Minister: Harry Belafonte is INSANE and TREASONOUS

[Bluebear]

Has Harry Belafonte Lost His Mind?
Rev. Peterson Believes Belafonte's Meeting With Hugo Chavez Constitutes Treason

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Calypso singer and liberal activist Harry Belafonte led an American delegation including actor Danny Glover to meet with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez this past Sunday. Belafonte joined Chavez on his radio and TV broadcast and railed against President Bush, calling him "the greatest terrorist in the world."

This latest act by Belafonte to associate himself with a clear enemy of the United States has caused BOND founder and President Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson to question Belafonte's sanity.

Rev. Peterson said: "Harry Belafonte's hatred of President Bush is causing him to embrace America's enemies. I also believe that his actions are treasonous as described by Article Three, Section Three of the U.S. Constitution which says that 'adhering to our enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort' constitutes Treason."

http://www.earnedmedia.org/bond0110.htm

[BoneDaddy]

1. REV Peterson is not...

a litmus test for sanity. In fact Rev. Peterson, look him up, is one of a couple of black conservatives who have sold their brothers and sisters out in order to be close to the power structure.

[Catch22Dem]

2. So this morAn thinks Chavez is a "clear enemy of the US?"

You're right, most countries who give our country free/discounted heating oil MUST be an enemy.

[The Magistrate]

16. That Leapt Out At Me, Too, Sir

The United States government may view Col. Chavez as an enemy; there is no particular reason to believe he is an enemy of the United States....

[goclark]

22. Maybe his Buddy Bush Will Take Care Of Him --- HA

He has sold his soul to the devil.

Harry is not the enemy, Bush is the enemy.

[mediaman007]

3. I thought we supported democratically elected leaders...

Silly me...down is up, out is in!

[Bluebear]

7. I wasn't aware that we were at war with Venezuela.

(Yet.)

[buff2]

4. Jesse Peterson is a real NUT CASE

He's so phucked up in the head he goes against his own race! He talks like he is a racist white man. He's pathetic.

[AntiCoup2K4]

8. Jesse Peterson is far too stupid to even write the rhetoric he speaks....

...He's clearly just a puppet of some racist fuckwads.

[wake.up.america]

10. Let's get this straight. Bush IS the enemy. Those who support...

Bush are Not doing America any favors.

[TahitiNut]

12. Excuse me? Us proud nuts take offense at being associated with sociopaths.

(Hmph!) :silly:

[Extend a Hand]

5. I wonder then if

Jim Cramer (Mad Money guy) is a traitor for plugging a company whose major assets include Venezuelan Gold Mines?

His theory was that Chavez would subsidize the mines before eventually taking them over.

[sabbat hunter]

6. silly me

i didnt realize we were at war with venuzuela.

[MnFats]

9. this asshole should get himself a libel lawyer, quick.

of course there's the 'public person is fair game.'
but there's also 'reckless disregard for the truth,'and questioning someone's sanity might clear the barrier...

[AspenRose]

11. Jesse Lee Peterson is in Sean Hannity's back pocket.

'nuf said.

[BrotherBuzz]

13. Hey Rev, are you whoring for some of those Faith based greenbacks?

Hmmmm

[regnaD kciN]

14. Well, I guess that's an improvement from the old days...

...when right-wingers just called Harry an "uppity n*gg*r who doesn't know his place."

:eyes:

[tuvor]

15. Does 'treason' mean anything anymore?

The way the term gets tossed around these days...It's as effective as comparing someone to the nazis.

[bonito]

17. He's probley a moonie, wacl member.

good reasearch info here. http://rightweb.irc-online.org/index.php

[struggle4progress]

18. The Minister of Minstrelsy

... The first time I became aware of Peterson was when I slipped into a February 2003 gathering of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR), a local anti-immigrant organization designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Once the evening began, Peterson was introduced to the crowd by CCIR's director, Barbara Coe, a grandmotherly figure who might pass for a librarian were it not for her penchant for foaming-at-the-mouth references to Mexican immigrants as "savages." With an oversized sweater hanging from his portly frame, Peterson waved and flashed a forced grin as the crowd applauded politely. Later, Arizona border militia leader Chris Simcox stepped to the stage to spin ominous tales of Mexican immigrants spreading tuberculosis in America's public schools and Red Chinese troops spreading out across the US-Mexico border, poised for invasion.

I was reminded of Peterson during an interview I conducted this past September with Virginia Abernethy, a self-avowed "racial separationist" and editor of the journal of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist organization that evolved from the white Citizens' Councils formed in the 1950s South to fight integration. In an apparent effort to counter the commonly held notion that she is a racist, Abernethy informed me that she is friends with "a black minister in Los Angeles named Jesse Lee Peterson" ...

Indeed, though Peterson has no constituency to speak of, Washington's conservative elite have rolled out a welcome mat for him. He has become a fixture at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative influentials often referred to as "the unofficial Republican convention." According to People for the American Way, during the 2002 conference Peterson used his speaking slot to declare the civil rights movement "the worst thing that could have happened to the black community." This year, when Peterson returned, he was given the honor of introducing Zell Miller, who presented the "Courage Under Fire Award" to the anti-John Kerry front Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Just a week later Peterson was down the street, moderating the Heritage event, which was titled "Responding to the Call: The New Black Vanguard Conference." Heritage is bankrolled largely by reclusive oil baron Richard Mellon Scaife and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a group that made hefty grants in the early 1990s for studies intended to prove the genetic inferiority of blacks and other ethnic minorities. Besides Peterson, the few who actually responded to Heritage's call included Roy Innis, a longtime supporter of Holocaust-denier Lyndon LaRouche and an apologist for the genocidal African dictator Idi Amin; and Gloria Jackson, whose sole distinction is being Booker T. Washington's great-granddaughter. "I think the best times for black people were during those periods of darkness," Jackson said, harking back fondly to the pre-civil rights era ...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050411/blumenthal

[punpirate]

19. Y'know, I could make millions...

... if I could figure out how to create an ideological high colonic for these people.... :)

[niyad]

20. does anybody of intelligence CARE what this nutbar rev thinks?

[TreasonousBastard]

21. You know we're winning when...

the other side has to resort to assholes like this.

It seems just about any reasonable rightwinger who can talk a lick of sense has deserted them, so they're scraping the barrel for anything to make some noise.

No more discussion, as if there ever was any with them, just bullshit and spin. Even Reagan and Nixon didn't have to stoop this low.