posted March 24, 2006 11:47 PM              

Don't we live in the United States of America? Free speech, anyone?

posted March 25, 2006 12:51 AM            

Further, it's not what he's doing or saying in the US but rather what he's doing and saying when he's abroad. His personal behavior is at odds with US foreign policy and that's intolerable. Lobbying for terrorist organizations and terrorist supporting nations which are on the US terrorist list is vile, despicable and not in the interests of the United States.

posted March 25, 2006 08:07 AM              

Is the goal to embarass him? Possibly make him less appealing as a motivational speaker? Do we want other countries to not welcome him on their soil? Is this group trying to put an asterick by his name in the history books, ala Pete Rose or Mark McGuire?

And, in the end, don't we think Congress (if they were nutty enough to actually even THINK about spending time pondering this and drafting a resolution) has better things they can be doing?

Btw, I have no personal feelings about Jimmy either way....but do care about what I'm paying my congressmen to do!

posted March 25, 2006 09:40 AM            

http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2002/carter-lecture.html

Is the award "for sale"? Just curious & wondering how the two extremes exist... terrorist lover & Nobel Peace prize Laureat.

posted March 25, 2006 10:38 AM              

Arafat quickly comes to mind, juni.

posted March 26, 2006 12:04 AM              

Ah...correct me if I'm wrong...but isn't that "our rummy" shaking hands with that terrorist Saddam???

posted March 26, 2006 12:17 AM              

quote:

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...it's a safe bet that if Carter could shake the hand of history's greatest monster, he'd leap at the opportunity.

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SEE PIC ABOVE....

posted March 26, 2006 01:23 AM              

Sending EveryOne Lots of Love. ...

posted March 26, 2006 03:15 PM              

RUMSFELD: "Oh not much - but you know eventually, we're gonna have to take you out - so as to make this world a safer place (at least that's the 'spin' we're gonna give it) and for a 'noble cause' (another 'catch phrase') and oh yes, for the oil. Now THAT's for real, but we're not gonna tell it like that and in the meantime, it's to our benefit to be good buds."

posted March 26, 2006 03:56 PM            

*Note: Jimmy Carter has become an outspoken defender of the terrorist group Hamas which, according to the Jerusalem Post, calls for the nuclear destruction of Israel in a nuclear holocaust.

Jimmy Carter - the personification of moonbattery, whom even the Clinton Administration regarded as a "treasonous prick" - is at it again, reminding us all how supremely lucky we are to have survived four years of this evil clown in the White House:

Former President Jimmy Carter says he's encouraged by the participation of Hamas in next week's Palestinian elections because the terrorist organization has political integrity.

Carter told CNN that Hamas may consist of "so-called terrorists," but added "there have been no complaints of corruption against [their] elected officials."
Carter conceded that some in Hamas "deny Israel's right to exist," but defended the group's legitimacy as a political party
http://www.censurecarter.com/index.php/CensureCarter/offenses

Carter Praises Terrorist Leader Yasser Arafat

Upon the death of Palestinian terrorist leader, Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter issued the following statement:

Yasser Arafat's death marks the end of an era and will no doubt be painfully felt by Palestinians throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.

He was the father of the modern Palestinian nationalist movement. A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate, Palestinians united behind him in their pursuit of a homeland. While he provided indispensable leadership to a revolutionary movement and was instrumental in forging a peace agreement with Israel in 1993, he was excluded from the negotiating role in more recent years.

Statement Praising Yasser Arafat
By Former President Jimmy Carter
November, 11, 2004
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Carter Tied to Iraqi Agent Samir Vincent

Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N.

Move America Forward today will call upon Carter to provide a full accounting of his meetings and conversations with Samir Vincent, who yesterday pleaded guilty to participating in numerous illegal activities as part of the U.N. scandal.

Samir Vincent admitted on Tuesday to receiving allocations for more than 9 million barrels of oil between 1996 and 2003 in return for serving as an agent of Saddam Hussein's regime. Vincent worked at Hussein's direction, lobbying U.S. and U.N. officials to end sanctions and to instead implement the oil-for-food scam.

