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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:57 PM
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Why Pat Robertson isn't treated as a terrorist
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Why won't Pat Robertson be treated as a terrorist? Believe me, if you said what he said about any of America's current leaders, you would be arrested quickly under the Patriot Act and locked away. Why will Pat Robertson's broadcasting empire not be classified as an organization supporting terrorist activities? Perfectly legitimate organizations in other parts of the world have been declared outlaw in the United States for having less direct association with terrorist hate-speech. Several bloodthirsty-sounding Muslim clerics, completely unrepresentative of their faith, have been jailed recently for speech closely resembling Robertson's.

At the very least, Robertson should be charged under hate-speech laws. But such laws are weak in the United States, and many Americans fear the idea of hate-speech laws. So radio and television broadcasters continue spewing hate and dishonest claims in the exalted name of free speech.

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.

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bufffbison Donating Member (384 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 11:08 PM
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1. when your buddy is prez, u can do anything. power is everything! nt
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 11:14 PM
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2. and greed ... is everything else. n/t
Edited on Wed Aug-24-05 11:37 PM by dweller
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Suttree Donating Member (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 11:18 PM
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3. I'll tell you why:
That motherfucker looks like a goddamned ape or monkey! I mean, how the fuck would that look? If GOD's CHILDREN were actually descended from marsupials? What a joke. This piece of shit Robertson is especially bedecked, with the high forehead and pompous forehead and eager jowls... what a fuckwad. Anyway, he's an insane piece of astrological opportunist. So who cares. It's just words on the page. Right?
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 08:38 AM
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10. Hi Suttree!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 11:24 PM
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4. he's the Prophet (or Lamb?) to Georgie's Antichrist and Cheeney's Beast
and Rice's--
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:59 AM
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5. I'm just wondering...
...how Robertson doesn't see any conflict in his beliefs by issuing 'fatwas'.

Does this guy even sleep at night?
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 07:00 AM
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6. Because without Pat Robertson
Dimson Bush wouldn't be President right now.

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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 07:05 AM
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7. Arab Racism. Same reason the 9-11/Iraq conflation works so well n/t.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 07:11 AM
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8. If Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton had uttered such a threat
they would have been hauled off to the gulag until the end of time and all Democrats would be labeled as terrorists.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 07:14 AM
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9. All people are equal, except that some are more equal than others
Orwell is still relevant after all these years.. Robertson, Falwell, et al are F.O.P.s and they get a pass for waht they say, but anyone who is NOT a F.O.P. ...well they are pilloried in the public square.
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