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Bushie Fanatic Robertson Again Urges: Kill Chavez
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Bush-connected "Christian" Leader Robertson Again
Calls For U.S. To Assassinate Chavez
Media Matters for America - Feb. 3, 2006
http://mediamatters.org/items/200602030003
Robertson again calls for Chavez's assassination: "Not now, but one day"
During the February 2 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, Christian
Coalition founder and 700 Club host Pat Robertson reiterated his call for
the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
When co-host Alan Colmes asked Robertson, "If he [Chavez] were assassinated,
the world would be a safer place?"
Robertson answered, "I think South America would." When Colmes later pressed
Robertson, asking, "Do you want him [Chavez] taken out?" Robertson retorted,
"Not now, but one day, one day, one day."
Earlier, Colmes had asked, "Should Chavez be assassinated?" Robertson
explained that "one day," Chavez will "be aiming nuclear weapons; and what's
coming across the Gulf [of Mexico] isn't going to be [Hurricane] Katrina,
it's going to be his nukes." Co-host Sean Hannity agreed that "the world
would be better off without him where he [Chavez] is, because he is a danger
to the United States."
Earlier that day, on the February 2 edition of ABC's Good Morning America,
Robertson addressed his original August 22, 2005, appeal, in which he had
said: "We have the ability to take him [Chavez] out, and I think the time
has come that we exercise that ability." During the interview, co-host Robin
Roberts asked Robertson to explain his comments on Chavez, his condemnation
of the citizens of Dover, Pennsylvania-- who voted a school board out of
office after it imposed an intelligent design curriculum -- and his
statements regarding former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, in which he
suggested that Sharon's stroke was the result of Sharon's policy, which he
claimed was "dividing God's land." Robertson replied:
I'm very passionate about certain things, and unfortunately, my passion
maybe runs ahead of me. And in the context of what I'm saying, it isn't
quite as strong as it sounds, but I am passionate about certain things and
it's not politically correct at all.
February 2 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:
COLMES: Should Chavez be assassinated?
ROBERTSON: Well, one day he's going to be aiming nuclear weapons; and what's
coming across the Gulf isn't going to be Katrina, it's going to be his
nukes.
COLMES: Would you feel better going back to the original comment that if he
were assassinated, the world would be a safer place?
ROBERTSON: I think South America would. He is-- he is -- got hit squads.
He's a very dangerous man.
COLMES: So, you're not taking back the comment. You believe assassination of
Hugo Chavez would be in the best interests of the world.
ROBERTSON: Well, rather than going to war. One day, we're going to have to
go to war, I'm afraid, if he continues his policy, you know. But, I don't
know. I wrote him a letter. I apologized to him.
COLMES: But, wait a minute. If you say you apologized to him, what you just
said seems to contravene that, because you just now said --
ROBERTSON: I know. I know.
COLMES: -- you think it'd be better if he be assassinated.
ROBERTSON: Alan, the whole thing we've got to deal with is that, one day, if
he continues his course of trying to mobilize Marxist powers in South
America, it's going to be a clear --
COLMES: He's very popular with his country.
ROBERTSON: Well, yes and no. But he does --
HANNITY: He's building up weapons against the United States, isn't he?
COLMES: He's extremely popular. Eighty-percent of his country --
ROBERTSON: He's also calling for the destruction of George Bush. He calls
him a war criminal.
COLMES: Do you want him taken out?
ROBERTSON: Not now, but one day, one day, one day. My premise is, and I
think as-- you know, until that comment came out, everybody thought Chavez
was a fellow having to do with table grapes in California. Now --
HANNITY: I think one thing we could say is, the world would be better off
without him where he is, because he is a danger to the United States.
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NewsHounds.Ca - February 03, 2006
http://www.newshounds.us/2006/02/03/pat_robertson_still_wants_to_assassinate_chavez_hannity_suggests_maybe_we_should_kill_the_president_of_iran_instead_or_did_he_mean_also.php
Reported by Ellen at February 3, 2006 12:40 AM
Pat Robertson Still Wants To Assassinate Chavez.
Hannity Suggests Maybe We Should Kill The President Of Iran, Instead. Or Did
He Mean Also?
Sean Hannity and Pat Robertson talked assassinations and Christianity on
last night's (2/2/06) Hannity & Colmes. Those aren't two topics I'd expect
to find in the same discussion but anything goes on FOX News. Shortly after
Sean Hannity finished berating the NAACP for calling the Republican Party
Nazi's, there was a double-segment with Pat Robertson which was described on
the screen as "ANSWERS HIS CRITICS."
Sure enough, it was a love fest between Hannity and Robertson as they talked
murder. Robertson chuckled as he described his comments that suggested
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was a punishment from God. "I'm
a Bible teacher and I'm very passionate about - especially Israel. I love
Israel. Sometimes. unfortunately, I get a little carried away." Robertson
said he had apologized to Sharon's son who, Sharon claimed, accepted it.
