Pat Robertson's mines.

[Skidmore]

Is it time to educate the public on Pat's dirty dealings in Africa? I don't understand why no one ever brings this up when responding to his outrageous and hateful comments. Mark my words, we won't hear one commenter on any program address this.

[Kire]

1. link?

I've never heard about this.

[Skidmore]

2. Here are some links.

http://www.theperspective.org/patrobertson_taylor.html


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7124-2001Sep21

http://www.skeptictank.org/robem2.htm

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/pat-robertson/http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/pat-robertson/

[havocmom]

4. for starters Google Pat Robertson+mines

Results 1 - 10 of about 262,000 for Pat Robertson+mines. (0.26 seconds)

Starting with this one: http://www.ctlibrary.com/8422

When televangelist M. G. "Pat" Robertson tried to buy into a Scottish bank in 1999, a public outcry forced the bank to cancel the deal. Now Robertson is taking flak for another business deal. In 1998, Robertson formed a $15 million company, Freedom Gold Limited, to look for gold in Liberia. In 1999, the company signed an agreement with the government of Liberia to begin gold-mining operations.
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The first and loudest denunciations have come from The Washington Post. Colbert King, the Post's deputy editorial page editor, has published a series of articles excoriating Robertson for the deal, and especially for the involvement of Liberian President Charles Taylor. King noted that the agreement gives a 10 percent equity to the Liberian government.

In a letter to the editor, Robertson denied that the Liberian government owned part of the company. Robertson wrote that Freedom Gold has hired 130 Liberians "and is assisting Liberians in gaining a better life." In "Christian Liberia," he added, "Freedom Gold has found freedom of religion, freedom of movement, freedom of expression, and what appears to be a judiciary dedicated to the rule of law."
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King derided as "bunkum" Robertson's upbeat description of conditions in Liberia, and noted that the United Nations has placed an arms embargo on Liberia. King quoted a State Department official who said the U.S. government "has not encouraged either trade or investment in Liberia due to the absence of the rule of law and President Taylor's support for armed insurgencies."

Then this: http://www.skeptictank.org/robem2.htm using tax exempt $$ for private business ventures Pat? Donations going to your gold mine operations?

In April, 1997 two pilots who worked for Operation Blessing charged that planes linked to Robertson and his ministry flew mostly to haul equipment for ADC's private diamond operation. Robert Hinkle, the chief pilot told reporter Bill Sizemore that of about 40 flights within Zaire during the half-year period he was there, "Only one or at most two" were related to the humanitarian mission of Operation Blessing. The rest were "mining-related."

"We got over there and we had 'Operation Blessing' painted on the tails of the airplanes, Hinkle told the Virginian-Pilot, "but we were doing no humanitarian relief at all. We were just supplying the miners and flying the dredges from Kinshasa out to Tdshikapa."

If so, that activity could jeopardize Operation Blessing's special tax exempt status. It also highlights Robertson's network of projects and corporations mixing religion, politics and private business.

[greekspeak]

3. Why doesn't anyone respond? Cause he is part of the neocon system

that is in power now. He may hold no public office, but he might as well. His opinions and those like them dominate in lawmaking and lawkeeping circles these days. Until the reich wing is run out of town on a rail, nobody, as you say, is going to touch Reverend Pat with a ten foot poll.

When it comes to sanctimonius, self righteous hypocritical clap-trap, Pat has the top spot all sewed up

[havocmom]

5. and in the neocon system brown people do not count as people

It is that simple. Only white males have value in their system.

[greekspeak]

6. The brown people of ANY shade, homosexuals, feminists,

free thinkers, etc.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

7. Pat Robertson -> Charles Taylor -> Al-Qaeda

Pat Robertson and His Business Buddies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A5339-2001Nov9¬Found=true

Liberia's former president, a friend to terror?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8575495

[Skidmore]

8. We need to be on the offensive with this sort of stuff and

soundly discredit this fraudulent criminal.

[Booster]

9. I really wish exposing this idiot would be Michael Moore's next

project.

[donsu]

11. don't wait for Moore, produce your own video docu

be a documentarian

be the media

be congress

[Al-CIAda]

10. yes. nt