Wednesday, March 29, 2006

700 Club

From the Wikipedia article on the recently captured Charles Taylor

Taylor and Pat Robertson
According to a June 2, 1999 article in The Virginian-Pilot, Taylor had extensive business dealings with televangelist Pat Robertson. According to the article, Taylor gave Robertson (who also had business dealings with Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire) the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia's mineral-rich countryside. According to two airplane pilots who reported this incident to the state of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to Robertson's mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. The subsequent investigation by the state of Virginia did conclude that Robertson did divert his ministry's donations to the Liberian diamond-mining operation, but then-Virginia state attorney general Mark Earley (a Robertson ally) blocked any potential prosecution against the TV preacher.


To quote the Dead Kennedys "Moral Majority":
God must be dead
If you’re alive

1 Comments:

Blogger ElisaRocks said...

Hellfire and damnation for the sinners, eh Pat?

Thursday, March 30, 2006  

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