PAT ROBERTSON: "TAKE OUT PRESIDENT OF VENZUELA"
(CNN is pathetic.)
Posted on 08/22/2005 5:43:04 PM PDT by Rebelbase
hristian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club host Pat Robertson ... founder of the Christian Coalition of America has called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias.
In a direct transcript of his August 22 The 700 Club broadcast Robertson clearly says:
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.
C havez has declared himself a blood enemy of the
United States of America. His has attacked the
church in the form of it's represtatives in
Venezuela, and he uses blasphemy to advance
his spread of the soul killing socialism.
Those are all good and valid reasons for Robertson
to advocate his death. The first one, in my mind,
makes it legal in my mind to kill him and all of
his impoted Cuban thugs who have been moved into all positions of power in the Venezuelan government.
I am not one to usually agree with Robertson, but
i think he's on the money with this one. The sooner
that Chavez and the goons who support him are killed,
the better for *all* of the Americas.
Great way for you to stay closed minded. Impeach the source instead of the message.
Now that it's made the MSM you should feel better reading about it from sources that appease you.
Anything I can do to help............
Then you've found the answer to the question. Every comment henceforth is just filler.
who's providing funding?
It is a standard question in morals and ethics classes as to whether it is moral to have attempted to assassinate Hitler. Apparently this is cut-and-dried for you.
sounds right to me.
We must eliminate threats to our national security.
and we damn well need to close our borders.
Yes of course..I will..let me work on that freepmail right now....
Be looking for it :)
Robertson is an idiot and a lunatic, but where was the media when members of the supposedly mainstream left was demanding the assassination of Bush?
Remember boys & girls - when Muslim Clerics call for the deaths of people (multiple times each day) ignore it. When a Christian says it, put it in the headlines and keep it there at least a week.
I think it is useful to note that one of the reasons given for taking out Saddam Hussein is that he tried to have a sitting President assassinated. For our nation to engage in such an act would make us hypocrites in the eyes of the world; and rightfully so.
Christian prohibitions not withstanding, advocating assassination of the leader of a foreign country does our country no good. I wouldn't draw any comparisons between Chavez and Hitler either.
Um -- I look at differently than him calling for an assasination - rather he is calling for our government to protect it's people.
not everybody is a pansy ass 'save everyone' just because they are a man of the cloth. There is evil in the world and occassionally the only way to deal with that evil is to eliminate it - especially when it is necessary to protect others - that doesn't make him less Godly.
But then what the hell do I know - that's just MHO.
No damage at all to the cause of Christ. If a murder is at your door, do you let them in? 25 cents would have solved a lot of problems and bloodshed.
Absolutely. It shows a man who is tremendously out of touch with reality, and so cloistered with people who think like him he doesn't understand the import of his words on others.
It's reasonable to discuss something like this in private as one alternative to dealing with a problem. I don't support the idea because I think it would backfire, but I can see it being discussed. But to say it publicly is sheer stupidity. The only effect of his statement will be to make such an action even less likely. So if he really thought it was a good idea, he should have kept his yap shut.
Robertson is a fool.
"A US assisination of Chavez would be the absolute best thing to spread his brand of leftism across Latin America. "
Just like when Allende was killed. Oh wait, capitalism and prosperity broke out there.
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