Feds Condemn Robertson for Nuke Comment

[Nottingham]

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Feds Condemn Robertson for Nuke Comment
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The U.S. State Department has condemned an on-air suggestion by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson that the agency ought to be blown up with a nuclear device.






Robertson, who heads the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, made the remark while interviewing author Joel Mowbray on "The 700 Club" television program last week. Mowbray wrote a book called "Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Endangers America's Security."


"I read your book. When you get through, you say, 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer.' I mean, you get through this, and you say, 'We've got to blow that thing up,'" Robertson said during the interview.


The State Department's headquarters are located in Foggy Bottom, a Washington neighborhood.

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Is Pat Robertson able to predict the future?? :bounce:

[arcane1]

1. if Pat were a Muslim, or god forbid a BLACK Muslim...

they would be doing a LOT more than "comdemn" him!!! Can you say 'enemy combatant'? "giving comfort to our enemies"? The list goes on...

one wonders, how many of Pat's supporters are thinking right now, that he just gave them a hint of how to do "God's work"?

[Nottingham]

4. Ya Arcane! To suggest that! What kinda American is HE!

If ya don't like the Administration Nuke em :nuke:

I wonder why Pat never said Nuke Clinton :bounce:

[TahitiNut]

8. Indeed. Is Imam Robertson calling on McVeigh-wannabe's?

I find it impossible to dismiss the notion that Robertson is very aware of the liklihood of another Eric Rudolf or Tim McVeigh taking up the banner of the FacistFundiKrusade.

[arcane1]

9. we now have 20 million pissed-off dittoheads running loose

who are jonesing for the 'rush' they get from listening to Rush...

it's only a matter of time..

[truthisfreedom]

30. and someone forgot to give them their oxycontin!

n/m

[morebunk]

27. Sounded like a terrorist threat to me.

Shouldn't Pat be hustled off to GITMO?

These funddie, neocon, RWnut, hypocrites are self-destructing all around us.

[ReadTomPaine]

35. You forgot that only Democrats can make terrorist threats....

according to Bush & Co.

[eileen_d]

2. Condemnation - check. Next step, deportation.

Nuff said.

[Nottingham]

3. In a twisted Way I agree that the State Department Sucks

"Mowbray was questioned in 2002 by the State Department after disclosing at a press briefing that he had obtained a classified document about visa issues"


Looks like Mowbray may have some stuff on the State Dept. about those Saudi Terrorists

Interesting :bounce:

[Kool Kitty]

28. You are agreeing that the State Department sucks,

and you may have a point. But you're not saying that it should be nuked. Pat is. If anyone else said it, they'd be on their way to solitary.

[Nottingham]

29. Good Point Kitty! Good Point! But I don't speak for God either

like PAT does! :bounce:

[BJ]

5. Dispicable, yes.

But will he see the inside of an FBI office for questioning?

No.

[jus_the_facts]

6. Pat says NUKE.....Cheney says..DAY O'TERRA....41 Taliban ESCAPE.....

....sounds like another set up by the PNAC hummmmm?! :evilfrown:

[jiacinto]

7. Isn't what Roberston said a crime

Isn't it a crime to call for violent attack against the government?

[arcane1]

10. nope, no crime here...

it's only a crime if you are not white, "Christian", and republican

[RC]

11. You forgot Rich.

[arcane1]

12. thanks, how could I forget THAT??

if you're rich, none of the other qualities matter! :silly:

[Nottingham]

41. Yes it is Treasonous! WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE!

Is this man a US Patriot or a amn who wishes to undermine our country! :bounce:

[Nottingham]

13. How can a Christian ask to Nuke Anybody

Boy I have a totally different idea of Jesus

Blessed it the Peascemaker

Not Blessed it the Nukem fanatics :nuke:

[truthisfreedom]

31. somehow the religious right switched "following the word of God" to "being

the word of God" and nobody noticed.

[Sephirstein]

42. FundieNazi justification...

Violence can be used to make peace.

</fundie nazi mode>

[Cheswick2.0]

14. He should be shipped to GITMO

He is a fundamentalist making terroristic threats. Why the hell isn't his ass off the street. Why or why does he hate us Americans? It can't be the freedom fries!

[Old and In the Way]

15. And to think taxpayers are giving him $1.5MM to run his

faith based social srvices.....

[laconicsax]

16. Article III, section 1 3 of the Constitution

Treason in the United States shall consiste only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

Sounds like levying war to me. Of course, nothing will happen to such an upstanding, white, Christian man.

