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Caribbean-Latin America
Rev. Jesse Does Venezuela - Hugs & Kisses for Chavez
2005-08-29
The Rev. Jesse Jackson offered support for President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Sunday, saying that a call for his assassination by a U.S. religious broadcaster was a criminal act and that the United States and Venezuela should work out their differences through diplomacy. The American civil rights leader condemned last week's suggestion by Pat Robertson that U.S. operatives should kill the leftist Venezuelan leader, calling the statements "immoral" and "illegal."
Immoral? Sure. Illegal? Cite the law.
Robertson's comments last week have increased already tense relations between Caracas and Washington. Robertson called for Chavez's assassination on his television show "The 700 Club," saying the United States should "take him out" because the Venezuelan leader posed a danger to the region.

Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a supporter of Bush's reelection bid, later apologized. Jackson said the Federal Communications Commission "must prohibit such threats on the airwaves."
"Only liberals and radicals are allowed to make death threats!"
Chavez later met with Jackson during the president's weekly television and radio program and offered heating oil to poor communities in the United States, to bypass middlemen who he said inflated prices.

Chavez said 140 communities or groups in the United States have requested energy aid from Venezuela since he suggested such an initiative last week, Bloomberg News reported. Venezuela's energy and mines minister, Rafael Ramirez, said distribution may be coordinated by Citgo Petroleum Corp., the U.S. unit of Petroleos de Venezuela SA.
Posted by:Captain America

#15  And do not forget his staunch ally and poll watcher Jimmuh. Oh, Gawd, don't forget about Jimmuh.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-08-29 20:42  

#14  The more this "controversy" continues, the more I think that idiot Pat Robertson may have been right after all. Just judging him by his own words, our boy Hugo stands a good chance of becoming at least the Mussolini of the early 21st Century. He wants to “rebuild” Gran Columbia (basically Panama, Venezuela, Columbia, and Equador) into a great power. He’s buying lots of guns, modern aircraft, and attack helicopters from our good buddies the Russians. He’s running supplies to those unreconstituted homicidal bastards in FARK. He’s basically destabilized Equador’s oil producing region. He’s even got his beady eyes on the Panama Canal, an acquisition that could really screw with the world economy.

Finally, he’s beginning to attract the usual suspects (like “Reverend” Jackson) to his side.... and CBS’s news service referred to him as a “fiery leftist critic of the Bush administration” last night. Sure, and Hitler was a vegetarian who loved animals and hated unemployment. Factually true, but it doesn’t tell the whole story
Posted by: Secret Master   2005-08-29 14:06  

#13  Book of John Clark, 01:34: "Done"
Posted by: Frank G   2005-08-29 12:54  

#12   I don't think assassination of a terrorist is either illegal of immoral. The only law I can cite is from Leviticus 27:29“‘No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; he must be put to death."
Posted by: Danielle   2005-08-29 11:33  

#11  Steve -- Isn't Chavez and Fidel coming to the UN in September? Believe they are scheduled to speak. Should be interesting...
Posted by: Captain America   2005-08-29 11:10  

#10  BBC: Venezuela's president says his government will take legal action against a US TV evangelist who called for US agents to kill him.
Hugo Chavez said Venezuela might even seek to extradite Pat Robertson. He also warned he would complain to the UN if the US failed to take action.
"I announce that my government is going to take legal action in the United States... to call for the assassination of a head of state is an act of terrorism," Mr Chavez said in a televised speech. "If the US government does not take action that it must take, we will go to the United Nations and the Organization of American States to denounce the US government," Mr Chavez said.
Mr Chavez, who has frequently charged that the US are plotting to kill him, said Mr Robertson was "crazy" and "a public menace".

Well, yes, which is why most people don't take him seriously.
Posted by: Steve   2005-08-29 10:22  

#9  Alot of his shakedown victims do listen and go on to pay him.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-08-29 10:03  

#8  Do people actually still listen to Jesse? Besides the MSM...
Posted by: mmurray821   2005-08-29 09:39  

#7  Jesse's been losing power as of late hence the roadtrips and need to insert himself into things to stay relevant and maintain the cash flow.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-08-29 09:26  

#6  I really wish the MSM would quit calling him "Reverend." Je$$e completely makes light of that title. When you make deals with the devil, you're no longer a "Reverend" in my book. I'm hoping that maybe Chavez will show up in Crawford w/ Je$$e...that's the only thing I can see that would make that circus even funnier sadder. Of course, as we've noted the last few weeks, every time I think that circus can't sink any further, they do.
Posted by: BA   2005-08-29 08:01  

#5  HEY! leave us out of this!
Posted by: desperate housewife   2005-08-29 01:27  

#4  IOW, the Lefties want RACE WAR in America, against alleged FASCIST America led by Clintonian Communists-for-Fascism-for-Communism, espec since ala CINDY and MOTHER-GATE we pretty much already have GENDER/SEX WAR, with or without the show DESPERATE HOUSEWIFES, etc. Call in Putin and the Commie Airborne - SAVE US, HILLARY AND STALIN!? Good Clintonians of the USR/USSA demand to be nuked by Osama!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-08-29 01:23  

#3  Looks like Jesse is trying to do a Galloway or a Carter, not sure which.
Posted by: RWV   2005-08-29 00:49  

#2  the jesse shakedown...
Posted by: macofromoc   2005-08-29 00:41  

#1  So which of Jessie's illegitimate children need Citgo francises?
Posted by: ed   2005-08-29 00:35  

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