The Goat Pen

Toemeesleather wrote:
Wow, could have sworn a few million were killed by the Exxon Valdez.....at least according to the MSM.

Mandela wrote a book "How to be a good communist" He is a great admireror of Stalin, a man responsible for the killing of millions of his own people.

Here is a few writings I found on other Web sites.

In 1961, Mandela was the founder of Umkhonto we Siswe (”Spear of the People”), ANC’s terrorist arm, and never during all the time he was in prison did he condemn that organization’s acts of indiscriminate terrorism against civilians.

Mandela and the ANC learned from Yasir Arafat how to ‘discipline’ collaborators and make sure people toed the party line.

These included ‘necklacing’(putting a gasoline soaked tire over the victims head to bind their arms and setting it on fire, burning families in their homes in Soweto, operating what amounted to a protection racket among black South African businessmen and torturing dissidents at ANC gulags in Angola, something even Mandela has admitted occurred,although he’s never apologized or regretted it.

Mandela was also responsible for signing off on the Church Street bombing in Pretoria 1983,which killed 19 and wounded more than 200, mostly families in a busy shopping street at rush hour. The commander of that operation was Abu Bakr Ismail, a PLO terrorist.

“The problem is that Mandela has achieved next to nothing in his relatively short political career which saw South Africa rapidly decline to the status of the world's most violent and crime-ridden country. To add to the confusion, is the fact that his greatest friends are communists and Muslim dictators like Fidel Castro, Moammar Qaddafi, Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein. His ex-wife Winnie Mandela, whom he quickly jettisoned when it became clear she was a considerable embarrassment to his political career, is a self-confessed advocate of terrorism and violence, and has even committed murder. Nelson and Winnie Mandela are an African version of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In his public statements and speeches Mandela is always critical of the democratic countries of the west, but has nothing but praise for the remaining communist and Muslim dictatorships of the world. He condemns mistakes and controversial policies of the west, but refuses to publicly condemn the genocides and brutal repression of current or former communist countries; he is
supposedly a “champion of freedom and democracy”, the “hero of oppressed people everywhere” but considers dictatorships like Cuba and Libya shining beacons of freedom and justice.

So, I was dead wrong about Nelson Mandela, a great man and fine example to others, not least the current occupant of the White House.

In his interview with Barack Obama Thursday, Chris Matthews asked why there has been such a significant decline in the trust in government. In a nutshell, Obama’s answer: Ronald Reagan.

The president’s answer was quintessential Obamaesque:

“We’ve had a politics, frankly, you know, the entire Republican Party brand since Ronald Reagan has been ‘government’s the problem.’ And if you, day after day, week after week, election after election, are running on that platform and that permeates our culture and it’s picked up by, you know, ordinary citizens who grow skeptical, then it’s not surprising that over time, trust in government declines.”

Is he serious? It couldn’t be that “ordinary citizens” (the choice of “ordinary” is interesting in and of itself) have lost faith in Obama and his administration because of the myriad of scandals, his absence of leadership on the world stage (see: Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iran), his reckless runaway spending and the disastrous (and disingenuous) rollout of ObamaCare that have caused a majority of Americans to distrust him and his policies, right?

Barack Obama has preached the evils of conservatism and the bountifulness of “progressivism” to the faithful for years, has won two presidential elections as a result, and now…now that trust in him and his administration is at an all-time low, he blames the message on a president who left office 25 years ago?