Senator Rand Paul Concerned Interpol Could Arrest Americans Under Foreign Laws

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Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
April 19, 2012

Senator Rand Paul Concerned Interpol Could Arrest Americans Under Foreign Laws 190412rand

Appearing on Infowars Nightly News Wednesday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said that he fears the international police agency Interpol has been granted too much authority to operate without oversight in the United States.

Paul suggested that new powers granted to Interpol by president Obama could see US citizens arrested or even extradited by the agency under foreign laws.

“I’m kind of concerned about having an international police force in our country with the ability, maybe, to extradite US citizens and send them to another country.” The Senator said.

“Egypt, as you know over the last few months has been holding some American pro-Democracy workers in their country and they were going to try them on trumped up political charges. So a couple of months ago I said ‘you know what, we send two billion dollars to a country that treats us this way?’ So I tried to hold up their foreign aid, and as a consequence, part of what I was doing, they released our American citizens.”

“Then they came home and Secretary Clinton went and released their aid. I wrote her a letter and said she shouldn’t do it because these prosecutions were still ongoing.” The Senator said.

“They also made the US taxpayer pay a five million dollar ransom for these Americans to come home, promising they would come back to stand trial. But this week we have learned that Egypt has asked Interpol for a national warrant, they have these red letter warrants, that can be used anywhere in the world.”

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The Senator has also penned a letter to the president regarding the matter this week.

“Most people say ‘that could never happen in America, we would never let that happen’, but Interpol is doing this in other countries.” Paul noted.

“Saudi Arabia ask Interpol to return a Saudi journalist from Malaysia, who had said something about Mohammed that they had found offensive, and they were going to accuse him of blasphemy.” The Senator added.

“Interpol picked him up in Malaysia and took him back to Saudi Arabia. He will now face the death penalty. But the scary thing is he is being picked up by Interpol. What kind of authority does Interpol have in the United States?”

The Senator pointed out that it was Obama who granted Interpol immunity to operate by way of Executive Order 12425, adding an amendment altering restrictions on other Governmental agencies to the limits the US Constitution.

Paul then spoke more generally regarding the administration increasingly attempting to bypass the Congress on important matters.

“One of the interactions in the last couple of weeks, it was very very telling,” said Paul, “was the interaction between Senator Sessions and Secretary Panetta in a committee, in which Panetta said that if we go to war, of course we’ll consult with the UN and get their approval. Sessions asked him ‘isn’t there a role here under the constitution for Congress?’ And Panetta basically just kept going on about NATO, the UN, and then he finally said ‘we would probably inform Congress of what we are doing, but never in there was there any understanding that they had to get approval or permission from Congress.”

When asked what could be done about such attempts to skirt Congress, the Senator cut straight to the point.

“I think the first thing is to try and stop him in his tracks.” Paul said. “We tried very hard on the Libya motion. In fact, when he went to war in Libya we introduced his own words from 2007 when he ran for office and said that no president should unilaterally go to war without Congressional authority, which basically just re-states the Constitution.”

“And then he went around and did exactly the opposite when he became president. And this is not the first time a Democrat or a Republican has changed their mind once they became president, they believe in limitations on presidential power until they actually become president.”

The Senator spoke at length regarding other issues including moves to control and censor the internet, the backlash against the TSA, and his father’s ongoing campaign, and the rumours of him being nominated as a candidate for Vice President.

Watch the full interview below:

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.

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11 Responses to “Senator Rand Paul Concerned Interpol Could Arrest Americans Under Foreign Laws”

  1. Why is Rand Paul the only one saying these things? Bravo Rand!

    Huggles Reply:
    April 19th, 2012 at 8:35 am

    Don’t let your jingoism get the better of you; Interpol is merely a service the US police authorities subscribes. If a police officer is after a criminal and that criminal escapes to a foreign jurisdiction, then Interpol would be called up on to organise the capture of the wanted person and process them through local courts for extradition.

    This system of justices works through riprocosity,; if the US withdraws from assisting foreign states from apprehending American citizen who have committed crimes in their countries, then American police will get no assistance with abroad.

    Rand Paul is taking the piss and stroking the chauvinistic instincts of some voters. Rand Paul is a sell out and is nothing like his father. At least Dubya was loyal to his old man and the family firm.

  2. Ya, right.

    He has been in office for three years and counting and NOW they just starting to scratch the surface of Obumbles many many MANY illegalities?!?

    Come on man!

    Everyone knows that gubbermint workers are PAID to work S-L-O-W-L-Y, but this foot-dragging is criminal in and of itself. By the time he gets around to drawing up formal charges against obumbles he will have been dead from natural causes at the ripe old age of 106!

    My worst fear, my worst nightmare, is that the poor honest slob in a gubbermint job that never did anything wrong and really tried to do good things will meet the same end as the evil ones when the 2nd american revolution breaks out.

    Spymyeys Reply:
    April 19th, 2012 at 7:31 am

    Oh ya,

    and like I always say:

    When they come to your home and serve their no-knock warrent, kill your dogs, toss flashbangs into your childrens bedrooms, and start to destroy your home,SHOOT FIRST AND LET SATAN SORT THEM OUT!

    Because now a U.S. senator has ADMITTED that a foriegn power can come and snatch you anytime, anywhere, in the entire world with a “red” warrent issued by the highest authority money can buy!

    So, basicly live your life always prepaired to have a shootout, because someday it is going to come true.

  3. Watch what you say about Mohammed, and the Queen of England, in fact any tyrants in the world can now arrange your arrest in the U.S. if you “hatespeech” them. Isn’t that cute

    raxzorx Reply:
    April 19th, 2012 at 9:38 am

    This is a thinly veiled religious attack on Christianity, and indeed, on truth itself.
    Jesus said that He is the truth… Do the math.

  4. Yup, the Red Coats are coming, the Red coats are coming. I was disappointed to hear Rand Paul call these CIA controlled monkeys who got arrested in Egypt ‘pro-democracy workers’. Yeah sure, right and the CIA in Afganistan are just trying to win the hearts and minds of those folks. Pretty naive for a guy who is a Senator. And oh yeah, you need to bow to the Mormon cult kingpin, Romney, and say’ Geez I’d like to be your V.P.” Maybe you can be the next Joe Biden, slap and tickle fool. The Paul family has not learned a thing by Ron Paul’s betrayal by the mainline Republican machine.

  5. “Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.”

    “They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.”

    “It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

    raxzorx Reply:
    April 19th, 2012 at 9:41 am

    Thanks for the reminder.

  6. Just thought this part of it needs repeating,,, especially in these times.

    “They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.”

  7. What goes around, comes around.
    Unless people are standing on airstrips preventing planes with foreigners being brought into the country for prosecution from landing, it is impossible to complain about Americans being shipped out for the same reasons.

    At least interpol are not likely to be putting bags over people’s heads and flying them to off-shore interrogation camps without charge (yet).

    I still find it funny that such area-based laws are only executed when it suits the big boys:
    Sue Google France for being street-viewed urinating in your garden, “Case dismissed due to wrong party accusation – the server hosting the files is in America, not France (oh, you have to pay for their defense costs, too)”.
    Sue Macdonald’s America for a burnt tongue “But this Macdonald’s is officially British, have a £5 food coupon as compensation, instead of the megabucks you were looking forward to”.
    Use a British computer to sneak into secret American computer files looking for evidence of FBI UFO cover-ups “You shall be extradited to America under terrorism laws and possibly executed (certainly super-maxed for life) , despite no losses incurred or dissemination of classified material”.

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