Carter asks US to embrace Nepal Maoists (Jimmy Carter as evangelist)

Carter asks US to embrace Nepal Maoists

KATHMANDU: Former US President Jimmy Carter called on his country’s government Saturday to establish relations with Nepal’s former rebel Maoists, who remain on a list of US terrorist organisations.

“My opinion is that the US should establish some communication with the Maoists. The people of Nepal have accepted them as political players,” Carter told journalists at the end of a four-day visit to Nepal. The US remains highly critical of the Maoists, despite the fact they signed a landmark peace deal last year and entered government in April. Earlier this week the US ambassador to Nepal James Moriarty said that the ultra-leftists’ “addiction to violence, extortion and intimidation continues unabated.”

During his visit, Carter met with Prachanda, the Maoist leader whose nom-de-guerre means “the fierce one.” The 82-year-old former president admitted he was worried about the activities of the Young Communist League (YCL), the Maoist youth wing that has frequently been accused of using mafia-like tactics. “I am still concerned about some of the activities of the YCL. My hope is that they will be corrected,” Carter told reporters at a hotel in the capital.

“I have expressed my concern to him (Prachanda) and he has assured me he will do whatever possible to correct the problem,” Carter said. The former president’s Carter Centre has been invited to provide election monitors in crucial polls planned for November. The vote will elect a body that will rewrite Nepal’s constitution and decide the future of the sidelined monarchy. The US embassy in Kathmandu have been at pains to emphasise that Carter is visiting as a private US citizen. afp

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Carter Says U.S. Should Talk With Nepal Maoists

Former U.S. president and co-founder of the Carter Center Jimmy Carter has given assurance to the Maoist leader Prachanda to convey their message to President George W. Bush. After a 50 minute long talk with Carter on June 16, Prachanda told the journalists that they (Maoists) wanted to maintain diplomatic relations with the U.S.

"We want diplomatic relations with the U.S. to be better and the U.S. to remove us from its terrorist list," Prachanda said, "He has said that he will take up the issue with the president." Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai, who was with Prachanda, said, "He replied that he will talk with the president to remove [us] from the terrorist list.”

Carter met with the Maoist leaders even though the U.S. government continues to keep them on its list of terrorists and the U.S. ambassador to Nepal refused to meet them. As Carter, being a former president, has direct access to President Bush, the Maoist leadership's message will reach the top of the U.S. administration directly.

In response to Carter's query the Maoists expressed their full commitment to multiparty democracy.

"I am very delighted to have been able to talk with a former U.S. president," Prachanda said. "We talked on many issues seriously."

When Carter asked about the Maoist sister organization Young Communist League, Prachanda replied that YCL has been considered negative while it is not so and urged him to take note of its good activities.

Carter on Saturday said that the United States must establish lines of communication with Nepal's Maoists for removal of the terrorist tag imposed on them by the U.S. "The Maoists have complied with the United Nations requirements and disarmed to some degree. They have adopted the principle of multiparty democracy.

"The U.S. should establish communication with the Maoists," Carter told a news conference wrapping up his four-day Nepal visit. He also said, "My report will be submitted to the White House."

Jimmy Carter as evangelist
By Sandhya Jain

THE sudden decision of the interim parliament of Nepal to arrogate to itself the power to abolish the monarchy precisely when former US President Jimmy Carter arrived on a four-day visit should ring alarm bells in this country. Prior to Mr. George Bush Jr, the American President most committed to an evangelical agenda for the world was Mr. Jimmy Carter, and his visit comes in the wake of Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to appoint a bishop in the Himalayan kingdom.

As Nepal is already slated to hold elections to a new Constituent Assembly to decide the survival of the monarchy and other matters, this Maoist-inspired move to pre-empt the democratic will of the Nepalese people stinks of an attempted coup. It is well known that all the top Maoist leaders of Nepal are Christian converts.

The fact that the Maoists cannot wait for the people’s verdict is proof of their poor electoral prospects, and the plea that the monarch may interfere with the poll process is a weak excuse. It shows nervousness that the nation of 28 million cannot be trusted to fully oust the weakened King Gyanendra, who was forced to restore Parliament in April 2006 and has already been stripped of much of his power.

What needs explanation, however, is why Prime Minister G.P. Koirala, who has secured maximum powers under the interim constitution, succumbs to Prachanda and his illegitimate demands. This suggests an external influence, and since India under UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has abdicated its role in the country, this is probably the handiwork of the United States and the UN operating to American diktat or machinations.

Mr. Jimmy Carter reportedly visited Nepal to encourage its leaders to “continue on the path of peace” as they prepare for elections, according to the Carter Center for Human Rights and Democracy, which sounds suspiciously like the Karl Popper-George Soros Open Society branches that triggered revolutions in the Central Asian states until Russia and the ruling elites woke up to the threat.

Mr. Carter’s visit to the Electoral Commission of Nepal is significant, given its sensitive task of delimiting constituencies afresh to reflect the ethnic population in the Terai and other regions, which are opposed to the Maoists. The former US President’s praise of Mr. Koirala as a man who “has been a hero for me with his reputation and his integrity,” and a “focal point around which the peace and future democracy of this country has been built,” rings hollow as the real purpose of his visit was to meet with Maoist leaders, possibly on behalf of the US government.

