nelson mandela

[iamelectric]

why did my newspaper have 8 pages of **** about nelson mandela and now he is never off the tv , i was always led to believe that he was a terrorist and responsible for a number of murders , so what makes him a great man?

 

[overskilled]

Because despite 27 years of harsh imprisonment (severely damaged vision due to forced labour in a chalk mine without eye protection, beatings etc) he preached reconciliation between whites and non whites.
SA was and is a messy situation, the big issue is corruption and crime, both go hand in hand....

 

[44ALLAN]

why did my newspaper have 8 pages of **** about nelson mandela and now he is never off the tv , i was always led to believe that he was a terrorist and responsible for a number of murders , so what make him a great man?

He's a 'freedom fighter' seemingly..........................lauded by the queen no less.
40 year time we'll be giving medals to those 2 murdering twXXs that butchered that drummer guy for their insight into the way of the world !!

 

[44ALLAN]

Because despite 27 years of harsh imprisonment (severely damaged vision due to forced labour in a chalk mine without eye protection, beatings etc) he preached reconciliation between whites and non whites.
SA was and is a messy situation, the big issue is corruption and crime, both go hand in hand....

'severely damaged vision' would have been accepted by some of the people he murdered probably !!!!!!

 

[Engineer54]

Massive world media hype put the crown of peace on his head, then everyone it seemed jumped on the bandwagon to serve their own purposes. At the end of the day the guy was an active armed terrorist that is known to have killed. If after doing his time in prison he did some good with his remaining life, all well and good!! He seemed to have done well for himself had several houses in the best parts of town and cities, and probably worth a good few bob in cash terms too. But the media being what it is, is now making him into something that is past any recognition of what he really was for the best part of his life!! lol!!

Probably the best person to pass comment is Marvo, seeing as this is his part of the world and will know far more than us on the real facts...

 

[Geordie Spark]

Gerry Adams seems to have done ok for himself too.

 

[Badged01]

"Freedom Fighter" or "Terrorist" -- depends if the "superpowers" like and support what you are doing!

 

[ian.settle1]

Gerry Adams seems to have done ok for himself too.

And Martin McGuiness

 

[Marvo]

Rest in peace Mr Mandela, truly a great man.

 

[i=p/u]

You wouldn't believe it guys, it's disgusting to watch the news at home and people telling you how to educate your kids and how to live your life known they killers or associates. They all get advisory roles and the likes when get out under some agreement or time served. It's never seemed normal to me.' Even shot police officers or bombed buildings. How can this be good practice ..

 

[i=p/u]

Is country's like china such a bad place, least the people know who's boss.....

 

[High Tower]

Any man that can be imprisoned for 27 years and take the turn the other cheek attitude on release is a bigger man than I!, if not for him, at the end of apartheid ther would have been civil war, and white South Africans would have been slaughtered, he embraced both sides, brought them together and built the foundations for what is South Africa today!.

He also played a part in the Northern Ireland peace process, Blair has gone on record saying so, he encouraged and guided, and took a massive interest!, read his words on the pace wall in Belfast!.

For that I personally feel gratitude, whatever he was imprisoned for, he spent the rest of his life fighting for what is right!, and please don't forget that a lot of the British view was deluded because thatcher the old witch had a real grudge about him while she played footsie with war mongers such as Pinochet.

Old man rest in peace, you really did do your duty!

 

[Essexboy7]

Any man that can be imprisoned for 27 years and take the turn the other cheek attitude on release is a bigger man than I!, if not for him, at the end of apartheid ther would have been civil war, and white South Africans would have been slaughtered, he embraced both sides, brought them together and built the foundations for what is South Africa today!.

He also played a part in the Northern Ireland peace process, Blair has gone on record saying so, he encouraged and guided, and took a massive interest!, read his words on the pace wall in Belfast!.

For that I personally feel gratitude, whatever he was imprisoned for, he spent the rest of his life fighting for what is right!, and please don't forget that a lot of the British view was deluded because thatcher the old witch had a real grudge about him while she played footsie with war mongers such as Pinochet.

Old man rest in peace, you really did do your duty!

Yes he played a part in the NI peace process,he advised the IRA to keep their guns so they wouldnt lose the threat of violence.He was a murdering piece of filth, the head of the military wing of the ANC.The only reason he wasnt released earlier was because he wouldnt renounce violence and thats the reason Amnesty International would not help him.Go and ask the families of the white farmer women who were gang raped to death or the blacks who were covered in petrol and burnt to death or the little children blown up in the bus bombings directly on his orders what a great man he was and see what reply you get

He was a murdering communist piece of filth and they should have put a rope around his neck years ago

 

[telectrix]

phew. no beating round the bush there. that'll start ww3.

anyway, i was just wondering what they're going to do about all them datsun engines, gearboxes and body shells round the back of his place , as the japanese thought he was nissan maindealer.

 

[overskilled]

The state security services weren't exactly clean either, numerous massacres (I say massacres as they weren't overly selective regarding those they killed....
Both sides got their hands dirty big style, though some of the worst atrocities on the ANC side were committed AFTER he was imprisoned.....