Showing posts with label pat robertson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pat robertson. Show all posts
Monday, June 04, 2007
The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has opened amid dramatic scenes in The Hague, with the accused refusing to attend.
Mr Taylor said his trial would not be fair because he only had one defence lawyer. His counsel walked out, defying the judge's order to stay seated.
Mr Taylor is accused of backing rebels in Sierra Leone who killed and maimed thousands of civilians over 11 years.
I keep mentioning that Taylor is Pat Robertson's friend because the media doesn't. Pat can be quoted on bashing fags, abortion, and how God wants to cause earthquakes in the San Fernando valley to get the porn producers, yet his collaboration with a genocidal madman doesn't even receive much of a notice.
Other than Monica Goodling graduating from Pat's law school, his antics aren't getting scrutinized enough lately. He fleeces poor old people, sells blood diamonds with a mass murderer, and yet I see him on my tv all the time.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
What's more, to hear Robertson tell it, one of the abominations prompting God to hide his face from America is this country's self-indulgence, pursuit of financial gain and focus on wealth.
Which is the subject of today's column, and the basis for this humble question: What, pray tell, does the Good Lord make of Pat Robertson's gold-mining venture in Liberia with Charles Taylor, international pariah and one of the most ruthless, greedy and terror-producing heads of state in all of sub-Saharan Africa?
What? He didn't know?
Well it probably slipped Robertson's mind, busy as he is in getting people to send in those checks, money orders and love offerings to support his cause. How the reverend found time to hook up with Taylor, I'll never know.
But in May 1999, Robertson, through Freedom Gold Limited, an offshore company registered in the Cayman Islands but based at CBN headquarters in Virginia Beach, signed an agreement with Taylor and key cabinet members allowing the for-profit Freedom Gold to explore and receive mining rights in southeastern Liberia, where gold is believed to be in the ground.
It's a great deal for Liberia, which is now an economic basket case thanks to the long civil war and Taylor's corruption. It's also good for Freedom Gold, which was formed by Robertson in 1998. Liberia -- and for all practical purposes we're talking Taylor -- gains 10 percent ownership of Freedom Gold.
Today, there is news on Taylor's upcoming trial.
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor goes on trial next week charged with instigating murder, rape and terrorism during Sierra Leone's civil war in a case prosecutors say could end impunity for African strongmen.
Taylor, once one of Africa's most feared warlords, faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, including recruiting child soldiers during the 1991-2002 conflict.
The 59-year-old has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
He was a driving force behind intertwined wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone which killed more than a quarter of a million people and shocked the world with stories and images of child soldiers high on drugs, killing, raping and looting.
"Charles Taylor caused the biggest atrocities in this war. I support the trial because then other people will fear to do the same," said Freetown trader Mohamed Kolokah, 28, whose business partner was killed by rebels supported by Taylor.
The trial starts in The Hague on Monday.
Pat Robertson has said that Taylor was only being targeted due to "his Christianity". Pat Robertson is an asshole.
Friday, May 18, 2007
For the past five minutes, I got glued to the 700 Club, AKA Pat Robertson's infomercial for sending him money and casting out demons and the like.
They did a "profile" of a believing couple. The guy was in construction, the woman was in real estate. They just closed a home, and two days later the guy ruptured his back.
They had a $3200 mortgage payment that they couldn't afford without him working because the real estate market was tight.
They were members of the "thousand" club. They gave Pat Robertson $84 a month, or $1,000 a year. The money could have been used to pay the phone bill, but instead of not tithing money to Pat Robertson, they followed his advice. Giving Pat money will automatically give you blessings. So the wife put $84 on her credit card at the "convenient website".
Miraculously, the husband's back healed and he got back to work without surgery, and the wife started selling alot of real estate even in a dead market, and they were able to refinance and pay off all their debts.
Why? They gave Pat Robertson money and God provided for them. God wants you to send money to Pat, or he isn't going to help you.
That bastard. I am picturing widows skipping their medications, in order to send Pat Robertson a check. It is one thing to tell people to give to a ministry to keep it going, to keep it's works going. It's another to tell them, that if you give all your money to Pat, God is going to hook you up more. How many people are being hurt by this man's crass greed?
