Jimmy Carter Rips The Obama Administration A New One...!

Jimmy Carter Accuses U.S. of 'Widespread Abuse of Human Rights'

June 25, 2012
A former U.S. president is accusing the current president of sanctioning the "widespread abuse of human rights" by authorizing drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists.

Jimmy Carter, America's 39th president, denounced the Obama administration for "clearly violating" 10 of the 30 articles of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights, writing in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that the "United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights."

"Instead of making the world safer, America's violation of international human rights abets our enemies and alienates our friends," Carter wrote.

While the total number of attacks from unmanned aircraft, or drones, and the resulting casualties are murky, the New America Foundation estimates that in Pakistan alone 265 drone strikes have been executed since January 2009 . Those strikes have killed at least 1,488 people, at least 1,343 of them considered militants, the foundation estimates based on news reports and other sources.

In addition to the drone strikes, Carter criticized the current president for keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention center open, where prisoners "have been tortured by waterboarding more than 100 times or intimidated with semiautomatic weapons, power drills or threats to sexually assault their mothers."

The former president blasted the government for allowing "unprecedented violations of our rights to privacy through warrantless wiretapping and government mining of our electronic communications."

He also condemned recent legislation that gives the president the power to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely, although a federal judge blocked the law from taking effect for any suspects not affiliated with the September 11 terrorist attacks.

"This law violates the right to freedom of expression and to be presumed innocent until proved guilty, two other rights enshrined in the declaration," Carter said.

While Carter never mentioned Obama by name, he called out "our government" and "the highest authorities in Washington," and urged "concerned citizens" to "persuade Washington to reverse course and regain moral leadership."

http://news.yahoo.com/jimmy-carter-...uman-rights-154057442--abc-news-politics.html

 

BO & Carter are neck & neck as going down in the history books as the worst President ever so I would imagine Carter is doing everything he can to tilt the scales a little.

 

But, David:

http://www.partisanlines.com/threads/newt-gingrich-for-president.3656/page-2#post-62504

 

I managed to live through both (or most through BO, anyway). IMO, Carter has permanently lost his status as the worst.

 

I lived through the "JC Penny" dollar and all of the humiliation of the Carter administration. Obama's policies are by far the worse of the two and the laissez-faire attitude of the president make them rankle even more. At least you got the impression that Carter, no matter how inept, genuinely loved his country and was trying his best. And at least we had Billy Beer to drown our sorrows in. Now we can't even get extra-large beverages in some of our nation's cities. Truly, times have changed--and not for the better.

 

I agree completely. I never thought Carter was unpatriotic or an evil person, but I don't get the same feeling about Obama. I think Carter gave it his best shot and really tried, but failed miserably. His policies just didn't work. Obama certainly is not a democrat in the mold of Truman, Kennedy, Carter or even Clinton. Obama is in a class of nanny-state, ultra-liberal, Marxist-ideological, pro-socialist, anti-business, anti-capitalist, anti-American elitists.