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Interpreter at Mandela Event Was Hallucinating, Saw Angels
ABC News / The Associated Press ^
| December 12, 2013
| ALAN CLENDENNING & JUERGEN BAETZ
Posted on 12/12/2013 9:50:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
The man accused of faking sign interpretation while standing alongside world leaders like U.S. President Barack Obama at Nelson Mandela's memorial service said Thursday he hallucinated that angels were entering the stadium, has schizophrenia and has been violent in the past.
Thamsanqa Jantjie said in a 45-minute interview with The Associated Press that his hallucinations began while he was interpreting and that he tried not to panic because there were "armed policemen around me." He added that he was once hospitalized in a mental health facility for more than one and a half years.....
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: handjive; mandela; mentalillness; obama; sasl; sham; signlanguage; southafrica; thamsanqajantjie
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Sounds like a square peg for a square hole.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“... hallucinations, ...” yeah sure, whatever ...
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posted on
12/12/2013 9:54:16 AM PST
by
Ken522
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/12/2013 9:55:02 AM PST
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11) Hey, Harry Reid.. 1-800-318-2596!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mental illness assigned to an international event. Whose idea was that?
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posted on
12/12/2013 9:55:09 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: Ken522
You took the words.....
;)
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posted on
12/12/2013 9:55:11 AM PST
by
RitaOK
( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/12/2013 9:55:27 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds like this guy was in with the right group, ya think?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He saw angels, I saw a couple of a$$holes. What’s the difference?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Saw angels..
And here I was seeing demons...
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posted on
12/12/2013 9:58:01 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Zero = zero)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey, haven’t you ever seen angels in the outfield? It can happen.
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posted on
12/12/2013 9:58:06 AM PST
by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds like all the turds were circling the drain...
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posted on
12/12/2013 10:00:07 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect. " Spengler)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Interpreter with nice suit needed for upcoming ceremony.
$10,000 for four hours work.
Must know international sign language.
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posted on
12/12/2013 10:00:08 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
(Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Should have blamed tingles in his extremities. It works for Chrissy Matthews.
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posted on
12/12/2013 10:03:08 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/12/2013 10:05:52 AM PST
by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: ExTexasRedhead
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posted on
12/12/2013 10:08:45 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t buy this excuse until he can show that he actually does know some legitimate form of sign language.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
He saw angels, I saw a couple of a$$holes. What’s the difference?
Not all angels are good some are pure evil like Satan.
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posted on
12/12/2013 10:10:35 AM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dave's opinion? My God - that signer's mind is full of stars!
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posted on
12/12/2013 10:14:32 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: sarasota
Ever see Woody Allen's movie "Bananas"?
An official welcoming delegation met him on the tarmac with a translator who repeated in English everything being said in English until mental ward orderlies chased him down with a butterfly net.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Guess he wasn’t looking at the Obamas, Bush, Clinton or Carter when he saw them!
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posted on
12/12/2013 10:25:55 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama the Doctor Mengele of Medical Care)
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