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Blue Moon Over Venezuela

 

Pat Robertson was wrong to advocate the assassination of Huge Chavez, but he was right to label the Venezuelan strongman as a threat to the United States -- and his own people.


 

On the Monday broadcast of "The 700 Club" two weeks ago, Pat Robertson said of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability."

 

Would that qualify TV preacher Pat Robertson as a case study for intelligent design?

 

Well, not exactly.

 

First off, it's not Pat Robertson’s private war to fight.

 

It's not some religious fatwah edict, either.

 

Later in the week, Robertson apologized for the statement and said, "I didn't say 'assassination.'"

 

"I said our special forces should 'take him out.' 'Take him out' could be a number of things, including kidnapping."

 

Rev. Robertson was telling the truth with his statement warning about Hugo Chavez.

 

Human-rights advocates and Amnesty International have been warning the world community about Chavez, but those pleas have fallen on deaf ears in this country. Bush is afraid of Venezuela's Chavez and his stranglehold on the U.S. economy due to our lack of a progressive energy policy.

 

More to the point, Chavez is a Marxist dictator, who despises the United States and is deliberately driving up oil prices on the world market to cause detriment to democratic governments and damage their citizens' standard of living.

 

It's the classic Marxist philosophy of using class warfare, but Chavez's stage is the global marketplace, and his goal is dominance with petroleum production and reserves. He is a new breed of free-trade autocrats using oil barrels and globalization economics as weapons of war.

 

However, Chavez has fueled his socialist revolution on ethnic minority hatred. He is an evil man. Chavez has attacked his country's free market system and the predatory oligarchs while professing to champion the country's brown-skinned pardos.

 

In the book World on Fire by Amy Chua, the author describes Pardos as "a highly unscientific term, with both class and ethnic overtones, referring loosely to brown-skinned people of multiracial ancestry, usually with traces of Amerindian or African blood."

 

Chua describes Chavez's political intent as an urgent expropriation of "idle land of the agrarian elite" and to "redistribute it to the Venezuelan people."

 

His party is named the Movement of the Fifth Republic - which is a coalition of leftist and communist organizations.

 

An estimated 40,000 to 50,000 Cubans are in place within Venezuela's communist government keeping dictator Hugo Chavez in power.

 

Robertson accused Chavez of using Venezuela as "a launching pad for Communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."

 

It's been rumored that the Chavez regime is funding the Islamic terrorist organization Al-Qaeda as well as South American Marxists who make the most of terrorist tactics to achieve their radical political ends.

 

Fox News reported that Robertson said, "Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement. I spoke in frustration that we should accommodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him."

 

Case closed.

 

Next time: The Associated Press better call Uncle Sam's 911, not Pat Robertson's 700 Club, before spreading the butter on that white bread.

 

Communist cabal

 

In the past, Chavez has been party to a mock anti-imperialist trial of the United States. He calls himself anti-Bush, but Chavez is anti-American.

 

At the trial, he said, "I have come to denounce 180 years of harassment. I have come to denounce 200 years of aggression."

 

Chavez has called President Bush an "a--hole."

 

Honestly, Americans needs to read more about the Venezuela's human-rights abuses, the growing numbers of political prisoners and numerous reports by Amnesty International.

 

The oil profits are not going to the people, but his private bank account.

 

On Tuesday, the AP reported on a critic objecting to Robertson's statements, the Rev. Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, who said, "It's absolutely chilling to hear a religious leader call for the murder of any political leader, no matter how much he disagrees with such a leader's policies or practices."

 

Oh, Rev. Barry! Please grab a blanket if you're chilled, then take two aspirin and call the doctor in the morning.

 

But first, can you please tell us ...

 

Why not call for a national day of prayer for the Venezuelan Christians who face persecution and for those of Spanish or European ancestry and other light-skinned minorities in the country - known as the Mantuanos, who constitute 20 percent of the population?

 

As well as those Venezuelan citizens who love freedom and democracy.

 

Why, Barry, why not pray for them? Communism is human enslavement.

 

Oh, I forgot about that separation of church and state paradox!

 

The Washington Post reported that Chavez said in a joint appearance with Axis of Evil Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, "Iran has every right to ... develop atomic energy and to continue its research in that area. All over the world, there is a clamor for equality ... and profound rejection of the imperialist desires of the U.S. government.

 

"Faced with the threat of the U.S. government against our brother people in Iran, count on us for all our support."

 

Oh, duh! For whom the bells toll.

 

Minority report

 

The Blue Dog has been appalled by the liberals and Yellow Dog Democrats who are selling out our country by supporting the Chavez regime, while denouncing Pat Robertson as some sort of Christian right-wing nutcase.

 

Pandering by the anti-American Democratic left wing - the agent provocateur to worldwide Socialism, Marxism and Communism - saints and TV evangelists, preserve us!

 

CNN reports, "Chavez called the United States the 'most savage, cruel and murderous empire that has existed in the history of the world.' "

 

Last week, The Washington Post reported that "Chavez's Fifth Republic Movement party won some 1.3 million votes, or about 30 percent, with other pro-Chavez parties accounted for the remainder."

 

Thirty percent is not a majority! Chavez won his election by playing the ethic race card, which pitted the dark-skinned poor against the light-skinned rich, but more so, once elected, Chavez disbanded the Congress and the Supreme Court, stopped privatization of the oil industry, outlawed large landholdings and guaranteed worker benefits to housewives. He also threatened to nationalize the country's banks.

 

Chavez enacted a new constitution to initiate his Marxist wealth-distribution philosophy, which will ultimately lead to famine and economic chaos.

 

Chavez recently called Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's government a "revolutionary democracy."

 

What the heavy-eyed socialist daydreamer! Get a reality grip, because Cuba is a communist nation. And Venezuela is on the verge of re-entering the dark ages.

 

With the United States importing 15 percent of the nation's oil from Venezuela, Chavez's threat to stop selling oil to the United States is nothing more than economic warfare.

 

Chavez has declared, "either we dismantle American imperialism, or the imperialism will put an end to this planet."

 

-- September 5, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steven Sisson is a fiscally conservative, Mountain-Valley Democrat, party activist, columnist and serious amateur genealogist. His work is published in the August Free Press  

His e-mail address is:

ValleyBlueDog@aol.com

 

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