Rev. Robertson: Judiciary is Worse than Al Qaeda
Rev. Robertson: Judiciary is Worse than Al Qaeda
Major news media outlets are obsessed with Reverend Pat Robertson’s endorsement of former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Yet, those remarks certainly were not the most out there comments he made during his interview yesterday on “This Week.” Here’s an excerpt that the papers aren’t talking about:
George Stephanopoulos: But, sir, you have described this is (sic) pretty, this whole battle is pretty apocalyptic terms. You’ve said that Liberals are engaged in an all-out assault on Christianity, that Democrats will appoint judges who don’t share our Christian values and will dismantle Christian culture, and that the out-of-control judiciary, and this was in your last book “Courting Disaster” is the most serious threat America has faced in nearly 400 years of history, more serious than al Qaeda, more serious than Nazi Germany and Japan, more serious than the Civil War?
Pat Robertson: George, I really believe that. I think they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together. There is an assault on marriage. There’s an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they’ve taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
George Stephanopoulos: But, sir, let me just stop you there. How can you say that these judges are a more serious threat than Islamic terrorists who slammed into the World Trade Center?
Pat Robertson: It depends on how you look at culture. If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that’s held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings. I think we’re going to control al Qaeda. I think we’re going to get Osama bin Laden. We won in Afghanistan. We won in Iraq, and we can contain that. But if there’s an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we’ve made a terrible mistake.
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Polite young boy calls this sick pychopath (redundant?) “sir”. Hey George - it’s 2005 - and they’re out to eliminate liberals AND the constitution. Eat some Wheaties next week.
May 2nd, 2005 at 11:17 amAmerican judges do not make up the oligarchy that I fear. It is the Republican politicians who have sold their souls and will sacrifice our health, wealth, and democracy on their unholy alter of unchecked greed and power.
May 2nd, 2005 at 11:28 amwhen i read something like this, my first thought is how sad it must be to be someone like him… then i think about how many people he speaks for… then i think about how he once ran for president…
May 2nd, 2005 at 12:03 pmWell, al Qaeda only attacks blue states anyway.
May 2nd, 2005 at 12:07 pmThe jist of what Roberston is saying that he can handle the fact that folks were killed at the Twin Towers and soldiers are dying in Iraq/Afhganistan however, he can’t handle the fact that the Constitution contains a separation between church and state…
May 2nd, 2005 at 12:08 pmIs that sick and twisted or am I interpeting this interview improperly?
There IS an assault on human sexuality, boyo, but YOUR guys are doing it. Whatta sicko.
May 2nd, 2005 at 12:09 pmPat Robertson claims that federal judges are worse threat to Americans than al Qaeda, Nazis, civil war, Sauron, small pox, or the heat death of the universe.
May 2nd, 2005 at 12:33 pmI guess the good news here is that the right wingnuts are shedding their disguises and coming out as the wackos they are.
“Ok, Mrs. Smith, you have two choices… your husband can be killed by a psychopath flying a plane into his office, or he can see two guys kissing. Which one do you think is worse?”
May 2nd, 2005 at 12:53 pmPat Robertson, co-founder of The American Taliban, downplaying the danger of theocracy…who da thunk.
May 2nd, 2005 at 1:09 pmGiven the opportunity, Pat Robertson would use the exact same speach to condem liberals to death camps.
May 2nd, 2005 at 2:20 pmRobertson and the rest of these religious nuts have always preyed on the weak-minded. People down on their luck, waiting for something that they think is better than they have now, or that they could obtain if they could get themselves in gear and hit a higher plane of life.
Its easier to stayed depressed and listen to some burned out old fart tell you that he has read religious materials and your all going to hell if you don’t live his way. That is why the hate fest for liberals. We are the only people left to actually challenge these twisted thoughts by applying some logic and intellect.
May 2nd, 2005 at 3:05 pmI too am slightly relieved (if that is even the right word) to see evangelical-psycho-fascists like Robertson finally begin to drop the facade, and start saying the outrageous things that they so obviously believe, because it at least shows them to the world to be what they really are. But my deepest concern is where the hell this is all going to end up?
May 2nd, 2005 at 5:41 pmThese people are clearly never going to one day go on TV and say, “Hey, we made a mistake! You liberals and moderates really were right about it all!” The implication of this increasing polarity is truly frightening!
This seems like a case of the autocrat calling the oligarch a hack.
Who helps twist on Robertson’s socks in the morning?
May 2nd, 2005 at 8:16 pm# 8+12—-
May 2nd, 2005 at 8:31 pmWhen the New Christian Nazi Movement says what it believes, it is likely that their brain dead,moronic followers will rally around their flag. I don’t think most Amer-cuns disagree with this lunatic fascism. When it goes on the public air waves, they’re like, “oh let us pray for those men of God who protect us from the satanic liberals and (shudder), secular humanists.”
Amen to that Cheryl!
May 2nd, 2005 at 9:49 pmAnd that is precisely what is so bloody frightening. But I guess we had all better just fasten our seatbelts - we are in for one bumpy ride!
I think the Right-wing Religo-Crazy Christians are losing traction; they’ve just gone too far, as have the Republicans, and the majority are more concerned with gas prices and the economy than their Dark Ages agenda.
Harper’s this month has a couple of great — and scary — articles on the ‘Mullahs for Jesus.’ They are frightening, but they are a minority, perhaps 10 percent of the population, however they try to puff themselves up.
It seems to me most people are getting pretty fed up with the neocons in general — or is that wishful thinking?
May 3rd, 2005 at 8:35 amNo it’s not wishful thinking RS Janes…
May 3rd, 2005 at 11:49 amThe majority of Americans have come to their senses.
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
May 3rd, 2005 at 12:13 pmAfter all that Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin and Tom Paine have written on the perils of mixing religion and government, the know-nothing right-wingnuts still have the gall to say this is a ‘Christian’ nation.
If we were really a Christian nation, based on the principles of Jesus as put forth in the Sermon on the Mount, Bush would have forgiven the terrorists who attacked us and would be out serving the poor, after he gave away all his money.
Perhaps the religiously-confused and wealthy Dubya thinks that Halliburton can build him a bigger needle to get his spiritual camel through.
I understand that Bush and his staff read the Bible every morning — what do they read; the copyright notice?
May 5th, 2005 at 9:12 amWhilte I don’t agree with him at all, the major import of what he is saying is in the historical context of culture, that this is of long duration and formed by events that are typically not of the moment. New events, big attacks do not make a culture, it developes slowly and results from acceptance or rejection of fundamental ideals.
May 5th, 2005 at 1:25 pmPS I can’t stand the guy, a pompus jerk.
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