Any rancor for over-the-top comments Hannity had for Democrats was gone
completely with Robertson. Full of understanding for "getting carried away,"
Hannity said, gently, "When you say you're sorry, it goes a long way,
doesn't it?"
Alan Colmes played a clip of Robertson advocating the assassination of
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, then a clip of Robertson saying that he
never really said it. Colmes said, "You did say assassination."
Robertson's unsettling response was that Chavez had said the United States
was trying to assassinate him. "What I should have said is that we ought to
accommodate him and kept my mouth shut." Robertson chuckled again at the
humor of it all. "My premise was, and this is so important, I don't like to
go to war." Rather than go to war against Iraq which has cost so many
billions and maimed so many people, "Wouldn't it have been better to have
targeted Saddam Hussein? Wouldn't it have been better to have targeted Adolf
Hitler?"
Colmes asked, "Should Chavez be assassinated?"
"One day, he's going to be aiming nuclear weapons. What's coming across the
gulf isn't going to be Katrina. It's gonna be his nukes." Robertson added
that South America would be a safer place without him.
"So you're NOT taking back the comment. You believe assassination of Hugo
Chavez would be in the best interest of the world." Colmes said.
"One day we're going to have to go to war if he continues his policy but."
Robertson chuckled again as he said that he had written a letter apologizing
to Chavez, too.
Colmes remarked that Robertson may have apologized to Chavez but "what you
just said seems to contravene that."
"I know," Robertson chuckled. "The whole thing we've got to deal with is
that one day if he continues his course of trying to mobilize Marxist powers
in South America."
Colmes noted that Chavez is very popular in his own country, then asked,
"But you want to take him out?"
"Not now but one day, one day, one day."
Hannity interrupting to take a break, chimed in, "I think one thing we could
say is that the world would be better off without him where he is because he
is a danger to the United States."
"An extreme danger," Robertson agreed.
After the break, Hannity returned to the subject and talked about the evil
in the world, citing what Stalin did, what Hitler did, what the 9/11
terrorists did, etc. Not so coincidentally, the president of Iran was the
last one he named. "We have a new Iranian president who wants to wipe Israel
off the map. That's evil, can I say that?"
Robertson said, "You certainly can."
Hannity continued, "Is it wrong morally - because I don't believe it is -
what would the world have been like if we took Hitler out earlier?"
Robertson said gravely, "We would have saved 50 million people who died in
World War II."
Hannity claimed that Hugo Chavez, though "not up to the level of Hitler," is
a threat. Then Hannity, Robertson and even Colmes joked about why Hannity
can talk about assassination but Robertson can't. Robertson thought "the
response to my remarks were way overblown."
Hannity asked "Is it because, maybe because you're a Christian leader and
people say well, you're not supposed to kill or murder (Yeah, maybe!) but
you can recognize evil. There is evil, Pat."
Robertson said, "Dietrich Bonhoeffer said a wonderful thing. He said, 'If I
saw a car in the hands of a madman driving through a crowd of children,' he
said, 'I've got two choices. Either I comfort the dead and the wounded after
they are hit or I wrest control of the vehicle away from the madman.' And
that's what he said - he was part of the assassination plot against Hitler.
That was his rationale."
Then, as the music began to end the discussion, Robertson told Colmes he
could forgive anyone and quoted Scripture about what Jesus said about
forgiveness and miracles."
Let FOX News know what you think.
comments@foxnews.com
hannity@foxnews.com
colmes@foxnews.com
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VHeadlineNews - Feb.2, 2006
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=48134
Commentary
US "Christian" fanatics on a warpath again... but does God trust them?
by Oscar Heck
Some US "Christian" fanatics are on a warpath again ... as is so often the
case in recent times (the last 2000 years!). Anti-homosexuality,
anti-abortion, anti-women, anti-witch, anti-Muslim, anti-Native (savages in
those days!), anti-masturbation, anti-this, anti-that (but pro-war!
pro-burn-them-at-the-stake!) ... and now, of course, anti-Chavez. These
"God"-loving humans appear to "love" a god which has rather twisted ideas
about life, about the truth and about reality ... about humanity and about
humanism.
Their god evidently doesn't believe in the enhancement of the lives of
others, unless they are, of course, "Americans" or "American" wanabees ...
or "American" worshipers.
"In God We Trust" ... but does God trust them?
