An Expose of Pat Robertson

[Aaron Graf]

The question is whether or not I could possibly call him a Christian. Pat Robertson is the founder of the Christian Coalition, and CBN, the most profitable Christian broadcast network in the world. He even ran for president in 1988, but lost his bid to Bush. But there are millions of other business practices he’s started I’ll get into in a while. Right now I’m speaking of Pat Robertson on the home front. He claimed that there was an earpiece malfunction on his show when Jerry Falwell blamed the 9/11 attacks on homosexuals, the ACLU, People for the American Way, and feminists and Pagans. But with Pat’s record you’ll realize that his “well I totally concur” was no ‘earpiece malfunction’. Similar to Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl. Pat has been known for his brash, twelfth century viewpoints of how to run a society. Just for fun, I’ll let you, the reader decide what you think of the quotes below:
"The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening." -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, Dec. 30, 1981
Ironically Thomas Jefferson would say the following:
“In every country, and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot” -- Thomas Jefferson
“(Talking about apartheid South Africa) I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 3/18/92
"NOW is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a lesbian."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 12/3/97
“(Talking about Planned Parenthood) It is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism-everything that the Bible condemns."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 4/9/91
"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?"--Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p.227
"Many of those people involved with Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals--the two things seem to go together."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 1/21/93
"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them."--Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991

Did you say earpiece malfunction? No, Pat Robertson is just a bigot. And he uses Christ, like most conservative Christians as an excuse. Nothing new. Pat Robertson is also in charge of the following groups. The Family Channel, designed to distribute "The 700 Club," which became International Family Entertainment in 1990; Northstar Entertainment; Broadcast Equities; CBN Travel; American Sales Corporation; International Charter Jet; Kalo-Vita; and the Founders Inn and Conference Center.

African Development Company

Those are the ones you’ve heard of in his financial empire. One of them you might not have heard of that you should have was called ADC or African Development Company. You see, Pat Robertson was friendly with the dictator of Zaire named Mobutu Sese Seko. Robertson considered him a good friend. During the time that Americans were boycotting him, Pat was wining and dining with him, or going on the man’s yacht, and trying to clean up his image so that he could get a visa in the United States. Under Mobutu you could not hold any public demonstrations, demonstrators would be shot, journalists were murdered, and most religious groups were banned. The poverty was among the highest in the world as well as human rights violations. It got so bad that even the US gave them the diplomatic cold shoulder. But he could actually pay off his country’s poverty and diseases with a single check. Now Pat Robertson’s African Development Company also used CBN’s Operation Blessing plane to haul out diamonds and timber. That was Pat’s way of making money, diamond and timber. Is there enough to suit him. Obviously not. Kinda’ throws this quote of his out the window [underlining and bold highlights mine]:
"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?"—<br>

[Aaron Graf]

Oh there’s more to Mr. Robertson’s deals in Zaire. One of them involving his promise that profits would be used for humanitarian purposes, wrong! Pat Robertson was using slave labor in some of these mining camps. Pat also makes money off of the equivalency of slave labor. His workers are still unable to pay up to feed their families, he profits handsomely off of Zaire’s $300 million dollar a year diamond mining operations, and doesn’t even care what the costs. Luckily, Mobutu eventually died of cancer, and after that African Development Company went under. So there’s a happy ending after all.

Pat Robertson’s Theocratic Dictator Friend Frederick Chiluba

Robertson is also friendly with another totalitarian elected dictator, President Frederick Chiluba of Zambia. Chiluba was taken on Pat Robertson’s show the 700 Club as a guest. Pat Robertson brought him on and told him "Your country is not only the standard for Africa but for the rest of the world." Later on he asked the audience. “Wouldn't you love to have someone like that as President of the United States of America?” Let’s take a look at Chiluba’s “standards” according to Amnesty International:

• A victims support unit, based in police stations, set up in 1996 continued to assist women victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, although its budget remained inadequate. Women would worry about the pattern of police abductions of family members in order to for criminal suspects to surrender themselves.
• Though they had claimed to incorporate crimes against torture at the UN committee. Police routinely tortured suspects in criminal cases; family members and witnesses were also at risk. Torture was apparently more frequent, but rarely reported, in remote rural areas. Most civil suits against police for torture were settled for small amounts of compensation. Most complaints did not result in disciplinary action against the officers involved.
• One suspect named Cairo Daka, was arrested and accused of stealing from his employer. He was tortured to death by the police. His wife spoke of two separate incidences where police abducted her, undressed her, tied her to a pole and whipped her and threatened to shoot her.
• By the end of 2001, the number of fatal police shootings was rising steadily. Some shootings take place right in front of eyewitnesses because the cops know they can get away with it there. They even shot by “accident” at least three children who were under two years old and one of them was a five year old girl.
• Though it was no longer a law, police ordered that protestors to Chiluba’s third term running go and retrieve permits. They would also use tear gas, beatings, torture, and arrest to break up opposition rallies to Chiluba’s third term saying they were “unlawful”.
Chiluba when he became president in 1991 declared that Zambia would be a Christian nation. His schools became Christian only, despite a considerable minority of Muslims and Hindus. When asked how they would learn Chiluba simply said they have to make their own schools. The national TV and radio stations also turned to all Christian programming. Well, there’s Pat’s friend there. But there is more to Pat’s business practices that just gets better and better as it goes. Here however, it’s all about Pat’s love of a theocratic state.
But there’s more, gold also is his best friend. And respecting the rights and liberties of others is not a priority to get his profit. Proof is made when he decided to set up gold mining operations in Liberia with dictator Charles Taylor. Charles Taylor is known for recently removing his entire cabinet because they didn’t “know God”. Taylor also has been known to have had connections with Al Qaeda. Something Robertson should hold his head in shame over. During a time when even republicans were trying to make sure that business practices had no association with Al Qaeda, Robertson was at Taylor’s side… provided that Taylor could be able to pay up his part of the deal.

