Posted on 12/05/2013 8:29:24 PM PST by ReaganÜberAlles
The hero of the anti-apartheid struggle was not the saint we want him to be.
The image of Nelson Mandela as a selfless, humble, freedom fighter turned cheerful, kindly old man, is well established in the West. If there is any international leader on whom we can universally heap praise it is surely he. But get past the halo we’ve placed on him without his permission, and Nelson Mandela had more than a few flaws which deserve attention.
He signed off on the deaths of innocent people, lots of them
Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, (MK), the terrorist wing of the ANC and South African Communist Party. At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Many innocent people, including women and children, were killed by Nelson Mandela’s MK terrorists
“I heard it on the radial.”
Nelson Mandela was a man for all seasons.
Cool. I never get replies where they act like they give a shit.
And a lot of people had set a bead on him.
sometimes the story is better than the reality, and sometimes it can accomplish the same things, so I’ll give Mandela a pass...just like we give MLK a pass and Kennedy a pass because they overall did good....
You mean the destruction of civilized South Africa?
“It’s a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq’s oil. . . .
“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.”
– Nelson Mandela, Jan. 30, 2003
I expect Mandela to receive his reward in the after life: A hot necklace.
I listened to Levin for about 2 minutes with nothing bad to say about Mandela. I turned it off. Maybe he vilified him later. I don't listen to Sean (me, me, me) Hannity.
They also suck up to the evil Gerry Adams.
Small company run by younger folks. At least that’s what I’m thinkin’ based on the conversation with the young man that called me. Basically boils down to, they felt they were doing something good based on their time in the public indoctrination centers as sprouts and being told things that “ain’t necessarily true” for too long.
I’ve never heard of necklacing. What is it?
Tying a victim, usually alive, to a tire filled with gasoline which is lit in order to incinerate the victim.
It seems many on the Right are also willing to forgive and forget too.. much as today in an infiltrated WH as Islamic harmony is the rage of the day.
Mandela’s passing only shows how little real history is taught.
It proves “civilized behavior” is not quite skin deep, for some.
Nelson Mandela 1918-2013
By David Horowitz On December 6, 2013 In Daily Mailer,FrontPage
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/nelson-mandela-1918-2013/print/
Mandela began as a terrorist and never turned his back on monsters like Arafat and Castro, whom he considered brothers in arms. When he was released from prison by deKlerk, he showed unexpected statesmanship, counseling reconciliation rather than revenge, no small achievement in a country in which the “liberation” movement (led by Mandela’s wife and party) placed oil filled inner tubes around the necks of former comrades and set them on fire.
But if a leader should be judged by his works, the country Mandela left behind is an indictment of his political career, not an achievement worthy of praise – let alone the unhinged adoration he is currently receiving across the political spectrum.
South Africa today is the murder capital of the world, a nation where a woman is raped every 30 seconds, often by AIDs carriers who go unpunished, and where whites are anything but the citizens of a democratic country which honors the principles of equality and freedom.
Liberated South Africa is one of those epic messes the Left created and promptly forgot about.
Mandela's "golden cage" is in sharp contrast with the treatment given by his comrade, Fidel Castro, to Cuban political prisoners.
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