Jimmy Carter Accuses U.S. of ‘Widespread Human Rights Abuse’
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, June 25, 2012, 11:20 PM
As you read this picture Barack and Michelle Obama in 30 years.
Jimmy Carter accuses the US of widespread human rights abuse.
According to Carter, the US has lost its moral authority.
ABC Yahoo reported:
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 39 th president, denounced the Obama administration for “clearly violating” 10 of the 30 articles of the Universal 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.”
Remember, this is the same guy who embraced Hamas officials and honored Yasser Arafat.
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Stonedome commented:
Jimmy carter has finally become one of those white men who can’t accept Obama as president because he is a black man…remember when he called us racists when we wouldn’t accept his policies? I do…crazy old man.
Stonedome commented:
Jimmy should be happy that Hussein has taken away his dubious distinction as the worst president in history…
sclemens commented:
Again and again, Carter proves that senility does not improve with age.
donh commented:
” An overwhelming portion of the demonstrator‘s and protester’s animosity towards Obama is because he is a black man. Many white people don’t believe African Americans are qualified to lead this great country.” Jeemmi Cahtar…. > http://youtu.be/QnRpZ0GI7ug
Patty commented:
Looney Tunes time.
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But: Many drones, by virtue of their design, their size, and how high they can fly, can operate undetected in urban and rural environments, allowing the government to spy on Americans without their knowledge. And even if Americans knew they were being spied on, it’s unclear what laws would protect against this. As Ryan Calo, the ACLU (pdf) and many others have noted, Supreme Court case law has not been friendly to privacy in the public sphere, or even to privacy in areas like your backyard or corporate facilities that are off-limits to the public but can be viewed from above. The Supreme Court has also held that the Fourth Amendment’s protections from unreasonable searches and seizures may not apply when it’s not a human that is doing the searching. None of these cases bodes well for any future review of the privacy implications of drone surveillance.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/drones-are-watching-you GREAT ARTICLE YOU SHOULD READ IN ITS ENTIRETY.
Anything to help stop crime? but there is a limit. And Obama is too fancy free with the drones. In the military the less life lost the better. But when it comes to our privacy, I DRAW THE LINE.
And anything is possible with Obama. Anything.
Patty commented:
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how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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OT..
June 25, 2012
Look who’s tied to new Muslim Brotherhood president
unfortunately (#28), no surprise (#23)..
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how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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ht wanumba
[Perhaps Congress can invite former President Jimmy Carter to provide
expert testimony to support states voter ID laws because it appears
by their copious years of reporting, that it has been his Carter Center’s
decades-long international experience that voters adequately identifying
themselves to election officials provides “additional safeguards”,
a "substantial degree of security and confidence in the electoral
system", no matter what country, race, what color, what language.]
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how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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here ya go Jummy boy..
just a wee sample..
but you know that, well, maybe you don’ t any more
old man, maybe you’re using Barry’s teleprompter..
IOpain commented:
Trying to mend his legacy as the worst President by trying to make someone else look even worse? Go Jimmah go!
how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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June 25, 2012
Brazilians campaign for Pastor Nadarkhani release
[Brazilian protesters have come out in force at Rio+20 – the UN
Conference on Sustainable Development, to demand that Iran
release Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani.
The protest was organized Brazilian Pastor Silas Malafaia and took
place on Thursday in front of the Royal Tulip Hotel in Sao Conrado,
in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The protest location was
chosen as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was staying at
that hotel as a conference delegate.
Aiming to draw the attention of the Iranian president and the
international press, protesters held banners that read "President
Ahamdinejad free Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani! Religious Freedom
in Iran now!"
An official letter was also delivered to the Iranian president, in which
Brazilian Christian pastors made a plea for the life of Pastor Nadarkhani,
who has been arrested and imprisoned in Iran. He has been accused of
apostasy for having converted from Islam, and many fear he will face
the death penalty.
"We, Christian pastors of Brazil, representing millions of evangelicals
in our country, hereby appeal for the life of your co-citizen imprisoned,
Mr. Youssef (sic) Nadarkhani, who has through the Internet sent out
appeals for prayers on his behalf and on behalf his family."
"We evangelicals of Brazil, following the biblical principle of tolerance
and above all the rights of free will, defend the rights of all Muslims
who are presently living in Brazil to freely confess their faith and their
culture. And, in the same way, we expect reciprocity of your government
towards the Iranian Christians in your country."]
where does Obama stand, where’s the US, and where the hell are you JC??
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how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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does he not realize that if widespread abuses
by the US are ongoing, Obama is responsible??
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how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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re: #13 June 26, 2012 at 12:10 am
eh, dropped my safe-guard and didn’t read first..
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Ace commented:
How lame do you have to be to lose Jimmy Carter?
Tom-Pa commented:
does the walking/gun running at the border count. as a matter of fact, the 6000 guns supplied by the gov’t to the drug cartels oughta count for something!!
Oh, I forgot, ‘I am using executive privilages”. It’s good to be the King!
Someone from this deserves some Quantanamo time.
Woody commented:
At least he’s stuck to his principles, unlike many others who were only anti-war when we had a Republican president. And, even though I’m an evil right winger, I too have some misgivings about the whole drone program.
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