Pat Robertson - Operation Blessing - on FEMA website

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/09/1411237

JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes, Amy. Well, the reality is that Operation Second Blessing has been part of the Robertson empire now for many years. He is the chairman of the board himself. His wife is a vice president. One of his sons is a member of the board of directors. So, it's wholly a non-profit foundation that is controlled by Robertson.

Interestingly enough, when I checked their latest 990 for the fiscal year ending of March of 2004, they give hundreds of grants for a few thousand dollars to churches all around the United States, but the single largest recipient of assistance from Second Blessing is Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. It received $885,000 in grants from the charity. For what purposes, I'm not quite clear.

But the other part of it is also that Second Blessing has had a less than stellar record. Back in the mid-1990s during the Rwandan genocide, Robertson appealed for assistance for Operation Second Blessing on his 700 Club for money to fly relief supplies to the Rwandan refugees in Zaire. What he -- it turns out that an investigation later by the Virginia Attorney General's office revealed that the planes that were bought by the charity were actually ferrying mining equipment for a diamond mining operation, the African Development Corporation, and low-and-behold, who is the principal shareholder of this private corporation? None other than Pat Robertson himself. So, he eventually had to reimburse his own charity $400,000 for the fact that these planes were being used, not for charitable work, but for his own enrichment. Although that might itself -- ended up collapsing.

So Robertson's use of this charity has had problems in the past, and the fact that the federal government listed it among the top three charities before the Catholic charities, before the United Jewish Appeal, before AmeriCares, before all kinds of other charities that have been in existence for decades and decades is quite unusual.

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1. Unusual??? Its almost CRIMINAL>>>>Get the fucktard off the radar screen

Hint: He is the Director, His wife Vice Director, and Son is on the Board...Can I say Nepotism? They are Scamming America....shades of Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye....

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2. The problem is these guys are a dime a dozen.

The abomination in this case is FEMA endorsement. I don't necessarily condemn faith based inclusion in these types of projects (Catholic Charities does some good work), but these relationships deserve a higher level of scrutiny to make sure the money is going to worthy projects, and not church related activities.

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3. The Feds caught Pat a few years ago shipping diamond mining equipment to

Rhowanda where his Mines are...on the Gov't's dime, had to repay 400 thou....

Doncha just luv this God Whore...use God to make money...BIG MONEY

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4. It's disgusting

and fraudulent. Telling poor grandma that a $1000 donation will earn them entrance to heaven, or that "seed" money will bring God's favor in the form of exponential riches is fraud. Yet this is what they do.

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5. IT SHOULD BE CRIMINAL TO FLEECE MONEY using God as Bait

Fear, Guilt, Atonement, Redemption are the tools used here under the Heading of False Advertising. They somehow made it legal and are going Full ON with this tax free fleece. Amazing....