US urged Haughey to take tough line with Nicaraguan president Ortega

[Peace Patriot]

4. I wish somebody would "adopt a tough line" with U.S. officials "over democratic standards" HERE!

Somebody who can get quoted by the corporate media. Not your everyday Joe or Jane Citizen. We don't count.

But then, these days, a former president of the United States, if his name is Jimmy Carter, can't even get quoted when he says that, "America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time."

Yup, that's what he said. Former PRESIDENT of the country, whose life work out of office has been promotion of honest, transparent elections and human and civil rights throughout the world.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/16043-jimmy-carter-defends-snowden-says-u-s-has-no-functioning-democracy

But you won't find it on Faux News, nor on the alphabet soup of TV/radio corporate monopolies, nor from the Associated Pukes, nor the New York Slimes, nor from any of the "usual suspects" who get their "talking points" from the U.S. "military-industrial/fake democracy complex."

Granted it was at a closed-door meeting of a research and educational institute, but a) he has not denied it, and b) it was quoted in Der Spiegel and Huffington Post. And, granted, the context was the NSA's vast domestic spying operation (so we don't know how sweeping Carter's indictment of U.S. democracy is). But still, it is a HIGHLY NOTABLE accusation about LACK OF DEMOCRACY here at home, by one of our most famous political figures--former president, Nobel Peace Prize winner, passionate advocate of democracy.

WHERE is the reporting on this? WHERE are the questions (of Carter), the follow-up? WHY don't we know how sweeping an indictment he intended it to be? HOW come this is not being discussed in the "military-industrial/fake democracy complex" press? (Well, that's obvious.)

"America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time." --Former President Jimmy Carter (circa July 2013)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As for Nicaragua, they're doing just fine. They have achieved a functioning democracy that was able to elect a leftist as president, after decades and decades of hideous, U.S.-supported fascist dictatorship, and bloody horrors inflicted by Reagan's henchmen. The Nicaraguans must have laughed their heads off, being lectured by the Irish on the CIA's notions of "democracy." It's pretty funny, when you think about it (if it weren't so bloody tragic, or maybe because it is--what can you do but laugh?)