Falwell, Robertson, Weller & Genocide
Fill in the blanks to this Pat Robertson quote.
Did you say Iraq/United States? BUZZZZ. Wrong.
Heres the real deal:
Robertson also praised Rios Montt for his “enlightened leadership” and claimed that the dictator insisted on “honesty in government.”
Yes this is the same Rios Montt we've been hearing a lot about lately. Jerry Weller (R-IL) married Rios Montt's daughter Zury Rios Montt. Her father attended the wedding.
Robertson wrote those words in 1990, well after the widespread massacres, rape, torture, and acts of genocide against the indigenous Mayan population of Guatemela by Montt's rule where known to the world.
In an Aug. 15, 1995, letter to The Washington Post, Amnesty International officer Carlos Salinas wrote, “In just the first four months of Gen. Rios Montt’s rule, Amnesty International had documented more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings attributed to the Guatemalan army. Furthermore, these killings were done in horrible ways: people of all ages were not only shot to death, they were burned alive, hacked to death, disemboweled, drowned, beheaded. Small children were smashed against rocks or bayoneted to death.”
Ríos Montt's ties with the United States military go back fifty years when he received training by the Pentagon. In 1950, Ríos Montt graduated as a cadet at the School of the Americas in the Panama Canal Zone, which at the time educated students in counter-insurgency tactics for the purposes of combating potential "communist" influence in the region.
In 1954, the young officer played a minor role in the successful CIA-organized coup against Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, who was alleged to have had communist sympathies largely as a result of his efforts to break the economic monopoly of the United Fruit Company, a US firm with strong ties to Washington.
In 1978, he left the Catholic Church and became a minister in the California-based evangelical Church of the Word; since then Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Loren Cunningham (Youth with a Mission) have been personal friends. (You'll Remember YWAM from The Path To 9/11)
In March 1982 Ríos Montt seized power in a bloody coup d'etat that was quietly backed by the CIA and the Reagan White House. He and his fellow generals, Maldonando Schadd and Luis Gordillo, deposed Gen. Romeo Lucas Garcia and set up a military tribunal with Montt at its head. The junta immediately suspended the constitution, set up secret tribunals and began a brutal crackdown on political dissidents that featured kidnapping, torture, and extra-judicial assassinations.. (Gee that sounds awfully familiar)
In December 1982 during a meeting with Ríos Montt Ronald Reagan declared: "President Ríos Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment".
The killings continued even after Ríos Montt was eased from office in 1983. Some human rights groups charge that perhaps as many as one million Mayan peasants
were uprooted from their homes and that many of them were forced to live in re-education concentration camps and to work in the fields of Guatemalan land barons.
Attempts to indict Ríos Montt on charges of genocide have so far failed, and Rios Montt even tried to run for President in 1990 under his created party The Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG). He was prohibited from entering the race due to a constitutional provision banning people who had participated in military coups from becoming president. In 2003 he tried to run again but his candidacy was initially, and once again, rejected by the electoral registry and by two lower courts. In July 2003, Guatemala's highest court, which had had several judges appointed from the FRG, approved his candidacy. Later, however, the Supreme Court suspended his campaign for the presidency Ríos Montt denounced the ruling as judicial manipulation and, in a radio address, called on his followers to take to the streets to protest against this decision. On July 24, in a day known as jueves negro (black Thursday)thousands of masked FRG supporters invaded the streets of Guatemala City armed with machetes, clubs and guns. They were led by well known FRG militants, including several known congressmen, who were photographed by the press early in the morning while co-ordinating the actions, and the personal secretary of Zury Ríos Montt, the general's daughter. The demonstrators marched on the courts, the opposition parties headquarters, and newspapers, torching buildings, shooting out windows and burning cars and tires in the streets.
In March 1999 U.S. President Bill Clinton apologized for the United States support of Ríos Montt's regime. Clinton declared: "For the United States, it is important I state clearly that support for military forces and intelligence units which engaged in violence and widespread repression was wrong and the United States must not repeat that mistake.
Zury Ríos accompanied her father on his campaign trail, generally introducing him, in highly favorable terms, before he addressed his rallies. She was quoted in the press as saying, "my father is my inspiration.". She has not apologized to the Guatemalans for her support of a man accused of gencide.
Nor has her Republican husband Jerry Weller.
Nor has Jerry Falwell.
Nor has Pat Robertson.
I was in _________ three days after _________ overthrew the corrupt [previous] government. The people had been dancing in the street for joy, literally fulfilling the words of Solomon who said, ‘When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice.’”
Did you say Iraq/United States? BUZZZZ. Wrong.
