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You mean acts of public violence and mobilizing public area bombings? The way history remembers it, Mandela was a fierce militant that would in today's world would be considered deporable. The ONLY difference, is that Statists of both color variety, think they get to arbitrate when the use of violence is justified and when it is not. It's perhaps the ugliest amount of arrogance they consistently display.
What Would You Have Done? Nelson Mandela and American Conservatives | Gingrich ProductionsPatrick Henry said, Give me liberty or give me death.
Thomas Jefferson wrote and the Continental Congress adopted that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Doesnt this apply to Nelson Mandela and his people?
Some conservatives say, ah, but he was a communist.
Actually Mandela was raised in a Methodist school, was a devout Christian, turned to communism in desperation only after South Africa was taken over by an extraordinarily racist government determined to eliminate all rights for blacks.
I would ask of his critics: where were some of these conservatives as allies against tyranny? Where were the masses of conservatives opposing Apartheid? In a desperate struggle against an overpowering government, you accept the allies you have just as Washington was grateful for a French monarchy helping him defeat the British.
Finally, if you had been imprisoned for 27 years, 18 of them in a cell eight foot by seven foot, how do you think you would have emerged? Would you have been angry? Would you have been bitter?
Nelson Mandela emerged from 27 years in prison as an astonishingly wise, patient, and compassionate person.
He called for reconciliation among the races. He invited his prison guard to sit in the front row at his inauguration as President. In effect he said to the entire country, If I can forgive the man who imprisoned me, surely you can forgive your neighbors.
Far from behaving like a communist, President Mandela reassured businesses that they could invest in South Africa and grow in South Africa. He had learned that jobs come from job creators.
I was very privileged to be able to meet with President Mandela and present the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
As much as any person in our lifetime he had earned our respect and our recognition.
Before you criticize him, ask yourself, what would you have done in his circumstances?
Why was Mandela sentenced to prison again?
Something you guys don't get.
You guys see the "eek, a communist".
What people in South Africa or Cuba or Vietnam see are liberators.
Than let his own people idolize him, but not the rest of the world.
The people around the world justly admire what Nelson Mandela accomplished. The conversion of South Africa from a totalitarian racist goverment to a democracy by peaceful means was something that any sane man would have said was impossible, considering the injustices that had been committed. Yet Mandela stepped out from 27 years of imprisonment, and managed to talk both sides out of a bloody racial civil war, and into creating a much more just and democratic government.
And people like you simply sit at home, doing nothing but spewing hatred for the good people of this world. Do you see why you will never be held in anything but contempt, and Nelson Mandela will be admired for centuries?
You mean acts of public violence and mobilizing public area bombings? The way history remembers it, Mandela was a fierce militant that would in today's world would be considered deporable. The ONLY difference, is that Statists of both color variety, think they get to arbitrate when the use of violence is justified and when it is not. It's perhaps the ugliest amount of arrogance they consistently display.
You mean acts of public violence and mobilizing public area bombings? The way history remembers it, Mandela was a fierce militant that would in today's world would be considered deporable. The ONLY difference, is that Statists of both color variety, think they get to arbitrate when the use of violence is justified and when it is not. It's perhaps the ugliest amount of arrogance they consistently display.
I see. So you believe that the founding fathers of this nation were terrorists.
What is truly ugly is the mentality of people like you.
As expected, President Carter will be going to SA to honor Mandela, so that makes four of the five living presidents paying tribute to the man.
[GHW Bush will not be, due to ill health, though if he could, I'm sure he would be there.
Other notables going: Prime Minister David Cameron, Prince Charles, Desmond Tutu, and a ton of other foreign dignitaries.
There will be 10 days of national mourning, with the first major event being the Memorial service, December 10.
That will be at the Johannesburg soccer stadium which holds close to 100,000 people.
Some are saying Mandela will get the greatest burial in history!
Well, he was that. He led the way through terror bombing campaigns and other public violence. As the leader of sucha group. We have other groups that have done similar thigs in recent times that have been attributed much differently than Mendela in the halls of history. It's a double standard because some make the moral arbitration that it was justified being up against what he was up against.
You mean acts of public violence and mobilizing public area bombings? The way history remembers it, Mandela was a fierce militant that would in today's world would be considered deporable. The ONLY difference, is that Statists of both color variety, think they get to arbitrate when the use of violence is justified and when it is not. It's perhaps the ugliest amount of arrogance they consistently display.
I see. So you believe that the founding fathers of this nation were terrorists.
What is truly ugly is the mentality of people like you.
Yes, they were. I never, however, put any moral judgement on them or Mandela. I'm pouinting out the hypocrisy of Statists who believe they have the moral authority to make the judgment in who is justified in violence and who is not.
Your inability to comperhend that isn't shocking or alarming,
The media and our government as well as governments around the world have lied to the people and the truth about this man needs to be told. Some here are old enough to remember that truth.
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Well, he was that. He led the way through terror bombing campaigns and other public violence. As the leader of sucha group. We have other groups that have done similar thigs in recent times that have been attributed much differently than Mendela in the halls of history. It's a double standard because some make the moral arbitration that it was justified being up against what he was up against.
Discrimination of any kind is wrong. I suppose that is what he fought against.
Unfortunately our Democrats use politics to discriminate against their opposition. They could learn something from Mandela's example. Sadly they won't.
Well, he was that. He led the way through terror bombing campaigns and other public violence. As the leader of sucha group. We have other groups that have done similar thigs in recent times that have been attributed much differently than Mendela in the halls of history. It's a double standard because some make the moral arbitration that it was justified being up against what he was up against.
Well, he was that. He led the way through terror bombing campaigns and other public violence. As the leader of sucha group. We have other groups that have done similar thigs in recent times that have been attributed much differently than Mendela in the halls of history. It's a double standard because some make the moral arbitration that it was justified being up against what he was up against.
Discrimination of any kind is wrong. I suppose that is what he fought against.
Unfortunately our Democrats use politics to discriminate against their opposition. They could learn something from Mandela's example. Sadly they won't.
The above post is idiotic.
As if republicans don't use politics to discriminate against their opposition.
