to its goal of totalitarian control? When the question is asked in that manner, the answer becomes fairly obvious," Castle warned.

Castle believes the goal is power, and a major springboard for such a power grab comes from the economy.

"Conditions have been intentionally created within the United States which make some kind of chaotic catastrophe very likely. This event could be anything the mind of man can dream up due to the overwhelming public debt and huge deficit which is budgeted to grow by trillions over the next few years," Castle said.

"Hyperinflation and the resulting loss of the dollar's reserve status seems unavoidable. The United States is now at deficit spending which is 40 percent of the budget and climbing," Castle said.

To illustrate his point, Castle turned to history.

"The Weimar government in pre-Hitler Germany accelerated deficit spending to 70 percent of budget and when it did, hyperinflation occurred with its ruination of the German nation that started a cataclysmic chain of events in motion," he said.

"The Stability Police Force then is necessary to control the population much as the U.S. military is attempting to control the remaining population of Haiti right now. It is part of a long existing effort to mingle and combine all law enforcement, federal, state, and local with the military into one force," Castle said.

Castle is not the only one who thinks the Stabilization Police Force is the next step in establishing a totalitarian state. The Rand Corporation's Kelly said that since the report's release, he's received a number of letters and messages making the same claim.

However, Kelly insists the study is not a master plan for authoritarian rule.

"There are all kinds of aspects of government that can be manipulated in a bad way. But it would require a whole bunch of things to go wrong. Any means of coercion that exist in the government can be manipulated if the right things go wrong," Kelly said.

"Is it is conceivable that it could be used for a malevolent purpose? Yes, but it's not designed to do that and its purpose would not be for power. Frankly there would be much easier tools for someone with bad intentions," Kelly said.

"The two options we thought were viable were as a reserve option where call a whole bunch of police officers from a whole bunch of precincts. That's a really hard thing to do," Kelly said.

"If someone wanted to use the unit for a bad purpose it would require the cooperation of a whole bunch of people and a whole bunch of organizations," he said.

"The other option we picked was a military unit, to create a military police unit to do the specific tasks. Military police units do military police work, not civilian police work which is what you need in these countries like Iraq and Afghanistan," Kelly said.

"I don't think this unit will create any more danger than already exists. If somebody wanted to do something unfortunate, there are easier ways to do it than manipulating this force," Kelly said.

Command of the Stabilization Police Force is still a concern. Page 123 of the Rand Corporation report says the force would work best under a civilian federal agency or the military police.

"They (the data) suggest that the U.S. Marshals Service and the MP options are the only credible ones. The Marshals Service has sufficient baseline capabilities and a policing culture to build a competent SPF, and its location in the Department of Justice makes it well suited to achieve broader rule-of-law objectives. This finding is consistent with a significant body of academic and policy research, which strongly concludes that civilian agencies are optimal for the execution of policing functions."

Taylor's concerns about the creation of such a response force and placing the unit under a federal department come from seeing how federal operations have functioned in the past.

"Once you establish a government agency or program, it does nothing but grow into a huge bureaucratic monstrosity that feeds on the taxpayer. And, as with the case of health care, bank bailouts and the like, should the federal government even consider such an undertaking, it would amount to just another intrusion into the states' rights to govern and intrude into the liberties of the American people," Taylor said.

**vector7** · January 25th, 2012, 19:47

INTERPOL Chief calls for globally verifiable electronic identity card system to enhance cross-border security and to help governments better regulate and protect migrant workers

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – The head of INTERPOL has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management.

Speaking at the fourth Annual EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) ID WORLD summit (3-4 April), INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said that regulating migration levels and managing borders presented security challenges for countries and for the world that INTERPOL was ideally-placed to help address.

"At a time when global migration is reaching record levels, there is a need for governments to put in place systems at the national level that would permit the identity of migrants and their documents to be verified internationally via INTERPOL," said Secretary General Noble.

"The vast majority of migrants are law-abiding citizens who would like to have their identities verified in more than one country using the same identity document. If countries were to issue work and residence permits in an e-ID format that satisfied common standards internationally, then both the migrant workers and the countries themselves would benefit because efficiencies would improve, security at the national and global level would improve and corruption would be reduced."

