In re your six paragraphs of comment:
1. This topic is a huge political bombshell and will probably be the Democrat Party's worse nightmare. Maybe the association/participation of a few more high-profile Dems will be revealed.
2., 4. & 5. Carter certainly did present himself as well-meaning. But so sanctimonious, and also a nitpicking micro-manager. Since he chose to associate (cavort?) almost exclusively with Socialists and their causes over at least the last decade, this revelation will reward him with a well deserved comeuppance.
3. Did Ol' Jimmie ever meet a Socialist or learn about a socialist program he didn't like?
I dispute with you about "freedom we enjoy as U.S. citizens." Think IRS. And I urge you to become acquainted with the legal definition of U.S. citizen or alternatively, "citizen of the United States" and the liabilities and jurisdiction individual Americans innocently accept when they voluntarily define themselves as such.
6. Unfortunately, the U.S. government has been cultivating and financing tyrannical regimes since at least WWII. The U.S. financed Saddam Hussein until he attacked Kuwait. Same with Manuel Noriega who's now kept in permanent solitary confinement. Knows too much that would embarrass the U.S. government.
I'm sure glad Jimmuh's been excommunicated from the Southern Baptists....
It was a nice try ;)
Many FReepers can quote the Constitution backwards and forwards, and tell you what is says, but very, very few can tell you what the Constitution IS, or what it means.
I know I've been trying to explain it for a while, and usually I either get flamed or ignored.