Former South African President Nelson Mandela received a gift for his 90th birthday as U.S. Congress finally approved the removal of his name from the country’s terrorist list.
The Senate unanimously greenlighted the legislation on a voice vote removing the “terrorist” label and travel restrictions imposed on Mandela and other senior members of his African National Congress (ANC).
The same legislation was passed on May 8 at the House of Representatives…
The ANC was banned by the South African apartheid government in1960, its leaders jailed or forced into exile until the ban on the movement was lifted 30 years later.
Mandela was jailed for 27 years for his leadership in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. He became the first post-apartheid-era president years after his release in 1990…“It is shameful that the United States still treats the ANC this way based solely on its designation as a terrorist organization by the old apartheid South African regime,” said Howard Berman, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs who introduced the legislation.
Mandela, who is turning 90 on July 18, celebrated his 90th birthday with a concert in London’s Hyde Park on Friday in support of his global AIDS campaign.
These idiots in Congress will probably spend the weekend patting themselves on the back for their “anti-racism” campaign. Decades late doesn’t make you a “leader”.
1. There still are RNC loyalists who resent removing Mandela’s name from the terrorist list. The golden dayz of imperialism are never far from the hearts of our “vested” bigots.
2. Anyone here actually believe the rest of the educated world actually gives a shit what the U.S. government thinks of anti-colonial leaders?
Well, it’s about time.
We all know how easy it is to get on the list of terrorist,
And now we know how easy it is to get off of the list!
Yep, that’ll make people forget that impeachment is off the table, you bet. Getting Mandela off the list could’ve taken 2 minutes when discovered. What about the other thousands of innocent people on the list? Homeland security is a joke all around the world.
Overdue.
Um,
reading this.
it says the USA dropped his name from ITS terrorist lists.
Ok..
what about Africa.
and what was his name on the list for??
Because SOME S. African White supremacists nations BANNED him, or tried to KILL HIM for voicing his opinion??
Can you really blame them, after all Mandela is an ex-convict! You can’t be too safe! 😛
#3 – Ah_Yea – And now we know how easy it is to get off of the list!
And that’s for a person with connections…
Jack be nimble jack be quick now you know why politicians are dumb and thick.
This is not a good thing. This should have happened 20 years ago. That it took this long is a blight on ALL of America.
Shame on all of us.
Strange!
This is proof the government is very slow and inept.
You know that with each entry you and I make to this blog, and any other, you are being searched and watched. Mind you, it’s being done by a host of idiots who can’t even spell IQ.
They are so dumb…..(too easy to finish but go ahead. They really are that stupid at the highest levels!!)
“The Lord is making me do it for the benefit of all Americans” Puke…religion is such a waste of human energy.
“We need guns so’s we kan protekt ourselfs so make sure that list is bigger.”
“I love the new science of ID, I feels smarter already by just sayin’ the letters!”
I wonder if he even tried to get off the list or decided he didn’t care? It takes even longer if you don’t bother to try to fix it and some people don’t bother.
Why should he care if he couldn’t get a U.S. visa? Did he want to come here?
First he was in jail and then he had a country to run. Now he is working on other things.
#12 Snugga Bear
>>Puke…religion is such a waste of human energy.
Excellent! Evan a totally unrelated topic like Nelson Mandela can quickly trigger Dvorak’s Law.
Bash those Christian muthafuckas! Do it early, and do it often!!
Sheesh.
http://tinyurl.com/3m2t3y
Wow, I really wish I’d been at that concert!
@6
He did not just voice his opinion, he planted bombs and killed hundreds of innocent woman and children during apartheid.
Research your facts.