The ID WORLD forum heard that such a card required developing a mechanism whereby the biometric identity features of migrants, such as fingerprints and DNA, would be checked systematically against global databases.

"INTERPOL currently helps member countries screen travel documents of international air travelers approximately one-half a billion times a year. It would be a natural extension of this service to assist member countries in determining whether bearers of a globally verified identity card were in possession of a valid identity document or are wanted internationally for arrest via INTERPOL at the time that they applied for a work or residence permit,” added the INTERPOL Chief.

“Issuing migrant workers e-ID cards in a globally verifiable format will also reduce corruption and enable cardholders to be eligible for electronic remittance schemes that will foster greater economic development and prosperity in INTERPOL member countries,” concluded Secretary General Noble.

Key speakers at the ID WORLD forum included Pakistan's Minister of Interior Rehman Malik, World Bank Integrity Vice-President Leonard McCarthy, European Commission Head of International Affairs, Directorate General Home Affairs, Luigi Soreca, the UAE’s Head of Identity Authority, Ali Al Khouri, and Tariq Malik of Pakistan's National Database & Registration Authority.

**vector7** · January 25th, 2012, 19:50

Getting the process paved...

India Fingerprinting, Iris Scanning Over One Billion People

by grtv

India Fingerprinting, Iris Scanning Over One Billion People

The Indian government is ramping up efforts to fingerprint and iris scan the entirety of its 1.2 billion citizens in an ambitious scheme to issue national ID cards with biometric details. The plan has so far already enrolled 110 million people and issued 60 million numbers, with the aim of enrolling 200 million by this March and 600 million by 2014.

Find out about the history and consequences of biometric ID this week on GRTV - Behind the Headlines.

TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=3783
The Indian government is ramping up efforts to fingerprint and iris scan the entirety of its 1.2 billion citizens in an ambitious scheme to issue national ID cards with biometric details. The plan has so far already enrolled 110 million people and issued 60 million numbers, with the aim of enrolling 200 million by this March and 600 million by 2014.

The project stems from two separate, overlapping schemes, the Unique Identifcation program (UID), aimed at providing India’s 200 million poorest citizens with failsafe access to the country’s welfare system, and the National Population Register (NPR), aimed at providing a national ID card to help identify and deport undocumented immigrants.

Last month, the UID plan hit a roadblock when a Parliamentary committee issued a blistering attack on the scheme, calling it “directionless” and “full of uncertainty,” while critics note the danger of the project in the absence of coherent privacy laws. Just how the government will use the information, or even who will have access to it, has yet to be properly determined.

Although fast becoming the largest such database in the world, it is not the only government-administered repository of biometric details. Nations across the globe are increasingly turning to the collection of biometric information under a host of programs, including proposed national id schemes like the one being implemented in India.

Countries around the world are now adopting biometric passports and travel documents that use fingerprints and digital photographs to verify passenger identity. Presented as a way of streamlining and standardizing entry and exit procedures at national borders, what the public is not told is that these documents are the end result of a years-long process of coordination that has codified the technical specifications for these systems via international agreements. In addition, countries are increasingly agreeing on an infrastructure for sharing their biometric databases between each other via database sharing agreements that have received scant attention.

Governments around the world are eager to tout the potential benefits of these national identification registers in glossy promotional videos depicting gleaming science-fiction-like future societies of efficiency, however the privacy and civil liberties implications of this technology are seldom discussed.

The UK under the Labour government of Tony Blair and later Gordon Brown attempted to implement a national identity register and ID card system that would have required the logging of an extensive amount of personal and biometric information in a central database, but the program caused waves of protest and the government eventually gave in to the public outcry, scrapping the plan for the national registry and instead only implementing the biometric id scheme for foreign nationals:

Now, concerned Indian citizens are hoping that a boycott can be organized to help derail the Indian id card scheme to prevent the institution of an all-seeing surveillance state, and to keep this information from being sold to the highest bidder in a country notorious for its official corruption.

**American Patriot** · January 25th, 2012, 20:15

A global ID card.....

OMFG

**vector7** · September 19th, 2012, 00:34

Companion Threads:

Does Interpol have to help Egypt arrest Terry Jones?

Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 5:03 PM

Egypt has charged Florida's most famous hate-mongering, Quran-burning preacher Terry Jones and seven Coptic Christians living in the United States with insulting Islam in connection with their promotion of the now-infamous "Innocence of Muslims" video. CNN reports:

In addition to charges of insulting the Islamic religion, insulting Mohammed and inciting sectarian strife, all eight are charged with harming national unity and spreading false information, according to Adel Saaed, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
Egyptian authorities added the names to their airport watch list.
Prosecutors said they will ask the international police agency, Interpol, to add the names to its wanted lists. U.S. authorities would also be contacted, according to prosecutors.

Could Interpol actually comply with Egypt's request to "red list" these individuals? It seems pretty unlikely. According to Article 3 of Interpol's constitution, "It is strictly forbidden for the Organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character."

The issue of blasphemy actually came up for the organization earlier this year. In January, Hamza Kashgari, a 23-year old blogger and journalist, was arrested in Malaysia and deported back to his home country of Saudi Arabia for a tweet deemed offensive to the Prophet Mohammed.

The Kuala Lumpur police initially reported that Kashgari was detained "following a request made to us by Interpol". However, the 190-country police organization strongly denied any involvement in the case:

A statement issued by the agency said: "The assertion that Saudi Arabia used Interpol's system in this case is wholly misleading and erroneous."
Interpol, the statement said, "has not been involved in the case involving a Saudi blogger arrested in Malaysia and deported to Saudi Arabia. No Interpol channels, its National Central Bureaus in Kuala Lumpur and Riyadh nor its General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France were involved at any time in this case."

There doesn't seem to have been any evidence uncovered to refute Interpol's statement, but nonetheless, this case and some other unsubstantiated rumors have earned the organization a reputation as a tool of "global sharia enforcement" on some anti-Islam blogs.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik also claimed on Twitter last week to have spoken with the secretary general of Interpol about trying to "enact international law to stop anti Islam material from being projected on the Internet," which seems to indicate that he doesn't really understand what Interpol is. It's a police coordinating agency, not a global legislature with the power to enact law.

This is not to say that there are no legitimate concerns about Interpol's adherence to its own neutrality rules. The agency was criticized in 2009 for red-listing a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army after a request by Serbia, as well as opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

But in this case, as long as Jones stays in Florida, he's probably safe from the long arm of Islamic law.

**American Patriot** · September 19th, 2012, 17:06

Oh good grief....

**American Patriot** · September 19th, 2012, 17:07

I want these Islamic fuckers burning my flag charged with insulting America... Death sentence....

**vector7** · July 11th, 2016, 23:55

AG Lynch Announces Global Police Force Partnership With UN

During her speech at the United Nations, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Department of Justice is launching a global police force in order to combat “violent extremism” in the United States.

A proposal such as this, with all of its various implications of an overreach of power, should be front-page news everywhere, but unfortunately, not many noticed. And that’s a concern to constitutional attorney KrisAnne Hall who released a video to make the rallying call.

“Something happened yesterday that I’m afraid will go completely unnoticed,” Hall began. “Yesterday, the Department of Justice, several cities within the United States, several municipalities, linked up with the United Nations to form a global police initiative. It is called the Strong Cities Network.”

“This is such an attack on our Constitution. This is such an attack on the sovereignty of our states,” she added. “This will eliminate the rights of the people as we know them under a constitutional republic.”

Hall warns that this initiative will be the vehicle used to usher in the UN arms treaty and the UN controlling America. She says it will bypass Congress and the treaty process, and will be implemented on the local level “so people will never even notice.”

Helping her get this message out is noted fighter against the Islamization of America, Pamela Geller. In her latest piece for Breitbart, she sends out a similar warning:

The groundwork is being laid for federal and international interference down to the local level. “The Strong Cities Network,” Lynch declared, “will serve as a vital tool to strengthen capacity-building and improve collaboration” – i.e., local dependence on federal and international authorities.

Lynch made the global (that is, United Nations) involvement clear when she added: “As we continue to counter a range of domestic and global terror threats, this innovative platform will enable cities to learn from one another, to develop best practices and to build social cohesion and community resilience here at home and around the world.”

Geller notes the oddity that the Strong Cities Network wasn’t announced at an appropriate national venue, such as the White House or FBI headquarters but “ominously” before the UN. It didn’t help that the DoJ press release accompanying the announcement read, “While many cities and local authorities are developing innovative responses to address this challenge, no systematic efforts are in place to share experiences, pool resources and build a community of cities to inspire local action on a global scale.”

