The Guardian
by Chris McGreal
September, 5, 2013

One of the stranger sights of the refugee crisis that followed the 1994 Rwandan genocide was of stretcher-bearers rushing the dying to medical tents, with men running alongside reciting Bible verses to the withering patients.

The bulk of the thousands of doctors and nurses struggling to save lives – as about 40,000 people died of cholera – were volunteers for the international medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The Bible readers were hired by the American televangelist and former religious right presidential candidate, Pat Robertson, and his aid organisation, Operation Blessing International.

But on Robertson's US television station, the Christian Broadcasting Network, that reality was reversed, as he raised millions of dollars from loyal followers by claiming Operation Blessing was at the forefront of the international response to the biggest refugee crisis of the decade. It's a claim he continues to make, even though an official investigation into Robertson's operation in Virginia accused him of "fraudulent and deceptive" claims when he was running an almost non-existent aid operation.

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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep...tson-aid-rwanda

What is the point of this Left wing pablum? I don't like Pat Robertson either, but this piece is nothing but a Commie newspapers relaying of unsubstantiated rumors and second hand accusations from a Commie documentary about something that happened 20 years ago. Hell, the ancient investigation in VA over this came up with zilch.

This is nothing more than a religion bashing bunch of shit with no point.

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What is the point of this Left wing pablum? I don't like Pat Robertson either, but this piece is nothing but a Commie newspapers relaying of unsubstantiated rumors and second hand accusations from a Commie documentary about something that happened 20 years ago. Hell, the ancient investigation in VA over this came up with zilch.

This is nothing more than a religion bashing bunch of shit with no point.

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I liked learning about Robertson's investment in a diamond mine. I found that interesting.

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" an official investigation into Robertson's operation in Virginia accused him of "fraudulent and deceptive" claims when he was running an almost non-existent aid operation."

Not true. There was nothing fraudulent about it. He claimed he wanted/needed to buy another 747 or similar jet plane,and he did buy another jet plane. Not sure he helped anybody else,but he sure enough helped Pat because the new one wasn't outfitted as a hospital plane. It was used as a corporate jet to fly him around. He ended up having to pay some back taxes and fines on that one.

15 years ago I used to work at the post office that delivered his mail,and every time his donations would drop off he would have his mailman investigated by the postal inspectors for theft. Word was they even caught one guy before I started working there.

One of the carriers there moved to Virginia Beach to be closer to the family idol,and his wife worked at CBN. She quit after the husband of a pregnant employee was killed in a auto accident and Pat came in one day and confiscated the donation jar they had put on the counter to collect money to help her,stating "ALL money donated at CBN is MINE!"

This was before he sold CBN to a godless heathen for cold,hard cash after successfully getting programs like the Playboy Channel dropped from Cox Cable in Virginia Beach and after at least one of the CBN engineers went to jail for blocking Playboy Channel broadcasts.

I no longer live in the area and have no idea if the citizens of Virginia Beach are now free to choose their own programming or not.