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USA Has Nelson Mandela on Terrorist Watch List
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
As if we needed more proof of just how fucked up the United States is after 8 years of the Bush/Cheney junta, comes news that Nobel Peace prize winner, Nelson Mandela, is flagged on the U.S. terrorist watch list and requires special permission to visit the USA.
In 1990, Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison for crimes committed during the struggle against the apartheid regime of institutionalized racism that subjugated Black South Africans to second-class status.
In 1994, he was elected South Africa’s first black president.
Even Bush apologist, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the situation “embarrassing,” and some members of Congress have vowed to fix this inequity.
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Who the hell is responsible for making these determinations? Mickey Mouse?
Nelson Mandela is an international symbol of what is good and just. The U.S. should immediately remove his name, issue an apology and fly him to Washington DC and award him the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
George Bush and Dick Cheney belong at the top of the terrorist watch list but certainly not Mr. Mandela. Shameful.
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What Conejo1982 said. I am embarrassed to be an American. Thanks, George. You twit.
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This alleged snafu sounds more like someone inside the State Department made a policy decision to punish Mandela for his tenure in the African National Congress.
The ANC was once viewed by the Apartheid government of South Africa (as well as the USA and UK), as the same threat the USA and UK views al Qaeda today. Old beliefs are slow to die and change — as we all know, does not come easy.
There are people in South Africa today who still see Nelson Mandela as a terrorist. It stands to reason that this view is shared by some in the U.S. State Department as well.
Congress has the power at their disposal to jockey this insane procedure and immediately order the State Department to remove Mandela’s name from the terrorist watch list. This error in judgment should stand as a precedent and a warning to all Americans who claim to love liberty that an unregulated Federal government, represents the greatest threat to democracy.
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Does the Bush administration ever get anything right? I am counting the months until this long, national nightmare comes to an end. These past 8 years feel like 80 years. George Bush is a horror show.
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Oh yes, the terrible Nelson Mandela. I don’t know about the rest of you but I feel much safer when I lay my head down to sleep knowing our idiot State Department has him on their terrorist watch list. This country has become a global joke.
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The first and second names on the terrorist watch list should be George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Followed by Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz and of course, Tony Blair. Nelson Mandela? Neither Bush or Cheney is qualified to carry his golf clubs. I’ve taught my kids well and I have tried to stress to them the people who I believe to be leaders, inspirational and truly great. Frederick Douglass, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy, Mother Theresa and Nelson Mandela. How dare the Bush administration associate this great man with something ugly like terrorism? God damned them.
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Can we put George, Condi and Dick-head on the list and get them to Gitmo right away please?
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Why would Nelson Mandela want to set foot on U.S. soil?
I hope nations around the globe limit Bush’s entry when he’s out of office, thus making it difficult for him to make serious coin for speeches. Tit-for-tat, an eye for an eye, is my policy.
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I heard or read that the late Princess Diana was on the U.S. terrorist watch list. Does anyone else recall hearing or reading this?
I know the NSA was said to have hundreds of hours of taped phone calls between Princess Diana and her family, friends and lovers.
The U.S. is one paranoid nation run by a cabal of even more paranoid lunatics. All their paranoia did absolutely nothing to prevent 9/11 though?
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Wow, this is messed up. One of the great leaders of our time, who fought against opression, cannot be free in America.
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If Clinton actually was able to get into the White House, she would probably keep Mandela on the list.
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Well, Mandela is on Bush’s terror watch list but Osama bin Laden is wandering the mountains of Pakistan and making videos every 6 months. Bush has more than proved the moniker of “Worst President Ever.”
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