-Caveat Lector- Subj: Pat Robertson Goes Digging for Gold with an Evildoer Date: 10/20/01 10:52:07 AM Central Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BuzzFlash.com)
Oh, that Pat Robertson should stop consorting with "evildoers," he sure should. Otherwise, he risks his place in line at the day of judgement! Which Pat tells us is coming soon, by the way. >From the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/A24081-2001Oct19.html Pat Robertson: His Liberia Deal By Colbert I. King Saturday, October 20, 2001; Page A27 Televangelist Pat Robertson is at it again. Fresh from a shellacking over his pal Jerry Falwell's suggestion that certain groups of Americans brought on the September terrorist attacks -- "I totally concur," said Robertson at the time -- the Christian Coalition founder has weighed in once more with his revelations about God's plans for America. "The Lord is getting ready to shake this nation. We have not yet seen his judgment on America," Robertson told a crowd at the 40th anniversary of his Christian Broadcast Network on Oct 1. As a teaser to what God has in store for the nation unless it undergoes a spiritual revival, Robertson said, "This thing that happened in New York was child's play compared to what's going to happen." Robertson undoubtedly has it on good authority. But if the Almighty is going to get us for what we've done -- or failed to do -- as a nation, what in the world might God have in store for Pat Robertson and his friend and business partner, Liberian President Charles Taylor, the plague of West Africa. Chances are the families and friends of five women from Illinois are also dying to know. Meet Sister Kathleen McGuire, 54. She was among a group of five nuns working with Liberia's poor in October 1992, when then-warlord Taylor and his rebels launched their surprise attack on Monrovia. The terror was led by Taylor's "boy soldiers," 10- to 18-year-olds, some armed with AK-47s, some wigged out on drugs. Sister Kathleen was best known for her hospitality and work with children traumatized by rockets, mortars and wanton murder. Among the nuns at the convent in Gardnersville, a suburb of Monrovia, Sister Kathleen was the first to die. Two days earlier, Sister Kathleen, along with Sister Shirley Kolmer, 61, and Sister Agnes Mueller, 62, had packed a car with some belongings and gathered their aspirants or candidates for the novitiate for a dash to Monrovia. With bullets flying and the situation deteriorating, they should have abandoned the convent long before. But the people they were serving had nowhere to go. So the nuns stayed with their aspirants and the small coterie of refugees who had sought protection in the convent. Sister Shirley, their leader, was the jovial one; she taught math, was a woman of prayer and a friend and companion to young women. Sister Agnes was a nurse, loved to read and was conducting literacy programs. They worked with infants suffering from tropical diseases prevalent in Liberia. But they were unprepared for what came next. Taylor's rebels arrived at the convent on Oct. 23, 1992 -- exactly nine years ago next Tuesday. Five of them entered the grounds. One was called "Foday." Another, "C. O. Mosquito." A third, "Black Devil." Foday and Devil were in their teens; Mosquito was in his early twenties. Mosquito ordered everybody out of the convent, announcing that all white people would be killed. Sister Shirley begged him not to do it. They didn't listen. Devil's first bullet hit Sister Kathleen, as she tried to reason with him. It struck her in the forearm, knocking her down on the bare dirt. He walked up to the wounded and bleeding Kathleen and put a bullet into the back of her head. Then came Sister Shirley. She was told to turn over the car keys and any money she had. Sister Shirley went inside, got the keys and her Liberian dollars, and offered them to Mosquito. The keys were fine, but he wanted American dollars, which she didn't have. The group was herded outside the convent fence, and the two nuns were separated from the rest. Devil again did the dirty deed, mowing down Sister Shirley and Sister Agnes with his AK-47. The aspirants and refugees were marched off to Taylor's headquarters. Sister Joel Kolmer, 58, and Sister Barbara Ann Muttra, 69, had left the convent three days earlier to drive their worried security guard to his home where he could be reunited with his family. They never made it. Their car was ambushed; everybody was murdered. The American Embassy later found the decomposed bodies of the two nuns and the security guard covered with tarpaulins where they had fallen outside their car. Embassy staff and peacekeeping soldiers didn't make their way to Gardnersville until Dec. 1, after the area was finally secured. They found the bodies of the three nuns, partially decomposed and still lying where they had been cut down by the bullets of Taylor's rebels. The foregoing is based on information provided by retired Foreign Service officer Gerald Rose, who was deputy chief of mission at the American Embassy in Liberia during the days of fighting in 1991-93, and the congressional testimony of Sister Stephanie Mertens, peace and justice coordinator of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ religious order to which the five slain nuns belonged. Their reports were based on eyewitness accounts. The murderers were never brought to justice, though Black Devil is said to have died in a car accident. Taylor told the State Department that the other side did it. Nine years later, they're still wringing their hands at State. But a few years after American Embassy staff stood on an airport tarmac in Liberia to bid a sad farewell to the five dead Americans, Pat Robertson signed an agreement with Charles Taylor allowing Robertson's for-profit company, Freedom Gold, to start a mining venture in southeastern Liberia. The deal gives Taylor's regime 10 percent ownership of the company, not including royalities and rental fees that it will pocket when the mining venture gets rolling. Now draw near to hear what conservative Orange County, Calif., Republican Rep. and House Africa subcommittee chairman Ed Royce had to say about Taylor during a public hearing this year: "Charles Taylor has waged a continuous assault on the democratic dreams of the Liberian people. He rules by decree, he suppresses the press . . . and he sanctions, if not directs, the murder of political opponents. He and his so-called 'inner circle' control virtually all the nation's significant trade. . . . Liberia has been described as Charles Taylor Inc. This corporation is corrupt to its core." The subcommittee's ranking Democrat and Congressional Black Caucus member Donald Payne of New Jersey spoke about Taylor's arrest of journalists and human rights activists who "are working to document the government's terrible human rights record. Late last year, a leading pro-democracy group was attacked by a group of armed thugs as police watched," Payne said. Speaking of the deal they cut, Robertson wrote to Taylor two years ago, "I pray that this investment may become a wonderful blessing to the people of Liberia and will be one of many significant investments that will be made under your administration in the nation of Liberia." "The first officer slapped me, kicked me and then I saw what looked like a gun butt coming. I could not tell what happened next. . . . When I woke up in a dark room everything was gone. . . . For 13 days, I was raped by I do not know how many men." -- April 2001 interview with "B. L." about the cruelty of Taylor's security forces, Amnesty International press release. No matter. Pat Robertson's still gold-digging in Liberia. And what, pray tell, must God think about that? e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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