Your Tax Dollars Helping Pat Help Himself!
Think Progress links to a Carpetbagger report on Pat "Bring Me the Head of Hugo Chavez" Robertson. It appears that not only might Pat's "charity," Operation Blessing, have used government largesse to fund his diamond mining, that largesse has increased from $108,000 to $14.4 million per year under Bu$hCo.
Excuse me? Our tax dollars helping Pat (and pal Mobutu Sese Seko) mine diamonds and call for the death of Hugo Chavez and the destruction of Dover, PA? No no no no no! Write to Pat and tell him to pray that someone or something will cause him to give the money to Katrina victims. We did!
tags: pat robertson operation blessing george bush religious right hurricane katrina
YUP ...Operation Blessing, I covered in my Evil Katrina Posts back in September. What I want to know is WHAT are O.B's Medical Planes used for? Could and are they used for Renditon Flights? Just a thought....a worry...
Posted by: enigma4ever | January 26, 2006 at 07:49 AM
Diamonds suck. When I get engaged, I just want platinum. No dead Africans for my ring, thank you very much.
Posted by: somewaterytart | January 26, 2006 at 07:59 AM
That's right. Just platinum.
Posted by: somewaterytart | January 26, 2006 at 08:00 AM
In case no one heard it, Tart said PLATINUM. With a "P".
Posted by: blogenfreude | January 26, 2006 at 08:20 AM
Pat Robertson is just a disgusting excuse for a human being, period. And it makes me furious that he's allowed to pretend he's a "Christian" and actually act as a spokesman for my faith.
Posted by: Kathy | January 26, 2006 at 09:18 AM
Blogenfreude,
How is it that we touch on similar topics each day but with such different treatments?
Before we throw stones at diamond miners though, first- GET LARGE STONES...but second, don't the gold and platinum industries have their own sordid tales? These were discussed not long ago on some of the feminist blogs as one more reason to snub the 'ring' and all it stands for. Just throwing that out there.
Posted by: lily | January 26, 2006 at 09:44 AM
Well, Pat will tell you that he is like Georgie, God doesn't love black people. UGH! Why can't these people get a clue? Money grubbing bastards!
Posted by: catherine | January 26, 2006 at 10:15 AM
It's time to get our Smote on, people!
I just hope that he can be brought to some sort of Earthly Justice before the spirochetes gnawing at his brain finish him off.
Posted by: Robot Buddha | January 26, 2006 at 11:19 AM
All one needs to know about religious types can be learned from the evengelical character in the movie Donnie Darko. Tax exeption...isn't that like a law? Doesn't it say somewhere that congress will pass no laws regarding religion? Subsidies for christains, who's running the real welfare society?
Posted by: Fred | January 26, 2006 at 04:15 PM
That's just the tip of the iceberg. The entire nonprofit sector is a massive tax exempt money sucking machine; all the bonds that nonprofits issue yield tax exempt interest.
And, I agree, gold, platinum and diamonds are all in the same league - they are weapons of mass destruction.
Posted by: qrswave | January 26, 2006 at 04:28 PM
I never understood the rave for diamonds - just cold stones. As for Pat getting rich off of our tax money - he is in the same stinking boat as Cheney with Halliburton - a couple of rats floating on our taxes.
Posted by: Mary | January 26, 2006 at 06:24 PM
The problem with making religious organizations pay taxes is that certain politicians will try to give them tax breaks. How lovely it would be for Republicans to give tax breaks to Evangelicals while making Muslims pay up. Politics would be tied even more to religion with money involved.
Posted by: Erika | January 27, 2006 at 12:59 PM