Jimmy Carter Championed Human Rights But Also Funded & Armed Indonesia's Genocide in East Timor
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We continue to reflect on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy with history professor Brad Simpson. Despite presiding over an administration that stood out for its successful championing of human rights elsewhere in the world, "in Southeast Asia, Carter really continued the policies of the Nixon and Ford administration," particularly in Indonesia, which was at the time occupying and carrying out a genocide in East Timor. Simpson founded the Indonesia/East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, which provided thousands of U.S. documents to East Timor's Truth Commission in the aftermath of the Indonesian military's mass killings of tens of thousands of Timorese civilians with U.S. arms under the dictatorial regime of President Suharto.
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Just the fact that he would go on Democracy Now shows the gap between Jimmy Carter and all of the presidents we've had since
What it shows, John, is the whitewashing of Carters' awful record as a president. He was humane as a post-POTUS, yes I somewhat agree. But Carter the wannabe human rights guy made a life career of demonizing Israel while pleading victimhood for the horrible Palestinians. History knows better and could see right through this man's fakery.
Fr tho
Gracias. Amy.
5:57 so JC lied when he told Amy he was ignorant of the bloodbath in Timor
right, and this is the most moral one
HE LIED... and evaded the question of "regret" too..Amy SHOULD HAVE BEEN WAY MORE TOUGH on him.....instead of letting him slide by that question.letting him off the hook so easily..... It WAS A GOOD QUESTION , and she should have DEMANDED AN ANSWER.......But, she was wanting to be "polite"... and nice, etc... etc, so she let it slide.... WHAT A TYPICAL POLITICIAN HE WAS......ARE WE EVER GOING TO HAVE ANY REAL FREEDOM OR DEMOCRACY ??????....And all these last few years, all the ENDLESS BS talk about Jimmy Carter being SUCH a "great guy"...."blah blah blah"... "a HUMAN RIGHTS activist" etc....I ACTUALLY BELIEVED THAT SHIT...I GOT FOOLED BY ALL THAT GLOWING REPORTING OF HIS SUPPOSSED GREATNESS.............NOW I KNOW IT WAS TOTAL BS....I GOT LIED TO......... I mean, ALL THAT WAS JUST TOTAL BS...........WE WERE GETTING LIED TO......by the media, including, sorry to say, by Democracy Now too.... as they are sadly very biased in so much of their reporting news... for example, refusing to look into the REAL science data of the new UNTESTED COVID mRNA vaccines, the refusal to look at the REAL MOTIVES behind the DRUG DEALERS pushing their product as being "SAFE AND EFFECTIVE" ..... and LITERALLY LABELING AND DEMONIZING ALL WHO DARE QUESTION BIG PHARMA INDUSTRY .....like how they ROASTED RFKJr..........Come on Amy...... Get REAL...YOU ARE WAY BETTER THAN THIS... YOU NEED TO LOOK AT THE TRUTH.....AND TELL THE TRUTH.......WHY not just fuking TELL THE TRUTH , and CALL PEOPLE OUT ( and INDUSTRY too, such as "BIG PHARMA") REALLY PIN THEM UP AGAINST THE WALL...CALL THEM OUT TO ANSWER for the CRIMES THEY DO AND DID???? Given this new revelation reminder of history, I think Carter should have been tried and CONVICTED....AND JAILED FOR LIFE as a WAR CRIMINAL....... JUST like ALL the fuking Presidents we ever had ..... all the EVIL CORRUPT PHONY people who ONLY supported the Big Military War God Robot Monster Machine industrial genocide waging demonic evil bastards that are STILL in power to this day..selling arms to places like ISRAEL , and UKRAINE... which are nothing more than USA SUPPORTED NAZIS.........All the media does, is BRAINWASH PEOPLE into thinking that IT IS OK TO WAGE GENOCIDAL WARS.......WE ARE ALL JUST FINE with that... because WE LOVE OUR MILITARY.... WE LOVE AND "HONOR" OUR VETS ( poor suckers ,used as cannon fodder, ALL lied to, manipulated....all signing up only for to give their lives and or limbs for A MINDLESS EVIL WAR MACHINE ROBOT MONSTER.... that we all LITERALLY WORSHIP AS IF IT IS OUR 1 TRUE GOD..... called "the US MILITARY"...