[Nottingham]

40. Look at the Numbers 33 in Article 3 and 13 there it is

Treason in the Constitution is got the 33 in it how approrpiate
for the 33rd Degree FreeMasons! :bounce:

[goforit]

17. Pat Robertson is a REAL TERRORISTS!!!!

He should be sent to Guatanamo immediately!!!!!

[Nottingham]

19. I think Cheney & Pat should share their cell with Rove

they can all play the Game Risk and Blow each other up!

:nuke:

[spanone]

18. Pat Robertson is one sick SOB. And in the name of God....

Shame, shame, shame.

[Nottingham]

24. For Anyone! Why is Robertson picking on the State Dept?

:bounce: I just don't get whats up with him attacking the State Dept.

[Mari333]

20. That was a direct threat to the security of the USA

where's ASSCRACK???? why isnt Pat being investigated?????????// why does Tommy Chong sit in a prison cell and Robertson who advocates NUKING the State Dept get a free pass????? in the meantime, why is Jose Padilla still in prison, with NO charges, and has done nothing??????
Hello??? Hello??????????/

[MALiberal]

21. Its Time For The "FAMILY CHANNEL" to Stop Airing The 700 Club

This guy is promoting terrorism and the murder of millions of people.
He needs to be removed from our cable tv services immediatly.

[piece sine]

22. Fax and Drudge too...

the Wingers are plenty PO'd at Pat's henious remarks, too. Robertson crossed a bi-partisan line this time; this could end his public appearances. Eagerly suggesting someone plant a nuke at State's E Street complex is enough to rankle one and all. The Wingers brought this trash in, they can throw the trash out. We should just sit back and relax for once. Hubris Maximus just choked on his own bile.

[Saudade]

23. Robertson

If there were anything like real justice in this world, this loathesome, nauseating, bloated, brainless bigoted cockroach would be in a padded cell from now until Armageddon.

Pat Robertson embodies everything that is wrong with America, and there is a hell of a lot wrong with America right now.

If there were such a thing as Hell, this slimey bottom-feeding insect would be there, RIGHT NOW!

[7th_Sephiroth]

25. one word to pat

Bang

[dansolo]

32. If there were real justice

Pat Robertson would be having to plead his case to Jesus himself as to why he shouldn't be suffering eternal damnation.

[DoYouEverWonder]

26. But W is beholden to Robertson

Without him and his CC, W would be clearing brush in Texas. This is just another terrorist buddy that W is going to have to protect.




http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/08/19/christian.coalition/

The Christian Coalition And George Bush (Sr.)

WASHINGTON (Aug. 19, 1997) -- It was no secret that Pat Robertson supported President George Bush in his re-election race in 1992. But the full story of just how the Christian Coalition worked behind the scenes is only now coming to light.

CNN has obtained previously confidential documents that tell the story how Robertson hand-picked more than 30 Bush campaign leaders, of how the Bush campaign got advance information on the printing and distribution of 40 million Christian Coalition voter guides favorable to Bush, and of how Bush even raised money for the Christian Coalition itself.

In April 1992, Robertson sent the Bush campaign chairman a 10-page list of "persons I would like to see as Bush campaign co-chairmen."

Bush strategist Mary Matalin got right on it. By convention time, Robertson's hand-picked people were nearly all in place.

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[Virginian]

33. How ironic...

Just this past week, Tuesday or Wednesday, a natural gas leak was ignited in foggy bottom. It looked like the streets were on fire.

Has Pat Robertson been questioned about his involvement in the fire?
(Sarcasm)

[Rex]

34. Did I just read that correctly?

Did Insane Pat just say he wants to use WMDs on the FBI HQ? And just WHY is he still a free man?

What a sham this country is!

[Nottingham]

36. Pat have ya read the 10 Comandments! Thou shalt Not Kill

the State Department! :bounce:

[salin]

37. When will some of the far right fundamentalist (literalist) religious wing

start asking... "Could Robertson be a false prophet?" His greed has often betrayed any Christian beliefs (profit in gold and diamond mines, with knowledge of murderous violence being visited on innocents in order to secure those profits; ownership in horses/gambling; financial support from a sacreligious figure who claims to be the Messiah... and now encouraging internal terrorism against americans - this IS clearly inciting violent attacks against American institutions - and gee... Americans work at American institutions.)

[DoYouEverWonder]

38. If there is any such thing as the anti-christ

then Pat Robertson is definitely a close relative.

[Nottingham]

39. Fundamentalists call for Killing! Moslem clerics & Pat are alike

Take alook in the Mirror PAT .....your looking like them! :bounce: