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Venezuala Wants to Extradite Pat Robertson


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Should the US send Pat Robertson to Venezuala to be tried???  

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  1. 1. Should the US send Pat Robertson to Venezuala to be tried???

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[u]Venezuela Wants Pat Robertson
CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 29, 2005
CBS News
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"We could offer him free psychiatric treatment ... but he could be a lost case."

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on possibly asking the U.S. to extradite Pat Robertson to Venezuela

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (center) says his government may ask the U.S. to extradite religious broadcaster Pat Robertson for suggesting American agents should kill him. (AP)

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson did call for Chavez' assassination but later backtracked, saying he shouldn't have, but acted "out of frustration." (AP)

(CBS/AP) President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his government may ask the United States to extradite U.S. religious broadcaster Pat Robertson to Venezuela for suggesting American agents should kill him.

Earlier Sunday, Rev. Jesse Jackson offered support for Chavez, saying the televangelist's call for the Venezuelan leader's assassination was a criminal act.

The U.S. civil rights leader, who is on a four-day visit to Venezuela, called Robertson's statements "immoral" and "illegal." He urged U.S. authorities to take action, and said the U.S. government must choose "diplomacy over any threats of sabotage or isolation or assassination."

Sunday, speaking to foreign delegations attending a meeting of the Organization of American States in Caracas, Chavez said Venezuela will "exercise legal action in the United States" against Robertson.

"Calling for the assassination of a head of state is a terrorist act," said Chavez, an outspoken critic of President Bush who has forged strong relations with communist-led Cuba.

"We could even request his extradition," he added.

Chavez told OAS delegates that Venezuela would consider bringing the issue to United Nations if the U.S. government failed to cooperate.

Robertson's comments last week have increased already tense relations between Caracas and Washington. On his TV show "The 700 Club," Robertson said Chavez "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-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."

Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America, later issued an apology. "Is it right to call for assassination?," said Robertson, in a statement issued after an international furor over his remarks earlier in the week. "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."

Last Tuesday, the Bush administration swiftly distanced itself from Robertson's comments. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack called the remarks "inappropriate."

Venezuela has demanded a stronger condemnation of Robertson's remarks.

"We could offer him free psychiatric treatment ... but he could be a lost case" Chavez said sarcastically of Robertson and controversial statements the conservative commentator has made in the past.

Last year, Robertson said President Bush told him before the Iraq invasion: "We're not going to have any casualties," but that "the Lord told me it was going to be (a) a disaster and ( B) messy." The White House issued denials.

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Guest Bengal_Smoov
Please extradite this fucker who is using the name of God to spread his own fucked up views.

[quote]Sermon on the Wellhead
Pat Robertson: Big Oil's Televangelist
By SETH SANDRONSKY

You know U.S. Christian televangelist Pat Robertson of the Christian Coalition is tight with God. Such tightness has it privileges. One grabbing headlines now is the privilege to call for the U.S.-led liquidation of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president, redistributing oil revenue to his nation's low-income majority.

Further, he is looking to change Venezuela's commercial relations with some of the world's people, including low- and middle income Americans facing record gas prices this summer. Chavez also backs below-market oil prices for Caribbean nations. In sum, his energy economics threatens the unlimited expansion of prices and profits for Big Oil.

It has a big problem in Chavez, whose energy ideas would be wonderful for ordinary Cuban people (two-thirds of whom are blacks). Briefly, their daily struggles flow from the 40-plus years of the U.S. economic blockade and the fall of the former Soviet Union. Thus Robertson, with his juice card on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, backs more blood for Big Oil, which must "grow or die" in all of its decadent grandeur.

For Robertson and the barons of Big Oil he speaks for, Chavez threatens to limit the growth of prices and profits for this valuable commodity. For the Christian televangelist, then, Chavez' privileging of people over profits is a sin. For that this sinner must go, and quickly.

So we find Robertson of the neo-con choir basically shilling for Big Oil, a leading sector of the U.S. economy under the Bush White House. His role is to push the American political spectrum more to the decadent extreme. Some call this the right wing.

Big Oil's profits are at record levels and headed up"but that is not enough. More profits are needed by investors. It matters not to them who or what feels the pain from rising oil prices and profits.

Even Wal Mart Stores, Inc., whose shoppers and workers are low-income Americans generally, is feeling the bite from Big Oil in the form of slower rates of profit. Millions of U.S. Wal-Mart shoppers and workers are spending less due to increases in gas pump prices. Here, we see a conflict between sectors of capital (retail vs. energy), which does not break its over-all unity against wage earners and their families.

[b]Accordingly, it falls to Robertson, who funds George W. Bush and the GOP with big bucks, to demonize Chavez, democratically elected more than once to lead his nation. Decadent capital breeds decadent mouthpieces. Robertson is simply one of them[/b].[/quote]

Robertson and Bush are close and Robertson was critical in helping Bush get relected, this what Robertson said about Bush while Bush was campgaining in 2004.
[quote][b]Robertson told his television audience he believed he had "heard from the Lord" that President Bush was going to win in a "blowout." The Lord has blessed Bush, said Robertson, and "it doesn't make any difference what he does, good or bad. God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him[/b]."

It is hard to know where to begin to challenge this line of thinking. Not since God appeared directly to Moses in a burning bush and to the Old Testament prophets and early New Testament apostles has any sane person claimed this kind of direct revelation. In fact, God told Moses he could only look at His back since no human could face God and live. The light of His glory is too powerful.

Robertson doesn't claim a face-to-face with the Almighty. He hears His voice. No one else hears what he does. This is subjective religion. If one "feels," it's "real." Religious feelings supplant objective truth and make the individual a high priest unto himself, above mere mortals who apparently are not on the "A" access-to-God list.[/quote]

His coalition has over 2 million members and his television show is shown worldwide, will this adminstration have the moral courage to do what is right and punish a man who clearly broke the law? Calling for anyone's assissination is criminal and is a terrorist threat, why isn't the administration who is quick to call whomever they choose terrorist so quiet about this particular situation?
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Guest bengalrick

just b/c those crazy fuckers don't have freedom of speech, doesn't mean we should lay him out to dry... even if pat is a crazy fucker himself... freedom of speech allows private citizens to make stupid comments... hell, we witness it everyday on here :D

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Guest bengaljet
We can't let them have Pat-he's a National Treasure.

And that Jesse Jackson is down there with Pres. Chavez and Chavez is going to sell the US (cheap) heating oil for this winter. Damn it JJ we don't need that cheap shit!!!!!! What's JJ trying to do -be diplomatic?
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