Pat Robertson claims he didn't say Chavez should be assassinated
(24.08.2005)

In an attempt to take some heat out of his earlier comments about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Pat Robertson now claims that he did not say that he should be assassinated.

However, in his "700 Club" show on Monday he said "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he (Chavez) thinks we are trying to assassinate him, we should go ahead and do it"

Robertson claims he did not use the word assassinate, but said that he should be "taken out" and that this "could be a number of things, including kidnapping"

His comments had caused something of a storm, but Robertson has a long history of being controversial. Only a small handful of sites had shown any support for his remarks, saying that he should be allowed to make such comments in a country that permits free speech.

Free speech is a good thing, but suggesting people should be killed for following a different political view to their own, is something very different. It was no surprise that one of the sites defending Robertson can be considered very right wing and would defend anyone that has similar political views. Automatically defending a person for outrageous comments like that, just because he is a conservative, and using the excuse of "free speech" is almost as big a joke as Pat Robertson.

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