Friday, April 11, 2008


Nelson Mandela, Nearing 90, Is A Terrorist

So is the entire African National Congress. They're not allowed to travel to the United States without a waiver, because the old Afrikaaner party dubbed the ANC a terrorist organization. Howard Berman, chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, introduced a bill last week to remove all ANC references from Who's Who Among Terrorists. Condi Rice authoritatively weighed in after 4 years of running the State Department:
"It is frankly a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterparts - the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader, Nelson Mandela."
I hear ya, Condi. It must be, like, hell.

(Pictured above is the jail in Johannesburg where Mandela was incarcerated for 27 years.)

2 comments:

Naj said...

Of course, it would have suited America better had Mandela not been the victor at the end!

He just sets a bad example that there is hope for "resistance" movements!

Argh, my computer fan is running again! What is it on your page that does it to my little mac? ;)

:))

MarcLord said...

Yes, Mandela was a victor even while he was still in prison. Boetha and de Klerk would come and meet with him secretly.

Re: computer--it may well be that my blog is too picture-intensive, causing your Mac to go after its hard drive. Particularly if you have less than 512MB in Random Access Memory (RAM).