Pat The Hate Master
America , the home of Hollywood , has a line up of fascinating fundamentalist show business type of preachers. You pay your money, and you can watch preachers weeping and screaming, dismissing whole segments of humanity as evil, threatening murder, shaking down congregations for extra donations or hitting people in the head to heal cancer. You will also see some monsters finally caught after years of molesting children or hear others advocating the use nuclear weapons.
One of them is Pat Robertson. This man is a complete bigot. He is a fanatic christian, and at the same time he is murderous, has a lust of money, liar, racist and has every dirty thing that make him worse than evil. But Robertson is the darling of the white house Republican religious bunch of advisors circling Bush. If he is not a christian, than he can be classified as a terrorist and detained under Patriot Act. At the very least, Robertson should be charged under hate-speech laws.
In one of his hate campaign August last year he urged America to murder Hugo Chavez, the democratically elected President Of Venezuela. Recently, he accused the Venezuelan President of giving Osama bin Laden $US1.2 million after the September 11 attacks and of trying to obtain nuclear material from Iran. Asked how he had obtained information on Chavez giving money to bin Laden, Robertson said: "Sources that came to me. That's what I was told.""And I know he sent a warm congratulatory letter to Carlos the Jackal, he's a friend of Muammar Gaddafi," he said.
A book by Rob Boston entitled "The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition" tells how Pat choosed his friends carefully. These include the now-deceased dictator of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko (also known as the Great Leopard), Jorge Serrano, former dictator of Guatemala, and Frederick Chiluba, the ruler of Zambia.
Mobutu was a sadistic, murderous, dictator who kept his country's people in poverty while he became one the richest men in the world. Why would Pat support such a man? In a word, money. Zaire is a resource-rich country, and Pat saw an opportunity to partner with Mobutu to start a diamond mining operation. Pat started a company called the African Development Company, and began shipping diamond mining equipment to Zaire using the missionary non-profit Operation Blessing aircraft. Once , he flew to Zaire on Mobutu's jet, took in a cruise on his yacht, and dined at the presidential mansion.
Jorge Serrano was president of Guatemala, the protege of dictator General Rios Montt. In The New World Order, Robertson had this to say about Serrano: "Serrano continues the enlightened leadership of his patron, former President Rios Montt, who insisted on honesty in government and then had every key official sign a pledge that read, "I will not steal; I will not lie; I will not abuse." Contrast this to what Amnesty International had to say about Rios Montt's "enlightened leadership: In just the four months of Gen. Rios Montt's rule, Amnesty International had documented more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings attributed to the Guatemalan army. Furthermore, these killings were done in horrible ways: people of all ages were not only shot to death, they were burned alive, hacked to death, disemboweled, drowned, beheaded.
The story of Frederick Chiluba is also an interesting one. The President of Zambia since 1991, he declared that Zambia would henceforth be a Christian nation. The public school system became Christian-only, despite the existence of a sizable minority of Muslims and Hindus in the country. In response to their need for education, Chiluba simply suggested that they open up their own schools. The national TV and radio stations also turned to all Christian programming. Robertson did an interview with Chiluba on the 700 Club in 1995, telling him "Your country is not only the standard for Africa but for the rest of the world." Afterward, he asked his audience "Wouldn't you love to have someone like that as President of the United States of America?" And Halleluja ..... now, the United States Of America has got a President resembling Chiluba.
Here's another side of Pat, a racist side that he has been very careful about hiding. The idea that Robertson thinks that a white person's vote should matter more than a black person's vote is something to think about when hearing the Christian Coalition's talk of improving race relations in America. "I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights."-- (Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 3/18/92)
And more than his believe in white supremacy is his conviction that non christians should be the 2nd class citizen ."When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'" --(Pat Robertson's "The New World Order, page 218 )
One of them is Pat Robertson. This man is a complete bigot. He is a fanatic christian, and at the same time he is murderous, has a lust of money, liar, racist and has every dirty thing that make him worse than evil. But Robertson is the darling of the white house Republican religious bunch of advisors circling Bush. If he is not a christian, than he can be classified as a terrorist and detained under Patriot Act. At the very least, Robertson should be charged under hate-speech laws.
