Calling Jimmy Carter (to stop being a HYPOCRITE!)

...Does a woman who accepts America's money to build democracy deserve 16 years in prison? Only to a brutal dictator. But that doesn't excuse Congress, NOW and Jimmy Carter for having nothing to say.

...a politicized court is about to throw Venezuelan democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado into prison for "treason." Her so-called crime: Accepting a $54,000 grant from U.S. Congress' National Endowment for Democracy.

...all she and three others did was inform citizens about their supposed rights under Chavez's own 1999 constitution.

For Chavez, that was a crime.. his prosecutor handed the one-man judge and jury his demand for the most draconian sentence ever imposed on a National Endowment for Democracy recipient anywhere in the world.

That's why the silence from our nation's Capitol is so strange. Is Congress admitting, right along with Chavez, that its open-books bipartisan democracy-building arm is an instrument of conspiracy?

Where now is Rep. Lynne Woolsey, fresh from hosting "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, whose last whistle-stop was a Venezuelan foreign-ministry-sponsored trip to kiss Chavez in Caracas?

Or Rep. Delahunt and Sens. Chafee, Bill Nelson and Dodd, all of whom have junketed to Caracas to be at the dictator's side and...robotically repeat that he was "democratically elected."

More morally bankrupt silence comes from ex-President Carter. Never at a loss for public words, he's famous for certifying Venezuela's 2004 recall referendum...

Carter has put his stamp of approval on the way Chavez runs his voting operations, but he has nothing to say about the dictator's vengeance on those who organized the petition to recall him.

The sham of it is that Chavez has tried to convince us — using the words of Congress, NOW and Carter — that he's as much a democrat as we are...

It is mind numbing to see all the damage left from the tenure of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. We are still facing the consequences from those two. I just hope we as a country, survive it.

So true! Survival would be enhanced by all of us emailing everyone we know and pointing out that these last 2 DemocRAT presidents damaged our intelligence-gathering capabilities, crippled our allies, helped our enemies AND let them have Iran, the Panama Canal, control of the port of Los Angeles, nuclear technology, missile guidance secrets, etc., etc. etc...

Carter likes to micromanage everything while he was president. Prefers to have yes men around him.

http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/hess/20000121.htm

Carter can be easily walked over.
From Carter: the Untold Story

"In one session, where Carter questioned the Soviets' record on human rights, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko turned the tables and delivered a lecture on the Soviet Union's free medical care, zero unemployment and absence of homelessness. "I couldn't argue," Mr. Carter admits. "We each had a definition of human rights and differences like this must be recognized and understood." Really? Ever read The Gulag Archipelago?"

http://www.jfednepa.org/mark%20silverberg/jimmycarter.html

Carter is not respected around the world. He's a American Imperialist Fool.

"The Unknown History of James Carter"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=PET20040713&articleId=708

No, they're out, but they have to appear again March 29th:

UPDATE

Posted on Sat, Feb. 11, 2006:
VENEZUELA

Nonprofit's conspiracy trial stopped; new charges likely

An appeals court threw out a case against an anti-Chávez group that accepted U.S. funds, but prosecutors say they'll file new charges.CARACAS, Venezuela - (AP) -- A defense attorney said Friday that a conspiracy trial for leaders of a U.S.-backed Venezuelan nonprofit group has been halted by an appeals court, but prosecutors immediately said they would press new charges against two of the people.

Three members of the Sumate group, which identifies itself as a vote-monitoring watchdog, went on trial Tuesday on charges of conspiring against the country's democratic system for receiving U.S. funding.

''All of it was annulled completely,'' defense lawyer Juan Martin Echeverria told private TV broadcaster Globovision on Friday.

Echeverria said a higher court annulled Judge Elias Alvarez's proceedings for failure to allow a jury in the trial.

The attorney general's office on Friday announced that it would pursue new charges against Sumate president Alejandro Plaz and vice president Maria Corina Machado for ''electoral'' crimes related to their unsuccessful efforts to call a referendum against President Hugo Chávez in 2003. It ordered Machado and Plaz to appear in court on March 29 to be formally charged.

The original charges against the Sumate members stem from a $31,000 contribution from the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy, a private group funded by the U.S. Congress.

Chávez's government says the donation was illegal and is evidence the group is plotting with Washington against it. Sumate leaders deny they've committed any crime and say the funds were used legally for pro-democracy courses.

In February 2003, Sumate led the collection of some 3 million signatures calling for a referendum against Chávez. The signatures were thrown out by authorities over alleged electoral violations.

The group backed a new petition drive that successfully triggered a recall referendum in 2004, which Chávez soundly won.

Sumate has continued to irritate the government by challenging the results of the referendum and declaring congressional elections last December illegitimate.
The group says it is defending Venezuela's democracy and says its leaders are victims of political persecution.
Plaz and Machado, charged with conspiracy, had faced up to 16 years in prison. Two directors, Ricardo Estevez and Luiz Enrique Palacios, were charged as accomplices.

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