Jimmy Carter: Human Rights Violator
“The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.”
Thus begins former President James Earl Carter’s recent New York Times op-ed, in which he claims that the United States, through its use of unmanned aerial vehicles, consistently violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Whether drones are morally acceptable is, of course, a valid area of debate, and one might have principled reasons for opposing them. I propose, however, that we look into Carter’s own history of violating the UDHR.
Unlike Ronald Reagan or both Bushes, who, like Johnny Carson, fully embraced the silence of retirement after leaving office, Carter since 1981 has created another career devoted to loud and useless ramblings on every conceivable issue. In the world of progressive activism, success is measured not by results but by the loudness of one’s emotional allegiance to “causes.” Therefore, in the spirit of empiricism, I propose that we judge Carter by his own standards.
For instance, Article 21 of the UDHR states, in full:
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
I hereby accuse ex-President Carter of violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through his feckless, fraud-enabling Carter Center, he has helped validate some of the most blatant electoral fraud in the developing world, including Hugo Chavez’s sham recall referendum in 2004, which Carter and his ramshackle organization endorsed. The peanut farmer stuck to his story even after Mary O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal skillfully dismantled the Carter Center’s claim to have checked the election results (they looked at tally sheets but weren’t allowed to confirm these against machine-issued ballots given to voters).
The most egregious example of Carter’s “peace” efforts, however, occurred in the former Sudan (now split into two countries, north and south). In 2010, the Carter Center, along with the United Nations Development Program, claimed to be “monitoring” the Sudanese elections, the first multi-party elections to be held in that blood-soaked country for decades. They were a complete farce. The abattoir dictator and genocidaire Omar al-Bashir “won” the “election” with close to 70 percent of the “vote,” which included, as an amateur video has shown, officials of Sudan’s National Elections Commission stuffing ballot boxes. Journalists at the time, including Louise Roland-Gosselin of the Guardian, also alleged that the regime had conducted a spurious census that under-represented Darfur and Southern Sudan, restricting voter registration.
The rabbit was attempting to do a public service. He knew something.
Nice. But didn’t Carter say he thought the rabbit might be rabid? Perhaps it was and it actually bit him. Would explain a great deal.
Just who do you think is paying the major portion to sustain Jimeee’s Library
Saudi’s that’s who
Not to nitpick (you covered most everything!) but Carter didn’t just praise Arafat. As with Venezuela and other places he also verified the “legitimacy” of Arafat’s rather dodgy election in 1996.
Khaled Abu Toameh had a piece in the Seprember 1996 Jpost print edition how Carter ok’ed Arafat’s election even when ballot boxes disappeared when the lights went out.
With regard to your link
This belief that Arafat must continue to be recognized as the “chosen” representative of the Palestinians is not limited to the State Department, but represents a position widely held among Western leaders
it should be said that it was Baker and co., who forced Arafat on Israel as the only legitimate leader of the Palestinians, even while he was in exile in Tunisia.
Shamir was the Israeli prime minister at the time when the Madrid conference took place and those “nice” things said about playing golf with him.
It was certainly torturous for me when Jimmah was president.
Carter has no room to squawk – he and Brzezinski handed the then USSR ‘their own Viet Nam’ – this according to Brzezinski himself. This brought us the wonderful fellows known as the mujahideen. Hows that for blood on your hands Mr. Carter?
You fraud!
Carter’s feckless support (read that NONE) of the Shah of Iran gave birth to the Iranian revolution in 1979-80 – and gave us night after night of Night-Line – with an Alfred E. Neumann caricature going by the name Ted Koppel. I still can’t look at Koppel. Worse than that even was the fact that we had 52 American citizens held hostage for 444 days amidst the birth of that revolution. The Iranians only relented and released their ‘hostages’ when Reagan came to power. Did he tell them he’d bomb their collective asses back to the stone age and do occasional mop up operations to make sure they stayed there? I’d like to think so.
The hostage taking was an act of war that the moron Carter could not or did not recognize. Is he that stupid? In the sense that he is devoid of common sense – yes. I lived through those days and remember them very well. On one screen was the Iranian ‘students’ frothing at the mouth and wanting to kill Americans – on the other was Carter wringing his hands in a very Chamberlainesk fashion. I remember watching Carter and feeling the my support for democratic causes and candidates begin to erode. I voted for Reagan in 1980 and almost felt like I’d committed treason – then voted for Ronny again in 84 and felt better about that vote. I correctly reasoned that Mondale would be as bad as Carter was.
Carter should not be allowed…
You forgot to mention Carter’s complicity with Communist Cuba in helping the Sandinistas come into Power in 1979. Furthermore, he has certified Daniel Ortega’s electoral “Victories”, just as he has done with Hugo Chavez’s. Someday the American people will refuse to believe it as too fanciful. Just as some people today deny the holocaust, but Jimmy Carter is just another useful idiot to the Marxist world.