In one of his hate campaign August last year he urged America to murder Hugo Chavez, the democratically elected President Of Venezuela. Recently, he accused the Venezuelan President of giving Osama bin Laden $US1.2 million after the September 11 attacks and of trying to obtain nuclear material from Iran. Asked how he had obtained information on Chavez giving money to bin Laden, Robertson said: "Sources that came to me. That's what I was told.""And I know he sent a warm congratulatory letter to Carlos the Jackal, he's a friend of Muammar Gaddafi," he said.
A book by Rob Boston entitled "The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition" tells how Pat choosed his friends carefully. These include the now-deceased dictator of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko (also known as the Great Leopard), Jorge Serrano, former dictator of Guatemala, and Frederick Chiluba, the ruler of Zambia.
Mobutu was a sadistic, murderous, dictator who kept his country's people in poverty while he became one the richest men in the world. Why would Pat support such a man? In a word, money. Zaire is a resource-rich country, and Pat saw an opportunity to partner with Mobutu to start a diamond mining operation. Pat started a company called the African Development Company, and began shipping diamond mining equipment to Zaire using the missionary non-profit Operation Blessing aircraft. Once , he flew to Zaire on Mobutu's jet, took in a cruise on his yacht, and dined at the presidential mansion.
Jorge Serrano was president of Guatemala, the protege of dictator General Rios Montt. In The New World Order, Robertson had this to say about Serrano: "Serrano continues the enlightened leadership of his patron, former President Rios Montt, who insisted on honesty in government and then had every key official sign a pledge that read, "I will not steal; I will not lie; I will not abuse." Contrast this to what Amnesty International had to say about Rios Montt's "enlightened leadership: In just the four months of Gen. Rios Montt's rule, Amnesty International had documented more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings attributed to the Guatemalan army. Furthermore, these killings were done in horrible ways: people of all ages were not only shot to death, they were burned alive, hacked to death, disemboweled, drowned, beheaded.
The story of Frederick Chiluba is also an interesting one. The President of Zambia since 1991, he declared that Zambia would henceforth be a Christian nation. The public school system became Christian-only, despite the existence of a sizable minority of Muslims and Hindus in the country. In response to their need for education, Chiluba simply suggested that they open up their own schools. The national TV and radio stations also turned to all Christian programming. Robertson did an interview with Chiluba on the 700 Club in 1995, telling him "Your country is not only the standard for Africa but for the rest of the world." Afterward, he asked his audience "Wouldn't you love to have someone like that as President of the United States of America?" And Halleluja ..... now, the United States Of America has got a President resembling Chiluba.
Here's another side of Pat, a racist side that he has been very careful about hiding. The idea that Robertson thinks that a white person's vote should matter more than a black person's vote is something to think about when hearing the Christian Coalition's talk of improving race relations in America. "I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights."-- (Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 3/18/92)
And more than his believe in white supremacy is his conviction that non christians should be the 2nd class citizen ."When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'" --(Pat Robertson's "The New World Order, page 218 )
posted by Topo at 7/19/2006 09:29:00 PM
4 Comments:
Yeah, America breeds Evangelsit type of Taliban.
Bush lo jangan sok mau ngurusi Abubakar Bashir. Lu urusin pendeta iblis itu dirumahmu sendiri itu..
Please remind yourself and your readers that fundamentalists - of all creeds - exist everywhere. Please keep a place in your heart for the rationale, moderate peace seekers in your message of hate.
I don't think Topo is spreading hate. He simply shows us that Christianity has bigots too, and more dangerously, combined with a moronish leader like Bush, pose a as a threat to world peace.
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