Pat Robertson, host of Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
I say that if Chavez gets to be too big a thorn in our side, we do to him what Pat Robertson does with US politicians--buy him!
From the August 22 broadcast of The 700 Club:
ROBERTSON: There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And
what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually
nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken;
Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. He has
destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he's going to make that a
launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over
the continent.
You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but
if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really
ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a
war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is
a terrific danger and the United ... This is in our sphere of
influence, so we can't let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, we
have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this
is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that
could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and
I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need
another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm
dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives
do the job and then get it over with.
Pardon me, the Ten Commandments weren't posted at my school, but isn't
"Thou Shall Not Kill" one of them? Furthermore, Pat Robertson seems to
be indicating that the man's crime is screwing with America's oil. Is
that offense punishable by death? These people are sick and evil.
I'm sure Venezuela's oil must be looking a lot sweeter to the White House Oil Co. CEOs lately, in light of events in Iraq.
South Park did a version of Pat Robertson. The trouble is that they couldn't make him more insane than the real deal.
CINO (Christian in Name Only) rise again and show their true colors! Apparently, Venezuela doesn't have the rights to their own natural
resources, at least, not if the USA calls 'dibs'. Pat Roberts is but
one boil on the ass of humanity, and representative of the hypocrisy
rife within the far-right religious cult. How can a 'man of God'
suggest that a freely-elected leader of a sovereign nation be murdered
by our government?
Every
day the world becomes a more frightening and disheartening place.
I'll say this for Robertson--he continually reminds the sane about the
dangers of theocracy.
What if President Hugo Chavez was a fetus?
UPDATE 10/24/05: Mr. Robertson was far from apologetic on his television show today,
instead insisting that he had been been "misinterpreted" by The
Associated Press and that he had never used the word "assassination." Later on the story changed into a full apology. I got pretty excited when I heard this for, if
true, it would be practically the first time in living memory
that any one of the American Taliban who run the GOP had ever
apologized...for anything.
So having said what he said, and then denied he said what he said, he
was then forced kicking and screaming into "apologizing" for both his
original treachery and his cowardly lying about his original treachery. Murderous, two-faced and gutless...For Jebus!
President
Working Vacation is taking a vacation from his vacation this week to
visit Idaho, the state giving him the highest approval rating at 59%.
In preparation for the big event, the Idaho Statesman asked its readers
to submit letters to President Bush telling him one thing he could do
for the state of Idaho. The people of Idaho didn't hold back:
"What
would I ask President Bush to do for Idaho? That question seems so
selfish and ignorant when you look at what Bush has done to "make the
world a safer place." Don't you read the news that you choose to bury
in the back pages of your own newspaper? I would think you could come
up with a better question than that. How about "What would you ask
President Bush to do for the world?" Answer: Stop embarrassing America
and resign immediately."
[...]
"There is a simple thing you can do for the state of Idaho and more
importantly for the country. First resign and then leave the country,
because you're a disgrace and an embarrassment to Idaho and the country
as a whole."
[...]
"Please don't do anything for Idaho. Your being a "uniter not a
divider" has done more than any other person in history to completely
paralyze our political system. Your efforts to help the people of
Afghanistan and Iraq are obvious to everyone who watches the nightly
news. Your economic policies have spiked energy prices and stagnated or
dropped wages for the average American.
I'm sorry you weren't allowed to open the Alaskan wilds to oil
drilling. I'm sure your rich oil buddies could have used a few million
more.
Thanks for the offer, but please, don't do anything for Idaho.
Ouch. I wonder what they're saying in Rhode Island (29% approval)?
In preparation for the big event, the Idaho Statesman asked its readers
to submit letters to President Bush telling him one thing he could do
for the state of Idaho. The people of Idaho didn't hold back:
