...Look, Mandela was a good man- I agree- What he was doing was JUST. It was also RIGHT.. Unfortunately, it was still treason- even though he was found guilty of other charges, like sabotage and plotting a foreign invasion..
It is sad that he was jailed over it, but the law is the law. He could have used those 25 years in prison to find far more constructive ways of abolishing the apartheid. Instead of spending a few years organizing a potentially highly destructive attack on the country, Mandela could have found a far more civil and peaceful means to make his voice be heard.
Is that a general statement. Because I'm sure the founding fathers could have found a more peaceful way to revolt. Or maybe the French Resistance should have not done sabotage.
The "law is the law" reasoning only works when the law is fair, etc. Sometimes, some people will only listen to violence.
The founding fathers found a better way to create a good and just government, without organizing a full on attack by a foreign country.
They may have been found guilty of treason, too, of course- <sigh>
Look I have family in S Africa. I know all about all the apartheid. Been hearing about it my whole life. THAT IS NOT THE ISSUE IN THIS THREAD..
My sole point was that people do not need to resort to extreme and violent measures to achieve a wanted and dignified end result.
This is about a 13 year old being drugged and raped by a man who was over 40 years old.
The law IS the law. Thats the fucking point.
I agree with you about the Jews. They should have fought back. Hitler was elected, you know.. He was an amicable sociopath, even if he did kill millions of innocent people. And did you know that the Jews were disarmed after voting for him? The US did not condone his behavior, in the slightest.. We went to war over it, because the Jews got duped and could not.
And the US didn't exactly condone the apartheid government, really- even though it kinda looks that way. At least- it should be understood that the US government's ideas on race relations was much different 50 years ago than it is now, anyways.. The apartheid, in the concept of whites v blacks was very similar to how our own government was run back then, too. Not that I am saying that was right or just, either, not in the slightest!!
Mandela was not making a bad situation any better, is all. If he left the country, and established citizenship elsewhere, he could have become a leader within a matter of a few years, I am SURE, and then could have organized a war against the white government in SA.
Anyways, all this stuff is still going on, in SE African countries, even today. It is not white and black so much as tutsi and hutus based still on light and dark skin tones, in Rwanda, which has yet to become a non issue, but their government has made great strides and the people are happier now.. Incidentally, the tutsis still have dominance, and people are still in a state of unrest, as a result. To this day, in spite of there being a representative government established, the Tutsis are still predoninantly in charge there. There was a civil war, and another war involving Uganda, as well, and about 5 million people died. This is all very recent too.. Of course, whomever it is that organized all of this, was not nearly as big of a dope about it as Mandela was, and organized the revolt to be within the borders, which is where it at least started out, before the president called in other governments who took notice and jumped in to help.
African government is all fucked up.. and it will take a lot of fighting and revolting to stop this madness, but that does not change the fact that there are only certain people who may call people up to fight, without being accused of treason. Sorry but that is just how it is.
Power and control is just about dominance.. and this rapist definitely exercised that, with this young girl. It is illegal to do this, for good reason.