Tuesday, August 23, 2005

 

Executive Order 12333


Screwball Evangalist Pat Robertson
would like to dictate Foreign Policy
to the US Government. How'd that
run for President go in 1988, Pat?
I'd like to just slough Pat Robertson's remarks calling for the US Government to assassinate elected Venezualan leader Hugo Chavez as the rantings of a lunatic. But most lunatics don't get an hour of TV time every night where they're seen by millions of people. Most lunatics don't have weak minded people sending them money or doing anything they say.

In case you missed it, here's the actual quote:

....without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him (Hugo Chavez) out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.


I'm going to put aside the sixth commandment right now, and go to the legality of kiling a foreign head of state. Simply put, the government can't do it. President Reagan made that very clear when he signed executive order 12333 on 4 December 1981. Pat Robertson would like his Governemnt to do something that his God made it very clear he doesn't want done - remember the scene from The Ten Commandments? He wrote that order with his own hand, Thou Shalt Not Kill. And if God isn't a high enough authority for Pat Robertson, then how about the President of the United States, and not some liberal president whose eroding the "Christian ideals this country was built on" but the god of the conservative movement in America, Ronald Wilson Reagan.

It never fails to amaze me how those who claim to have such great respect for life could so brazenly advocate killing those who don't agree with them. Eric Rudolph is in prison for bombing abortion clinics, bombings that killed people. Why? Because it's wrong to kill unborn fetuses. I guess the only life that is sacred are those lives which agree with you. Those who don't agree with you, even those who are interpreting the laws of the United States should die, if not by our own hand, then by the hand of God.

Pat Robertson broke no laws by suggesting that the US Government assassinate Hugo Chavez, Thomas Beaverson broke no laws expressing his wishes that God would strike Judge George Greer dead. That doesn't make either man right in his particular case. The problem is that both men were speaking to groups of people, representing themselves as men of God. The problem is that once you spew hatred like that, you don't know what the people you were speaking to are going to do.

BOJ

Comments:
Yer prolly on sumen's feces list at this very moment. Kepeup da gude werk.
 
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