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Subj:Pat Robertson Goes Digging for Gold with an Evildoer
Date: 10/20/01 10:52:07 AM Central Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BuzzFlash.com)
Oh, that Pat Robertson should stop consorting with "evildoers," he sure
should. Otherwise, he risks his place in line at the day of judgement!
Which Pat tells us is coming soon, by the way.
>From the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/A24081-2001Oct19.html
Pat Robertson: His Liberia Deal
By Colbert I. King
Saturday, October 20, 2001; Page A27
Televangelist Pat Robertson is at it again. Fresh from a shellacking over his
pal Jerry Falwell's suggestion that certain groups of Americans brought on
the September terrorist attacks -- "I totally concur," said Robertson at the
time -- the Christian Coalition founder has weighed in once more with his
revelations about God's plans for America.
"The Lord is getting ready to shake this nation. We have not yet seen his
judgment on America," Robertson told a crowd at the 40th anniversary of his
Christian Broadcast Network on Oct 1. As a teaser to what God has in store
for the nation unless it undergoes a spiritual revival, Robertson said, "This
thing that happened in New York was child's play compared to what's going to
happen."
Robertson undoubtedly has it on good authority. But if the Almighty is going
to get us for what we've done -- or failed to do -- as a nation, what in the
world might God have in store for Pat Robertson and his friend and business
partner, Liberian President Charles Taylor, the plague of West Africa.
Chances are the families and friends of five women from Illinois are also
dying to know.
Meet Sister Kathleen McGuire, 54. She was among a group of five nuns working
with Liberia's poor in October 1992, when then-warlord Taylor and his rebels
launched their surprise attack on Monrovia. The terror was led by Taylor's
"boy soldiers," 10- to 18-year-olds, some armed with AK-47s, some wigged out
on drugs.
Sister Kathleen was best known for her hospitality and work with children
traumatized by rockets, mortars and wanton murder. Among the nuns at the
convent in Gardnersville, a suburb of Monrovia, Sister Kathleen was the first
to die.
Two days earlier, Sister Kathleen, along with Sister Shirley Kolmer, 61, and
Sister Agnes Mueller, 62, had packed a car with some belongings and gathered
their aspirants or candidates for the novitiate for a dash to Monrovia. With
bullets flying and the situation deteriorating, they should have abandoned
the convent long before. But the people they were serving had nowhere to go.
So the nuns stayed with their aspirants and the small coterie of refugees who
had sought protection in the convent.
Sister Shirley, their leader, was the jovial one; she taught math, was a
woman of prayer and a friend and companion to young women. Sister Agnes was a
nurse, loved to read and was conducting literacy programs. They worked with
infants suffering from tropical diseases prevalent in Liberia. But they were
unprepared for what came next.
Taylor's rebels arrived at the convent on Oct. 23, 1992 -- exactly nine years
ago next Tuesday.
Five of them entered the grounds. One was called "Foday." Another, "C. O.
Mosquito." A third, "Black Devil." Foday and Devil were in their teens;
Mosquito was in his early twenties. Mosquito ordered everybody out of the
convent, announcing that all white people would be killed. Sister Shirley
begged him not to do it. They didn't listen.
Devil's first bullet hit Sister Kathleen, as she tried to reason with him. It
struck her in the forearm, knocking her down on the bare dirt. He walked up
to the wounded and bleeding Kathleen and put a bullet into the back of her
head.
Then came Sister Shirley.
She was told to turn over the car keys and any money she had. Sister Shirley
went inside, got the keys and her Liberian dollars, and offered them to
Mosquito. The keys were fine, but he wanted American dollars, which she
didn't have.
The group was herded outside the convent fence, and the two nuns were
separated from the rest. Devil again did the dirty deed, mowing down Sister
Shirley and Sister Agnes with his AK-47. The aspirants and refugees were
marched off to Taylor's headquarters.
Sister Joel Kolmer, 58, and Sister Barbara Ann Muttra, 69, had left the
convent three days earlier to drive their worried security guard to his home
where he could be reunited with his family. They never made it.
Their car was ambushed; everybody was murdered. The American Embassy later
found the decomposed bodies of the two nuns and the security guard covered
with tarpaulins where they had fallen outside their car.
Embassy staff and peacekeeping soldiers didn't make their way to
Gardnersville until Dec. 1, after the area was finally secured. They found
the bodies of the three nuns, partially decomposed and still lying where they
had been cut down by the bullets of Taylor's rebels.
The foregoing is based on information
