New UN police powers in the Balkans. (Insider Report)."United Nations police in Kosovo Kosovo Field, Serbo-Croatian Kosovo Polje [field of the black birds], the Turks under Sultan Murad I defeated Serbia and its Bosnian, Montenegrin, Bulgarian, and other allies in 1389. Before the battle Milosh Obilich, a Serb, posing as a deserter, was taken into the tent of Murad, whom he stabbed to death; he was immediately slain, as was Prince Lazar of Serbia after being captured. are being given new powers in an attempt to crack down on organized crime organized crime, criminal activities organized and coordinated on a national scale, often with international connections. The American tradition of daring desperadoes like Jesse James and John Dillinger, has been superseded by the corporate criminal organization. Firmly rooted in the social structure, it is protected by corrupt politicians and law enforcement officers, and legal advice; it profits from such activities as gambling, prostitution, and the illicit," reported the BBC on March 19th. Michael Steiner, head of the UN civilian police (CivPol) contingent in the Serbian province, signed a decree "allowing the use of phone tapping, covert photography, global positioning devices and forms of electronic surveillance that until now have been forbidden by local laws." While UN authorities insist that the new police guidelines "match those of most Western states," the key point here is that they were imposed, in defiance of local laws, by UN occupation authorities. Recall that when the UN and NATO intervened in Kosovo, organized crime exploded in the province. Thanks to the UN, the province is now ruled by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, a squalid, murderous collection of terrorists, gangsters, and drug lords. In a familiar bit of irony, the UN is now using the threat of organized crime to justify its seizure of unprecedented police powers police powers n. from the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which reserves to the states the rights and powers "not delegated to the United States" which include protection of the welfare, safety, health and even morals of the public. Police powers include licensing, inspection, zoning, safety regulations (which cover a lot of territory), quarantines, and working conditions as well as law enforcement. police power, in law, right of a government to make laws necessary for the health, morals, and welfare of the populace. The term has greatest currency in the United States, where it has been defined by the Supreme Court as the power of the states to enact laws of that type even where, under ordinary circumstances, Constitutional law or federal statute would override them.. |
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