…so many heinous acts – so little space…
No – I didn’t forget about that. I just don’t have the time to list all the grievances committed by this fraudulent moron – pompous ass – feckless wonder…
Good God – two terrible presidents in my lifetime. Three if you count Johnson.
Don’t forget about Jimmy sending Andrew Young to Rhodesia to make sure that Marxist Robert Mugabe would get the best shot at governing the new nation of Zimbabwe. We all know how well that turned out.
As a young Vietnam veteran, I too voted for Mr.Peanut. I’ve not voted for a Democrat since. The only thing going for Carter is that, thanks to Obama, he is no longer the worst president ever to hold that office.
Quite an accomplishment, Mr. Carter!
Voted out because of his ineptitude
Bet Isrealis still spit on his picture…
What negative comments came out about Carter Clinton or Obama from Reagan Bush or Bush ? NOTHING – too much class!!!
What negative comments came out about Reagan Bush or Bush ?
Too many to count from all 3 Democrats – Not a single one has any class
Nuff said
I predict that Obama will be an even worse ‘Ex-President’ than Carter.
Hear! Hear!!
And I wonder what will become of the Reverends Al and Jesse once the Obamessiah becomes The Official Spokesperson of African-Americans? Who will need the Justice Brothers once King Barry is available 24/7 to give us His Deep Thoughts from On High?
I still contend that Peanut 6 laughs himself to sleep these days knowing that he is no longer the worst loser @$$monkey to have served as POTUS.
If George Washington Carver had known that this particular peanut farmer would become the Chief Executive of the United States he would have switched to Brussel Sprouts.
Jimmy Carter never has gotten the clue. We voted you out in one term so therefore we don’t want to here what you have to say.
The day before Jimmah was voted out he flew into town and gave a speech, maybe about a half hour speech. (He never left the airport.) When it was over he hopped into AF-1 and took off to the next stop. I remember listening to his speech and thought… ‘that guy is running scared.’ I went home with a grin on my face that lasted about 3 days as it turned out.
When obumma gets his comeuppance in November… I’m gonna smile until 3 days after I die. Which hopefully will be a few decades away yet.
I really went down to see AF-1 more than Carter…..
Don’t forget his service to the Koreans born in places like Camp 14.
did they model the “most interesting man alive” after robert wargas?????
This could either be a tremendous compliment or a sardonic insult ; ) I’m willing to just assume it’s the former for the sake of mental health!
Carter, why are you still around running your mouth? Who cares?
At least Ted Kennedy had the decency to die.
Let us not forget the peanut brain’s complicity in installing the dictator Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
Mr. Wargas, not a bad article, but you really need to get educated on the difference tween “human rights” and “natural rights”.
It’s critical.
Your fellow PJM columnist, Mr. AWR Hawkins, can help you.
the article doesn’t mention natural rights, and for a very specific reason. it’s a kind of/sort tongue-in-cheek critique of carter on his own terms, in terms of the phony socialist notion of “human rights.”
now Jimmah turns on his own – feel the schadenfrued- BRR- The jew-hating ,Muslim ass-kisser,commie lover, professional bigmouth and liar: can we call him a racist now because he slam-dunked Obummah for doing drone strikes??
Who cares what this peanut farmer has to say?
“The peanut farmer stuck to his story even after Mary O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal skillfully dismantled the Carter Center’s claim to have checked the election results (they looked at tally sheets but weren’t allowed to confirm these against machine-issued ballots given to voters)”
Ms. O’Grady, and, by extension, Robert Wargas are completely wrong on this issue.
“We therefore proposed to the CNE a second audit, three days after the vote, to check the paper slips. We agreed a methodology with the opposition’s technical advisors, but its political leaders decided not to participate (they had wanted to negotiate directly with the CNE). We tested and verified the CNE’s computer programme to draw a new random sample of 150 mesas, comprising 334 voting machines, and observed the drawing of the sample. We put observers in the main military garrisons where the boxes of paper receipts were stored, before the sample was drawn, to avoid any tampering with the chosen boxes. The observers accompanied the boxes to Caracas, and then watched over a meticulous count in which each slip was compared with the electronic result.
The only way the boxes could have been altered would be for the military—historically the custodians of election material in Venezuela—to have reprogrammed 19,200 voting machines to print out new paper receipts with the proper date, time and serial code and in the proper number of Yes and No votes to match the electronic result, and to have reinserted these into the proper ballot boxes. All of this in garrisons spread across 22 states, between Monday and Wednesday, with nobody revealing the fraud. We considered this to be supremely implausible.
