Jimmy Carter is correct but ignores the growth of the predatory state!

NEW YORK - June 25, 2012 - Finally, a prominent Democrat is speaking out about the illegitimate Obama regime's drone murders and its sending of death squads around the world to assassinate people the president considers to be "enemies."

Jimmy Carter, in a New York Times op-ed, writes that the Fascist Police States of Amerika government now regularly violates the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and then includes a number of things that are obvious.:

“The declaration has been invoked by human rights activists and the international community to replace most of the world’s dictatorships with democracies and to promote the rule of law in domestic and global affairs. It is disturbing that, instead of strengthening these principles, our government’s counterterrorism policies are now clearly violating at least 10 of the declaration’s 30 articles, including the prohibition against “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

At one level, Carter is right, and his words are a warning to the political classes in this country that have declared open warfare on everyone else. However, while Carter concentrates on foreign policy and the UN Declaration, what he leaves out is just as telling.

The Declaration of Independence is a much more eloquent statement on human rights than anything UN bureaucrats could conceive if for no other reason than it goes to the source of oppression: governments themselves. Yet, Carter pointedly ignores it, depending instead upon an organization that sees itself as the shadow government of the whole world to be the "shining light" of freedom.

Carter also leaves out the growth of the fascist police state at home, which is signified by the fact that dozens of federal agencies - from the IRS to the EPA - have their own SWAT teams that regularly raid hapless and unarmed people and brutalize the innocent. He also pointedly ignores the militarization of both local and federal thug cop forces, and the vast increases in the FPSA prison population that naturally have arisen from the proliferation of "laws" and unaccountability of those that enforce it, from pig thug cops to prosecutors and judges.

Although Carter has been an eloquent voice against the murderous foreign policy of the FPSA government, nonetheless he really does not seem to understand that the violence that Amerika has perpetrated abroad also has translated into pig thug cop violence at home. Carter is perfectly comfortable with the EPA shutting down Amerikan businesses on false pretenses, the IRS staging raids against people whom it claims have not paid their taxes, and the growth of the State that gobbles the possessions of ordinary people.

In the end, Carter is a Progressive, and Progressives believe that governments not only should be empowered to "protect" our rights, but that governments really are the very creators of what the FPSA calls "Human Rights". This is sad, because his views attack only the symptoms of State violence, not its root causes.