Pat Robertson's Call For Assassination Of A Foreign Leader A Crime

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Peter H Salus <peter () netpedant com>
Date: August 27, 2005 12:38:19 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: for IP?



Dave,

Take a look at
    //writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050826.html

I think this deserves wider publicity.

Peter

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Was Pat Robertson's Call For Assassination Of A Foreign Leader A Crime?
Had He Been a Democrat, He'd Probably Be Hiring A Criminal Attorney
By JOHN W. DEAN
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Friday, Aug. 26, 2005
On Monday, August 22, the Chairman of the Christian Broadcast  
Network, Marion "Pat" Robertson, proclaimed, on his 700 Club  
television show, that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be  
murdered.

More specifically, Robertson said, "You know, I don't know about this  
doctrine of assassination," referring to the American policy since  
the Presidency of Gerald Ford against assassination of foreign  
leaders, "but if he [Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him,  
I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot  
cheaper than starting a war, and I don't think any oil shipments will  
stop."



"We have the ability to take him out," Robertson continued, "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."

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