an interesting observation more on Pat Robertson's Call For Assassination Of A Foreign Leader A Crime

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: rahul tongia <tongia () andrew cmu edu>
Date: August 27, 2005 6:27:53 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Pat Robertson's Call For Assassination Of A  
Foreign Leader A Crime


I don't think it's a crime...but consider the case where a powerful  
religious leader, with close ties to the government, advocates  
killing the leader of a foreign ("enemy") country.  Sounds a lot like  
a fatwa, doesn't it.  Imagine our reaction then...

Rahul

--On Saturday, August 27, 2005 6:16 PM -0400 David Farber  
<dave () farber net> wrote:


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> From: Paul Levy <plevy () citizen org>
> Date: August 27, 2005 6:07:30 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Pat Robertson's Call For Assassination Of A Foreign
> Leader A Crime
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>
> Sorry, but John Dean's argument in the linked article is ridiculous.
> Robertson did not suggest that he was going to assassinate Chavez, or
> participate in a scheme to do so.  He was complaining that his
> government was not using its capability to do that.  Mere advocacy of
> government action, no crime under the statute.
>
> Paul Alan Levy
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> > > > David Farber <dave () farber net> 08/27/05 1:32 PM >>>
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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?
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> 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
> ----
> 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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