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[ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] >Bush is Good. Pat Robertson says so http://www.watchmanjournal.org/000192.html Pat Robertson Says Chinese Forced Abortions Are Necessary By Rick Wiles Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of CBN and the Christian Coalition, shocked evangelical Christians Monday night by defending communist China�s policy of forced abortions. The host of the 700 Club religious television program said that Chinese communist officials are simply �doing what they have to do� to control China� population. http://www.watchmanjournal.org/000192.html http://ecclesia.org/lawgiver/CBN.asp Rev. M.G. "Pat" Robertson signs gold deal with African Muslim terrorists Robertson and Liberian leader hope to strike it rich in West Africa Reverend M.G. "Pat" Robertson, whose failed African diamond-mining operation nearly five years ago stirred criticism and prompted a still current state investigation, is embarking on a new African mining venture. This time he's searching for gold. As his ally, Robertson has an African strongman with a colorful, terrorist, satanic and bloody factual history. http://ecclesia.org/lawgiver/CBN.asp http://www.welchreport.com/pastnews_c.cfm?rank=136 Pat Robertson Owns Internet Company In Bejing. Is This Why He Supported Chinese Commie Abortion? November 28, 2001 Pat Robertson owns Internet company in Beijing By Rick Wiles Copyright 2001 AmericanFreedomNews.com February 2001 TV evangelist Pat Robertson � host of the popular 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition � is a major investor in an Internet portal business in Red China. Robertson reportedly invested $10 million in the Chinese venture. The television preacher�s heavy investment in Red China comes at a time when Communist Party officials are clamping down on Internet companies to control political dissent and opposition to the party�s tyrannical oppression of the nation�s 1.2 billion people � especially persecution of China�s illegal underground Christian churches. http://www.welchreport.com/pastnews_c.cfm?rank=136 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'. Neil Volder, president of Robertson Financial and director of the new bank venture, emphasises that Robertson selflessly donated between 65 and 75 per cent of his salary as head of International Family Entertainment. But that amounted to only a few hundred thousand dollars a year - pocket change for a man of Robertson's means. http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=49&row=1 There was also, says Volder, the $7m he gave to 'Operation Blessing' to alleviate the woes of refugees fleeing genocide in Rwanda. Robertson's press operation puts the sum at only $1.2m. More interesting is the way the Operation Blessing funds were used in Africa. Through an emotional fundraising drive on his TV station, Robertson raised several million dollars for the tax-free charitable trust. Operation Blessing bought planes to shuttle medical supplies in and out of the refugee camp in Goma, Congo (then Zaire). But investigative reporter Bill Sizemore of the Virginian Pilot discovered that over a six-month period - except for one medical flight - the planes were used to haul equipment for something called African Development Corporation, a diamond mining operation a long way way from Goma. African Development is owned by Pat Robertson. http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=49&row=1 http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/roberts3.htm ROBERTSON "OFF THE RADAR SCREEN" IN MIDST OF CHINAGATE SOFT-MONEY SCANDAL Congress and the newsmedia are investigating charges of Chinese espionage and improper campaign financing. Despite his ties to many players in the story, though, televangelist Pat Robertson seems to have more "teflon" than Bill Clinton. http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/roberts3.htm http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/dictator.html Pat's Mass-Murdering Friends That's right, even Pat Robertson has friends. Three of them include the now-deceased dictator of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko (also known as the Great Leopard), Jorge Serrano, former dictator of Guatemala, and Frederick Chiluba, the ruler of Zambia. Mobutu was a sadistic, murderous, dictator who kept his country's people in poverty while he became one the richest men in the world. He could have cured all of his nation's ills with a personal check. Under his rule, Zaire was a country with very little personal freedom; public demonstrations were illegal, journalists were murdered by the state, and most religious groups were banned. The US State Department banned Mobutu from the country after he applied for a visa to come to Washington and improve his image. Why would Pat support such a man? In a word, money. Zaire is a resource-rich country, and Pat saw an opportunity to partner with Mobutu to start a diamond mining operation. Pat started a company called the African Development Company, and began shipping diamond mining equipment to Zaire using the non-profit CBN's Operation Blessing aircraft. Check out the news page for more on this. Meanwhile, he also tried to get the State Department to lift the ban on Mobutu's visa. Many people tried to get Robertson to stop his support of Mobutu, but he refused. Instead, he became very friendly with Mobutu; at one point, he flew to Zaire on Mobutu's jet, took in a cruise on his yacht, and dined at the presidential mansion. Fortunately enough, the ADC was a