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From: Paul Levy <plevy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 27, 2005 6:07:30 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Pat Robertson's Call For Assassination Of A Foreign
Leader A Crime
Sorry, but John Dean's argument in the linked article is ridiculous.
Robertson did not suggest that he was going to assassinate Chavez, or
participate in a scheme to do so. He was complaining that his
government was not using its capability to do that. Mere advocacy of
government action, no crime under the statute.
Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 588-1000
http://www.citizen.org/litigation
David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> 08/27/05 1:32 PM >>>
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From: Peter H Salus <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 27, 2005 12:38:19 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: for IP?
Dave,
Take a look at
//writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050826.html
I think this deserves wider publicity.
Peter
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Was Pat Robertson's Call For Assassination Of A Foreign Leader A
Crime?
Had He Been a Democrat, He'd Probably Be Hiring A Criminal Attorney
By JOHN W. DEAN
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Friday, Aug. 26, 2005
On Monday, August 22, the Chairman of the Christian Broadcast
Network, Marion "Pat" Robertson, proclaimed, on his 700 Club
television show, that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be
murdered.
More specifically, Robertson said, "You know, I don't know about this
doctrine of assassination," referring to the American policy since
the Presidency of Gerald Ford against assassination of foreign
leaders, "but if he [Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him,
I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot
cheaper than starting a war, and I don't think any oil shipments will
stop."
"We have the ability to take him out," Robertson continued, "and I
think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need
another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm
dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert
operatives do the job and then get it over with."
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