Is Pat Robertson a terrorist?

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Is Pat Robertson a terrorist?

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NO offense, but due to lack of actual evidence in that article, I would have to say NO. Robertson is an ass of monumentual proportions, but the only statistics in that article that would imply any terrorist actions, are totals that could or could not be ascribed completely to Robertson.

Its a smear piece, granted he is worthy and deserving of a smear piece, but does little to advance the actual claim.
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Luckily the laws of this nation keep him and his cronies in check.
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Pat Robertson might have encouraged acts which most people consider terrorism, but he's not directly responsible for them.
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Pat Robertson wrote: "It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation." (Pat Robertson, New York Magazine, August 18, 1986)
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I thought of that as well, when I saw that analogy. A brief search shows that they're taller than a man, such as this one.
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