I once sent them (Oral Roberts?) a brick.  They were asking for 25.00 to 
buy a brick, so I sent them a letter saying I could get a much better 
price and did they want more.
Cost me something like 4.00 for 4th class postage but it was worth it.

Manick Harris wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I do not know about Robertson, but thereare many so-called 
> 'evangelists' whose sole purpose is to collect money from naive 
> believers. My late mother once donated !R 200 to a well known TV 
> evangelist.and received a hasty letter back from the guy stating that 
> it wasn't enough even for one brick. God, what kind of bricks do you 
> use anyway. The Indian evangelists often use resurrection trick to con 
> target groups into parting with large amounts of cash. When one such 
> fellow who was claiming how he resurrected a corpse noticed how I was 
> frowning he turned me in anger. With these guys no public accounts are 
> kept at all and everything goes into their pocket. One fellow here was 
> exorcising a young girl  with her dress up and sitting on him, not 
> knowing a police party was watching him...I think anyone who collects 
> money should be accountable to prevent fraud of the divine kind. LOL
>
> */BT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>
>     Greetings fellow revolutionary alchemists!
>
>     The question I have is, How do we help separate the good-hearted
>     followers from their devious leaders?
>
>     For example:
>     I often forward news and interesting articles (much of which I
>     find on this list, thanks to you all)  to a few friends and
>     family. I never get any responses. One of my friends I know is a
>     700 Club 'member' and his church preaches along the same political
>     lines. After forwarding the news about Robertson's comments, I
>     received this reply from my friend:
>     --------
>     "He is a passionate man who speaks from his heart and who has said
>     some stupid stuff in the past and probably will say some stupid
>     things in the future but he apologized and that's good in my
>     book.  Heck, it's alot more than most political or public figures
>     would do."
>      
>
>     "Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for
>     that statement," Robertson said. "I spoke in frustration that we
>     should accommodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him."
>
>     http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/24/robertson.chavez/index.html
>
>     --------
>     To which I responded with a more complete quote from Robertson's
>     "apology", a page of links relating to Robertson's money-making
>     operations in Africa (included at the bottom of this long email,
>     in case anyone is interested)  and a comment:
>
>     "Obviously Pat Robertson does not have any business interests in
>     common with Hugo Chavez, otherwise Robertson would be defending
>     Chavez instead of condemning him."
>
>     My friend's reply:
>     ------
>
>     "I heard from a story on NPR the other day regarding a current
>     State Governor that when in the political spotlight and "riding a
>     white horse" the dirt shows up easier.  Too many resources have
>     been wasted on putting Pat Roberts[on] on public "trial". 
>     Everyone knows that he is a religous man but the primary word in
>     that description is "man".  He is not God.  Man makes mistakes. 
>     When shadey politicians make mistakes it's OK because nobody
>     expects them to be perfect.  I wish the world would focus on
>     solutions to problems instead of dwelling on the faults of man.
>      
>     Spread that comment around the Internet and see where it gets you."
>     ------
>
>     Ok, so it's spreading. :-)
>
>     My friend is no fool. He is perfectly capable of thinking
>     logically and rationally. But from this irrational reply, I think
>     we have clearly reached the point where my friend is not really
>     defending Robertson but is actually defending himself since he
>     sees himself associated with Robertson.
>
>     If anyone has ever had the opportunity to watch a 700 Club
>     broadcast, you will notice how softly and pleasantly they speak
>     about helping the poor around the world and healing people. They
>     give the impression of being 'good Christians' and that is how
>     they get the cash from their listeners, who see their donation as
>     doing something good to help others.
>
>     So I can see how it would be easy to get sucked into their influence.
>
>     For us on the 'outside', it is easy to view Robertson as a crazy
>     demagogue on one hand and an astute, greedy business man on the other.
>
>     But what does it take for those on the 'inside' to look at
>     Robertson (or Bush or whoever) and say, "I've been deceived. That
>     is not what I support."; to separate themselves from the object of
>     criticism?
>
>     I think that does happen in some cases. Or maybe, in other cases
>     the people haven't been deceived, but they just don't care which
>     means that they really aren't any different than the 'leader'.
>
>     I hope I'm not delving into some social-psychology mumbo-jumbo
>     that no-one is interested in?
>
>     BT
>
>     ------------------------------------------------
>
>     Obviously Pat Robertson does not have any business interests in
>     common with Hugo Chavez, otherwise Robertson would be defending
>     Chavez instead of condemning him.
>
>     ---------
>     
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#Robertson.27s_advocacy_of_assassination_of_Venezuelan_President_Hugo_Ch.C3.A1vez
>
>     On the August 24 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_24> edition
>     of /The 700 Club,/ Robertson attempted to clarify that he hadn't
>     actually calling for Chávez's assassination, but that there were
>     other ways of "taking him out", such as having special forces
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_forces> carry out a
>     kidnapping <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping>. Robertson
>     flatly denied using the word "assassination", despite video tape
>     evidence that he did.[11] <http://mediamatters.org/items/200508240005>
>
>     Later that day, he issued a written statement in which he said,
>     "Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for
>     that statement." However, he continued to justify his original
>     stance and called Chávez "a dangerous enemy to our south,
>     controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly".[12]
>     <http://www.cbn.com/about/pressrelease_hugochavez.asp>
>
>     He went on in the written statement to accuse Chávez of
>     involvement with terrorism: "Col. Chavez [sic] has found common
>     cause with terrorists such as the noted assassin Carlos the Jackal
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal>, has visited Iran
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran> reportedly to gain access to
>     nuclear technology, and has referred to Saddam Hussein
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein> and Fidel Castro
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro> as his comrades. Col.