failure, and Mobutu is now dead after being deposed by a rebellion. Jorge Serrano was president of Guatemala, the protege of dictator General Rios Montt. In The New World Order, Robertson had this to say about Serrano: "Serrano continues the enlightened leadership of his patron, former President Rios Montt, who insisted on honesty in government and then had every key official sign a pledge that read, "I will not steal; I will not lie; I will not abuse." Contrast this to what Amnesty International had to say about Rios Montt's "enlightened leadership: In just the four months of Gen. Rios Montt's rule, Amnesty International had documented more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings attributed to the Guatemalan army. Furthermore, these killings were done in horrible ways: people of all ages were not only shot to death, they were burned alive, hacked to death, disemboweled, drowned, beheaded. Small children were smashed against rocks or bayoneted to death." Two months after Montt's rise to power, Catholic bishops in Guatemala stated "Numerous families have perished, vilely murdered. Not even the lives of old people, pregnant women, or innocent children were respected. Never in our national history has it come to such extremes." The story of Frederick Chiluba is also an interesting one. The President of Zambia since 1991, he declared that Zambia would henceforth be a Christian nation. The public school system became Christian-only, despite the existence of a sizable minority of Muslims and Hindus in the country. In response to their need for education, Chiluba simply suggested that they open up their own schools. The national TV and radio stations also turned to all Christian programming. Robertson did an interview with Chiluba on the 700 Club in 1995, telling him "Your country is not only the standard for Africa but for the rest of the world." Afterward, he asked his audience "Wouldn't you love to have someone like that as President of the United States of America?" Robertson's greed and fanaticism have led him to acquaint himself with a strange bunch. It is apparent that he will befriend anyone who can either make him some money or supports his theocratic goals. How Pat can on the one hand say that he doesn't want a theocracy, and then call a theocracy a model for the world is beyond me. Note: Much of the information for this page came from a book by Rob Boston entitled "The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition" I strongly recommend that you read this book for even more details and analysis about Pat's doings. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/dictator.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/business.html "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness" -Timothy 6:10 Pat Robertson's Business Practices Pat Robertson is a wealthy man. An extremely wealthy man-some estimates put his net worth at 140 million. He lives on the top of a Virginia mountain, in a huge mansion with a private airstrip. He owns the Ice Capades, a small hotel, diamond mines, and until recently, International Family Entertainment, parent company of the Family Channel. How does a televangelist, who is supposedly involved in non-profit work, manage to create such a fortune for himself? Apparently, between dealing with murderous dictators and ripping off senior citizens, its not that hard. Pat the Media Mogul The Pat Robertson success story starts with the Family Channel. He started it in 1977, using money donated to his Christian Broadcasting Network, in order to increase viewership potential of the 700 Club, and filled the rest of the time with cheesy old TV shows. The popularity of the channel soon grew, and it began to turn large profits by 1989, meaning that it could no longer legally be a part of the non-profit CBN. So what does Robertson decide to do? He partners up with TCI, and arranges for CBN to sell the Family Channel to himself and his son (Tim Robertson) for next to nothing. He then took the company public in 1992, with the stock sales making him a wealthy man, to the tune of 90 million dollars. In other words, he took money that people had donated to CBN for the purpose of spreading Christianity, and used it to build himself a media empire. Recently, Pat sold off the Family Channel to Mr.-Anti-Family-Values himself, Rupert Murdoch, the man behind "Melrose Place" and "Married...With Children." Of course, this sale increased his fortune even more. Is all of this legal? Barely. Ethical? Hardly. Something you would expect from a true man of God? Most definitely not. Pat could have sold the Family Channel to someone else, and returned the profits to CBN, seeing as it was CBN donor money that started it in the first place, but he chose the road to massive personal gain. Pat the Scam Artist With his ill-gained fortune now in place, Pat experimented with a number of new businesses, the most interesting among them being American Benefits Plus/Kalo Vita. This was a multi-level marketing scheme along the lines of Amway and Avon. Here, Robertson recruited people across the country (starting in '91-'92), as many as 20,000 people (many of them retirees) to sell coupon books. He told them in training seminars that his program was backed by the Bible, and that they could earn $15,000-$20,000 a month. Things didn't go that well with the coupon books, though, and Pat suddenly decide to change the company into Kalo Vita, and sell vitamins. Problem was, this left people with coupon books unsold, and when they tried to send the books back to AFB/Kalo Vita, they found out that