According to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, "Vincent lobbied former officials of the United States government, who maintained close contacts to high-ranking members of both the Clinton and Bush administrations."

Ashcroft asserted that Vincent reported the results of his efforts with these former U.S. officials to the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

Based upon an investigation by Move America Forward, it appears President Carter and his associates are among the former officials with whom Vincent collaborated.

The first documented contact between Former President Carter and Samir Vincent was in September 1999. Vincent had organized a tour of Iraqi religious leaders to meet with individuals in the United States who might be persuaded to speak out against the sanctions against Iraq. The trip also included discussions of ways to oppose U.S. and U.K. air strikes against Iraqi missile batteries in southern Iraq, which had fired on American and British aircraft engaged in enforcing the southern "No Fly Zone."

The meeting with Carter was one of the highlights of the trip. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, welcomed the Vincent-organized delegation into their home in Plains, Georgia.

The weekly Iraqi newspaper, al-Raee, reported that Carter expressed his sympathies with the Iraqi people and railed against the "stringent" sanctions imposed against Iraq as a result of the nation's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The report claimed that Carter had promised to send his wife and son to Iraq. Along with the story was a photograph of Carter with the three religious dignitaries who were part of Vincent's anti-sanctions lobbying tour.

After the meeting at Carter's house, the Carters' son, Chip, escorted the delegation to a tour of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Carter and his wife founded the Carter Center and their son, Chip, serves as vice president.

The ties between Carter, his associates and Vincent did not end in 1999. Earlier, in 1977, Carter and his wife, along with Wayne Smith, formed an organization called "Friendship Force." The organization promoted cultural exchanges between individuals of different nations as a way of building "friendship" between different countries.

"A World of Friends" was an Atlanta-based company launched with a board of directors totaling seven individuals - including Vincent, Smith and Young. Vincent was described in the firm's first press release as the "president of an energy company."

"Jimmy Carter Linked to Oil for Food Scam"
WorldNetDaily
January 20, 2005
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posted March 26, 2006 03:58 PM            

Last week, Undersecretary of State John Bolton announced that the U.S. government has reason to believe Castro's Cuba is developing and exporting "dual use" technology - i.e. technology that can be used both for peaceful purposes as well as to develop weapons of mass-destruction. So what did Carter do when he got to Cuba? He basically said that the United States was full of it.

He explained that the U.S. government didn't tell him about these concerns before he left. Moreover, Carter asked Cuban scientists - in the presence of Castro - and Fidel himself whether they had anything to do with biological weapons or terrorism and they all said no. Heck, if Castro's word isn't good enough, whose is? It's an unusual thing for a former president to more or less choose sides against the United States and with a hostile nation ruled by a ruthless dictator. Unusual, that is, in the sense that most U.S. presidents - current or former - don't do this sort of thing.

Unfortunately, Carter is the exception that proves the rule. Like a (very) white, un-rhyming Jesse Jackson, Carter has developed an uncanny gift for sucking up to the most appalling dictators on the planet and undermining U.S. policy. As Joshua Muravchik wrote in the New Republic in 1994 - when Carter was bollixing up then-President Clinton's efforts to stop nuclear proliferation in North Korea - "Jimmy Carter, for all his heroic advocacy of human rights, has a long history of melting in the presence of tyrants." At the time, Carter said of Kim Il Sung, a brutal Stalinist dictator, "I found him to be vigorous, intelligent, surprisingly well-informed about the technical issues and in charge of the decisions about this country."

As for the North Koreans, Muravchik wrote, Carter said the "people were very friendly and open." The capital, Pyongyang, is a "bustling city," where customers "pack the department stores," which looked like "Wal-Mart in Americus, Georgia." North Korea, it should be noted, has suffered from such government-imposed mass-starvation that millions have been forced to live off grass. While the first President Bush was trying to orchestrate an international coalition to remove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, Carter wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council asking its members to stymie Bush's efforts. As the "human rights president," Carter noted that Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito was also "a man who believes in human rights." Carter saluted the dictator as "a great and courageous leader" who "has led his people and protected their freedom almost for the last 40 years." He publicly told Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, "Our goals are the same. ...

