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Headlines : InternationalMandela Finally Dropped from U.S. Terror Watch List
“The label of ‘terrorist’ will no longer be affixed to associates of the ANC — among them one of the world’s great heroes, Nelson Mandela.” - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman
The legislation which was first conceived during the 1980s while Ronald Reagan was president, was to fight “terrorism,” revolutionary terrorism. Critics always argued that the legislation was anachronistic and wrongfully labeled heroes and freedom fighters as terrorists.
[Posted By Dilated_Rebel]Republished from Yahoo! News
The United States has removed former South African president Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress from a three-decade old immigration watch list for possible terrorists, the White House said Tuesday.
In time for the anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner’s 90th birthday on July 18, President George W. Bush signed a bill Tuesday which effectively ended a system in which Mandela had to get special certification from the US secretary of state that he is not a terrorist in order to visit the United States.
Now Mandela and members of the ANC will be able to simply apply for visas to travel to the United States, the State Department said.
Posted by Dilated_Rebel
Born and raised very humbly in a “small town” in southern California, I was a product of different worlds. Literally, part of my family descends from Mexico the rest from Portugal and Uruguay. This mixture had kept me from supporting any racist psyche found...
he was listed after aparthied because he supported Quaddaffi… now that the Col. has been rehabed his friends can come off the list
Funny how a humanitarian can support terror, huh?
I remember being in grade 5 and watching the news that Reagan ordered bombs dropped on Quaddaffi’s house, and that the bombs missed him and killed his adopted daughter, Hannah, instead….
I remember that I felt so fucking bad for that kid that i started to cry…
And, Moses terrorized Egyptians.
From some perspective Mandela’s apartheid is the greatest story ever told.Government violence can do only one thing, and that is to breed counter violence. We have warned repeatedly that the government, by resorting continually to violence, will breed in this country counter-violence amongst the people, till ultimately, if there is no dawning of sanity on the part of the government – ultimately, the dispute between the government and my people will finish up by being settled in violence and by force. Already there are indications in this country that people, my people, Africans, are turning to deliberate acts of violence and of force against the government, in order to persuade the government, in the only language which this government shows by its own behaviour that it understands. — ‘Black man in a white court’, Nelson Mandela’s First Court Statement – 1962
All lawful modes of expressing opposition to this principle had been closed by legislation, and we were placed in a position in which we had either to accept a permanent state of inferiority, or to defy the Government. We chose to defy the law. We first broke the law in a way which avoided any recourse to violence; when this form was legislated against, and then the Government resorted to a show of force to crush opposition to its policies, only then did we decide to answer violence with violence. — ‘I am Prepared to Die’, Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964