(ARMY..NAVY ..AIR FORCE ..MARINES..... all run by CIA etc...)).....WE LOVE OUR FLAG... WE LOVE OUR WAY OF LIFE.... WE LOVE OUR WAY OF WAR..... WE LOVE OUR WAY OF IMPOSING A NONSTOP LIVING NIGHTMARE HELL UPON THE EARTH IN THE NAME OF OUR SO CALLED demonic "DEMOCRACY" and phony "FREEDOM"..........INSANITY AND IGNORANCE...ARROGANCE AND VIOLENCE.... RULES OUR NONTHINKING, RELIGION LADEN MINDS..... WE CAN ( if we really wanted to) SET ABOUT A WISE COURSE OF ACTION TO CHANGE ALL WE DO , ( in other words STOP FOREVER ALL MILITARY ACTIONS WE ARE DOING 24.7.365.ALL AROUND THE PLANET) so we do not end up DESTROYING ALL LIFE ON THE PLANET FOREVER , just to" DEFEND OUR WAY OF LIFE".......Get it??? ALL THIS INSANE EVIL WAR BS is the REASON WHY WE ARE NOW STUCK WITH "VOTING" for 2 total WAR MONGERS...( time and time again..each 4 yrs more of the SAME FUKING BS..and we STILL wonder aloud, "Why does the World HATE US SO MUCH?" ).pathetic, almost laughable...)..This last time, was the WORST YET as we all got the supreme insult to our intelligence by having to stomach picking either "Harris",, or "Trump")....... for "POTUS"...Harris LOST because of her SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL...so we GOT TRUMP INSTEAD..... HOW MUCH WORSE CAN IT GET THAN THAT?????..WTFFFFFFFFF????.....Are we all INSANE???? ARE WE ALL JUST FUKING STUPID???? What the hell is the MATTER WITH US??????
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and others appealed to Carter to NOT send weapons to the junta in El Salvador because it would aggravate a bad human rights situation.
Carter sent the weapons, and not much later, Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot down in front of his congregation.
I’m glad that Carter wrote his book about Israel, and popularized the term Apartheid being applied to Israel.
But he still should have been held accountable for assisting the genocide in E. Timor, and elsewhere.
His own trusted advisors LIED to him. He acted with Wrong information. The Military Industrial Complex was already controlling the US Gov, even when we had our last good president. And it went much further down hill from there, into Hell.
“Apartheid” at best is a lukewarm description of Israel
J. CARTER, (REST IN)PEACE NOBELIST.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
THANK YOU. I knew Amy would cover this, the Timor Genocide is where Amy made her chops
Elaborate the reason for the Timor invasion: from what I know it was about Gold in the mountains of Timor and its extraction by Aus. US and UK. The gold was extracted which destroyed a mountain which polluted the countries major water source and now its runoff is ruining Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
It will never end…greed, war, genocide
@@sylvias1966 There is dispute about it being genocide
Ruining the Great Barrier Reef?
@@Curt-GevertDoubt it
oil
He also supported the Salvadorian junta and it's death squads to the tune of a million dollar per day, the Mobutu regime in Zaïre and the south Korean dictatorship.
So when even you "best president" is a recidivist war criminal, what does that tell you?
What about Washington he was ok
@@phillipholland6795NOT OK at all..... he owned black slaves etc....and I AM SURE he had NO love for the Native American tribes either....He was .just another WAR MONGER .....like ALL THE REST...
@@phillipholland6795 He was a slaver
Good on Central America 😮 Did not Saint Oscar Romero ask Carter to not send more arms to the El Salvador’s death Squads?? He did send them and made Saint Romero 😞
Regret ? 🙈... JC had used his charm on the Israelis so that they could be a safe intermediary for certain very deadly weapons, not authorized by the Senate... The crocodile regrets having eaten the gazelle and he cries 😢.
Notice how he never even answered the question....what a scumbag he was........