Geller writes: “This amounts to nothing less than the overriding of American laws, up to and including the United States Constitution, in favor of United Nations laws that would henceforth be implemented in the United States itself – without any consultation of Congress at all.”

Making sure her battle cry isn’t misconstrued as yet another conspiracy theory, Geller points to Lynch’s own words from her speech:

“As we continue to counter a range of domestic and global terror threats, this innovative platform will enable cities to learn from one another, to develop best practices and to build social cohesion and community resilience here at home and around the world.”

And just to be sure, Geller adds additional quotes from the DoJ press release:

“[The Strong Cities Network] will strengthen strategic planning and practices to address violent extremism in all its forms by fostering collaboration among cities, municipalities and other sub-national authorities.”

**American Patriot** · July 17th, 2016, 20:04

She can go to hell.

**Brian Baldwin** · July 18th, 2016, 09:48

Since the Executive Order is illegal in that it violates the constitutional rights of U.S. Citizens then by law they have no power to do anything and we don't have to recognize their authority. Seems everyone in D.C. forgets how many Veterans and Gun Owners there are in this country. Not to mention State and Local LEOs don't have to do a damned thing in an Executive Order. I'm most interested when they try to flex their muscles in Texas. The Governor there has the Texas State Guard. One pissed off Texas Governor equals no more U.N/Interpol idiots. Well none not laying in a pine box anyway.

**vector7** · November 10th, 2016, 19:54

I bet this was suppose to dove tail with an HRC Administration…

China and Russia are suddenly made the leadership of Interpol

New Interpol head is Chinese former deputy head of paramilitary police force. Vice-minister Meng Hongwei’s election has sparked concerns his position
may be used to boost China’s campaign to pursue dissidents around the globe

Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong
Thursday 10 November 2016 02.17 EST

A Chinese security official has been elected head of the global police organization Interpol, sparking fears the move may be used to track down dissidents as well as alleged fugitives who have fled abroad.

Meng Hongwei, vice minister for public security since 2004 and the first Chinese to hold the post, will serve as president for four years after he was elected at an Interpol meeting in Indonesia, the agency announced on Twitter.

“This is extraordinarily worrying given China’s longstanding practice of trying to use Interpol to arrest dissidents and refugees abroad,” Nicholas Bequelin, east Asia director at Amnesty International, said on Twitter.

“The Chinese police have a terrible human rights record, including the endemic practice of coercing ‘confessions’ and the widespread use of torture,” Bequelin said separately in an interview. “Unlike most law enforcement agencies around the world, the Chinese police have – in addition to the classic law and order mandate – a political mandate to protect the power of the Communist party.”

Meng was previously deputy director of China’s armed police, a paramilitary force that is often deployed to the country’s most unstable areas, including Tibet, the border with North Korea and the far western province of Xinjiang.

Li Wei, head of the anti-terrorism centre at China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, said: “As the head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei will deepen the fight against transnational crime.”

Since taking power in 2012, China’s President Xi Jinping has launched a sweeping crackdown on corruption, punishing more than a million officials. But critics say the anti-graft drive is merely a way for Xi to take down his political enemies.

China has worked through Interpol to bring back officials it says fled overseas and last year issued 100 “red notices”, a type of international arrest warrant.

It says about a third have been returned to China, but many western countries are wary of complying with extradition requests given China’s harsh treatment of prisoners, use of the death penalty for economic crimes and a lack of concrete evidence.

Most officials on the list had fled to the US or Canada, and China does not have extradition treaties with either country. But in a surprise move in September, Canada announced it would start negotiating a treaty.

Li said: “We see people who China has issued red notices for are still very active in Europe.” With Meng at the head of Interpol “there will be closer cooperation between countries in fighting crime,” he added.

China has been more forceful in recent years, exerting its version of policing abroad. Last month, Thailand detained a prominent Hong Kong democracy activist who was scheduled to speak at a Bangkok university, and last year publishers of books critical of China’s leaders were abducted
from Thailand and Hong Kong, without any formal extradition procedures.