Heres the real deal:
I was in Guatemala three days after Rios Montt overthrew the corrupt [previous] government. The people had been dancing in the street for joy, literally fulfilling the words of Solomon who said, ‘When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice.’”
Robertson also praised Rios Montt for his “enlightened leadership” and claimed that the dictator insisted on “honesty in government.”
Yes this is the same Rios Montt we've been hearing a lot about lately. Jerry Weller (R-IL) married Rios Montt's daughter Zury Rios Montt. Her father attended the wedding.
Robertson wrote those words in 1990, well after the widespread massacres, rape, torture, and acts of genocide against the indigenous Mayan population of Guatemela by Montt's rule where known to the world.
In an Aug. 15, 1995, letter to The Washington Post, Amnesty International officer Carlos Salinas wrote, “In just the first four months of Gen. Rios Montt’s rule, Amnesty International had documented more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings attributed to the Guatemalan army. Furthermore, these killings were done in horrible ways: people of all ages were not only shot to death, they were burned alive, hacked to death, disemboweled, drowned, beheaded. Small children were smashed against rocks or bayoneted to death.”
Ríos Montt's ties with the United States military go back fifty years when he received training by the Pentagon. In 1950, Ríos Montt graduated as a cadet at the School of the Americas in the Panama Canal Zone, which at the time educated students in counter-insurgency tactics for the purposes of combating potential "communist" influence in the region.
In 1954, the young officer played a minor role in the successful CIA-organized coup against Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, who was alleged to have had communist sympathies largely as a result of his efforts to break the economic monopoly of the United Fruit Company, a US firm with strong ties to Washington.
In 1978, he left the Catholic Church and became a minister in the California-based evangelical Church of the Word; since then Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Loren Cunningham (Youth with a Mission) have been personal friends. (You'll Remember YWAM from The Path To 9/11)
In March 1982 Ríos Montt seized power in a bloody coup d'etat that was quietly backed by the CIA and the Reagan White House. He and his fellow generals, Maldonando Schadd and Luis Gordillo, deposed Gen. Romeo Lucas Garcia and set up a military tribunal with Montt at its head. The junta immediately suspended the constitution, set up secret tribunals and began a brutal crackdown on political dissidents that featured kidnapping, torture, and extra-judicial assassinations.. (Gee that sounds awfully familiar)
In December 1982 during a meeting with Ríos Montt Ronald Reagan declared: "President Ríos Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment".
The killings continued even after Ríos Montt was eased from office in 1983. Some human rights groups charge that perhaps as many as one million Mayan peasants
were uprooted from their homes and that many of them were forced to live in re-education concentration camps and to work in the fields of Guatemalan land barons.
Attempts to indict Ríos Montt on charges of genocide have so far failed, and Rios Montt even tried to run for President in 1990 under his created party The Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG). He was prohibited from entering the race due to a constitutional provision banning people who had participated in military coups from becoming president. In 2003 he tried to run again but his candidacy was initially, and once again, rejected by the electoral registry and by two lower courts. In July 2003, Guatemala's highest court, which had had several judges appointed from the FRG, approved his candidacy. Later, however, the Supreme Court suspended his campaign for the presidency Ríos Montt denounced the ruling as judicial manipulation and, in a radio address, called on his followers to take to the streets to protest against this decision. On July 24, in a day known as jueves negro (black Thursday)thousands of masked FRG supporters invaded the streets of Guatemala City armed with machetes, clubs and guns. They were led by well known FRG militants, including several known congressmen, who were photographed by the press early in the morning while co-ordinating the actions, and the personal secretary of Zury Ríos Montt, the general's daughter. The demonstrators marched on the courts, the opposition parties headquarters, and newspapers, torching buildings, shooting out windows and burning cars and tires in the streets.
In March 1999 U.S. President Bill Clinton apologized for the United States support of Ríos Montt's regime. Clinton declared: "For the United States, it is important I state clearly that support for military forces and intelligence units which engaged in violence and widespread repression was wrong and the United States must not repeat that mistake.
Zury Ríos accompanied her father on his campaign trail, generally introducing him, in highly favorable terms, before he addressed his rallies. She was quoted in the press as saying, "my father is my inspiration.". She has not apologized to the Guatemalans for her support of a man accused of gencide.
Nor has her Republican husband Jerry Weller.
Nor has Jerry Falwell.
Nor has Pat Robertson.
posted by LieparDestin at 7:01 PM
1 Comments:
Largely a crib from Wikipedia, maybe you wrote the entry.
However, the use of 'concentration camp' to describe the aldeas modelas is not justified. There were no gas chambers, there were no hundreds of thousands, millions, murdered. The description is an injustice to those who died in the German camps.
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