Here’s part of an email I got from Newt Gingrich trying to firm up his kind words on Mandela after getting backlash. It is one thing to issue a mundane yet kind statement. It is another to argue the point comparing blowing up shops and burning people that don’t agree with you to the fighting that George Washington did and the tar and feathering done to British sympathizers.
“After years of preaching non-violence, using the political system, making his case as a defendant in court, Mandela resorted to violence against a government that was ruthless and violent in its suppression of free speech.
As Americans we celebrate the farmers at Lexington and Concord who used force to oppose British tyranny. We praise George Washington for spending eight years in the field fighting the British Army’s dictatorial assault on our freedom.”
Brabra Streisand, Newt! Fools professing their love for a murderous terrorist excuse it by lying about South Africa. The SA government was neither ruthless nor violent as the citizens of the Republic at the time have testified. Or check out your old issues of National Geographic.