{"id":7402,"date":"2013-07-18T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2013-07-18T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T15:49:25","slug":"former-president-and-commander-in-chief-america-no-functioning-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7402","title":{"rendered":"Former President and Commander-In-Chief: America no functioning democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7403\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/carter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7403\" alt=\"Jimmy Carter\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/carter.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Carter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of Germany\u2019s biggest newspapers \u2013 Spiegel \u2013 reports that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in the wake of the NSA spying scandal criticized the American political system. \u201cAmerica has no functioning democracy,\u201d Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the \u201cAtlantic Bridge\u201d in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many other high-level U.S. officials have also warned that the U.S. is no longer a democracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carter also said that the moral authority of of the U.S. has sharply declined due to excessive restriction of civil rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And \u2013 like many other top American officials \u2013 Carter also said that Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations do not harm our national security, but are \u201cuseful\u201d. &#8211; Washington&#8217;s blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Germany\u2019s biggest newspapers \u2013 Spiegel \u2013 reports that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in the wake of the NSA spying scandal criticized the American political system. \u201cAmerica has no functioning democracy,\u201d Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the \u201cAtlantic Bridge\u201d in Atlanta. Many other high-level U.S. officials have also warned that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Former President and Commander-In-Chief: America no functioning democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[3053,4028,1638],"class_list":["post-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-ed-snowden","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/carter.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7406,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}