As the media rushes to embrace the legacy of Nelson Mandela, my memory is Joe Slovo. When the World’s media were on their campaign to overthrow the government of South Africa, in most pictures you see of Mandela, you’ll spot the same white man standing behind Mandela.
Comrade Joe Slovo was an immigrant from Lithuania and was the head of the South Africa Communist Party and a close advisor to Mandela. I don’t know if he played a role in the non-violent ANC using rubber tires filled with gasoline to burn people alive in a process known as necklacing.
Nelson Mandela visited Detroit when I was living in Michigan in the area. The Internet didn’t yet exist for the public – at the time, discussions occurred on networks of local bulletin boards and to some degree on Usenet.
I remember asking the day of the visit… If I went down to Tiger Stadium and burned an ANC flag, would the reaction be “hey, it’s only a piece of cloth!” like people on the left do in response to burning the flag of the United States – and what the answer to that hypothetical question that says about us.
Yeah, I would rather not remember mandela and his ilk. Good riddance. CBS news worshiped him, losers.
God I hope nothing happens to Obo while he is in office. We don’t need no worshiping. Just finish out the term, with dullness/socialism and fade away.
parrott
Parrott, ‘they’ have already considered the upside to what you hope does not happen. I mean to say, if ‘they’ thought a person’s usefulness was waning and ‘they’ wanted to create a martyr/messiah, it will happen. As I said, let’s hope that doesn’t happen, besides he is needed in the Homeland.
http://blogs.cfr.org/campbell/2013/01/07/campaign-posters-for-nigerias-president-jonathan/
It seems to me if Barack Obama was really born in Kenya and isn’t really the President, the two term limit doesn’t apply to him.
Neither would getting changes to the law approved by Congress.
Wow – “known as necklacing”. Doesn’t that bring horrible images to mind. A kinder and gentler Mandela – maybe. He did a credible job as leader keeping the revenge-mongers at bay – I will give him that. He also wasn’t a completely evil glob of protoplasm like Mugabe – I will give him that. He was a Communist – I will also give him that. Great man? You decide.
After I wrote that, I was listening to Meet the Press and they actually did push the issue with Jesse Jackson (the one not in jail). He stipulated that the Soviet Union was funding Mandela and his organization and Manedla had been a Communist. Jackson’s response (not new) is… “yeah, that’s true, but things were so bad, they would have accepted help from anyone, and it was only the Russians who offered to help”. He then went even more hyperbolic saying that the civil rights struggle in the US and Apartheid in South Africa are the same thing, and we still have apartheid in America today.
I don’t call is the black Communisty for nothing. That’s not all black people, just the folks who were trained by the Soviet union to overthrow non-communist governments. The name Randall Robinson was also mentioned in passing. He was one of the big Soviet race stooges
Update on necklacing
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
About 5 years ago, the practice showed up again – the targets being burned alive being refugees from other countries in subsaharan Africa.
After listening to part of the coverage regarding the Apotheosis of Nelson Mandela it gives me hope that years from now true American patriots will be inspired to liberate the Homeland and restore the Republic.
You think that will take years?
Yes, years. Look at the example of the fall of the Soviet Union. Reagan oufoxed and outspent Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and challenged him to “Tear down this wall”. The Roman Pope John Paul II gave great support to Lech Wałęsa’s strike at the Gdańsk Shipyard and the Solidarity Union. Wałęsa was elected President of Poland and the Soviet Empire started falling apart as more and more people stopped producing anything. After Brezhnev’s death the USSR began to crumble into 16 independent nation/states, in part because people just stopped working and producing stuff.
President Putin went to the Vatican this past Novemeber and met with Pope Francis. The Pope issues comments on “the need for a more just global financial framework”. The end game against the Western Banksters is afoot, but it could take years.
When Crybaby Boehner gets sacked by the House, I might start being a little more optimistic
I agree with Nidster. Look how long it is taking Zimbabwe and they could print their own money too, unlike Greece.
http://www.momoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/zim-dollars-toilet-paper.jpg
I like when the revolutionaries throw shows. Makes good TV.
oops – throw shoes, not throw shows.
Rush Limbaugh was around when all of this was going on and is being brave enough to bring up the reality of Mandela’s politics. I doubt that many others on the radio are going to tilt at that windmill.