Robertson: Off to Guantanamo

Pat Robertson's comments that the U.S. government should assassinate Hugo Chavez are appalling and should result in criminal penalties. He should be sent on a 'test-visit' to Guantanamo for threatening a head of state. If nothing else, he should be removed from the television. His comments fuel an image of the U.S. as arrogant and aggressive. He said that Venezuela is being transformed into a communist state and radical Islamic headquarters. First, these two groups could never be allied, much less in a strongly Catholic country because communists are officially atheist and the radical Islamic terrorist groups are trying to force a fundamentalist version of their religion on the rest of the world (not unlike Pat Robertson and his wingnut-right wing buddies). Furthermore, Robertson is suggesting the U.S. government break its own laws. President Ford signed a presidential order in 1976 banning the U.S. government or its agents (broadened in the 1980s to include paid workers or representatives of the U.S. government) from assassinating foreign leaders.