Don't Start None ...

Won't be none! Heaven knows what the ultimate fallout of Pat Robertson's stupid remarks will be. But either symbolically or out of real concern, Venezuela is taking action against those Robertson claims to represent.

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.

"The permits are suspended for a short time ... while we organize a system to see what additional data we need for people coming into the country to preach", Gonzalez told Reuters.

"We were already working on this, but these declarations have made us speed things up," he said.