Pat-hetic

Not that we needed any more proof that Pat Robertson is a raving lunatic, but the New York Daily News reports:

Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday.

"Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings," Robertson said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Robertson goes on to say that these judges are a bigger threat to America's future than Nazi Germany or the War Between the States. Now while I may agree that the judicial systems seems to stretch the boundaries of the balance of constitutional powers, this is nothing new. People who rail against "activist" judges, be they liberal or conservative, have to remember that this door was opened in the 1940s and it's not likely to be closed at this point. Judges on both the state and federal level played politics with the 2000 election. The same Supreme Court who ruled that states couldn't legislate sodomy also continues to allow legal abortions. You get the good with the bad.

As for Pat Robertson, there ain't much good. Perhaps he should ask his friend and business partner Charles Taylor, the murderous former Liberian dictator, about al-Qaeda.

Investigators looking into a connection between al-Qaeda and Taylor determined that terrorists were active in the region for at least two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. Investigators charged that three highly placed al-Qaeda operatives, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, moved about in Liberia and nearby Burkina Faso, buying diamonds that were later used to fund terrorist activities. The trio was later joined by other a-Qaeda terrorists, who moved in and out of Liberia at will.

Charles Taylor isn't the only thug ruler Robertson has French-kissed. There's Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire. And Jorge Serrano Elias of Guatemala. And Frederick Chiluba of Zambia.

But what can you expect from a man who in 1993 said this:

"Many of those people involved with Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals -- the two things seem to go together."

Hey, Pat, tell these homosexuals about Adolf Hitler. Paragraph 175 ... never forget.