VP Rangle waits for reply for Robertson's remarksVice-President José Vicente Rangel announced that the Venezuelan government is waiting for an answer from the US government on the "criminal" statements made Monday by Rev. Pat Robertson, urging to assassinate President Hugo Chávez.
"US authorities, who talk a lot against terrorism and have a dense wording concerning terrorism" should answer to this incident, VP Rangel told reporters.
"I think that any answer of the US government and institutions to such a message by a presumed religious speaker urging to assassinate a head of state, because it is cheaper than waging a war, test the US government anti-terrorist stance," he reasserted.
The senior officer recalled that a set of rules in the United States "condemns and punishes, through the federal administration, such remarks," including a law on TV broadcasting that "prohibit dissemination of such messages."
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http://english.eluniversal.com/2005/08/23/en_pol_art_23A603295.shtml Ravings of a cranky old man! Who let Pat Robertson out of the sanitarium?Argile Stox writes: Is Pat Robertson suffering from dementia? Who in God’s green Earth does he think he is calling for the United States government to pull the trigger and ‘take out’ the President of Venezuela?
Look out America, the Conservatives are drunk with power, again.
America has suffered the loss of our own presidents by the bullets of self-righteous individuals. Do we need to mark a man for death because a religious zealot -- who proudly endorses the Republican Party & president Bush ... suggests that our Black Operations Units immediately "Get’er Done?"
Mr. Robertson sites Manifest Destiny & the Monroe Doctrine as a Prime Directive to take such an action? Who let Mr. Robertson out of the sanitarium?
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http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=45625 Venezuela’s Ambassador Says Robertson is “No Ordinary Citizen”Caracas, Venezuela, August 24, 2005 —Venezuela’s Ambassador to the U.S., Bernardo Alvarez, held a press conference and released a statement today, in which he highlighted that contrary to the State Department’s claim, Pat Robertson, who had called for Venezuelan President Chavez’s assassination, is “ no ordinary private citizen.” Earlier in the day State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack had said, “Pat Robertson is a private citizen and that his views do not represent the policy of the United States.” Later, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld echoed this, saying Robertson is “ a private citizen. Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time.”
Alvarez pointed out that Robertson is no ordinary citizen because he heads an organization, the Christian Coalition, which has 2 million members and was instrumental in catapulting Bush to the nomination of the Republican Party in 2000. According to Alvarez, “Mr. Robertson has been one of this President’s staunchest allies. His statement demands the strongest condemnation by the White House.”
Alvarez classified Robertson’s call for Chavez’s assassination as “a call to terrorism.” “The United States may not permit its citizens to use its territory and airwaves to incite terrorism abroad and the murder of a democratically elected President,” said Alvarez.
According to Alvarez, Venezuela’s embassy in the U.S. has been flooded with e-mail and voice messages expressing support for Venezuela, in light of Robertson’s statement. “We would like thank the American people for the support they have offered us in the wake of the Reverend Pat Robertson’s call for the murder of our President, Hugo Chávez,” said Alvarez.
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