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?
What is even more infuriating is the government’s utter and complete lack of action against Pat for his “terrorist” threats.
In interviews with the author of a book critical of the United States Department of State, Robertson made suggestions that the explosion of a nuclear weapon at State Department Headquarters would be good for the country, and repeated those comments on the air. "What we need is for somebody to place a small nuke at Foggy Bottom," Robertson said during his television program, referring to the location of the State Department headquarters. [Source]
There is no valid excuse why Pat Robertson is not being charged with his countless crimes of promoting and inciting terrorism and criminal fraud.
Written by John Bill, founder of independent think tank the Jmaximus Institute of Freedom.
Ed/Pub:LM
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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