Radical American Cleric Detained, threat to National Security cited

[Mabus]

Radical American cleric Pat Robertson and nine other members of the 700 Club, said to pose a threat to US's national security have been detained, pending deportation.

Okay, it's just a headline and the beginnings of a story that I'd like to see. It's modeled on a BBC article about a radical Islamic cleric and nine foreign nationals being detained and possibly deported (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4141000.stm).

We know it isn't the first time that Pat has said something so stupid. He's doing nothing more than promoting his own brand of terrorism, the "Invisible Cord". http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=49&row=1
If you don't know about the Invisible Cord, then you have not read New World Order by Dr Marion 'Pat' Robertson. This is the same Pat Robertson that the Bank of Scotland recently named chairman of its new American consumer-bank holding company. Interestingly, the Scottish bank's biography of Robertson failed to mention New World Order, the 1991 bestseller that the Wall Street Journal, in a mean-spirited review, described as written by 'a paranoid pinhead with a deep distrust of democracy'.

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In an exclusive interview with The Observer, Robertson swears he will keep bank commerce, Christianity and the Coalition completely separate. But our look into the Robertson empire, including interviews with his former and current business associates, reveals a history of mixing God, gain and Republican campaign.

The combination of ministry and Mammon has provided Robertson with a net worth estimated at between $200m and $1 billion. He himself would not confirm his wealth, except to tell me that his share of the reported $50m start-up capital for the bank is 'just a small investment for me'.

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Furthermore, the Scottish banker's charter became the pattern for the US Federal Reserve Board, a 'diabolic' agency created and nurtured by the US Senate Finance Committee, whose chairman was the 'Money Trust's' dependable friend, Senator A. Willis Robertson - Pat Robertson's father.

Are you following this? That's right. Pat is the scion of the New World Order, who gave up its boundless privileges to denounce it.

Or did he? As I drove away from the chapel/TV studio/ university/ ministry/banking complex, I realised I, too, had a vision of an Invisible Cord that went from Scottish bankers to African diamonds to the Senate Finance Committee to Christian conservatives to the communist dictators to the World Wide Web...


So, isn't Pat calling for a Holy War a much closer to the truth about what's going on in America? Isn't that what "Noble Cause" is all about? Isn't "noble cause" rapture talk for being a Christian martyr in their Holy War so that some people can continue screwing as many people as they can to line their own pockets?

Also, was the motive of Pat's fatwah his personal finances or part of his brand of Christianity? Is there a difference?

[Why Syzygy]

1. You remember he ran

for president some time ago?

No. There is no difference.

[NorCalDem]

2. I wonder if Jesus was a millionaire as well....

or if he would have given his money away to the poor?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, these people ARE NOT Christians!