Jimmy Carter Accuses U.S. of ‘Widespread Abuse of Human Rights’

ABC News ^ | Jun 25, 2012

[kingattax]

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 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.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You are absolutely right. No President --- no Democrat, no Republican, not this President, nor the one that comes after him --- can have the rightful authority to target someone for assassination simply on his own say-so--- as if he were God Almighty or, more likely, the Primordial Death-eater himself.

I am amazed that ANY American people accept this. If we don't stop this, we will msurely earn ourselves hell here, and hereafter as well.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You are absolutely right. No President --- no Democrat, no Republican, not this President, nor the one that comes after him --- can have the rightful authority to target someone for assassination simply on his own say-so--- as if he were God Almighty or, more likely, the Primordial Death-eater himself.

I am amazed that ANY American people accept this. If we don't stop this, we will msurely earn ourselves hell here, and hereafter as well.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sickoflibs. Carter the Jew-hating and incompetent anti-American bunghole should have shut up after his ass was kicked in the 1980 election. A more thorough repudiation has scarcely happened since WWII in US politics.

I will be pissing on his grave, and I hope my first opportunity is soon.

[vette6387]

“He should climb back under a rock.”

Better still he should leave this mortal coil! What a disgraceful POS! Only Obama trumps Carter for wasting perfectly good air by breathing.

[Moonman62]

Says the man who supports and empowers Jihadi terrorists every chance he gets. But then, he IS on the Saudi payroll.

His deep hatred of Jews could have something to do with it too.