Posted on 08/26/2005 8:38:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
So because Pat Robertson said something its George Bush thats to blame ?
Wow.
Tin horn dictator logic in action. Next thing you know he'll raid the banks. No wait he already did that.......
Only one thing will do: A round the clock US Marine guard for Hugo Chavez!
Stationery might be a problem. And even though some bureaucrats might be the spawn of Satan...I don't think they have a court clerk's window down there.
That or maybe Chavez should start injecting himself with the biotoxins he's been developing so he can immunize himself to the risks he's created. That way he can blame himself if he gets harmed. Face it Chavez, in your world, you're going to be harmed one way or the other.
I don't know if you ever saw the Dick VanDyke Show where he was arrested as a suspect in an assault on a women in a bar.
He was finally dropped as a suspect but the line from a witness was: "Everyone wanted to take a shot at her."
Even with all his Cuban security guards around him, I have a feeling Chavez doesn't rest well.
source?
Very true. These people were all dictators who had, not only a vicious ideology, but that special "dictator's megalomania" that made them so attractive to their followers and so dangerous to others. Kill them and their "movements" would have run out of steam immediately.
I suspect that what we're seeing with Chavez is just the beginning. Now would be a good time to stop him.
What's he going to do?
Have his mother demand to meet with President Bush?
dang! i was part of the elite and didn't even know it!
PIUS XII AND THE RESISTANCE
Pius XII, a man of great personal courage dared to be involved in a high risk venture that could even endanger the very existence of The Church-the support of the internal resistance to the Nazis inside the German Armed Forces. The French and the British governments were deaf to the pleas of the Vatican to assist the German internal resistance to the Nazi government. From the very beginning Pius XII tried to persuade the Allies to support the inside German opposition, but they did not heed the Pope.
A number of anti-Nazi plotters inside the Abwehr, the intelligence branch of the armed forces, made repeated, and ultimately futile attempts through the Holy See to reach and persuade the British to back, or even to talk with the German resistance. They were all killed in the July 20, 1944; plot to assassinate Hitler, the last in a long line of foiled attempts to get rid of the dictator. The leader, a Roman Catholic officer, Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg was shot on he spot. Other conspirators, mostly Protestants, were not so lucky; they were hung by using piano strings from butchers’ hooks and filmed on Hitler’s orders so that he could watch it himself later.
According to historian O’Carroll, in 1983 the Italian magazine Gente, published the testimony of General Wolff, the commander of the German forces in Italy during WWII. He revealed that in 1943 Pius XII had invited him to the Vatican and tried to persuade him to end the war in Italy on his own initiative. General Wolff was impressed and gave the matter thought; he finally decided against the Pope’s plea. But he recorded the immense personal impression that Pius XII made on him. We already mentioned how the whole leadership of the Italian resistance found refugee in the Church’s facilities in Rome.
Pius XII also served as a conduit for an offer made by a group of anti-Nazi German generals to topple Hitler from power. They wanted to know if the British would make peace with Germany if they succeeded in arresting Hitler and removing him from power. The proposal was made by Colonel-General Ludwig Beck (four star general), who latter was made chief of the German General Staff, but who resigned in 1938 convinced that Hitler was a criminal. Pius XII had known Beck when he was Nuncio in Berlin and “highly esteemed his honesty and integrity.”
The Pope also allowed the Vatican diplomatic corps, which was protected by diplomatic immunity, to carry messages between the Allied powers. There was a close collaboration between the Vatican and the Allies’ intelligence services. In fact, the Vatican forewarned Holland and Belgium of the upcoming German invasion.
I DONT BELIEVE U.S. SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN KILLING A FOREIGN CHIEF OF STATE. THE POINT THAT I AM TRYING TO CONVEY IS THAT TO KILL A TYRANT IS MORALLY ACCEPTED IN CATHOLIC TEACHINGS ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS AQUINAS A PRINCIPLE RATIFIED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE XVI CENTURY BY JESUIT JUAN DE MARIANA FROM DE UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA. IF A CUBAN KILLS CASTRO OR A VENEZUELAN DOES LIKEWISE WITH CHAVEZ, THEIR ACTIONS ARE MORALLY RIGHT.
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