This is one is really beyond the pale. For a real load of hypocrisy and disgust. Click the following link. For a moderate stink, read the following post.
Americans United: TV PREACHER ROBERTSON STRIKES GOLD DEAL WITH LIBERIAN DICTATOR:
"TV PREACHER ROBERTSON STRIKES GOLD DEAL WITH LIBERIAN DICTATOR
Thursday, June 3, 1999
ROBERTSON'S GREED 'KNOWS NO BOUNDS,' SAYS AU'S LYNN
Liberian President Charles Taylor is known for many things: accused embezzler, jail escapee, human rights abuser and rebel leader responsible for starting a bloody civil war. Taylor can now add a new title to his resume: Pat Robertson business partner.
According to a report published yesterday in The Virginian Pilot, the TV preacher reached a deal with Taylor that allows a Robertson-owned company, Freedom Gold Ltd., to mine for gold in the Bukon Jedeh region of Liberia. The company, which lists Robertson as its president and sole director, was reportedly formed offshore in the Cayman Islands last December.
'Clearly, Robertson's greed knows no bounds,' said Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Religious Right watchdog group. 'This gold-mining deal with a vicious tyrant is shocking even by his standards.
'If there's profit to be made, it seems Robertson doesn't care who he has to deal with,' Lynn added. 'Despite all the rhetoric and grandstanding, this deal shows Robertson is more interested in money than morality.'"
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