A recent Reuters article reads: "A conservative religious group protesting
the anti-U.S. criticisms of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is urging
drivers to steer clear of gasoline sold by CITGO Petroleum Corp., the
organization's chairman said on Wednesday. The American Family Association
launched the boycott of CITGO, the U.S. refining and marketing branch of
Venezuela's national oil company PDVSA, in an attempt to cut oil revenue
flowing to the Venezuelan government of Chavez, which has been a harsh
critic of U.S. President Bush. 'It doesn't make sense to purchase gasoline
from a country that wants to bring down the U.S. government,' AFA Chairman
Donald Wildmon told Reuters in a telephone interview from the organization's
Tupelo, Mississippi, headquarters."
CITGO is a US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-run oil company (the biggest
in Latin America) and operates gas stations and refineries on US territory.
CITGO is also the company which, with the backing of Venezuela's president
Hugo Chavez, has been delivering fuel at discount prices to poorer
communities within the USA.
But who is Donald Wildmon and what is the AFA? And why would a
"God"-promoting person like Wildmon try to boycott the people who are
helping his poor people? (Does Wildmon have a stake in the profits made by
US companies who sell fuel at high prices to their poor?)
The AFA is a conservative "Christian" organization which boast 2,977,820
supporters and claims to have appeared on programs such as the 700 Club.
What is the 700 Club? It is another conservative "Christian" organization
which is headed by a criminal called Pat Robertson. Why do I call him a
criminal? Because last year (2005) he openly and publicly called for the US
government to assassinate Venezuela's democratically-elected president Hugo
Chavez.
What does Pat Robertson have to do with Venezuela? Not much I suppose,
except for the fact that he wants Chavez assassinated and that he has also
reportedly met with Maria Corina Machado. Who is Maria Corina Machado? She
is one of the directors of Sumate, a fiercely anti-Chavez Venezuelan
organization which is financed by the US government through the National
Endowment for Democracy (NED). She is also from a very wealthy Venezuelan
family and she has "important connections." Not so long ago she had a
private meeting with Bush at the White House.
Isn't it weird that (as far as can be observed) Bush knows Machado and that
Machado knows Robertson and that Robertson knows Wildmon and that Wildmom,
for some bizarre reason, now believes that Chavez wants to "bring down the
US government?"
Isn't it weird that Wilmon's comments and boycott effort come at about the
same time when the US government is increasing its propaganda against Chavez
(prior to the presidential election of 2006)?
Where does Wildmon get his information from? From Bush? From Machado?
From Robertson? (Note that all these characters are very wealthy people!)
When did Chavez (or Venezuela) threaten to "bring down" the US government,
and with what? With oranges and bananas or mangoes? With barrels of oil
launched from giant catapults? For a man who is probably quite
"intelligent," Wildmon appears to be losing his sense of reason ... or, just
maybe, Bush, Maria Corina Machado and Pat Robertson have been secretly
hypnotizing him? Better yet, Wildmon's "God" has been sending him "special"
messages through angelic drones (dressed in white, of course) who
incessantly repeat into his left ear, "Chavez must go, Chavez must go,
Chavez must go ..."
How can Venezuela, a country with less than one tenth the population of the
USA and with perhaps less than one-one-thousand of the military might which
the USA has, "bring down" the US government?
Does Wildmon believe that if Venezuelans (or Chavez) pray hard enough for
the demise of the US government, the US government will be be "brought down"
by "Godly" forces. That must be what he believes because I can see no other
way by which Venezuela would be able to "bring down" the US government.
My impression is that Wildmon believes that "bringing down the US
government" actually means "bringing down the American way." If this is the
case, then the "bringing down" of the "American way" does not need any
assistance from Venezuela or from any other country. As most people already
know, the "American way" is on the road to self-destruction, rotting from
the inside out.
Wildmon's 2,977,820 supporters should seriously question Wildmon's
intentions. He can't be that stupid. If he isn't that stupid, then he must
be making anti-Venezuelan remarks intentionally and for reasons which he
will probably never reveal. (Using the "reason" that Venezuela wants to
"bring down" the US government is plainly and very obviously ridiculous.)
What kind of god would endorse Wildmon's anti-Chavez rhetoric and sabotage
(boycott) of CITGO when Chavez is the only world leader who is continuously
and effectively working toward enhancing the lives of the majority poor by
providing free education, free health care, discount food prices, discount
fuel prices and much more. Chavez is doing what Christ did in his time.
If Wildmon and his followers are true Christians, they would support Chavez
and promote his works rather than talk or act against him like warmongering
Bush-adoring zombies repeating, over and over:
"Our daddy who art in the White House,
Hallowed by thy name
Thy empire come
Thy will be done on earth
As it is in Washington
Give us today our daily weapons
And forgive us of our crimes
As we pretend to forgive the crimes of others
And lead us always into temptation
And deliver us not from any evil
For thine is the Kingdom
And the power and the glory
Forever and ever
Amen"
If Christ were here on earth today, he would probably say something to the
effect of "Forgive them, for they know not what they are doing."
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