Liberian Monster Charles Taylor Says He Worked With Religious Right’s Pat Robertson
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, testifying in his own war crimes trial today, said that the American conservative evangelist Pat Robertson was awarded a Liberian gold-mining concession in 1999 and subsequently offered to lobby the Bush administration to support his government.
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Under cross-examination, Taylor said that Robertson had volunteered to make Liberia’s case before U.S. administration officials, and had spoken directly to President Bush about Taylor. He also confirmed that Robertson’s company, Freedom Gold Limited, signed an agreement to exploit gold in southeastern Liberia, but that it never generated any profit.
‘Mr. Taylor, indeed at one point you said that you can count on Pat Robertson to get Washington on your side,’ he was asked by the lead prosecution counsel, Col. Brenda Hollis, a former U.S. Air Force officer. Taylor replied: ‘I don’t recall the exact words, but something to that effect.’
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“Leave Pat alone!”-Bob McDonnell
“Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It’s no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.” – P.Roberts
Of course, when called on it by non-rubes, he’ll claim to be an entertainer.
Is there any chance this will lead to Robertson being led in chains to the Court. Or, better yet, civil action on the part of other Liberians? I dunno, I like to dream.