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Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation "embarrassing," and some members of Congress vow to fix it.
The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC), the once-banned anti-Apartheid organization. In the 1970s and '80s, the ANC was officially designated a terrorist group by the country's ruling white minority. Other countries, including the United States, followed suit.
So whilst bush&co label those who fight against the aggression of the US as terrorists, they laud another former terrorist as a freedom fighter and hero
Originally posted by budski
Has there ever been a clearer example of "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter"
Just to put this into perspective, Mandela led the ANC into armed conflict and the use of indiscriminate bombings, and other terror tactics, and yet he is lauded as a hero for spending time in jail during apartheid.
Now personally, I think apartheid was abhorrent BUT Mandela WAS a terrorist by any definition of the word - except because of the fight against apartheid he ended up being a "hero"
A hero whose wife had a penchant for giving "pirrelli necklaces" to those who "betrayed" her.
A hero who helped plant bombs and murder innocents.
A hero who advocated violence against innocents.
See any hypocrisy here?
So whilst bush&co label those who fight against the aggression of the US as terrorists, they laud another former terrorist as a freedom fighter and hero.
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