Oh My GOD!!
Wait until you read what the head of a major right wing christian organization is saying about the catastrophe in Haiti (taken from The Fair Blog {http://www.fair.org/blog/#post-13494}).
"Robertson: Haitians Signed Up for Catastrophe
01/14/2010 by Steve Rendall
While other cable news programmers responded to the grim news out of Haiti by calling for emergency aid and furnishing directions for how to help, right-wing religious broadcaster Pat Robertson took to the air with commentary disparaging the earthquake victims in a way that could very possibly discourage needed aid to the stricken nation.
Robertson told viewers of his 700 Club (1/13/10) that Haiti has been visited by so much tragedy over the years because it had signed a deal with the Devil. As Robertson told his co-host, when Haiti was
under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever...they got together and swore a pact to the Devil. They said, "We will serve you if you will get us free from the French." True story. And so, the devil said, "OK, it's a deal." And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other.
Robertson's audience reportedly runs into the millions, and many of them who might normally be willing to give support for disaster relief could take Robertson's words to heart and close their purses rather than give aid to servants of the Devil. Unsurprisingly, Robertson’s history is also wacky: The Haitian revolution, which embraced the principles of the enlightenment and the American Revolution, achieved victory in 1804 against Napolean Bonaparte. Napolean III would not even born until 1808.
We weren’t expecting a treatise from Robertson about how Haiti, with the help of U.S.-backed tyrants, has become the one of the world's poorest nations. But imagine how sick someone must be to respond to news of wide-scale death and destruction by saying, in effect, "Well, they got what they signed up for." Unfortunately, we don't have to imagine--we've got Pat Robertson".
When, when, when will people wake up!? I first saw the comments attributed to Pat Robertson (and his 700 Club) on the Southern Poverty Law Center. I couldn't believe what I was reading! There has to be some way to break thru the bias, thru the ignorance - to re-establish the humanity. There were white supremecist groups echoing Pat's sentiments - that well, they got what they deserved. Oh, I want to throw up!
"Robertson: Haitians Signed Up for Catastrophe
01/14/2010 by Steve Rendall
While other cable news programmers responded to the grim news out of Haiti by calling for emergency aid and furnishing directions for how to help, right-wing religious broadcaster Pat Robertson took to the air with commentary disparaging the earthquake victims in a way that could very possibly discourage needed aid to the stricken nation.
Robertson told viewers of his 700 Club (1/13/10) that Haiti has been visited by so much tragedy over the years because it had signed a deal with the Devil. As Robertson told his co-host, when Haiti was
under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever...they got together and swore a pact to the Devil. They said, "We will serve you if you will get us free from the French." True story. And so, the devil said, "OK, it's a deal." And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other.
Robertson's audience reportedly runs into the millions, and many of them who might normally be willing to give support for disaster relief could take Robertson's words to heart and close their purses rather than give aid to servants of the Devil. Unsurprisingly, Robertson’s history is also wacky: The Haitian revolution, which embraced the principles of the enlightenment and the American Revolution, achieved victory in 1804 against Napolean Bonaparte. Napolean III would not even born until 1808.
We weren’t expecting a treatise from Robertson about how Haiti, with the help of U.S.-backed tyrants, has become the one of the world's poorest nations. But imagine how sick someone must be to respond to news of wide-scale death and destruction by saying, in effect, "Well, they got what they signed up for." Unfortunately, we don't have to imagine--we've got Pat Robertson".
When, when, when will people wake up!? I first saw the comments attributed to Pat Robertson (and his 700 Club) on the Southern Poverty Law Center. I couldn't believe what I was reading! There has to be some way to break thru the bias, thru the ignorance - to re-establish the humanity. There were white supremecist groups echoing Pat's sentiments - that well, they got what they deserved. Oh, I want to throw up!
My brother has sent me a little back ground on this story. Please visit the attached link (for as long as it lasts... good perspective and a rational and reasoned history behind Robertson's diatribe!) I would still love to hear what others thing....
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