Pat Robertson's ex-business partner, Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia, and backer of the infamous Revolutionary United Front (RUF), whose child soldiers routinely raped, tortured and murdered their way through Sierrie Leone during its civil war in the 1990s, now has a trial date set for this coming April before the UN's International Criminal Court. http://rawstory.com/news/2006/UN_court_sets_Charles_Taylor_trial__09222006.html

Pat Robertson was no doubt doing God's work when his offshore Freedom Gold International Corp. teamed up with Charles Young in 1999 to go gold mining in Liberia. Out of Christian "concern" that the RUF may be short of funds for the machetes its child soldiers were using to hack off the hands and feets of thousands of civillians, Charles Young was cut in for a 10% share. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7124-2001Sep21

But pray tell, where did Robertson lay his hands on the $15 million needed for the initial development? The Virginia Office of Consumers Affairs was of the opinion that Robertson had misappropriated the loot from a Club 700 charity for airlifting refugees to buy mining equipment. http://www.campusprogress.org/tools/543/know-your-right-wing-speakers-pat-robertson It was only thanks to what some term "divine intervention" that charges were never laid.

Unfortunately the only time there isn't media fatigue is if it involves villifying the despot du jour or some infotainment thing about survivor or Tom Cruise.

Stories like this need to keep getting out.

BTW, I clicked on the "know your right-wing speakers" and they have a whole list of great info on all the neo-cons. It's a great read and very well done. The truth is starting to come out.

[ 22 September 2006: Message edited by: a lonely worker ]