To keep the exercise "honest," as inevitably will all attorney's involved [chuckle, chuckle, snot, smurf.....:-], Robertson's words, mindset and progressive thoughts need to be disected precisely as spoken.
Unfortunately for him, he all too quickly took the excercise from the realm of "ruminating" to advocacy with: "We have the ability to take him out, 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." His intial qualifier to that statement of: "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination," doesn't suffice as a component of a "rumination defense," in light of his transitional words to advocacy with: "We have the ability to take him out," followed by: "and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability." Mr. Robertson negotiated what initially was a very dangerous exercise in reason and came out of the curve full throttle, rationalizing and advocating, in front of initially millions, and now billions, of persons. The author Dean is perfectly right in his final conclusion. But he unfortunately doesn't deftly identify where Robertson's "switching of tracks" and self-incrimination occurred. .............. On a personal note? As if anyone cares... :-)? Differing ideologies don't need to initiate "fatwahs," when houses such as Robertson's and Bush's are egocentrically disposed to implosion. Fanatacism, albeit under any guise or becalmed expression, remains fanatacism, no matter the flag. ............ Todd Swearingen Doug Foskey wrote: >Thanks: I find that illuminating to say the least. I personally hope that the >US does take this further, otherwise how can they insist foreign powers >prosecute their citizens for similar acts (including for instance statements >by Mullahs....) > >regards Doug > >On Sunday 28 August 2005 8:26, S. Chapin wrote: > > >>Dear List, >> A bit about the legal ramifications, though there will be none, of >>Pat Robertson's statements concerning Chavez. >>http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050826.html by >>John Dean . >>Cheers, >>S. Chapin >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Biofuel mailing list >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org >> >>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >>Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >>messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
