Satire: Los Angeles Prepares for Mass Evacuation After Doomsday Prediction
Published January 04, 2007
Most people simply laugh at Pat Robertson when he claims prophetic revelations from God. But last night the Los Angels City Council decided by unanimous vote that it wasn't going to take any chances.
On Tuesday, Robertson declared that during a recent prayer retreat, God had told him there would be a massive terrorist attack on the United States in 2007. It would result in "mass killings" in "major cities" affecting "millions of people." According to Robertson the attack will take place "sometime after September."
"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."
Hickock Williams Wilde, a member of the Los Angeles City Council, said that the Council could not in good conscience ignore this potential disaster prediction.
"It could happen," he said. "We have to keep the best interests of the good people of LA as our highest priority. If it means moving them all to Eastern Nevada for a few weeks this coming fall, then that is what we will have to do to keep everybody safe and secure."
Fellow Councilmember, LaShawn Trujillo, added that, "From my perspective, this whole issue revolves around the Bush administration's lies about WMDs and their racist policies against affirmative action and immigration. That's why so many disenfranchised young Muslims are so angry at the United States and why so many of them expect Israel to do something terrible that will point the blame on them instead of revealing the truth about the money-grubbing, oil-craving, air-polluting, Haliburton-loving corrupt-Republican leadership we have had in Washington D.C. for the last six years."
Los Angeles City Council Chair Phillipe Gasçon agreed, adding that, "The Rev. Dr. Robertson has made many such predictions over the years and backed up his claims by saying 'I have a relatively good track record.'"
"Last May, Robertson said that God told him storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America's coastline in 2006. We didn't get hit with a tsunami, but last spring's heavy rains and flooding in New England seemed to confirm that what the Lord had told him was right on the money. I, for one, was convinced, and the rest of the Council agreed that we shouldn't take any chances."
When asked for a comment, Los Angeles Mayor Barbie Streidant confessed that, while she wasn't convinced that the City Council's decision was the correct one to make, it seemed obvious that Robertson must have been thinking of Los Angeles when he used the phrase "major city."
"There may be other 'major cities' in the country," she said, using her fingers to illustrate the quotation marks around 'major cities', "but only LA fits that description in the full sense of that phrase."
Preparations are already being made to create the world's largest parking lot just south of Ely, Nevada. A city spokesperson added that they are also trying to find enough tents and porta-potties to accommodate everyone.
The LA City Transportation Department also issued a statement assuring everyone that, even during the evacuation period, all of the area's freeways would be left open for anyone who might be driving north from Mexico.
- Satire: Los Angeles Prepares for Mass Evacuation After Doomsday Prediction
- Published: January 04, 2007
- Type: Satire
- Section: Culture
- Filed Under: Politics: War and Terrorism, Culture: Religion, Culture: Humor and Satire
- Writer: Bird of Paradise
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Pat Robertson, the soul of modern conservatism.
Oh Lord, Please let this be a joke, and please let them all forget they ever heard the name Ely Nevada, and Lord, if they can't forget, then please let them get lost and end up in Elko.





Aw,come on! Pat Robertson has a vision and it's probably Bush's fault if anything happens to L.A.? Can we like give Cali back to Mexico.....and throw in the residents as a peace gesture? That is way too funny.