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.
Be careful there. He was born a Catholic. But he never practiced as an adult, nor is there any indication he continued considering himself a Catholic nor followed its teachings.
I don't see a problem here.
Hitler was born Catholic, then an altar boy, then a murderer. Even the Pope recognized that.
Italian partisans cheering the murder of their Pope who is considered the "Vicar of Christ"?
Not even the fascists would go for it.
Last week, the Fox News people were talking about Hugo Chavez and someone referred to him as "Cesar Chavez". I love it!
Yikes! EDIT: He might as well be out screwing some subordinate like Jim Baker did or getting his panty fetish satisfied by a prostitute like Jimmy Swaggart did. It's the same damage, IMO.
And what's Pat Robertson got to do with Christ?
My viewpoint is to support the internal opposition financially and with propoganda. Chavez is already showing weakness.
I don't recall there being anything in the rules that allows a Catholic to excommunicate himself ~ it takes an official action by someone in the priesthood authorized to do that.
Absent evidence that Hitler was excommunicated, he died a Catholic (although technically not one who can be buried in a Catholic graveyard inasmuch as he commited suicide).
Yet let a conservative merely take a brutal dictator (I know the facts) up on HIS suggestion that we are trying to kill him, ... well, that's outrageous.
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Interesting you mention the Old Testament, maybe you can clear something up for me.
Whenever an issue comes up where someone points to something from the OT, such as stoning prostitutes and such, the response is that things like that were left behind because of Jesus, and his death on the cross...
OK, yet, whenever some oddball like Robertson comes along with some idea like this, out comes the OT as justification.
So, which is it?
Either Robertson is a Hypocrite, OR you've been slacking as I haven't seen you out stoning Hookers...
Clearly, Chavez is a lunatic, but...assassination? Sounds like Robertson is overdue for a vacation.
That's a smear and you know it.
First off, I never said it was actually "murder to stop a murderer". The 6th commandment says, "thou shalt not kill".
Kill, not murder. Justify it all you want, but it is completely inconsistent with the teachings of Jesus Christ to clearly, unequivically advocate the killing of someone Pat disagrees with. It's funny how geopolitical considerations can muddle the commandments, eh?
Still waiting on a legitimate source for how Chavez "has ALREADY killed in his own country", and, more to the point, how "HE WILL help get Americans killed"...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You owe me a keyboard!
The very same people cheered on the Italian Army invading Ethiopia and overthrowing the Lion of Judah, a quasi-religious authority with a lineage dating back before that of the Vatican itself.
Why do people want Italian fascists to be better than they were?
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