South Africa's Nelson Mandela Dies

[thej27]

BBC News - South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies,

 

[Denny347]

Damn.

 

[mbills2223]

He lived a long and incredible life. Rest in peace.

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

A long and rich life! From prisoner 4664 to president! R.I.P.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

This man was a terrorist and I am not the least bit sorry that he is dead.

 

[Manatee]

This man was a terrorist and I am not the least bit sorry that he is dead.

Out of line. If you can't say something nice….how bout just shutting yer yap?

 

[SkullDaddy.45]

This man was a terrorist

One man's terrorist, is another man's freedom fighter!

 

[mbills2223]

This man was a terrorist and I am not the least bit sorry that he is dead.

So were the Founding Fathers of our nation. Take your vitriolic hatred elsewhere.


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[SnoopLoggyDog]

I admire him for standing up for freedom in the face of a brutal system. He was a freedom fighter who after being freed, championed the cause of reconciliation among all the people of South Africa.

 

[Expat]

He was a communist and lied about it for decades.
We know that Obama claims him as a role model and wrote the foreword for his book.

 

[Snapdragon]

RIP Nelson Mandela.

And FWIW, I may be a noob and not a Grandmaster, but I believe that private messages should remain private, and posting them publicly for the purpose of ridiculing another member is out of line.

 

[churchmouse]

One man's terrorist, is another man's freedom fighter!

Agreed. I have mixed emotions on his life. Good for some, terrible for others. I have friends from the region. Interesting story's about him.

 

[Cpl. Klinger]

This man was a terrorist and I am not the least bit sorry that he is dead.

You know who else the establishment of the time thought was a terrorist, and was eventually put to death for it? Jesus. So as other have so eloquently said, shut your yap.

 

[Go Devil]

He signed off on the deaths of innocent people, lots of them


Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, (MK), the terrorist wing of the ANC and South African Communist Party. At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Many innocent people, including women and children, were killed by Nelson Mandela’s MK terrorists. Here are some highlights


-Church Street West, Pretoria, on the 20 May 1983


-Amanzimtoti Shopping complex KZN, 23 December 1985


-Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court, 17 March 1988


-Durban Pick ‘n Pay shopping complex, 1 September 1986


-Pretoria Sterland movie complex 16 April 1988 – limpet mine killed ANC terrorist M O Maponya instead


-Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court, 20 May 1987


-Roodepoort Standard Bank 3 June, 1988


Tellingly, not only did Mandela refuse to renounce violence, Amnesty refused to take his case stating “[the] movement recorded that it could not give the name of ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ to anyone associated with violence, even though as in ‘conventional warfare’ a degree of restraint may be exercised.”

 

[Cpl. Klinger]

RIP Nelson Mandela.

And FWIW, I may be a noob and not a Grandmaster, but I believe that private messages should remain private, and posting them publicly for the purpose of ridiculing another member is out of line.

Point taken, but if someone shows their ignorance so thoroughly, they bring that on themselves.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

My Government and Media tell me that terrorism is wrong, yet they all want to celebrate Nelson Mandela.

It is good that they drop the mask to convey their true thoughts.

 

[Snapdragon]

It doesn't make it OK, even when we don't agree with what someone says. Rights are rights. Right to express an opinion, right to privacy. I thought defending rights was kind of what this place was about?

 

[Expat]

Point taken, but if someone shows their ignorance so thoroughly, they bring that on themselves.

No they don't. I thought that was an understood rule on the internet and on the INGO.

I think there are several posts missing. I take it the Mods are watching this thread carefully.

 

[Kutnupe14]

He was a communist and lied about it for decades.
We know that Obama claims him as a role model and wrote the foreword for his book.

After being elected, what communist measures did he enact? Simply put, Mandela appears to have used the same tactic Castro used. Castro worked with democracies for support, until he came to power, and then dropped tge bombshell that he was a communist. Conversely, Mandela apparently worked with communists because they were the ONLY group that supported his anti-apartheid opposition (which is exactly what your article implies). After becoming president of SA, it seems that communism wasn't exactly the type of govt he had planned for the nation.

I too claim Mandela as an inspiration/role model.

 

[Cpl. Klinger]

No they don't. I thought that was an understood rule on the internet and on the INGO.

On INGO maybe, but rules on the internet? Please, tell me another! I needed that laugh.