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- youngdesigner
Jimmy Carter: US “has no functioning democracy”
- albums0
Says the man still receiving a pension of $199,700 from the secretary of Treasury annually.
- GeorgesIV0
just in case you decide to read the article
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Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is so concerned about the NSA spying scandal that he thinks it has essentially resulted in a suspension of American democracy.
“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy,” he said at an event in Atlanta on Tuesday sponsored by the Atlantik Bruecke, a private nonprofit association working to further the German-U.S. relationship. The association’s name is German for “Atlantic bridge.”Carter’s remarks didn’t appear in the American mainstream press but were reported from Atlanta by the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, whose Washington correspondent Gregor Peter Schmitz said on Twitter he was present at the event. The story doesn’t appear in the English-language section of the Spiegel website and is only available in German.
The 39th U.S. president also said he was pessimistic about the current state of global affairs, wrote Der Spiegel, because there was “no reason for him to be optimistic at this time.” Among the developments that make him uneasy, Carter cited the “falling of Egypt under a military dictatorship.” As president, Carter managed to get then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin to sign the Camp David peace agreements in 1979.
Carter said a bright spot was “the triumph of modern technology,” which enabled the democratic uprisings of the Arab Spring; however, the NSA spying scandal, Carter said, according to Der Spiegel, endangers precisely those developments, “as major U.S. Internet platforms such as Google or Facebook lose credibility worldwide.”
- albums0
link to der spiegel article
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/au…
- yurimon0
I find it bit ironic in the sense that carter had the same backers as bomma but its good he is trying to warn people.
In my opinion and observations of current events in the republic is that there is broad undermining of the rule of law. Meaning that if the Gov itself followed the Rule of law that where outlined for itself and its original intentions of it being the servants of the people. I would say that Probably Most of the current and past administrations with its cronies would be in jail. The fact that many gov offices have become a sanctuary for criminals that don't see justice is pretty sad. Call it an infestation of the worst kind.
However Responsibility still rests in the peoples action or lack of which would determine their fate. This is the collective future you are building so congratulations muerica. like crabs in a bucket.
Same thing happened in Germany. Its a slower process in the states.
- ernexbcn0
@moldero Chávez was a clown who got rich by stealing the country riches, along with all his family and buddies. Those are the ones now ruling in Venezuela.