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'Christian' Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of Venezuela's President Chavez
Vheadline.com ^ | 8/22/05 | staff

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hugochavez; patrobertson; venezuela; viacondios
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To: mariabush
Robertson is not a pastor, and is not even licensed by his So. Baptist denomination to preach any longer.

He graduated from the Yale University Law School and the New York Theological Seminary, and briefly attended the University of London.

I thinking he is, though at present he's not involve in any church pastoral ministry.

141 posted on 08/22/2005 7:00:42 PM PDT by ChristianDefender (If you can't fight with M16/M4.. then use prayer, if not just choose whose side are You!)
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To: wagglebee
Do you think Christ had in mind appeasing His enemies?

I don't remember Christ telling Peter to keep striking the Temple guard with his sword when they came to arrest Him. Do you? I don't remember Jesus telling Pilate that His Kingdom was of this world.
142 posted on 08/22/2005 7:00:43 PM PDT by Conservative til I die
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To: livius

He was also very much into a pre-Christian ethos, or what he thought was pre-Christian.


143 posted on 08/22/2005 7:01:34 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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To: mariabush
Chavez (madman) needs to be dealt with

Pat Robertson is not the man

to say how this should happen....
144 posted on 08/22/2005 7:01:44 PM PDT by PaulaB (Lead with your own unique style)
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To: mariabush

When did Robertson become a Southern Baptist?


145 posted on 08/22/2005 7:02:20 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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To: muawiyah

you aren't going to win this argument factually anytime soon....


146 posted on 08/22/2005 7:03:02 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (It's called having class.....)
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To: Conservative til I die

Yet have you ever wondered why Christ had never told Peter not to carry a sword prior to this.


147 posted on 08/22/2005 7:03:07 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: freethinker22
First off, I never said it was actually "murder to stop a murderer". The 6th commandment says, "thou shalt not kill".

Kill, not murder.

My Bible (NIV) says "You shall not murder."

It's pretty hard to make the case that the Bible proscribes all killing when, in the same part of the Bible, God orders the execution of people guilty of a range of crimes, and orders Israel to totally annihilate its enemies.

148 posted on 08/22/2005 7:03:47 PM PDT by Young Scholar
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To: Petronski

To set things straight re: Hitler and Religion-
Legend has it that Hitler was backed in his early political career by a group called the Thule Society. As I understand it, "Thule" is an Aryan version of Zion (as in Zionism.) Before those nasty Americans interfered in Germany's internal affairs, Herr Hitler was well on his way to creating a State Religion, with himself as both Head of State and High Priest. Read up on the goings-on at the SS Castle sometime.
Question: Is it a coincidence that the three groups most persecuted by the Nazis- Jews, Gypsies and Catholics- all had traditions of what could be called 'defense against the Dark Arts?'


149 posted on 08/22/2005 7:03:55 PM PDT by Ostlandr (NeopaganNeocon)
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To: Jorge; Lord_Baltar
Time for that "word" again ~ ANTINOMIANISM.

Be aware there are variations in the spelling here, but the idea is that since grace is given by God on His own terms, ALL is forgiven!

The Antinomianists used to gather in the plaza in front of the Cathedral or other church and take off their clothes to show that "God Forgives". (They did this in an age when people thought God would strike you with a lightning bolt for doing something like that. Today the antinomianists claim people like Chavez are democratically elected civil saints. They dare you to take their clothes off.)

150 posted on 08/22/2005 7:05:18 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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To: Jorge
What a distorted concept of the Bible and what Christ taught. I suppose you think that because of Jesus we should let terrorists massacre our people and do NOTHING to retaliate because of we must "forgive"??? We should have allowed the BTK murderer go free because of Jesus and the NT? Do I really have to explain these things to you? Nice try!

Boy, you sure do love to deal in extremes! As if there's no other option between letting murderers go free and whacking them.

What I can tell you is that Christ didn't have very much to say at all about politics. And despite how you'd like to use religion to pimp your foreign policy ideas, their is no religious objectives to be accomplished by assassinating Chavez.
151 posted on 08/22/2005 7:05:29 PM PDT by Conservative til I die
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To: ChristianDefender
No he is not!! Pat surrendered his credentials when he ran for president. He attends the First Baptist Church of Va. Beach and has not been a pastor for many many years.
152 posted on 08/22/2005 7:05:32 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: Ostlandr
Question: Is it a coincidence that the three groups most persecuted by the Nazis- Jews, Gypsies and Catholics- all had traditions of what could be called 'defense against the Dark Arts?'

No coincidence at all. Hitler was a deeply superstitious pagan and that Thule Society nuttery is all the creepy proof one would need of that.

153 posted on 08/22/2005 7:05:56 PM PDT by Petronski (I stick to Rovian talking points: "I love Cyborg!")
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To: Young Scholar
Amen to that...I actually had a

liberal once try to tell me

that Bush couldn't be a Christian due to that commandment..

I of course explained "Thou Shall Not Murder"

but he was so ignorant of the word of God..he couldn't

understand it...
154 posted on 08/22/2005 7:06:38 PM PDT by PaulaB (Waiting On My Blessed Hope)
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To: freethinker22
Nixon didn't call out the Ohio National Guard.

BTW, I was so happy to see the draftdodgers turn on the National Guard, and vice versa, I swore that in the future I'd make sure I voted only for politicians who were willing to fight our wars with National Guardsmen.

"W" gets my vote every time!

155 posted on 08/22/2005 7:06:52 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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To: PaulaB

Well he certainly should have an opinion, just like you and me.


156 posted on 08/22/2005 7:07:08 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: muawiyah

Pat Robertson has been a So Baptist for many many years.


157 posted on 08/22/2005 7:08:00 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: since1868

While I am not in favor of assassination I am in favor of a use of force if necessary. Assassination smacks of thuggery; 5,000 Marines smacks of national resolve. That being said I am in favor of the priestly class advocating the warrior class take care of a possible threat. St. Bernard of Clairvaux comes to mind. It is good when our civilization moves as one i.e. the three orders being present and accounted for.


158 posted on 08/22/2005 7:08:18 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Rebelbase
Ol' Pat must have watch one too many episodes of The Monsignor Martinez Mysteries.

Via Con Dios!

159 posted on 08/22/2005 7:08:23 PM PDT by csvset
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To: Burr5

This is not about agreeing or disagreeing on a public issue. This is about calling on the government to conduct state-sponsered assassination. As horrible as Chavez is, it's not appropriate for a man of the cloth to be calling for such a thing. If Pat Robertson were an intelligence agent or analyst, it would be different. But men of the cloth are about saving souls and ministering to troubled people. Robertson should know better.


160 posted on 08/22/2005 7:08:46 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Jeanine Pirro for Senate, Hillary Clinton for Weight Watchers Spokeswoman)
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