Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Hugo Chavez (11 Viewers)
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Hey hey hey hold on
Im not from one of this country's wealthiest families that are pissed off because Chavez is against them. Most of those families have already left and they had their money in other places even before Chavez got elected.
Chavez won thanks to the middle class and the huge levels of abstinention. Middle class people voted for him because they were tired of the same people running the country and Chavez offered something fresh and different.
The first two years of his period he was liked and he was a 'good' president. He made some changes to the constitution but wasnt like he is right now.
Since year 2000 people have started hating him, people that supported him (middle class) realized that he wasnt going to give them what he offered, so lots of people started to protest against him on the streets and made strikes. That strikes/protests situation got a little out of hand for Chavez because everytime people went to the streets to protest itd be over a million people and in 2003 we did a two month long (mostly oil, but it was general) strike that affected oil prices worldwide.
After that 2003 strike this place has become hell, he has banned the media and now the media here is partial to him, if they arent partial they can get banned/closed. On some of the protests people did against him, two massacres happened. One of them was that he sent people that worked with him to shoot normal protesting people from buildings (snipers) and he has founded his 'terrorist'group called the Bolivarian Circles, and those groups are always on motorcycles and they just shoot people.
Chavez has threatened education, has made international relations worse, has made the rich poor and the poor poorer. Did you know that just in Caracas in one weekend (friday night-sunday night) over forty people die?
Frankly, I have absolutely no idea what "populist" reforms youre talking about
This is a bit old, but it's funny how people change their stance towards despots overnight. And if you're wondering about the fervor Pat showed towards his pal Charles, research Freedom Gold.
Pat Robertson Slams Bush On Liberia
NORFOLK, Virginia, July 11, 2003
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson (seen in Aug. 2000 file photo) said the war crimes indictment against Liberian President Charles Taylor “is nonsense and should be quashed.” (Photo: AP)
“How dare the president of the United States say to the duly elected president of another country, 'You've got to step down.'"
Pat Robertson
(CBS) Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson accused President Bush of “undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels” by asking Liberian President Charles Taylor, recently indicted for war crimes, to step down.
“How dare the president of the United States say to the duly elected president of another country, 'You've got to step down,'" Robertson said Monday on “The 700 Club,” broadcast from his Christian Broadcasting Network.
“It's one thing to say, we will give you money if you step down and we will give you troops if you step down, but just to order him to step down? He doesn't work for us.”
Robertson, a Bush supporter who has financial interests in Liberia, said he believes the State Department has “mismanaged the situation in nation after nation after nation” in Africa.
“So we're undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country,” he said in the broadcast.
Robertson told The Washington Post in an interview published Thursday that he has “written off in my own mind” an $8 million investment in a Liberian gold mining venture he made four years ago, under an agreement with Taylor's government.
“Once the dust has cleared on this thing, chances are there will be some investors from someplace who want to invest. If I could find some people to sell it to, I'd be more than delighted,” he said in the article.
He said his investment was intended to help pay for humanitarian and evangelical efforts in Liberia.
Angell Watts, a spokeswoman for Robertson, said Robertson was not available to comment Thursday because he was traveling. She also declined to comment.
Taylor waged war for seven years as a rebel leader before being elected president in 1997.
The United Nations and European leaders have sought U.S. troops to enforce a repeatedly violated June 17 cease-fire between forces loyal to Taylor and rebels fighting for three years to oust him. Under the deal, Taylor promised to step down, clearing the way for a transitional government that will oversee fresh elections.
Mr. Bush, speaking Wednesday in South Africa, promised to help enforce the cease-fire and “see to it that Mr. Taylor leaves office so there can be a peaceful transition in Liberia.”
On Sunday, Taylor accepted an offer of asylum from Nigeria, but on condition that an international force is deployed in Liberia.
A U.N.-backed tribunal indicted Taylor on June 4 for war crimes in neighboring Sierra Leone.
Robertson told the Post that the war crimes indictment “is nonsense and should be quashed.”
He said Taylor has “become such a lightning rod” that he should leave office, but in an orderly transition accompanied by the insertion of U.S. peacekeepers.
“Frankly, the president's call for Taylor to step down immediately is not wise, because if Taylor leaves immediately, the country will descend into chaos,” he told the paper.
Pat Robertson Slams Bush On Liberia
NORFOLK, Virginia, July 11, 2003
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson (seen in Aug. 2000 file photo) said the war crimes indictment against Liberian President Charles Taylor “is nonsense and should be quashed.” (Photo: AP)
“How dare the president of the United States say to the duly elected president of another country, 'You've got to step down.'"
Pat Robertson
(CBS) Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson accused President Bush of “undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels” by asking Liberian President Charles Taylor, recently indicted for war crimes, to step down.
“How dare the president of the United States say to the duly elected president of another country, 'You've got to step down,'" Robertson said Monday on “The 700 Club,” broadcast from his Christian Broadcasting Network.
“It's one thing to say, we will give you money if you step down and we will give you troops if you step down, but just to order him to step down? He doesn't work for us.”
Robertson, a Bush supporter who has financial interests in Liberia, said he believes the State Department has “mismanaged the situation in nation after nation after nation” in Africa.
“So we're undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country,” he said in the broadcast.
Robertson told The Washington Post in an interview published Thursday that he has “written off in my own mind” an $8 million investment in a Liberian gold mining venture he made four years ago, under an agreement with Taylor's government.
“Once the dust has cleared on this thing, chances are there will be some investors from someplace who want to invest. If I could find some people to sell it to, I'd be more than delighted,” he said in the article.
He said his investment was intended to help pay for humanitarian and evangelical efforts in Liberia.
Angell Watts, a spokeswoman for Robertson, said Robertson was not available to comment Thursday because he was traveling. She also declined to comment.
Taylor waged war for seven years as a rebel leader before being elected president in 1997.
The United Nations and European leaders have sought U.S. troops to enforce a repeatedly violated June 17 cease-fire between forces loyal to Taylor and rebels fighting for three years to oust him. Under the deal, Taylor promised to step down, clearing the way for a transitional government that will oversee fresh elections.
Mr. Bush, speaking Wednesday in South Africa, promised to help enforce the cease-fire and “see to it that Mr. Taylor leaves office so there can be a peaceful transition in Liberia.”
On Sunday, Taylor accepted an offer of asylum from Nigeria, but on condition that an international force is deployed in Liberia.
A U.N.-backed tribunal indicted Taylor on June 4 for war crimes in neighboring Sierra Leone.
Robertson told the Post that the war crimes indictment “is nonsense and should be quashed.”
He said Taylor has “become such a lightning rod” that he should leave office, but in an orderly transition accompanied by the insertion of U.S. peacekeepers.
“Frankly, the president's call for Taylor to step down immediately is not wise, because if Taylor leaves immediately, the country will descend into chaos,” he told the paper.