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[R.I.P.] RIP Nelson Mandela [W:39:56:99]

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NIMBY said:
Thank God for your post Perotista, especially compared to the one that came after it..
It only took seven posts and I can't go further so as to stay out of trouble .
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I have no use for anyone who will bash someone right after they die. That show a total lack of class, respect, and humility. Some people just can't give politics a rest.
 
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Especially coming from someone like you who served..
I know it is tough for some of them after watching my Dad my whole life..
Perotista said:
I have no use for anyone who will bash someone right after they die.
That show a total lack of class, respect, and humility. Some people just can't give politics a rest.
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Our focus this Christmas season needs to continue to be to come together .
 
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Rest in peace Nelson Mandela, may you find the peace that you believed in while you lived.
 
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Perotista said:
I have no use for anyone who will bash someone right after they die. That show a total lack of class, respect, and humility. Some people just can't give politics a rest.
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This is a political debating forum. Belated RIP as well to all the victims of the terrorist acts of Saint Mandela's beloved ANC. Pray for protection for the regular people of SA from the psychopathic government now in charge of SA. Yes, Mandela's legacy.
 
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APACHERAT said:
Hey DemSocialist, why are all communist like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Uncle Ho, Castro, Che, Popot, Mandela all referred to as "freedom fighters" ?
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1.)Never said all communists are "freedom fighters"
2.)Becaue Mandela was a freedom figheter.
3.)Mandela wasnt a communist.
 
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This post belongs in the Africa forum as
Serenity has stated several times..
Too bad **** for brains like you skid marks can't comprehend .
Dibbler said:
This is a political debating forum. Belated RIP as well to all the victims of the terrorist acts of Saint Mandela's beloved ANC. Pray for protection for the regular people of SA from the psychopathic government now in charge of SA. Yes, Mandela's legacy.
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TheDemSocialist said:
1.)Never said all communists are "freedom fighters"
2.)Becaue Mandela was a freedom figheter.
3.)Mandela wasnt a communist.
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Saying Mandela wasn't a communist is like saying that Mussolini was never a communist.
 
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There are few people on this planet who I would consider to be close to enlightenment, but I consider Mandiba to be one of them. He sat in a jail cell at the behest of an oppressive regime for all those years and then emerged to not only reunite a torn nation, but did so with loving compassion. He will always have my respect, in life or in death.

Rest in peace, brother.
 
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NIMBY said:
This post belongs in the Africa forum as
Serenity has stated several times..
Too bad **** for brains like you skid marks can't comprehend .
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Hey my first insult here at DP ! :2wave:
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll take it to the Africa thread. And no worries, I understand you were hot just then, I've gotten p/o'ed when some sacred cow of mine is culled as well.
 
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APACHERAT said:
Saying Mandela wasn't a communist is like saying that Mussolini was never a communist.
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Well saying Mandela was a democratic socialist and Mussolini was at one point a socialist early in his life.... So yea your wrong. Both were never communists.
 
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APACHERAT said:
Saying Mandela wasn't a communist is like saying that Mussolini was never a communist.
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"It is true, as I have already stated, that I have been influenced by Marxist thought. But this is also true of many of the leaders of the new independent States. Such widely different persons as Gandhi, Nehru, Nkrumah, and Nasser all acknowledge this fact. We all accept the need for some form of socialism to enable our people to catch up with the advanced countries of this world and to overcome their legacy of extreme poverty. But this does not mean we are Marxists."-Nelson Mandela.


NOT A COMMUNIST
 
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All dead are sacred cows IMHO if they are decent people and have lived good lives..
It sounds like we have several posters who are willing to prove otherwise on Mandela so have at it..
Another result of our polarized times along with the aid of the internet is how we go postal on the dead..
Where have you been since February ?
Dibbler said:
Hey my first insult here at DP ! :2wave:
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll take it to the Africa thread. And no worries, I understand you were hot just then, I've gotten p/o'ed when some sacred cow of mine is culled as well.
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They are when talking about Obama..
He forgot who he was talking about..
Soon GOP Congresspeople will accuse Obama of using the Mandela death as a distraction from PPACA,
though I know you don't like that elevation in the discourse .
Unitedwestand13 said:
that does not make any sense.

Mussolini was a facist. FACIST ARE NOT THE SAME AS BEING A COMMUNIST!
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Unitedwestand13 said:
that does not make any sense.

Mussolini was a facist. FACIST ARE NOT THE SAME AS BEING A COMMUNIST!
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Before Mussolini invented fascism, he was a socialist/communist. He use to be the editor of Avanti.

>" "You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me." "<

Benito Mussolini
 
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Unitedwestand13 said:
that does not make any sense.

Mussolini was a facist. FACIST ARE NOT THE SAME AS BEING A COMMUNIST!
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Yeah, the commies murdered eay more people.

60,000 have been murdered in SA since 1994.
 
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Before this thread devolves further and further and further in hatred and political pettiness and bickering I'd like to say the world lost a giant of a man today. We could use more people in this world like Nelson Mandela.
 
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RIP Mr Mandela. You made the world a better place.
 
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I am greatly saddened by the passing of this great man. His contribution to his country, and to the world as a whole, cannot be overestimated. Decades of suffering could not snuff out the light of love in his heart for his people, nor taint his forgiveness for those who had so grievously wronged him. RIP, Mr. Mandela. Your greatness is your legacy, and will not be forgotten.
 
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apdst said:
Yeah, the commies murdered eay more people.

60,000 have been murdered in SA since 1994.
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Not as bad as 1/4 of all the women in South Africa have been raped.

South Africa after apartheid has become known as the "Rape Capitol of the World."

>" Lizette Lancaster, manager of the ISS Crime and Justice Information Hub, says there are many complex reasons South Africa has such a high sexual offence rates. The armed struggle against apartheid and the violent backlash and suppression that followed have led to a normalization of violence in South African society, she said...


“Rape is one of the most under-reported crimes in South Africa,” noted the NGO coalition Shukumisa. It points to research, conducted in Gauteng in 2010, that found one-quarter of women questioned in the study “had been raped in the course of their lifetimes, while almost one in 12 women had been raped in 2009..."<

IRIN Global | A look behind the statistics of South Africa
 
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TurtleDude said:
While I didn't agree with some of his politics, you have to admire a man who didn't seem consumed by bitterness over his treatment by the apartheid nationalist party
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Well seeing as he got off pretty light for the numerous killings he was behind, how could he be bitter.
 
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