Matt Kennard - Jeffrey Sachs on US approach to civilian deaths in Gaza and Ukraine
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم مفتاح الجنة لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله دين الاسلام والله سبحانه وتعالى جعل فوزنا وفوز الانس والجان فقط بدين الإسلام والإيمان والأعمال الصالحة
Was it Jimmy who ordered missions or military industrial complex?
period
As was Harry Truman (underinformed) in regards to the (immediate) need to drop the big one in WWII.
BS....TRUMAN KNEW wtf was going on.....He NEVER should have agreed to dropping the bombs on Japan.....NOT EVEN GOD WILL FORGIVE HIM FOR THAT.....
It was Fords heritage.
Oh okay... Ford had written in his will if Jimmy did not find a solution to send prohibited weapons, he would be banned from his presidential inheritance! 🤔...
So that's why Jimmy went to see the Israelis to be an intermediary... that's why these teams at the UN continued to block the proposed resolutions...
If not it was red button of ejection... Nope?
Oh okay... Ford had written in his will if Jimmy did not find a solution to send prohibited weapons, he would be banned from his presidential inheritance! 🤔... So that's why Jimmy went to see the Israelis to be an intermediary... that's why these teams at the UN continued to block the proposed resolutions... If not it was red button ejection... Nope?
Oh okay... Ford had written in his will if Jimmy did not find a solution to send prohibited weapons, he would be banned from his presidential inheritance! 🤔...
???
Ford had written in his will if Jimmy did not find a solution to send prohibited weapons, he would be banned from his presidential inheritance...
Have some respect
deadly consequences in Latin America, Indonesia--hard choices are harder to satisfy the populace. Latin America? Carter gave Panama Canal back, how much was he supposed to do? Can not please all the people. He was so decent that whatever choices he made, like our parents and parents before them, he made with his children in mind, not necessarily yours. Same with Indonesia and Latin America, and other regions--not thinking about US or US's children, only thinking about theirs. All should show better, do better. outcome will improve.
Genocidal
“Can not please all the people?” How about we stop making excuses for the human rights abuses of every US President? President Carter’s record in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East reflects a consistent US foreign policy regardless of who is office: gangsterism…operate as you please because no one can hold you accountable
Sure! Tell that to the family of the murdered and tortured in Latin America and east Timor. Lime and disgusting excuses! You don't become president to think only about your children.
no, NOT "DECENT" AT ALL......Sorry , he FAILED THE TEST ......
Thanks for bending the knee to Trump...I gave you a long after the "poor debate performance" mentions every 5 seconds..unsubscribed
Good journalists will not be" told " what to shove down the throats of the American people. You people really suck
Confused RN. They weren't our allies if they were irrate . The ones i still sulk over . They knew better ..intended because land situation.
The headlines dont make any sense tho fund a genocide and champions of human rights dont match
Prof Jeffrey Sachs - Does Trump want Peace?
you mean like america is doing now w isreal and gaza??????????????? and the entire world just watches stands by and does nothing?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم THE KEY OF THE PARADICE ALJAANA IS LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH MOHAMMAD RASOUL ALLAH ISLAMIC RELIGION DEEN AL ISLAM
You know, Ray Charles had very beautiful eyes.
Was JC good or bad now????
😦
Let's face it, he was ALWAYS BAD....We all GOT LIED TO........Based on all the warm, fuzzy bunny glowing reports we got here on Democracy Now, for years, I THOUGHT HE WAS A "GOOD PERSON"....... but, hey, it turns out WE ALL GOT GASLIGHTED......LIED TO.......FOOLED ........and I am NOT sure WHY..( a very interesting question we need to ask Amy ).......but THAT is what happened.....So, the answer to your question, is, JIMMY CARTER WAS A ""BAD" PERSON..........PERIOD...... and if there is a "HELL"...... that is where he lives now, to PAY FOR ALL THE PEOPLE HE KILLED.
There is some scholarly dispute as to whether this meets the definition of genocide. That's not to say that it wasn't bad, it a subject of dispute about whether or not it meets the stringent criteria of genocide.
True but it doesn’t change the fact that thousands of innocent people were senselessly murdered
oh come on....stop the BS..... MASS MURDER OF ENTIRE VILLAGES etc, IS GENOCIDAL.........PERIOD.