Posted on 12/06/2013 7:46:38 AM PST by Mozilla
Agreed...prior to jail he was a vicious terrorist who went well beyond “freedom fighter”. Frankly, he should have been executed.
And somewhere while he was in jail, he changed. Perfect? Not be a long shot. But his actions afterwards were not at all what one would expect from someone sitting in those jails stewing.
The Ivy League schools in the US, who led in the anti-Apartheid divestiture movement, and the liberal MS media will deserve credit for any bloodbath/socital degradation that occurs. They were instrumental in the destruction of South African society in the 80s and 90s.
They were the first to settle in the area known as Cape Town. Bantu and Xhosa had already migrated into areas north and east of there before European arrival. The first of the frontier wars was around what is now Port Elizabeth.
He did not change in jail. There is no evidence he ever changed.
He was promised his freedom by Botha if he renounced violence and he never did.
He was in prison when he continued to sign off on more terror bombings, this he admitted in his own book.
The Church Street attack on May 20, 1983 killed 19 and injured more than 200 people when a car with 40kg of explosives was detonated outside the SAAF headquarters. Two MK cadres, who were in the car at the time, were also killed because the bomb exploded two minutes early. A huge pall of smoke rose hundreds of feet into the air as debris and bodies were strewn around the scene of the explosion. It exploded at the height of the city’s rush-hour as hundreds of people were leaving work for the weekend. Glass and metal were catapulted into the air as shop-fronts and windows were blown out. Many passers-by had limbs amputated by the flying debris. Others bled to death.
In his book “Long Walk to Freedom”, Nelson Mandela wrote that as a leading member of the ANC’s executive committee, he had “personally signed off” in approving these acts of terrorism, the pictures and details of which follow below. This is the horror which Mandela had “signed off” for while he was in prison – convicted for other acts of terrorism after the Rivonia trial. The late SA president PW Botha told Mandela in 1985 that he could be a free man as long as he did just one thing : ‘publicly renounce violence’. Mandela refused. That is why Mandela remained in prison until the appeaser Pres FW de Klerk freed him unconditionally. The bottom line ? Nelson Mandela never publicly renounced the use of violence to further the ‘cause of freedom’. On 11 July 1963 the police raided the home of Arthur Goldreich in Rivonia near Johannesburg, where it captured, by surprise, the leadership cadre of the Umkonto we Sizwe underground. Seventeen people were arrested. Five of those arrested were Jews. They were : Arthur Goldreich, Lionel Bernstein, Hilliard Festenstein, Dennis Goldberg and Bob Hepple.
No kidding. Facebook is all aflutter with the loss of a “great man”.
RIP is the nicest thing I can say.
According to the left, Washington, Jefferson and other founding father were monsters because they owned slaves but Mandela who was a murderer and terrorist is a saint.
I’m aware of all that, in general. I (specifically) didn’t say that he changed the moment he walked into the jail doors.
Now show me something that contradicts what I said AFTER he got out of jail.
he never testified about his activities at the Truth & Reconciliation fraud did he?
“Freeeeeeeeeeee Nelson Mandela. Freeeeeeeeeee Nelson Mandela!”
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A comparison between Mandela and Adolf Hitler: neither one actually killed anybody, they were only giving orders!
Mandela was a freedom fighter, a patriot and founding father. He didn’t do anything that hadn’t been done to his people.
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Huh? Murdering innocent people is ok when promoting communist ideology? Revenge killing is acceptable to you? Communists are freedom fighters? How can you use the term “freedom fighter” to describe a commie? Do you also believe that Arafat and Castro were freedom fighters?
If I had photoshop skills, I’d fake up a Mandela Tire Sale sign at a tire shop.
If I owned a tire shop....yep, I’d run that sale.
Really?
If you do an image search for “Mandela Tire Necklace”, you will find several images of burned bodies, and live people with tires around their neck.
Every image is of a black man.
These murders weren’t some sort of retribution for crimes against ‘his people’. In a manner very similar to the Taliban murdering anyone in a village who collaborates with Americans, to teach the rest of the villagers a lesson....Mandela’s forces murdered ‘white sympathizers’.
Thank you.
Including the Ted Cruz Facebook page. Presented w/o comment:
“Nelson Mandela will live in history as an inspiration for defenders of liberty around the globe. He stood firm for decades on the principle that until all South Africans enjoyed equal liberties he would not leave prison himself, declaring in his autobiography, ‘Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.’ Because of his epic fight against injustice, an entire nation is now free.
We mourn his loss and offer our condolences to his family and the people of South Africa.”
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