they would not be refunded their money. One 76 year-old woman in in Indianapolis was stuck with $7,000 worth of unsold coupon books, and had to refinance her home. During the subsequent investigation, it was found that CBN had "loaned" money to AFB during its founding, almost 3 million dollars. Diamond Pat Another one of Robertson's more notorious business deals is the recently exposed diamond mine case. In this ingenious venture, Robertson saw an opportunity in the country formerly named Zaire (now the Congo) for diamond mines. The former Zaire is a country rich in natural resources, including diamonds, but these resources were thus far being plundered by its (former) dictator, the brutal Mobuto Sese Seko. Mobuto (who recently died of cancer) was one of the world's richest men, while his people lived in grinding poverty. It was often noted that he could have cured all of his country's ills by writing a personal check. Mobuto had been trying to come to the US to try to improve relations, but the State Department refused to grant him a visa, due to his lengthy human rights violations (see the Pat's Dictator Friends page for more info). In all of this, the clever Pat Robertson saw an opportunity. The two became close associates, and Mobuto allowed Pat to open diamond mines in Zaire, under the name of the African Development Company, while Pat tried to persuade the State Department to allow Mobuto entry into the US. Ultimately, it was found out that Pat had been using CBN money and equipment to aid his diamond mining operation in Zaire (see the News page for more details). A good deal for Pat, seeing as he employed people in Zaire for ridiculously low wages, and managed to use CBN's infrastructure to cut costs even more. Ultimately, one is struck by the constant use of non-profit, donor money used to fund Pat's schemes, and the total lack of ethics that this man has. Anyone thinking about sending money to CBN to "promote the gospel" should definitely take note; chances are that your money will end up being used to increase the fortune of one Marion "Pat" Robertson instead. For even more information on Pat's business practices, I encourage you to check out Rob Boston's book entitled "The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition," from which some of my information comes. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/business.html http://allafrica.com/stories/200112040561.html We now know that in April 1999, Charles Taylor and Pat Robertson signed a document labeled "Mineral Development Agreement between the Republic of Liberia and Freedom Gold Limited". By signing his agreement, Taylor was, in fact, assigning gold mining concession rights to Pat Robertson from an established businessman, Ken Ross II, whose Bocon Jideh gold-mining operation dates back to the Tolbert administration. According to the GQ article, Pat Robertson has committed at least US$15 million of investment to Freedom Gold. The terms of contract call for Freedom Gold to spend about US$500,000 annually in investment and rental fees in Liberia. "The agreement gives Freedom Gold the right to mine, sell, export and explore minerals, with an additional 3 percent royalty rate to be paid to the government of Liberia." Many observers believe the royalty payments would be pocket money for Charles Taylor, as Liberia has become "Taylor, Inc." President Taylor considers state resources, including foreign investments and development assistance funds as his personal asset. http://allafrica.com/stories/200112040561.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A42413-2001Nov30Yes, Taylor's government has been charged with running guns into and smuggling diamonds out of Sierra Leone. Yes, an alleged al Qaeda connection with Liberia has surfaced in the press. And, true, Liberia has been slapped with an international arms embargo. The United Nations and the United States have taken steps to prohibit the importation of diamonds from Liberia because funds from that country's diamond sales have allegedly been used to finance some horrifying atrocities against unarmed civilians. But to pretend the opposite -- as Robertson does -- that Taylor runs a country overflowing with God's unconditional, inclusive love -- is unadulterated bunk. More than 150,000 lives were lost in the Taylor-initiated civil war. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A42413-2001Nov30 http://www.thenewrepublic.com/111901/lizza111901.html Why does this matter today? Because we now know, thanks to a detailed report last week by Douglas Farah in The Washington Post, that something else of great importance happened in Liberia in September 1998: Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network opened shop there. According to Farah, one of bin Laden's top aides, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, arrived in Monrovia and met with one of Taylor's longtime lieutenants, Ibrahim Bah. Together they flew in a government helicopter to meet with a senior commander of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the vicious rebel army controlled by Taylor that has controlled the diamond mines of Sierra Leone for the last four years. A few weeks later two Al Qaeda terrorists wanted for the American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania arrived with $100,000 in cash to buy the first pouch of diamonds from the RUF. Since then, Farah reports, bin Laden has raised millions--perhaps tens of millions--of dollars buying cut-rate RUF diamonds and selling them in Europe. 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