CNN.com – Robertson: U.S. should ‘take out’ Venezuela’s Chavez – Aug 23, 2005

Profit * Politics * Hypocrisy * Hatred

So now Pat Robertson – is any introduction necessary?- is calling for the assassination of Chávez (Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías). I’m sure that Chávez remembers the US doings (through Kissinger) in supporting the Chilian General Pinochet against a democratically elected socialist government, and he knows that relations with the US are all about the oil. A so-called Christian leader, Robertson points out that Chávez is “a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us badly.” So he’s all about the oil, too – unless he has his eye on some other of their resources.

Robertson accused Chávez (a left-wing populist) of trying to make Venezuela “a launching pad for Communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.” It would be nice if we started giving other countries some incentive to try democratic capitalism. At this point, why would they play with a greed-motivated bully?

Chávez has said he believes the United States is trying to assassinate him, vowing that Venezuela, which accounts for more than 10 percent of U.S. oil imports, would shut off the flow of oil if that happens. In response to the US, he wants more oil business to be between governments and is opposed to handing anything more to “Texaco and other private companies”. Venezuala is a leading oil supplier to the US, but is developing diversified energy ties with the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia – with preferential pricing.

“If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.”

Well, Chávez isn’t ideal, but the right-wing coup against him was turned back by a substantial majority vote. He is successfully reversing Venezuela’s economic decline and boosted efforts to feed the poor. Yes, he is socialist, and he seems rather serious about it – so much of the oil revenue is nationalized. It goes to the people instead of to the politicians and executives. Oil giants, with record profit margins elsewhere, are peeved.

What about Robertson himself? According to The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2002) by Greg Palast, Robertson’s net worth is between $200 million and $1 billion dollars. Robertson used his “Operation Blessing International” to spend at least $1.2 million bringing heavy equipment for his African Development Corporation (diamond mining) while claiming the money was used for humanitarian aid to refugees in Rwanda. He worked with and publically supported the corrupt Liberian President Charles Taylor; Robertson’s company Freedom Gold (an offshore company registered in the Cayman Islands but based at CBN headquarters in Virginia Beach) has gold mining rights there and at the time of Robertson’s $8 million gold mine investment, Taylor had been indicted for war crimes by the UN.

Robertson has urged viewers to join “prayer offensives” – an outstanding example was the request to pressure God into remove three Supreme Court Justices and clear the way for Bush to name more conservative replacements. “One justice is 83 years old, another has cancer, and another has a heart condition,” reads Robertson’s letter to constituents at CBN. “Would it not be possible for God to put it in the minds of these three judges that the time has come to retire? With their retirement and the appointment of conservative judges, a massive change in federal jurisprudence can take place.” After an event at Regent University (he is president and chancellor), he added, “I don’t care which three, I mean as long as the three conservatives stay on. There’s six liberals, so it’s up to the Lord.”

Robertson has even suggested that dropping a nuclear weapon on State Department Headquarters would be good for the US.

Here are some other comments by Pat Robertson – such a Christian…

We have imagined ourselves invulnerable and have been consumed by the pursuit of … health, wealth, material pleasures and sexuality… It [terrorism] is happening because God Almighty is lifting his protection from us.
three-page statement released September 13, 2001

“As I struggled to wake up, I realized I was under demonic attack. I immediately took control over it and said, “Satan, in the name of Jesus, I cast you forth.” The minute I said that, my mind was free and my despair was gone. I realized later that the Seattle-Tacoma area led the nation in suicides. The spirit that was coming upon me was a suicidal spirit, the sort of influence that would lead to such depression that a person would wish to kill himself. I was in an area where many had been gripped by this kind of demon.
Pat’s Perspective, “Christians and Demonic Influence”, 2001

I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you.
700 Club, August 6, 1998, on the occasion of the Orlando, Florida, Gay Pride Festival

There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore.
address to his American Center for Law and Justice, November, 1993.

If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over the past 70 years. Expect confrontations that will be not only unpleasant but at times physically bloody…. This decade will not be for the faint of heart, but the resolute. Institutions will be plunged into wrenching change. We will be living through one of the most tumultuous periods of human history. When it is over, I am convinced God’s people will emerge victorious.
Pat Robertson’s Perspective, Oct-Nov 1992

The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992

You say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don’t have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don’t have to be nice to them.
700 Club, January 14, 1991

The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation.
The New World Order (1991), p. 231

The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.
700 Club, Oct. 2, 1990
The people who have come into [our] institutions [today] are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have…. The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.
New York Magazine, August 18, 1986

The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that’s what’s been happening.
700 Club program, December 30, 1981

“Here is another example of the way Robertson would mix church and state, rather than keep them separate. Let’s say that a Christian thinks God is directing him or her to blow up an abortion clinic or kill a doctor who performs abortions, and this Christian does in fact commit such a crime. In a September of 1984 edition of The 700 Club, Robertson suggested that special church tribunals could be called upon to discern if a believer had in fact received an authentic word from God which compelled him to break a civil law. According to Robertson, if this church tribunal did determine the believer had in fact received an authentic message from God — how they could reach this conclusion without issuing God a suboena wasn’t made clear — then, Robertson said, the church tribunal would have the civil authority to provide the believer with immunity from prosecution.”
— Gerard Thomas Straub, speech before the San Fernando Valley Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, September 11, 1995, quoted from Harry Schwartzbart, “Pat Robertson Proposes Immunity From Prosecution For Criminals Who Commit Crimes On Instructions From God.”