U.S. evangelist calls for assassination of Chavez
Conservative U.S. evangelist Pat Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. (Reuters)
When I first read the report about the "Economic Hit Man" story (read my entry Building Hegemony, 22 August, 2005), immediately I became very worried about Chavez. Overworried, my office mate said, it wouldn't happen, because it would be too obvious that any such plot could not but have the US behind it. And now being in the information age, any such conspiracy would be exposed before it succeeds.
But think about it. Is it not exactly the Economic Hit Man's synopsis? The U.S. failed to buy in Chavez since he was elected President, then he became the fervent communist monster pictured by the US media. Then came the 2002 coup d'état, which again failed to bring Chavez down. Now the third strategy in line is assassination, because it is much cheaper than fighting a war which in any case the US can't afford now, being already deeply in trouble in Iraq (another case in point which proved the theory of the EHM, by the way).
And who is Pat Robertson? He's the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition of America. The programme is shown on the ABC TV network. And Robertson once ran for president in 1988!
If you want to read the exact words of Robertson, here is the link with the video clip. It's worth it, to see how far lies and propaganda can go.
Apart from offering a genuin eye-opener, the merit of Robertson lies on the fact that now the CIA perhaps will be more reticent in carrying out such plot, if there was any.
When I first read the report about the "Economic Hit Man" story (read my entry Building Hegemony, 22 August, 2005), immediately I became very worried about Chavez. Overworried, my office mate said, it wouldn't happen, because it would be too obvious that any such plot could not but have the US behind it. And now being in the information age, any such conspiracy would be exposed before it succeeds.
But think about it. Is it not exactly the Economic Hit Man's synopsis? The U.S. failed to buy in Chavez since he was elected President, then he became the fervent communist monster pictured by the US media. Then came the 2002 coup d'état, which again failed to bring Chavez down. Now the third strategy in line is assassination, because it is much cheaper than fighting a war which in any case the US can't afford now, being already deeply in trouble in Iraq (another case in point which proved the theory of the EHM, by the way).
And who is Pat Robertson? He's the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition of America. The programme is shown on the ABC TV network. And Robertson once ran for president in 1988!
If you want to read the exact words of Robertson, here is the link with the video clip. It's worth it, to see how far lies and propaganda can go.
Apart from offering a genuin eye-opener, the merit of Robertson lies on the fact that now the CIA perhaps will be more reticent in carrying out such plot, if there was any.
Categories: Empire, USA, Latin-America, Media
posted by Man Yee at 12:55 pm
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