That bastard.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
There is a long article today in the Boston Globe about Monica Goodling and all of the graduates of Pat Robertson's law school who are members of the Bush administration. Regent University is considered not very academically serious, but they had an in of course. The head of Regent's government school was picked as the head of the Office of Personnel Management for the executive branch, meaning that they were in charge of hiring decisions for the Bush administration in the thousands of executive branch jobs that needed to be filled. Here is a little highlight.
Many of those who have Regent law degrees, including Goodling, joined the Department of Justice. Their path to employment was further eased in late 2002, when John Ashcroft , then attorney general, changed longstanding rules for hiring lawyers to fill vacancies in the career ranks.
Previously, veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom to hire, usually picking top students from elite schools.
In a recent Regent law school newsletter, a 2004 graduate described being interviewed for a job as a trial attorney at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in October 2003. Asked to name the Supreme Court decision from the past 20 years with which he most disagreed, he cited Lawrence v. Texas, the ruling striking down a law against sodomy because it violated gay people's civil rights.
"When one of the interviewers agreed and said that decision in Lawrence was 'maddening,' I knew I correctly answered the question," wrote the Regent graduate . The administration hired him for the Civil Rights Division's housing section -- the only employment offer he received after graduation, he said.
Now, you get a better idea of why things happened the way they have over the past six years. It is pretty damned sad that somebody can only get a job with the executive branch when all private firms reject you on the basis that you hate homosexuals. I think it's time to look at the Civil Right's Division. If this person is an indication, they probably have their own screw ups that haven't been brought to the light of day.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
A lawsuit nearing trial has opened a rare window into the inner workings of Pat Robertson's Virginia Beach-based media empire. The lawsuit accuses Robertson of abusing his tax-exempt status by using the resources of his nonprofit TV ministry to promote a commercial product - a high-protein diet shake.
You can take away my delicious milkshake, when you pry it away from my cold dead fingers.
Nonsense, the televangelist has responded: The shake was a totally separate venture, not related in any way to his Christian Broadcasting Network.
Now a trail of e-mails and other internal correspondence, dating back more than a year before the lawsuit, indicates that Robertson and other CBN executives were closely involved in the development of the shake venture.
Uh oh, this sounds bad. But come on, there are worse things. It's not like Pat Robertson was involved in selling blood diamonds or anything. Oops. He did do that too.
In 1997, pilots for Robertson's tax-exempt humanitarian organization said its planes were used almost exclusively for the evangelist's African diamond mining operation, sparking an investigation by state charity regulators.
Then again, he with out sin, cast the first bloody stone. Amputations sometimes happen when you are running a diamond dungeon. Haven't we all done that?
A central allegation in the case is that Robertson and CBN conspired to promote the commercial shake using CBN's tax-exempt resources in violation of federal tax law - in other words, that they built a market for the product on airtime paid for by CBN donors and then cashed in on it.
In a variety of forums since then, Robertson and other CBN executives have insisted that the shake promoted on the nonprofit network and the ready-to-mix product sold in GNC stores are separate.
They are "two very discrete ventures," Louis Isakoff, a CBN attorney, told The Virginian-Pilot just after the lawsuit was filed.
Only an idiot couldn't figure this out. If God strikes a court house in Norfolk, Virginia, don't say Pat didn't tell you first. Oh, did he also tell you about his protein drink? It's delicious!
Friday, March 09, 2007
NORFOLK, Va. -- Some students and alumni at an evangelical Christian university founded by Pat Robertson are upset with the commencement choice of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon.
"My initial reaction was, how could they do this?" said Lynne Gilham, a Columbus, Ohio, minister and former reporter who had posted a comment denouncing the choice on a ministry blog. She said she earned a master's degree in journalism from the school, Regent University, in 1992.
Gilham said Friday that she understands "evangelicals in an academic context need to be exposed to other viewpoints." But she fears inviting a speaker of the Mormon faith "would confuse young Christians who are not so firmly grounded in Christian doctrine."
Mitt is going to flash his magic underwear at the young fundamentalists and they suddenly will have the urge to research genealogy and knock on strangers' doors. Mitt's hair actually transmits the Salamander Tablets on rf frequencies that can be picked up by bluetooth transmitters from 250 yards away.
Mitt though is Pat's kind of christian. In fact, I have never heard Romney say a bad word about blood diamonds. Jesus bled on the cross, and some Liberians need to bleed so Pat can buy another mansion in the name of Christ or Joseph Smith. Amen.
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