Cabo: Ok, to be fair, I went back and re-read the links you provided.

This strikes me as giving Interpol the same "rights" (and I use that term loosely) as the United Nations and all other diplomats. Using your own somewhat incendiary language, we've already elevated agents of Iran above our own law enforcement - diplomatic immunity.

Do I see this as a big deal? No. I wonder, for example, what the reciprocity is with our own agencies. After all, we've gotten away with some pretty nasty stuff in other countries (like taking prisoners to Eastern European countries so we can torture them there and not on American soil). I don't have a negative opinion of Interpol. If I did, I might feel differently about it. More specifically, I would have a problem with it if the United States were NOT a member of Interpol - but we ARE. In fact, Mr. Ronald Noble, the Secretary-General is an American.

Secondly, you ask if I'm a Seminar poster. In fact, this is the first I've heard of this term. I'd say "no" but, as I learned in mathematics, it's so difficult to "prove a negative".

I'm David Long, born David Whetstone and illegally adopted on September 25, 1962. My signature tells you where I grew up. I've been married and divorced twice, first time we were just too young, second one had the ex thinking the grass was greener elsewhere. I have two magnificent daughters from that second marriage - one just graduated college.

I was rather liberal when growing up - but times were tough. A single mother raised me with the help of family members - and the family was, more often than not, defined by bonds of friendship than by bonds of blood or marriage.

As I grew up and entered the job market, I got more conservative - the line from a co-worker "What makes you think the government owes you a living" being the single most influential thing anyone said to me regarding political views.

Over the years I also became a student of history as it became an increasingly fascinating topic to me.

Ronald Reagan struck me as exactly what the country needed in desperate times - and believe me, with 20% inflation and a 21% PRIME RATE (it's 3.5% now), things were desperate. We needed a charismatic leader who could inspire in addition to all the things a President is 'supposed to do'.

Through the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s, I've changed my mind on several things. I used to be a Catholic. I've gone to the left on SOME social issue and to the right on fiscal issues. I've railed against civil service rules that prevent the incompetent form being fired.

I also despise 'the double standard'. It's a hot button for me. The people who say that Obama is a Marxist intent on leading us down a Communist path (no matter WHAT evidence there is to the contrary) strike me as the same ones who said that Reagan was purposefully leading us into a nuclear war with the Soviets. Neither one of those groups could answer the question "Why?" with anything more than "Well, he just IS" - again, no matter how much evidence to the contrary.

No, I have no idea why the Interpol order was signed now. Doesn't seem to be a single news item about it. For all we know, it may be something Interpol applied for ages ago and only now worked it's way to the top to get signed.

Is this any different from when Reagan gave diplomatic recognition to the Vatican in 1984? Using the same kind of language, I could say that Reagan and Bush wanted to protect child rapists because that's what the Vatican was doing. In fact, they would go so far as to 'call' Boston Archbishop Law back to the Vatican 2 days before the Boston Police Department was to interview him regarding the infamous abuse scandals of those like Father Porter. At the time, the President could have renounced diplomatic recognition and expelled the ambassadors of the Holy See.

Interpol is in the business of fighting crime - specific kinds of crime according to their Constitution. Their Constitution even forbids fighting crimes that do not overlap countries. If they abuse the privileges they've been given here, we'll see what happens. (Probably nothing if the previous example is any indication)