Who would Jesus snuff? 


The meek can inherit the earth, provided Halliburton retains the mineral rights 

Courtesy of Media Matters, we learn that popular fundie nutcake Pat Robertson has some sage policy advice on his 22 August edition of The 700 Club:

ROBERTSON: There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he's going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.

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. But this man is a terrific danger and the United ... This is in our sphere of influence, so we can't let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And 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 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 note with approval the following exchanges gleaned from the comments section of the Washington Monthly site:

Was there a part I missed where Jesus taught the parable about killing people who make trouble for you?

Not Jesus, specifically. It was Paul, in his Epistle to the Crips.

and another:

Even Jesus would accept stopping a brutal unelected dictator like Chavez, even if it meant killing somebody.

Damn straight. I well recall how Jesus led the A-Posse in the battle against a whole slew of unelected dictators—Herod, Pilate, Tiberius Caesar, all that crowd. Remember how, in the Garden of Gethsemane, when the guards came to arrest him, JC had both the Jameses lay down a withering crossfire, then told Judas "Kiss this, motherfucker!" and put a cap in his ass?

For those, incidentally, who would like to make the Reverend Pat (and, we may presume, the Little Baby Jesus for whom he speaks) weep for our folly, let me recommend the “Citgo” chain of service stations. Citgo, a U.S. refining and marketing firm, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay to Citgo goes primarily to Venezuela—not to the President’s cronies in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas stations in the US—surely one of them is near you.

in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti,  

Posted: Mon - August 22, 2005 at 06:51 PM          

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