We believe in enhancing human rights. We believe that we should enhance, as independent nations, the freedom of our own people." He told the Stalinist first secretary of Communist Poland, Edward Gierek, "Our concept of human rights is preserved in Poland." Since Carter has left office, he's been even more of a voluptuary of despots and dictators. He told Haitian dictator Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras he was "ashamed of what my country has done to your country."

He's praised the mass-murdering leaders of Syria and Ethiopia. He endorsed Yasser Arafat's sham election and grumbled about the legitimate vote that ousted Sandanista Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. And, I learned from a devastating critique by my National Review colleague Jay Nordlinger, Carter even volunteered to be Arafat's speechwriter and go-fer, crafting palatable messages for Arafat's Western audiences and convincing the Saudis to continue funding Arafat after the Palestinians sided with Iraq against the United States. So, yes, it's unfair to say that Jimmy Carter was history's greatest monster. But it's a safe bet that if Carter could shake the hand of history's greatest monster, he'd leap at the opportunity.

Jonah Goldberg
Nationally Syndicated Column
May 15, 2002
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Carter Accuses U.S. Troops of Torture at GITMO

After pushing for continued funding to the terrorist organization Hamas on CNN's Situation Room, Jimmy Carter accused US soldiers of torture and oppression at Guantanamo:

BLITZER: We don't have a lot of time, but I want to go through a couple of issues with you before I let you go, Mr. President. The Guantanamo Bay prison. The U.N. is now suggesting, a report at the U.N., the U.S. should shut it down as quickly as possible. Do you agree?

CARTER: I've agreed with that since we first found out that torture and oppression was being perpetrated against the prisons at Guantanamo Bay. These are people that have been arrested, taken on the battlefield. I understand most of them in Afghanistan.

They've never been given a right to hear the charges against them. They've never had legal counsel. They have not been permitted to meet with their families. They have been held incommunicado. And all the evidence is that many of them have been psychologically and physically tortured.

So the best thing that the United States can do for our own reputation and for justice in the world and for the honoring of human rights is to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison, as was recommended by the United Nations.

posted March 26, 2006 04:00 PM            

Carter has resurfaced in recent weeks, sounding off on the Middle East and preparing for a trip to Castro's Cuba. The 39th president is never far from the surface, of course. He has often been an irritant to his successors in the White House. He exasperated Clinton on North Korea and Haiti, and he appalled the first Bush. In the run-up to the Gulf War, as the administration was trying to assemble a coalition against Iraq, Carter sent a letter to members of the U.N. Security Council, urging them to thwart the administration's effort. Some around Washington were heard to mutter "treason."

Jay Nordlinger
National Review
May 13, 2002
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Carter Undermines U.S. Foreign
Policy Towards Cuba

A far more serious departure from the tradition of ex-Presidents to conduct themselves in a responsible and decorous fashion is the latest international foray by Jimmy Carter. At this writing, he is adding to the list of odious tyrants to whom he has paid court by visiting Fidel Castro's Caribbean gulag. While the psychological impetus for this endeavor doubtless has much in common with Mr. Clinton's insatiable need to be back in the spotlight, Carter's freelance diplomacy is contrary to - and calculated to subvert -- U.S. policy towards the hemisphere's last bastion of Communism.

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For example, on May 13, Mr. Carter was scheduled to visit a Cuban "biotech" operation. Castro's reason for taking him there -- and, presumably, Carter's as well -- is to have the ex- President personally repudiate a charge leveled just last week by a senior State Department official, Under Secretary of State John Bolton, to the effect that Cuba's highly developed biological industry has the potential to produce bioweapons. This is indisputably true; virtually any modern facility with the fermentation vats and other equipment needed for manufacturing vaccines, pharmaceutical drugs, etc. has the inherent ability to generate smallpox, anthrax and other deadly viruses for military purposes. (Secretary Bolton also raised an alarm that Cuba is proliferating such biowarfare capabilities by collaborating with Iran.)

