Meanwhile, the memory of U. S. presidential complicity in assassination plots is very nearly dead. There have been no references, post the Robertson initiative, to the old Special Group ... on the desirability of not spreading knowledge of covert operations any wider than absolutely necessary, if we are to preserve the principal of deniability.
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We recognize that such a public apology is not an easy thing for anyone to do. We know also that Robertson is a friend and a strong supporter of Israel.
We took a chance in the draft, and we could have been criticized for that too if someone had gone up and gotten Robertson before we did. But you know what In this league, if you're afraid to fail, you're not going to succeed. You can't worry about making a mistake.
To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
The minister of tourism has decided that the center will go ahead, the project will go ahead, but it will go ahead with other parties and not Mr. Robertson.
He is neither Christian nor right, ... He is the Christian Taliban... He is Mala Robertson. He is no better than those who called for the assassination of Bush... We serve a God who was assassinated for doing good.
I remember the conference director said words to the effect that Robertson is one more nutty comment away from becoming irrelevant. Since then, Robertson has made a number of such comments--on China's one-child policy, about wishing for a nuke to take out the State Department building in D. C., among others. It's as though he can't help himself. Oftentimes his comments anger his own supporters the most.
That's why Pat Robertson, the spiritual adviser of Mr. Bush, is calling for my assassination. That would be much cheaper than an invasion,
Although Einstein enjoyed almost universal acclaim in his day, history has exalted his genius still further by forgetting those few detractors who did exist. . . . Herbert Ives, a physicist for Bell Laboratories, remained unshakeably opposed to relativity, though the Ives-Stillwell experiment which bears his name is generally interpreted as a direct corroboration of Einstein's theory 'His Ives' work on the so-called tranverse Doppler effect, performed with Stillwell in the period 1938-41, is one of three crucial optical experiments which, taken together, lead inductively to the Lorentz transformations as used in the special theory of relativity in a sense it, more than either of the two, may be considered as the cornerstone of the special principle of relativity, as formulated years before by Einstein. . . .' (Howard P. Robertson, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, 1956) 'The 'principle' of the constancy of the velocity of light is not merely 'ununderstandable', it is not supported by 'objective matters of fact' it is untenable, and, as we shall see, unnecessary. . . . Also of philosophical import is that with the abandonment of the 'principle' of the constancy of the velocity of light, the geometries which have been based on it, with their fusion of space and time, must be denied their claim to be a true description of the physical world.'
Robertson later said he meant a regime change, not an assassination, ... It's fair to say, however, that most Americans disagree with what Rev. Robertson said.
On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper--all your choices should be so easy.
Robertson, the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, first denied that he meant assassination, then apologized on August 24. Is it right to call for an assassination ... No, and I apologize for that statement. I spoke in frustration that we should accommodate the man who thinks the U. S. is out to kill him.
The only place where a person can ask for another head of state to be assassinated is the United States, which is what happened recently with the Reverend Pat Robertson, a very close friend of the White House, ... He publicly asked for my assassination and he's still walking the streets.
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
But he needs to come forward and answer a very simple question Is Pat Robertson telling the truth when he said you didn't think there'd be any casualties, or is Pat Robertson lying.
When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.