US evangelist, Pat Robertson suggests that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be assassinated

The right wing regime of US president, Bush, is mainly integrated and supported by the Christian right.  This right wing faction of the Christian movement can be characterized as extremely fascist.  They are a very dangerous element for the world -as much as the Nazis were - for they are as much terrorists as the terrorists they contend they are fighting, as extremist as the Talibans they criticize and try to destroy.

The "religious" US evangelist Pat Robertson showed us clearly what is to be a fanatic, shows us what is arrogance and hate, when in a television program, "The 700 Club", he suggested that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."  "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability."

This Bin Laden of the Christian right also declared, "We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with".  "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."

Some will say that this is the ravings of a lunatic, but that is not a sensible explanation, for what he is expounding are the sentiments and the point of view of the extreme right of the US and of the Bush administration.  Both which are comparable to the feelings and agenda of the Nazis in Germany in the 40's. 

Robertson is not just anyone, we shouldn't take his statements lightly, for he is a spokesman for the right wing Christian element.  He is the founder of the Christian Coalition of America, he was also a presidential candidate.  He criticized the Bush administration for failing to act when Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002.  He was the same extremist that suggested that the State Department should be blown up by a atom bomb.  

One shudders when one thinks of what would be his position and thoughts on the UN and organizations that oppose US imperialism and the occupation of Iraq?

Chavez was always clear in his statements that Washington wants to assassinate him.  What have been the mayor sins of Chavez?  It seems that to the new Nazis of the world, to liberate the government from the hands of a corrupt oligarchy at the service of Washington, to give the people a government that is truly democratic, to rescue a country from the clutches of US imperialism, which was enriching itself with Venezuelan oil, all at the expense of it's people, to give it's people education and health, are sins.  To talk about Latin American unity and solidarity, as Simon Bolivar and Marti, among others, dreamt about, are unforgivable sins.  It is ironic that while president Chavez is talking about the creation of a second school of Medicine in Latin America, a school that would offer an opportunity for students to study medicine tuition free, this supposed "evangelist is talking about murder and destruction.        

The declarations made by Mr. Robertson gives us an insight on what are the perspectives and intentions of the Christian right of the US.  It gives a clear indication that neither Bush and his gang of thugs represent human rights, the concepts of democracy, nor do they respect international law.   His words are words and thoughts are worthy of a terrorist, they are words not worthy of an evangelist.  A Nazi who uses the words of God, but in reality is a viper preaching hate and terrorism.  For his declarations he should be judged as a terrorist.  Such deed would prove that the fight against terrorism is true and just; and that the laws against terrorism applies to all, that it is not merely selective.  A terrorist is a terrorist, is a terrorist.

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