“Rev” Pat Robertson: Diamonds for the Antichrist

I did a massive investigation of the late, defrocked "Reverend"
Pat Robertson, who died on Thursday at the age of 93 and was,
weirdly, a fan of mine. I wrote the exposé for The Guardian and
had secretly recorded Robertson admitting to several financial
crimes.


He had raised millions of dollars from his flock, the 700 Club
(which was named after those who donated $700 a year). They
raised millions for “Operation Blessing”, supposedly to help
alleviate the woes of refugees fleeing genocide in Rwanda.


“Operation Blessing” then purchased planes, ostensibly to shuttle
medical supplies in and out of the refugee camp in Goma, Congo
(then Zaire). However, investigative reporter Bill Sizemore of
the Virginian-Pilot discovered that, except for one medical
flight, the planes were used to haul heavy equipment for
something called the African Development Corporation, a diamond
mining operation distant from Goma. 


African Development was owned by Pat Robertson.


Get the full "Diamonds for the Antichrist" story at Greg
Palast.com


In addition, as those who've seen my film The Assassination of
Hugo Chavez know, the ex-Reverend called for the assassination of
Hugo Chavez. Why would he care so much about removing Chavez?
Because Chavez refused to give Robertson a gold mining concession
in Venezuela.


Watch The Assassination of Hugo Chavez using this FREE download
link. 


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Robertson also gave us the phrase "New World Order", for George
Bush Senior's New World Order creation that would replace the
Communist world order after the Cold War. And it was Robertson
who warned us that there was a cabal of bankers, Presbyterians,
the Federal Reserve, and the US Senate Finance Committee who are
taking their orders directly from Satan. Now, I should note that
the chairman of the banking committee who helped create the
Federal Reserve was Pat Robertson's father; Absalom Willis
Robertson was a Senator, was chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee, and helped create the Federal Reserve Board. So, Pat
Robertson basically saw his father as Satan’s Commander on Earth.


But it’s no joke, because we all paid the price for the Christian
Coalition’s “good works”. The Christian Coalition illegally
backed George Bush Senior for president by sending out tens of
millions of pieces of mail to Born Again Christians telling them
to vote for George Herbert Walker Bush.


Robertson deserves credit, if you wanna call it credit, for
recreating the Republican Party as an adjunct of the Christian
Coalition, and making Born Again Christians supreme — basically
kingmakers — within the Republican Party.


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I spent all day with Robertson, with my concealed recorder, and
because he said that God asked him to run for president, I asked
him, with a campaign manager like the Lord, how could you lose?
And he said, well, the Lord asked me to run for president, not to
win. Out of that run, I created a mailing list of 3 million
people. 


The Christian Coalition grew out of Robertson’s presidential
campaign, and as Robertson said, now no Republican can run for
dog catcher without the Christian Coalition's approval. So,
Robertson may be gone, but the dead hand of the Christian Right
is running the Republican party — and that was Robertson’s goal.


For those who want to read the full investigation, which was also
in my book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, I’m offering a FREE
download of the audiobook, in which Al Franken reads the chapter
about the ex-Reverend Pat.