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It is outrageous -- but hardly surprising -- that Jimmy Carter would put himself into a position where he will be shamelessly used as a propaganda foil against his own government. To be sure, he has done it before. By his participation in Potemkin tours of Cuban factories and other sites at this juncture, however, he is not only lending credibility to a regime that makes no secret of its hostility to the United States. The ex-President is overtly undercutting the current President's policy of insisting on regime change in Cuba and the liberation of the long-suffering people of that island as a precondition to normalizing economic and political relations between the two countries.

posted March 26, 2006 04:01 PM            

"It seems that almost wherever he goes and whatever positions he pushes, Jimmy Carter leaves a wake of devastation and disaster.

Carter, we should note, has been cozying up to North Korea for years. He helped the U.S. and the communist country come to agreement during the Clinton years to defuse a tense situation over North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

Under the wacko deal Carter arranged, the U.S. would stop complaining about Korea's nuclear weapons program as long as the U.S. gave aid to North Korea and helped the communists build more modern nuclear reactors."

Christopher Ruddy
Newsmax Magazine
Monday, May 13, 2002
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Moral Treason from Jimmy Carter

So Carter is not only claiming that a primitive, brutal dictatorship has a "superb" military technology, but actually trying to scare the South Koreans (who are already acting, probably out of fear, as virtually a puppet of the North Korean regime).

Carter also advocated, "the lifting of all economic and political sanctions against North Korea and the opportunity for that little country to become completely absorbed in world affairs on a normal basis."

Poor little country! Only its "superb military technology" and the threat of killing hundreds of thousands of South Koreans keeps it afloat. If only we'd let it trade all its nonmilitary bounty with the rest of the world, it would become so absorbed in "world affairs" that it would change its ways, drop its ideology (which, incidentally, holds that trade is imperialist exploitation), and become normal.

This disgraceful moral treason by Carter is, among other things, the Marxist notion that ideology and politics is determined by "the mode of production." But Carter implicitly recognizes the power of ideas and morality, because one of his charges against the US, one of the things he thinks as equivalent to North Korea's breaking the agreement he is "credited with," is Bush including North Korea in "the axis of evil."

posted March 27, 2006 12:11 AM              

The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering. Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, the Atlanta-based Center has helped to improve the quality of life for people in more than 65 countries.

Led by the Carters and an independent board of trustees, the Center's staff wage peace, fight disease, and build hope by both engaging with those at the highest levels of government and working side by side with poor and often forgotten people.

posted March 27, 2006 12:13 AM              

The Carter Center's neutrality and record of achievement give its peace making programs the credibility needed to work nationally, regionally, and globally to advance peace and security. The Center's work as an international peace organization improves lives worldwide.

Carter Center Peace Programs include:

The Americas Program improving the quality of democracy, thwarting corruption, increasing transparency, and decreasing social inequities in the Western Hemisphere
The Conflict Resolution Program making peace by preventing and resolving armed and political conflicts around the globe
The Democracy Program working for the development of democratic societies worldwide by observing elections, strengthening the capacity of civic organizations, and promoting the rule of law
The Global Development assisting developing countries with the expertise to help them devise their own plans for sustainable development, and
Human Rights Initiatives intervening on behalf of victims of human rights abuses and integrating human rights approaches and principles into the activities of all Carter Center programs.

Peace is more than the absence of conflict. And peace making is more than stopping war. It encompasses democratic ideals and protection of human rights. Not only does the lack of peace often lead to poverty, it is as well one of poverty's many symptoms. Building peace and promoting democracy prevents conflict and instability, improves governance, and strengthens the rule of law. When citizens are empowered, they use their voices to influence policy, protect human rights, and hold their governments accountable.

Whether working on anti-corruption efforts in Latin America, conflict resolution in Sudan, a national development strategy in Mali, or with civil society groups in Guyana or Mozambique, the end result is the empowerment of people. The Center's work creates long-term effects by laying and strengthening frameworks within a country's institutions, whether it's through the electoral commission, judicial court, or nongovernmental organizations seeking a voice in the Peace is more than the absence of conflict. And peace making is more than stopping war. It encompasses democratic ideals and protection of human rights. Not only does the lack of peace often lead to poverty, it is as well one of poverty's many symptoms. Building peace and promoting democracy prevents conflict and instability, improves governance, and strengthens the rule of law. When citizens are empowered, they use their voices to influence policy, protect human rights, and hold their governments accountable.