>     Chavez also intends to fund the violent overthrow of
>     democratically elected governments throughout South America,
>     beginning with neighboring Colombia
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia>." [13]
>     <http://www.cbn.com/about/pressrelease_hugochavez.asp>
>
>     Again in the statement, Robertson then indirectly compared Chávez
>     with Adolf Hitler <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler> by
>     remembering German <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany>
>     evangelical pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer>'s opposition to
>     the Nazi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi> regime and support
>     for the assassination of Hitler.
>
>     ---------------
>
>     http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Pat_Robertson
>     Robertson's net worth is between $200 million and $1 billion
>     dollars according to the 2002 book /The Best Democracy Money Can
>     Buy
>     
> <http://www.powells.com/search/DTSearch/search?searchfor=The%20Best%20Democracy%20Money%20Can%20Buy;x=13;y=3;partner_id=29007;cgi=search%2Fsearch;searchtype=kw>/
>     by Greg Palast <http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Greg_Palast>.
>
>     In various episodes of his /700 Club/ program during the United
>     States' involvement in the Liberian Civil War in June and July of
>     2003, Robertson repeatedly supported Liberian President Charles
>     Taylor. Robertson accuses the U.S. State Department
>     <http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/U.S._State_Department> of
>     giving President Bush
>     <http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/George_W._Bush> bad advice in
>     supporting Taylor's ouster as president, and of trying "as hard as
>     they can to destabilize Liberia."
>
>     Robertson failed to mention however in his broadcasts his $8
>     million investment in a Liberian gold mine. Taylor had been at the
>     time of Robertson's support indicted by the United Nations
>     <http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/United_Nations> for war crimes.
>
>     (http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/robertson_bin_laden.html
>     In 1998, Robertson formed _Freedom Gold Limited_, an offshore
>     company registered in the Cayman Islands but based at CBN
>     headquarters in Virginia Beach.  It's a gold-mining venture in
>     Liberia in partnership with _Charles Taylor_.  The U.S. and U.N.
>     have condemned Taylor's ties with terrorism.  The U.S. imposed
>     economic sanctions on Taylor's Liberian government.
>     _
>     Charles Taylor_, a person the Washington Post calls "one of the
>     most ruthless, greedy and terror-producing heads of state in all
>     of sub-Saharan Africa".)
>
>
>       Pat Robertson's Gold
>       
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7124-2001Sep21
>
>     ---------
>     Pat Robertson-- Humanitarian
>     http://www.patrobertson.com/humanitarian/
>     ---------
>
>     Through his ostensibly charitable organization, Operation Blessing
>     International
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blessing_International>,
>     Robertson claims to have spent $1.2 million bringing aid to
>     refugees <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee> in Rwanda
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda>. His critics, such as
>     Palast, claim the money was actually spent to bring heavy
>     equipment for Robertson's African Development Corporation
>     
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=African_Development_Corporation&action=edit>,
>     a diamond <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond> mining
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining> operation.
>
>     (http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=49&row=1
>
>     There was also, says Volder, the $7m he gave to 'Operation
>     Blessing' to alleviate the woes of refugees fleeing genocide in
>     Rwanda. Robertson's press operation puts the sum at only $1.2m.
>     More interesting is the way the Operation Blessing funds were used
>     in Africa. Through an emotional fundraising drive on his TV
>     station, Robertson raised several million dollars for the tax-free
>     charitable trust. Operation Blessing bought planes to shuttle
>     medical supplies in and out of the refugee camp in Goma, Congo
>     (then Zaire).
>
>     But investigative reporter Bill Sizemore of the Virginian Pilot
>     discovered that over a six-month period - except for one medical
>     flight - the planes were used to haul equipment for something
>     called African Development Corporation, a diamond mining operation
>     a long way from Goma. African Development is owned by Pat Robertson.
>
>     Did Robertson know about the diversion of the relief planes?
>     According to pilots' records, he actually flew on one plane
>     ferrying equipment to his mines.
>
>     One of Robertson's former business partners recalled that,
>     although he often travelled in the minister's jet, he never saw
>     Robertson crack open a Bible. 'Everywhere we were flying he had
>     the Wall Street Journal and Investors' Daily.')
>
>     (http://www.skeptictank.org/robem2.htm
>     In April, 1997 two pilots who worked for Operation Blessing
>     charged that planes linked to Robertson and his ministry flew
>     mostly to haul equipment for ADC's private diamond operation.
>     Robert Hinkle, the chief pilot told reporter Bill Sizemore that of
>     about 40 flights within Zaire during the half-year period he was
>     there, "Only one or at most two" were related to the humanitarian
>     mission of Operation Blessing. The rest were "mining-related."
>
>     "We got over there and we had 'Operation Blessing' painted on the
>     tails of the airplanes, Hinkle told the Virginian-Pilot, "but we
>     were doing no humanitarian relief at all. We were just supplying
>     the miners and flying the dredges from Kinshasa out to Tdshikapa.")
>
>     Has purchased thoroughbred race horses, although has stated on
>     many occasions he is opposed to gambling. Robertson claims he
>     bought the horses because he is "amazed by their athleticism".
>
>     ---------
>
>     *Pat Robertson and Liberian Gold*
>     http://www.theperspective.org/liberiangold.html
>
>     *Pat Robertson Engages in Illegal Mining Operation in Liberia*
>     http://www.theperspective.org/patrobertson_taylor.html
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