I’m pretty sure the assassination-is-okay-for-socialists doctrine is somewhere in Leviticus.
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23 August | 11:43 | abby
Hilarious. (What you said, not what he said.)
24 August | 12:03 |
Yea, that would just be terrible if Chavez died. C'mon! I would be about as upset if the US assassinated Chavez as I would if Castro was the target.
24 August | 12:09 | josh
Call me old-fashioned, but I guess I'm just not big on ordering the murders of other people -- particularly the democratically elected leaders of countries posing no threat to mine. Maybe Pastor Pitts feels differently, I don't know.
24 August | 13:50 | B
I agree with the anon. poster.... Given our track record with deposing "dictators" and installing puppet regimes in that region, I can't see where we could go wrong!
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