http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/law.pdf
One of my favorite speeches.
I have a neighbor who is a "good man"--at least as "good" or "gooder" than Jimmy Carter. To his credit, his actions--or inactions--haven't placed the lives and freedoms of his neighbors at risk. Nor does he parade around the community publicly trumpeting his goodness and humility. Of course, the adulation of Eurosocialists will never be his--and not for mere reasons of logistics either.
If my community had a Jimmy Carter clone, he would be the neighbor who spends his days preaching from pulpit, prison, and soapbox about the need to show murderers, thieves, and arsonists tolerence and understanding. He would piously call them all "good men" with legitimate and even righteous unmet needs and concerns. He would condemn, lecture, and hector law enforcement and citizens employing self-defense for being narrow-minded and unchristian in seeking to prevent or punish the criminals. He would remind us all the Jesus Christ said we should not resist evil and that we are to give over our cloak if a criminal shoots and wounds us for our shirt. He would demand that the prisons be emptied and all criminal laws be repealed so that goodness might abound.
In is heart, Carter is essentially a libertarian anarchist of the Noam Chomsky school of thought.