Venezuela Cracking down on Missionaries

Robertson's threat of assassination has led Venezuela to stop allowing new missionaries into the country:

Venezuela's government has temporarily suspended permits for foreign missionaries after a U.S. televangelist said Washington should assassinate President Hugo Chavez.

The policy announcement came four days after conservative evangelist Pat Robertson said Washington should execute Chavez, a former soldier who often accuses the United States of plotting to kill him.

The chief of the Justice Ministry's religious affairs unit, Carlos Gonzalez, said Friday authorization of permits for missionaries would be curbed while the government tightened regulations on preachers inside Venezuela.

President Chavez draped Robertson around the neck of George Bush. He knows how close those right wingers are to Bush:

The Venezuelan president said Friday President Bush would be to blame if anything happened to him after the comments by Robertson.

"He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite ... If anything happens to me then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin," Chavez said at a public event. "This is pure terrorism."

As we all know too well, Bush and company have been goading and challenging the world on terrorism for four years now. Terrorism is apparently in the eye of the beholder.