Time for an Assassination?

   I hear that televangelist Pat Robertson has declared it is time for President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to meet his maker. He aired his views on last Monday's broadcast of the Christian Broadcast Network's 700 Club, saying that the U.S. shouldn't waste money on another war to "get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator" but should "have some of the covert operatives do the job."
   Robertson is inciting terrorist activity, and doing it in front of an audience of millions that makes it impossible for anyone to claim there are no witnesses, or no proof. Seems to me that Mr. Robertson should have just earned himself a hurried trip to one of the cells at Guantanamo Bay.
   Amnesty International says Guantanamo has become "a symbol of the US administration’s refusal to put human rights and the rule of law at the heart of its response" to terrorism. Robertson's absence from the ranks of Gitmo's shackle-bearing detainees is simply one more example of the States' holier-than-thou failure to impose the same standards on its own citizens as it feels free to impose on the rest of the world.