India should not be fooled by the fact that the US government still lists the Maoists as terrorists; Washington is quite happy to play ball surreptitiously with such groups in pursuit of its geo-political ends. The formal abolition of the Nepal monarch will help America delink the nation’s Hindu civilization and ethos from its political culture, and evangelize more aggressively in the region. The American desire for Nepal as a client state, which can be used to keep a check on China, also needs recognition in New Delhi.

Prachanda is more than willing to play ball. “I told Carter we would like to establish amicable diplomatic relations with the US,” he gushed after an hour-long meeting with the former President. It is significant that Mr. Carter is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, though no one quite knows what his contribution to world peace is or was—he was one of the most colourless American Presidents but it is a fact that the Nobel Peace Prize is given only to those who serve the Western Christian agenda of world dominion.

Mr. Carter made some polite noises against Prachanda’s Young Communist League, which has returned (if it ever left) to the path of violence and extortions against businessmen, and open conflict with Madhesis in the Terai. The Madhesis are giving it back with all they have, and a few Maoist cadre have been killed in recent days. This has agitated the Maoists and ideologue Chandra Prakash Gajurel has threatened a new agitation to counter the resistance to Maoist domination in the plains.

Predictably, Mr. Carter called upon the current US administration to hold talks with the Maoists after Prachanda and his deputy Baburam Bhattarai sought his help in removing the organisation from the US terrorist list. Mr. Carter claimed that “it is obvious that the people of Nepal have accepted the Maoists as playing a role in the shaping of the future of this country,” but did not give the grounds upon which he made this assessment. This is dangerous as his Atlanta-based Carter Center is helping the Nepalese government with Constituent Assembly elections to be held later this year. If New Delhi wakes up to find the Maoists in power and an American military base on its eastern border—there are already bases in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia—it will only have itself to blame.

Why Prime Minister G.P. Koirala, who has secured maximum powers under the interim constitution, succumbs to Prachanda and his illegitimate demands? This suggests an external influence, and since India under UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has abdicated its role in the country, this is probably the handiwork of the United States and the UN operating to American diktat or machinations.

Not only does he call hisself a minister, he has a history of exaggeration. Email follows:
Subject: FW: JIMMY CARTER - AND NOW THE REST OF THE STORY

OUR ILLUSTRIOUS NAVAL OFFICER AND PRESIDENT - LIBERALS WOULD NEVER PASS THIS ON...

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BILL BARRON

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GOT THIS FROM A NAVAL ACADEMY FRIEND !

Thorny

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Friends—

This following bit of commentary/reporting is lifted from some earlier chat by various ex-Navy Officers who have an interest in Jimmie Carter’s naval service after his graduation from USNA

Just shows that lies and deceits are all around us!

Cheers!

Bill

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I did a bit of research and discovered that Carter did not complete the Navy’s nuclear power school. His father died, and he resigned before completing the course. He later called himself a “nuclear engineer”, and that seems like a stretch to say the least.

Charlie:

I did some research of my own about Carter after I saw him on NBC’s “Today” Show a few years back. It was sort of a, “Jimmy Carter, this is your life” deal with the interviewer (whom I believe was Ann Curry) doing most of the talking.

It began with an “Opie” looking Jimmy in Plains, GA. That was followed by “You went to the Naval Academy and then married your sweetheart” accompanied by a wedding picture of Jimmy (in dre ss whites) and Rossalyn.

Then came the BS. “You went on to command a nuclear submarine ... “ which is where I became unglued, because Carter sat there with that goofy grin of his and let this obvious falsehood be told to the show’s audience on his behalf. “Ah will nevahlie-toyou (sic)” but ah’ll let othahs lie about me.”

Carter’s nuclear power training consisted of four months at Union College in Schenectady, NY studying nuclear physics as it was then known. He received NO degree. He was just there. That’s the grand total of his nuclear phyics curriculum vitae. I confirmed that with Union College. He’s no more a nuclear engineer/physicist than Britney Spears is a novitiate nun.

Carter then spent some t ime in DC where he was around Rickover although I seriously doubt Rick had much to do with him. Finally, he was assigned to the pre-construction detail of SEAWOLF. His biography’s claim that he was OinC of the pre-commissioning detail is a world-class exaggeration.

The widespread belief that he was a nuclear submariner is 100% FALSE. Carter’s resignation from the Navy became effective on 8 October 1953. the world’s first nuclear submarine, USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571), still hadn’t gotten her keel wet. That didn’t happen until 21 January 1954. SEAWOLF’s keel wasn’t laid until 15 September 1953, just 3 weeks before Jimmy was gone.

I don’t know when he and Rossalyn actually left New London, but it probably was before 8 October. Once he’d submitted his resignation Rick probably unceremoniously told Carter to shove off. If Rick had needed him&n bsp; he’d have interceded and stopped the resignation. He didn’t.

Finally, I checked with the Carter Center to see if Carter had pursued further studies in nuclear physics and was told that he had not.

I speak only for myself in saying that I’m deeply disturbed that our Alumni Association named Jimmy Carter a Distinguished Alumnus.

Becoming president by falsely duping to a gullible public into believing that you’re a nuclear physicist and a nuclear submariner is hardly the stuff a distinguished alumnus of my Naval Academy does.

Being THE worst president in the history of the Republic is not something I’d honor simply because that president happened to be an alumnus of my alma mater.

Worst of all, becoming a publicly outspoken, self-righteous critic of every one of his successors in office (and winning a Nobel Prize for it) is not what distinguished alumni do.

Jimmy had his turn in the barrel. He failed miserably.

Fritz

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