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It gets better:

Maurice Schleepen ‏@MauriceSchleepe 2h

First ever Russian becomes Interpol Vice-President, Alexander Prokopchuk is elected to the post of the Interpol vice-President from Europe

Sacha Koulaeva ‏@Sacha_Koula 3h

Interpol elects new heads: China former deputy head of paramilit. police force as President & Russia police general as Vice-pr. Promising

Lowlands Solutions ‏@LowlandsSN 3h

New INTERPOL head is Chinese former deputy head of paramilitary police force @guardian

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Some have said that Bill Ayers is more than just an acquaintance of Obama and has been in contact with him while in the White House and has been rumored to closer ties. Bill Ayers claims to have ghost wrote Obama’s book Dreams of My Father.

Larry Grathwohl an FBI undercover agent exposed what Bill Ayers and the Weathermen Underground intended to do after overthrowing government as we know it and allow both Russia, China and their allies to occupy parts of the United States. Their looming concern was how to deal with the Americans who refuse to embrace their version of government. Here is the audio clip outlining this.

Former under cover FBI agent Larry Grathwohl on Radical Marxist 'Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground's plan to divide and conquer America

In addition they also believe that their immediate focus would be to put down segments of the counter revolution, some segments of the population would need to be incarcerated and put in to re-education programs.

**vector7** · November 10th, 2016, 19:56

Russia's representative elected Interpol vice president for first time

November 10, 12:15 UTC+3
http://tass.com/world/911418

China's deputy public security minister was elected to serve as the organization’s president

MOSCOW, November 10 /TASS/. Alexander Prokopchuk, the head of the National Central Interpol Bureau of the Russian Interior Ministry, has been elected Interpol’s Vice President from Europe, the Russian Interior Ministry press center told TASS on Thursday.

"Elections to Interpol’s governing bodies took place on the closing day of the 85th session of the Interpol General Assembly. Police Major General
Alexander Prokopchuk, head of the National Central Interpol Bureau of the Russian Interior Ministry, was elected Interpol’s Vice-President from Europe," the Russian Emergencies Ministry said.

According to the press center, it was the first time that a Russian had been elected to Interpol’s governing bodies ever since Russia became a member of the international police body. Prokopchuk’s election confirmed Russia’s standing in combatting international crime.

"Meng Hongwei, China's Deputy Public Security Minister, was elected to serve as the organization’s president," the press center said.

Foreign Policy ‏@ForeignPolicy 51m
Interpol’s election of a Chinese president and Russian vice president has human rights watchdogs worried.
http://atfp.co/2fFt5ys

**Ryan Ruck** · November 11th, 2016, 00:00

Very interesting...

**samizdat** · November 11th, 2016, 05:25

As colonel Klink would say (to Sgt. Schultz)...very interesting, but stupid. ...There is some practicality, virtue & morality to an international police service. (I'm a city-state dude myself, but super bad guys & gals should be prevented from absconding & transnational & intl. shennanigans.) Even thought of working interpol myself. I-pol just lost all credibility. Whose gunna take a bite out of crime working for chairman Mao & KGB, sponsored by the bama & U.N.?

**vector7** · November 13th, 2016, 23:21

Originally Posted by Ryan Ruck

Very interesting...

What I find interesting is that several years prior to this announcement China's Police has been traveling to US and Canada focused on police training and a special interest how our Justice system operates.

A Russian To Govern Interpol

Published on Nov 10, 2016

Major General of the Russian police Aleksandr Prokopchuk has been elected as a Vice-President of the Interpol. ‘The citizen of Russia has not been only appointed as a Vice-President from Europe for the first time since our country joined Interpol more than a quarter of a century ago, but was also elected with 127 votes ‘for’, only 10 ‘against’, and 8 ‘abstained,’ a source in the Russian delegation revealed. The Interpol Assembly has taken place on the Indonesian island of Bali. Vice Minister of the Chinese Public Security Meng Hongwei is to head the organization, he took over from Mireille Ballestrazzi.

As Pravda.Ru reported, Aleksandr Prokopchuk was appointed as Head of the Russian Bureau of Interpol in 2011 by order of the president Medvedev. Interpol unites 190 countries, each of which has an executive department. Territorial agencies of this organization operate in 78 entities of the Russian Federation. And they operate exclusively in the field of combating common crimes, skipping political, religious and military ones.