Whom
Would
Jesus
Assassinate?
The best thing you can say about George W. Bush and televangelist Pat Robertson and their ilk is that they will die someday -- and that hopefully, the evil, Armageddon-bent motherfuckers won't take the rest of us with them.
Really, I wish that Robertson (pictured below) would just die and go to hell already. He's walked this planet for 75 years, which is 75 years too many.
AFP photo
Marion Gordon Robertson, a.k.a. Pat Robertson
Robertson, a self-proclaimed "Christian" (a Southern Baptist, perhaps the worst kind of "Christian") whose real name is Marion Gordon Robertson, among other things has claimed to be able to divert hurricanes; called feminism a "socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians" (really, we're going back to the days of the witchhunts); and is a millionaire, if not a billionaire (although Jesus said that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven).
Yeah, a real fucking national treasure Marion Gordon Robertson is.
Yesterday, Marion called for the assassination of Venezuela's democratically elected president, Hugo Chavez, primarily because Chavez is doing good things for the poor of Venezuela (much to the chagrin of Venezuela's lighter-skinned and overprivileged elites, who have kept Venezuela's darker-skinned poor down for ages) and because he refuses to kiss U.S. corporate ass like a good Third-World nation's leader should.
"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said of Chavez during yesterday's television broadcast of "The 700 Club."
He continued: "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."
He also said: "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. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
Because it's all about oil. Jesus fucking Christ, it's like I'm trapped on the planet Dune, where all that fucking matters is oil, like it's excreted by gigantic worm-like creatures that burrow under the sand. (Wait a minute -- is that where oil comes from?)
Of course, while there is no credible international doubt that Chavez, whom Robertson casually dubs a "dictator," was fairly elected, a dark cloud still hangs over the 2000 U.S. presidential election results, in which the state of Florida, governed by George W. Bush's fucking brother, decided the election, even though Al Gore received more than 500,000 more popular votes than did Bush. Oh, yeah, and Florida's secretary of state and chief elections official, Republican Katherine Harris, had sat on the state committee to elect Bush (she is now running for U.S. Senate). Oh, yeah, and the five members of the U.S. Supreme Court who coinky-dinkily had been appointed by Republican presidents ruled that George W. Bush won Florida -- by fewer than 550 votes out of more than 6 million votes that were cast in the state.
But that Chavez is a fucking dictator and that Venezuela is a fucking banana republic!
Oh, and Chavez is -- gasp! -- a commie, says Robertson.
So fucking what if Chavez were a communist? Those who throw the word "communist" and its derivatives around as an uber-insult (you call such people "wingnuts") couldn't fucking correctly define the word "communism" anyway. (Chavez is, as far as I can tell, a socialist, as was Jesus Christ, who was homeless and who repeatedly railed against the rich and powerful, identifying them as the evil, oppressive hypocrites that they are.)
Venezuelans have the democratic right to pick their president, and guess what? Their leader does not have to be a fucking capitalist swine like the United States' "president." (Similarly, if a majority of the Iraqis want a government based on Islam -- and they do -- that's their fucking democratic right, their right to self-determination.)
For the United States -- first the Bush regime (see below) and now Pat Fucking Robertson -- to meddle in Venezuelans' democratic choices violates the freedom and the democracy that they lyingly and repeatedly claim to value so fucking much.
The wingnuts' stance is that other nations, such as Venezuela, Iraq and the Ukraine, are allowed, perhaps even encouraged, to have "free" and "democratic" elections -- as long as the people vote the way the fucking wingnuts in the United States want them to vote. God Bless America.
For those of who you are fuzzy on the subject, Reuters provides some good, concise background information on Venezuela and Chavez [my comments are in brackets]:
Chavez was first elected in 1998 and won a referendum on his rule last year. Polls show he would be re-elected in 2006. Venezuela is the world's fifth-largest oil-exporting country and a major supplier to the United States.
Chavez survived a short-lived coup in 2002 that he says was backed by the United States. Washington denies involvement.
[If the Bush regime did not have a part in the coup, it certainly did not denounce the coup, the forcible overthrow of Venezuela's democratically elected president by right-wingers and their installation of a right-wing businessman as the new, unelected president. (The coup leaders also voided the nation's constitution, which Venezuelans had approved by referendum; dissolved the democratically elected National Assembly; and fired the Supreme Court -- you know, the kinds of things that the members of the Bush regime would do if they could get away with it.) In fact, the Bush White House actually recognized the coup leaders as Venezuela's legitimate new government.
If you haven't seen the 2003 documentary about Chavez and the failed 2002 coup, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," I highly recommend it when it finally comes out on DVD. It's a shocking, eye-opening look at what right-wingers will do to hold onto power. You will be reminded of Florida 2000.]
[Robertson's] comments hearkened back to a long history of U.S. political and military interventions in Latin America, including the invasions of Grenada in 1983 and Haiti in 1994, attempts to assassinate Castro and a CIA-backed coup in Chile in 1973.
Political assassination as U.S. policy has been prohibited since 1976.
As long as my nation, the United States of America, is conducting dubious elections and is subverting the democratic will of the peoples of nations elsewhere -- for things like oil -- I consider the "patriotic" rhetoric that so many of my fellow Americans so casually toss about, including claims that the United States is "free" and "democratic," to be utterly fucking empty.
I will share some of the other images of gun-toting Jesuses I found on google's image search:
 
 
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