well, hmmm, we seem to be good at demanding that other people reign in their religious extremists....<g>
On 8/23/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 6:45 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: speaking of politics > > > > hehe, who's demanding this, Venezuala? Yeah well, the words first > > amendment do come to mind, but I can't quite remember what that > > was.... > > From the AP: > > "Pat Robertson's call for American agents to assassinate President Hugo > Chavez is a "terrorist" statement that needs to be investigated by U.S. > authorities, Venezuela said Tuesday." > > And further this from Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel: > > "The ball is in the U.S. court, after this criminal statement by a citizen > of that country," Rangel said. "It's a huge hypocrisy to maintain this > discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that > country, there are entirely terrorist statements like those." > > While I still Robertson is a fucknut his statement is far from "criminal". > > Now we've got the Bush administration making statements distancing > themselves from him and so forth... it's just another example of our time > and resources going to mitigate something that should have been ignored in > the first place. > > Jim Davis > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:170833 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
