kemmer wrote:
Pat Robertson is a senile old fool.
Well, I don't know about Pat Robertson being senile, but he's definitely a FOOL! Does this man honestly believe that to be against Trump is to be against God? That's just as crazy as all his other i***tic statements of the past, like when he said that the Equal Rights Amendment would give women a license to "have a******ns and practice witchcraft," or when he said the Constitution only works for "Christians" and not for atheists (apparently, no one ever told him that atheists are American citizens too). His far-right philosophy is right out of the Ku Klux Klan!
Where does he get off trying to imply that nobody should be allowed to critize Trump because he was supposedly chosen by God? He is, in effect, saying that Trump rules by divine right! That's just as dumb as when Jerry Falwell, that other nutjob from the so-called "Christian Right," said that when President Reagan spoke, GOD SPOKE, or the episode of "All In The Family" where Archie Bunker says that "God believes in (President Richard) Nixon" just because "Billy Graham plays golf with him."
Excuse me, but I thought we had Freedom Of Speech in this country, that we had the right to dissent, that we were free to critize or question our government or any member of the government, including the President of the United States of America himself, especially if we think he's doing something wrong, and Trump has done plenty of wrong, like sexually harassing women, being a fornicator, c***ting on his wives, owning buildings that discriminated against minorities, etc, and that's just before he became President. He has done plenty of wrong as President too, like behaving like a schoolyard bully, insulting and taunting people who differ with him, acting more like an insane dictator than the leader of a free nation, spreading lies and half-t***hs about his critics, inciting hatred against anybody who disagrees with him, ordering one of his henchmen to threaten Stormy Daniels and her daughter when she talked about exposing her past affair with Trump, threatening to use libel laws to intimidate anti-Trump newspapers into silence (a violation of the First Amendment guarantee of Freedom Of Speech and Freedom Of The Press), spreading h**e against the media, whom he has called "evil" and "the enemies of the people," accusing them of printing "f**e news" (i.e. stories that critize or contradict him), promoting the notion that the Democratic Party is Un-American or unpatriotic, and so on and so forth. Even during his campaign, he acted this way, like when he made fun of a handicapped reporter, or encouraged his followers to attack Anti-Trump demonstrators, or praised an unscrupulous Republican politician who body-slammed a reporter who tried to question him. Would God have approved of such behavior? Would Jesus have considered Trump to be a Godly man? I don't think so!
As for this idea of divine right, if I remember my history correctly, this was the same justification used by the British King, George III, for his tyrannical rule over the original American Colonies back in the 18th Century, including the unfair taxes he imposed upon the people, and sending British soldiers to occupy and control the Colonies, even to the point of forcing the colonists allow them to live in their homes through the Quartering Act (or the Intolerable Act, as the Americans called it). If I also remember correctly, this was among the reasons why the colonists finally became sick and tired of it and decided to revolt against British tyranny. I believe that was called the American Revolution.
Surely, Mr. Robertson must have learned in school about the American Revolution. You know, "taxation without representation," the Stamp Act R**ts, the Boston Massacre and Tea Party, Paul Revere's midnight ride ("One if by land, two if by sea"), Patrick Henry saying "Give me liberty or give me death," the Battle Of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill ("Don't shoot until you see the w****s if their eyes"), the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington and his troops at Valley Forge, the crossing of the Delaware River, Nathan Hale having "but one life" to lose for his country, General Laffeyette and Baron Von Steuben coming to help the Continental Army, the British surrendering at Yorktown, General Cornwallis handing over his sword to General Washington, etc, etc.
Why did they fight this war? For freedom, that's why, including the freedom to say what they feel, to express their own opinion, to speak out against unfair government activities, even if they're committed by the President, without being called t*****rs, or, in Pat Robertson's case, being accused of going against God, because that freedom also includes Freedom Of Religion, the right to worship as one chooses.
That's what our Forefathers fought for, to give us freedom. They suffered through the terrible winter at Valley Forge, they endured suffering and starvation, they marched barefooted in the snow, they fought, and bled, and died, all to give us freedom! But now, religious fanatics like Mr. Robertson say we should do away with all of that, because he THINKS that this is what God wants, because he says that God wants Donald Trump, a serial sinner and bully all his life, to rule supreme over this country, which is supposed to be a FREE COUNTRY, because he feels that going against "the Donald" is the equivalent of going against the Good Lord Himself? Well, I say BUNK! This is a democracy, not a theocracy!
What of all those who don't agree with Mr. Trump, or with Mr. Robertson's twisted interpretation of God's will? Are they going to be declared enemies of God? Will they be labeled as "heretics," or be subjected to a modern day version of the Spanish Inquisition? Will they be beaten, flogged, tortured, etc, until they confess their "sins" against Trump Almighty? Will their families, including their children, be given the same treatment? Where does it all end, when freedom is just a relic of the past, and the Constitution is no more?
I recall that decades ago, there was a man who was the spokesman for the leader of a European country. Like Pat Robertson, this man believed that his leader ruled by divine right, that he represented God Himself, that he spoke God's word. In fact, he once said "Our leader is the intermediary between his people and the throne of God. Everything he utters is religion in the highest sense."
That European country was Germany in the days before and during World War Two. The spokesman I mention was Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, the N**i Party's Minister Of Propaganda. And the leader (or, as it's said in German, Fuhrer) he spoke of, the man he called "the intermediary between his people and the throne of God" who spoke "religion in the highest sense," was -- ADOLF HITLER!
Get the picture?
LONG LIVE LIBERTY!