American Benefits Plus/Kalo Vita

Pat doesn’t just do scams abroad, he also does them here in the United States. One of his most cunning of all was known as American Benefits Plus. It was started in 1991 until 1992. The business took a $3 million dollar loan from CBN. American Benefits Plus would sell coupon books. Robertson told people in seminars that his program was backed by the Bible. He told them that they could make from $15,000 - $20,000 per week. That seemed like a lovely idea. But the company didn’t go too well. Pat quickly changed the name of the group to Kalo Vita selling vitamins. So that when the former salesmen [most of them elderly] would have lots of coupon books lying around their house. One 76 year old woman in Indianapolis had $7,600 dollars worth of books that could not be refunded on her. So she had to refinance her home as a sacrifice. Pat Robertson’s gift to you. And to think people actually respect him. He has a few books such as New World Order and The Ten Offenses which are really nothing more than his radical right wing hatred and bigotry.

“Freedom” Gold Ltd.

Another great business venture Pat Robertson did was known as Freedom Gold Ltd. Robertson once again relied on the help of an African dictator. This man’s name is Charles Taylor. Taylor was known for embezzling money from the Liberian government. When they Liberians came after him he fled to the United States as an attempt to escape. However, the US put him in jail. But Taylor escaped after four years jail time. Then he went back to Liberia and led the country into a civil war. One that murdered half of Liberia’s 3 million population. Others were tortured, beaten, raped, abducted, or put into slavery. When Taylor took over he wanted a “Christian” government. He would eliminate his entire cabinet because they “didn’t know God”. He even made Liberians all gather at once to hear his fiery sermon on a “Liberia for Jesus” day. Taylor closed down schools, government offices, and businesses were forced to be closed. Women, children, men, the elderly, and everybody possible was forced to attend. He also made sure the airwaves were all Christian. Charlie boy also used the equivalency of and in some cases actual slave labor for diamonds and gold. He was later found to be giving a certain amount of profit from the diamonds to Al Qaeda. Yes Al Qaeda, that group that bombed the World Trade Center and the USS Cole, and our embassy bombings, etc etc…]

Pat Robertson came into play by his desire to start up a gold mining operation with Taylor, yes, Robertson is a business partner with Charles Taylor, the man who embezzles money, escapes from jail, and murders 1.5 million of his own countrymen. Robertson used gold mines in Liberia and paid his workers miserably low wages and endless hours while giving almost 15% of his profits to Taylor. Does this man have any decency? Concern for basic human rights? Does he REALLY practice Christianity? The answer is no, as long as M.G. “Pat” Robertson is making millions he doesn’t care. Remember Pat there is an old saying in the bible “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven.” Well if I’m going straight to hell then Pat will be debating there with me, Pat is worth 140 million dollars and owns a mansion on Virginia mountain. Pat I must say I’ll enjoy jamming to Ozzy Osborne and talking about all the crazy things you did while playing strip poker with Pamela Anderson in hell with you. If it even exists.

Pat Robertson’s Military Record

Pat Robertson claims that he fought in Korea, that he was a combat veteran. And that he risked his life for his country. Might sound a reasonable thing to congratulate somebody on. But how can you congratulate somebody on that when they exaggerated the whole thing? To start with, Robertson’s military records show that he did not show up in combat. He was a veteran. He was in Korea. But he was 3 miles away from the actual combat zone. One Republican Congressmen, Pete McClosky, was on the same boat with him. He was in the same platoon with him. He told them that he served as a “liquor officer”. He also described how he bragged that his father, a US senator, got him out of fighting in combat. Robertson later sued McClosky for speaking against him during his presidential bid. During the trial several other members of his platoon would come to testify. One man recalled Robertson fooling around with prostitutes and harassing a Korean cleaning lady. He recalled that he hated him more than anybody else in his whole group. Because even though everybody, including Pat would fool around with the prostitutes, only Pat would harass the cleaning lady. Even when she told him to stop with the groping, and affection. He refused to do so. Even when he was around other Koreans he would be kissing her and touching her.

[onyxfiretear]

well, first off I want to say congratulations for speaking your mind as you always do. Secondly, this just goes to show how christains are not supposed to act. They are taught by their God to love all and not jusdge any, for they will be judged in the end. Holy Rollers are the armpit of christianity and I for one find them to be pathetic, close minded tight asses that need to see everyone breathes the same air!

[Aaron Graf]

That wasn't the worst of it to me, the worst of it was him using slave labor in Africa for gold or diamonds.