Whether working on anti-corruption efforts in Latin America, conflict resolution in Sudan, a national development strategy in Mali, or with civil society groups in Guyana or Mozambique, the end result is the empowerment of people. The Center's work creates long-term effects by laying and strengthening frameworks within a country's institutions, whether it's through the electoral commission, judicial court, or nongovernmental organizations seeking a voice in the national agenda.

Current Peace Making Initiatives:

Observing elections in emerging democracies or those in danger of backsliding from democracy

Seeking lasting peace in Sudan

Promoting inter-American relations through the Council of Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Americas

Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Americas Encouraging national reconciliation in Liberia

Helping citizens and governments fight corruption by supporting access to information laws

Mediating peaceful transfers of authority in contested elections.

Mediating between the Venezuelan government and opposition to help resolve the political crisis Strengthening the capacity of civic organizations to participate in public policy making and promoting the rule of law.

Advocating for stronger international human rights systems and helping new democracies establish human rights laws and institutions.

Promoting democratic accountability by developing methods to make political financing more transparent and involving civic groups in public dialogue with governments on crucial national issues and laws.

posted March 27, 2006 12:15 AM              

15 Mar 2006

The Carter Center applauds the United Nations General Assembly (GA) for adopting the resolution creating a new Human Rights Council. Nearly a year after Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued his call for reform of the Commission on Human Rights, GA President Jan Elliason has produced a solid foundation upon which to build the U.N.’s new principal human rights body.

Many different opinions were taken into consideration to achieve this landmark agreement. Now, all those dedicated to the realization of human rights throughout the world should join in common cause to hold every government, big and small, to the highest standards of human rights.

This agreement presents an opportunity to seek new and innovative ways to address the world’s worst human rights crises. At the same time, each government will be expected to improve its own practices. Reciprocity and a constant focus on the rights of victims and the vulnerable are needed if the Council is to be productive.

We are pleased that the U.S. is prepared to fund this Council and support its overall mission.

The time has come for a truly global rededication to the principle of justice for all.

posted March 27, 2006 12:45 AM              

Guess that shows why he's a target now...BLOW THE MAN DOWN!

posted March 27, 2006 01:21 AM              

Mattie died at age 13, but was one of the most profound thinkers on this earth...for his young years.....

Mattie wanted to be known as a peacemaker, and one of his wishes was to meet Jimmy Carter before he died, because he admired him so much, and he not only got to meet Jimmy...but they became very good friends....(Jimmy spoke at his funeral)..

Darling little Mattie was a poet and had been writing poety since he was three years old. He was so intelligent that he was taking college classes at 11 years old.

A dear internet friend who knows of my love for Mattie surprised me by sending me one of Mattie's books he wrote...only yesterday....

I'd like to share some of it....in Mattie's own words...

quote:

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....I learned that while serving as president, Carter worked diligently on peace efforts in the Middle East. Instead of simply vacationing at Camp David, the presidential retreat house, Carter would invite leaders of fighting countries to come and talk together in the mountains, and he would help mediate their issues. Also during his presidency, Carter became personally involved with Habitat for Humanity, an organization that helps people in need, build their own homes, and he continues to be on the scene with hammer and nails for ongoing projects. In the years after his presidency he established the Carter Center, a private nonprofit organization where anyone and everyone can gather information about education, health, the environment, human rights, civil rights, and global conflict and mediation.

But I also learned about character and commitment.....I became aware of Carter's genuine humility, kindness and love for all people. Through his example in all aspects of his life and work, I realized that it is OK to be proud of our goals and achievements as long as we choose a humble pride that roots us in our own reality, and not a vain pride that empties us of worthiness. The more I read and reflecte on this individual who was of great interest to me, the more I came to greatly admire the sincere dedication of Jimmy Carter to bringing about a just peace for our world as a whole...

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