Who Would Jesus Kill?

Rev. Pat Robertson's call for the US to assassinate a democratic leader is revealing, if only because it’s what the US has been doing for decades.

Now poor old Pat (who describes himself as a 'broadcaster, statesman, author, humanitarian, businessman and Christian') has tried to clarify things on his own brilliant website thus:

If you look back just a few years, there was a popular coup that overthrew him; 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.”

The key word here would have to be ‘virtually’.

The godly preacher goes on: “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. I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re 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.”

Everything clearer now? New criteria for ethics: is you action affordable and unlikely to interfere with oil prices? If so, praise the lawd! Oh, and remeber following the coup, 70% of the Venezuelan people voted in favor of Chavez and his policies.

The Holy Seer has more: “We don’t need another 200-billion-dollar war to get rid of one 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. Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement. I spoke in frustration that we should accommodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him.”

At this point it’s clear that he’s a slightly confused man.

“Col. Chavez has found common cause with terrorists such as the noted assassin Carlos the Jackal, has visited Iran reportedly to gain access to nuclear technology, and has referred to Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro as his comrades.”

Er hold on Pat, are you now saying that anyone who refers to Castro as their Comrade should get killed?

As Ron Jacons writes: “Ever since Chavez began his popular upheaval in Venezuela he has been under attack by the Catholic hierarchy in that country. In fact, members of Opus Dei were involved in the failed coup of 2000 and have been instrumental in the CIA-funded opposition movement since the coup, just as they were intimately involved in the murderous CIA-sponsored coup in September 1973 in Chile.

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Here are some of our favourite Robertson quotes:

"If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more."
[Pat Robertson, Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions, Bantom Books, 1984]

"There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy moneychangers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?"
Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p. 227, Word Publishing, 1991

"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
Pat Robertson

"Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals -the two things seem to go together."
Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 1/21/93, ADL report on Religious Right, page 131

"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."
Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, December 30, 1981

"God is going to judge the entertainment industry."

Rev. Pat Robertson on the fire that devastated Universal Studios. The good Rev. was strangely silent when fire destroyed his radio station, WNTR

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal- based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."
(1993 interview with Molly Ivins)