Why Pat Robertson isn’t treated as a terrorist?

[burythehatchet]

http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=15447

We really do know why Pat Robertson won't be treated as a terrorist. It's for the same reason Bush's former Attorney General of the United States could tell a group of decent, honest, hard-working American Muslims that they should count themselves lucky they weren't being treated the way Japanese Americans were during World War II. It's for the same reason that Bush protects a mass murderer named Luis Posada Carriles from extradition and trial. It's for the same reason that American troops have made a horror of the lives of millions of innocent Iraqis. It's for the same reason a distraught mother who lost her son in Iraq is vilified by Right Wing savages. It's the same reason why the morally-contemptible Bush is President.

The reason is the worship of power and greed. While it's true that a great deal of America's history has to do with worshipping power and greed, never in my memory has it been so openly expressed, so contemptuously embraced as it is today. It is a sad to reflect in my twilight years that almost everything I was taught as a boy has proved to be wrong. I don't mean subjects like math or English. I mean values. Most of the evidence of my adult life tends to support the opposite of every moral lesson of my youth, certainly as they apply to the land of my birth, a place where power and greed now trump everything.

[jody]

1. What if he called for the assassination of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon? nt

[burythehatchet]

3. a young likudnik will take care of that in due time.

[acmejack]

2. Ain't that the truth!

Isn't it strange that those moral lessons of our youth were based on the religion to which these charlatans profess to follow? Or did I miss the part about accumulating as much mammon as one could?

[geckosfeet]

4. He is a white christian with political ties to RW. n/t

[Igel]

5. No direct incitement; no conspiracy; no means in evidence;

no history of violence, at least not one targetting foreign leaders. Plus it's pretty much a one-off statement.

After all, the 'we' was the US government--not an organization Robertson has much control over.