Wednesday, August 24, 2005
The Assassination Will Not Be Televised
Thou shall not kill. You’ve heard that before right. Well it seems that Pat “Sopranos” Robertson hasn’t. On Monday, Pat “Corleone” Robertson called for a hit on Hugo Chavez, leftist President of Venezuela. Rev. “Barzini” Robertson said on his program The Seven Hundred Club:
“You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination … but if [Chavez] thinks we are trying to assassinate him, I think 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.”
“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.”
I must have missed Sunday school the morning they were going over the doctrine of assassination. Can you find it in the Sermon on the Mount? It would seem that Pat Robertson has more in common with the mullahs in Iran than he does with Christian ministers in America. The mullahs also like to issue a fatwa on their enemies. Everyone says that Chavez is paranoid and crazy because he says that the US government is planning to assassinate him. I wonder why he would think that. Maybe that little coup in 2002 might have something to do with it. There was a documentary about it called The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Chavez was overthrown by the rightwing elites in Venezuela who controlled the privately owned tv stations. ( Rightwing broadcasters, I wonder if there is a pattern there?) Over a million Venezuelans took to the streets to bring him back to power. Some of the leaders of the failed coup had met with US officials’ weeks before the coup. Our government did not condemn the coup and privately expressed disappointment when it failed. Something about having a leftist leader in control of a country with the fourth largest deposit of oil didn’t sit well with the Bush administration. So I’m sure Rev. Robertson was divinely inspired to get Chavez killed so that we can "liberate" their oil reserves like we did in Iraq (without the bother of a war, or is it called “the struggle” this week).
A long time ago my mother was a big fan of Pat Robertson and the 700 Hundred Club. That began to change when she realized how political he was. She finally turned against him when he started going after her boy, Bill Clinton. Mama doesn’t take kindly to attacks on Bill. I hope more Christians will follow my mother’s lead and turn the channel when this guy comes on. Something tells me that is what Jesus would do.
“You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination … but if [Chavez] thinks we are trying to assassinate him, I think 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.”
“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.”
I must have missed Sunday school the morning they were going over the doctrine of assassination. Can you find it in the Sermon on the Mount? It would seem that Pat Robertson has more in common with the mullahs in Iran than he does with Christian ministers in America. The mullahs also like to issue a fatwa on their enemies. Everyone says that Chavez is paranoid and crazy because he says that the US government is planning to assassinate him. I wonder why he would think that. Maybe that little coup in 2002 might have something to do with it. There was a documentary about it called The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Chavez was overthrown by the rightwing elites in Venezuela who controlled the privately owned tv stations. ( Rightwing broadcasters, I wonder if there is a pattern there?) Over a million Venezuelans took to the streets to bring him back to power. Some of the leaders of the failed coup had met with US officials’ weeks before the coup. Our government did not condemn the coup and privately expressed disappointment when it failed. Something about having a leftist leader in control of a country with the fourth largest deposit of oil didn’t sit well with the Bush administration. So I’m sure Rev. Robertson was divinely inspired to get Chavez killed so that we can "liberate" their oil reserves like we did in Iraq (without the bother of a war, or is it called “the struggle” this week).
A long time ago my mother was a big fan of Pat Robertson and the 700 Hundred Club. That began to change when she realized how political he was. She finally turned against him when he started going after her boy, Bill Clinton. Mama doesn’t take kindly to attacks on Bill. I hope more Christians will follow my mother’s lead and turn the channel when this guy comes on. Something tells me that is what Jesus would do.
