If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable.& I think that right now, they're doing what they have to do. I don't agree with forced abortion, but I don't think the United States needs to interfere with what they're doing internally in this regard. [Source]
Apparently abortion is ok as long as the babies being aborted are not white. Pat first showed signs of his hatred for Asian women during the Korean War, where according to fellow veteran Paul Brosman, who testified in a pretrial deposition about rumors during the war that Robertson had been carousing with prostitutes and hassling Korean women. Brosman stated that Robertson himself talked about his exploits with prostitutes. [Source]
In the late 1980s, Pat Robertson sued Congressman Pete McCloskey and Representative Andy Jacobs for libel. McCloskey, who served with Robertson in Korea, made claims that Robertson was spared combat duty when his powerful father intervened on his behalf. Brosman’s comments came out as a result of this lawsuit. Shortly there after Mr. Robertson dropped his lawsuit claiming he was to busy to attend the trial proceedings.
The real more likely reason is that he knew he would lose and that he only filed the lawsuit as a way for political cover. Thereafter he could say, "Those are nothing but lies, I sued that guy for libel." However, suing somebody doesn’t change ones shameful history.
In fact Mr. Robertson has so many embarrassing episodes that his homepage is covered with highly spun explanations.
Mr. Robertson has plenty to be embarrassed about too. Take for example “Operation Blessing”. This is one of his so called charities run thru the 700 Club organization. Robertson claims to have spent $1.2 million bringing aid to refugees in Rwanda. His critics, such as Greg Palast claim the money was actually spent to bring heavy equipment for Robertson's African Development Corporation, a diamond mining operation.
Article comments
1 - ukexpat
Why has Robertson not been charged with an offence for this outburst -- clearly he wa s inciting the commission of a crime.
2 - Robert Caughlan
Your story about Pat Robertson was very interesting. But you didn't mention that if you go to the FEMA website and click on the "help the victims page, the listing right under the Red Cross is Robertson's Operation Blessing. Someone should check to see how much of the money dontated really helps people there. Thanks.
3 - Les Slater
“Apologists say that televangelist Pat Robertson’s recent remarks [regarding Hugo Chavez] were an aberration”
Aberration? A better description would be ‘an indiscretion’. His remarks, I am sure, are in line with what top U.S. officials are thinking. Robertson’s sin was making such statements openly.
As far as Taylor, et al, I think none of this is U.S.’s business. The U.S.’s criteria for judging a country or its leaders has nothing to do with corruption, or lack of it, democracy or lack of it. The likes of Robertson will take sides for their own reasons.
War crimes? That whole concept is political. Why point to Taylor, or others, when neither Bush is listed. Sheer hypocrisy!
“It is very curious why he hasn’t been indicted for criminal fraud. You can’t get much lower than to solicit money to feed the starving and spend it on a diamond mine to line your own pockets. Televangelists have a long history of doing this. In the USA, with the exception of the PTL ministry run by Tammy Faye and Jim Baker, virtually none have been taken to task by the government. If somebody like Howard Stern was soliciting money for say Tsunami relief and instead spent it on strippers, how long do you think it would be before he was sitting in jail?”
Well, yes, but this has been going on for quite a while, under both Republican and Democratic regimes.
“There is no valid excuse why Pat Robertson is not being charged with his countless crimes of promoting and inciting terrorism and criminal fraud.”
Maybe no excuse, but plenty of precedent. Much of South Florida is openly host to much terrorist training and activity. Known terrorists like Orlando Bosch walk the streets of Miami and are looked to as heroes by many.
Luis Posada Carriles is in a Texas INS detention center but U.S. government is trying to protect his sorry ass from deportation to Venezuela to stand trial for organizing the bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner which killed all 73 aboard. The U.S. government knows, and its own intelligence documents show, that Posada and Bosch were the masterminds behind that bombing.
The big picture is that the U.S government is riddled with scoundrels and all sorts other vermin. We should not be surprised when one of them, or a fellow lackey, occasionally find themselves in a spotlight when they publicly say something that most them regularly say amongst themselves.
4 - Krissy
ok, that's great, keep getting the word out. it's more important that more people know, b/c in all reality people are very uninformed by this. So what are we going to do about it?
5 - troll
I thought that it had been decided at the highest levels to put Pat and The 700 Assassins in charge of US black ops
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