[mobglob-discuss] Fw: [stopwar_van] StopWar condemns Robertson's call to kill Hugo Chavez

[Paul Browning]

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From: "Derrick O'Keefe" <sankara83 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:48 PM
Subject: [stopwar_van] StopWar condemns Robertson's call to kill Hugo Chavez


> 
> August 25, 2005
> 
> *For immediate release*
> 
> Stopwar.ca condemns Pat Robertson's call for the
> assassination of Hugo Chavez
> 
> Since the beginning of George W. Bush's so-called "War
> on Terror," its supporters have argued that the battle
> being fought is one of a "clash of civilizations,"
> while we critics have argued that it is merely about
> resource control and geo-political strategy.  In
> calling for the assassination of the
> democratically-elected president of  Venezuela, which
> has a large Catholic majority, powerful American
> televangelist Pat Robertson has put to rest any
> possible claims that Bush's foreign policy has
> anything to do with the ghost of 'Islamic
> fundamentalism' or the battle for political liberty.
> 
> "Here is a major figure of the American right-wing
> urging the assassination of a secular, democratic
> leader of an oil-rich country on his very popular
> television program," says bus driver Mable Elmore,
> co-chair of Vancouver's Stopwar coalition. "If there's
> any silver lining to this sick episode," she added,
> "It's that no one can any longer say with a straight
> face that this war isn't about oil -- if they ever
> could."
> 
> "The White House has tried to distance itself from
> Robertson's statements, but you'd have to be an
> amnesiac to fall for that," said Stopwar co-chair
> Derrick O'Keefe, a local writer and UBC student.  "Pat
> Robertson is, unfortunately, far from a marginal
> crank. This is a man with an established relationship
> with the White House, a major American constituency,
> and who in many ways represents the beliefs and
> attitudes of George Bush and his entourage."
> 
> "Less of an 'entourage,' and more like a Mafia crew,"
> mused Stopwar member Charles Demers. "When popular
> political and religious figures start talking like
> Tony Soprano - considering which human obstacles to
> wealth need to be 'taken out' - it goes a long way
> towards exposing the immorality, violence and avarice
> governing U.S. foreign policy."  Demers then added
> with a laugh, "Unlike the viewers of Robertson's 700
> Club, though, people who watch Tony Soprano know that
> he's a thug."
> 
> StopWar.ca, a broad-based coalition in the Lower
> Mainland, was initiated to protest the U.S. War on
> Iraq, and continues to advocate against war and
> occupation, and for self-determination. The coalition
> plans to protest the upcoming visit of U.S.
> Vice-President Dick Cheney, who will be in Alberta
> September 8-9 to, among other things, inspect the
> province's rich oil reserves.
> 
> The main rally against Cheney will take place at
> 5p.m., Thursday, September 8, at 1770 Burrard (at West
> 3rd Ave), in front of the Vancouver headquarters of
> the Fraser Institute.
> 
> For more info, email contact at stopwar.ca
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