Carter: U.S. missteps embolden dictators

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Nov. 11, 2003  |  ATLANTA (AP) -- Perceived human rights violations by the United States during the war on terrorism could allow dictators in other nations to justify their own abuses, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.

Opening a conference of international human rights workers, the Nobel Peace Prize winner said an erosion of civil liberties in the U.S. has ``given a blank check to nations who are inclined to violate human rights already.''

He cited the indefinite detention of hundreds of terrorism suspects from Afghanistan at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo and a post-Sept. 11 roundup of roughly 1,200 U.S. immigrants _ many of whom were held for months without being formally charged with any crime.

``I say this because this is a violation of the basic character of my country and it's very disturbing to me,'' Carter said.

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/11/11/carter/index.html

[Brucey]

1. Yes, good for Carter, but also add

that preventive wars are a bad precedent, and killing brown people all over the world for the last 50 years in order to secure corporate ownership and profits is also a bad precedent.

[sujan]

2. did carter repent for supporting the Iranian dictator?

[La_Serpiente]

3. Did Carter repent

for helping make a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel?

[sujan]

9. what peace agreement?

[tom_paine]

4. Close, Jimmy, but the US is RULED by a dictator!

If only your Democracy Group would have the balls to monitor the corrupt and crooked "elections" of the Third World Nation that Bushevik-Occupied Amerika is becoming...

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7. Amen. He doesn't want anything to do with BBV

[Rose Siding]

5. He joins his voice with Gore against the Patriot Act

Very timely! To President Carter (his is non-alcoholic) :toast:

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``Every dictator in the world is using what the United States has done under the Patriot Act ... to justify their past violations of human rights and to declare a license to continue to violate human rights.''

The Bush administration is asking Congress to further expand the Patriot Act, which expanded government's surveillance and detention power. Attorney General John Ashcroft says the law has helped prevent more terrorist attacks.

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8. I do applaud him on this.

[Spazito]

6. I love Jimmy Carter!

He has a way of speaking in his soft voice that carries a very strong message.