This second audit showed that the machines were very accurate. We found a variation of only 0.1% between the paper receipts and the electronic results. This could be explained by voters putting the slips in the wrong ballot box. An additional piece of corroborating evidence was the result from the 15% of polling stations that used the old-fashioned manual ballot. These stations (in mostly rural areas without telephones) were even more favourable to the president, voting 70:30 against recall.”
http://www.cartercenter.org/news/documents/doc1826.html
You have not demonstrated that I am wrong. On the contrary, the documentary record proves I am right, for the following reasons:
Jennifer McCoy claims that a second audit was taken *three days* after the referendum vote. This so-called audit, however, occurred *after* Carter had already claimed that the election was fair and legitimate. The original vote took place on August 15, 2004. On August 16, the very next day, Carter was already declaring in public that (as quoted in the New York Times): “all Venezuelans should accept the results of the C.N.E.” (the official Venezuelan election board)
Thus, Carter affirmed the elections *before* testing the machine ballots, as Mary O’Grady wrote. This was before any more thoroughly conducted “audit” took place. Carter said this even as opposition leaders (as well as independent journalists and observers all over the world) were worried about massive fraud. This destroys McCoy’s claim that the Carter Center was attentive to these cries of fraud from the beginning. Carter continually downplayed the claims of fraud after the elections, contra McCoy’s claim that she and the Carter Center “was concerned when I heard from both sides during the vote that their exit polls each showed them winning by 18 points. In my experience, competing exit polls are normal. But I was concerned about the size of the discrepancy (36 points)….” Nonsense. Carter wasn’t worried. The New York Times reported *the day after* the elections: “Those polls, Mr. Carter said, ‘are quite unreliable,’ and have a high chance of being biased. ‘I wish they would accept the results,’ he said.” Read the Times article here, dated Aug. 16, 2004, from Caracas: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/international/americas/17venezuela.html?pagewanted=all
So, and realizing the evidence and pressure was mounting, Carter’s crap organization backtracked and conducted a so-called second audit days after, which, as scholars from Harvard, MIT, and elsewhere have demonstrated in peer-reviewed econometric studies, were seriously flawed and, among other things, based on non-random sampling of machines. The Carter Center then stuck to its guns after this so-called second audit was conducted, saying the election was *still* fair. This doesn’t change the fact, however, that Carter *always* thought the elections were valid. You’ve proven nothing.
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
Carter Like ll Of His Fellow SocialistTravelers Will Never Hold His Self Accountable ForHis Own Shortcommings Let Along Illegalities He May Have Been Eq
Jimmy Carter I Believe Is An Good Man With Good Intentions In His Mind He Believes What He Does And Says Is Right However Wrong And Misdirected They May Be. Remember The Old Saying The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions That Undoubtably Applies To Jimmy Carter An His Perceived Good Deed Doing World-Wide Which ould Be Very Justly Labeled An Ill-Will Tour.
Jimmy Carter Has Splinters In The Windmills Of His Mind.
Hey PJ–Don’t waste so much valuable online space showing such a big picture of Carter. Scale it down to a much smaller size, appropriate for the worst US president ever . . . until 2008.
Well, jimmah has one thing he can still look forward to.
He soon will no longer be the biggest idiot to have connived his way into the presidency.
Jimmy Carter is not a good man – his intentions are far from honorable and noble. His heart isn’t in the right place. This bitter creature found success in trashing the country that rejected him. A good man would never legitimize Castro or Chavez. A good man couldn’t witness human misery firsthand and then side with the dictators. Carter has grown rich on the backs of slaves and his legacy will be remembered as such. When he dies, the nation will not mourn. Miles of people will not line up coast to coast. We’ll suffer through the funeral, listen to Obama and Bush praise him as the people cringe. Networks will ignore his gas lines and the hostage crisis. Rather his Habitat for Humanity feel-good sham will be celebrated. Today’s tolerance of Islamic madness can be traced to President Carter. That will be his legacy. I remember the gas lines as a small child and knew it was President Carter’s doing. There was no question he was to blame. Sadly for America, the only good from the Carter years was “Star Wars” and the test run of “Enterprise.”
Leave Carter alone he is a good altuistic man something the author is not!
You’re right: I’d much rather be a globe-trotting bootlicker to dictators on three continents who signs off on fraudulent elections and whose organization has zero credibility and no track record.
As an Iranian American, and on the behalf of my compatriots fighting against the barbaric Islamic regime which Carter brought about, I will celebrate the day this man leaves this earthy world! I will pass out sweets and flowers to all people I see on the roads…
This man has destroyed 3 generations of Iranians and Nicaraguans lives. He must answer to millions of dead, tortured, miss placed, refugees and the list goes on..
This man must be censored and his age should not matter. He does not know how and when to just shut his mouth. His rants against the US and its benevolent role in supporting justice throughout the world is disgusting! He is a disgrace not only to America but generally to the human race!
Long live liberty, freedom and long live America!