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To: Alex MG who wrote (756924)	12/9/2013 9:54:42 PM
From: puborectalis	1 Recommendation Recommended By Alex MG Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576099

these rednecks are selfish laissez faire cretins who were never team players.....none of the Musketeers was GOP member. They wouldn't even know who wrote..."ask not for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee"

To: Alex MG who wrote (756924)	12/9/2013 11:03:16 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bonefish Brian Sullivan TideGlider Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576099

Alex, Nelson Mandela simply fought for equal rights as a human being for humanity in general, sacrificing his personal freedom, and eventually won the day, the guy is a true hero of humanity... He was all that ... and a communist. But may he rest in peace, and may his legacy be one of racial and class reconciliation. Tenchusatsu

To: Alex MG who wrote (756924)	12/10/2013 4:14:40 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576099

Hey Alex, welcome to the discussion. I see you are once again proving to be a complete fucktard. Here are the facts, as reported by NPR, which we all know is a left leaning organization, so you can't blame them for being a GOP media outlet. Let me know when you are ready to apologize for being a complete idiot and ignoramus. Mandela was a Communist. Absorb that fact, you fucking moron. --------- npr.org "For decades, American presidents backed apartheid in the name of anti-communism," noted commentator Peter Beinart. "In South Africa, it was the Soviet bloc — the same communist governments that were brutally repressing their own people — that helped the ANC fight apartheid." In addition, Mandela's politics were complicated. His African National Congress has been closely aligned for decades with the South African Communist Party. Members of both organizations studied and received military training in the Soviet Union. And while Mandela and other ANC leaders called for a multiracial democracy, many members of his group viewed communist countries as more sympathetic to their cause than Western nations. British historian Stephen Ellis published a 2011 paper citing documents from the South African Communist Party that state Mandela was one of the group's leaders. Whatever Mandela's role may have been, his open alliance with the Communist Party was often cited by South Africa's government and some conservatives in the United States as reason to be suspicious of him and the ANC's intentions. For years, the U.S. labeled the ANC a terrorist group because it carried out attacks against civilian targets in South Africa. And it was Mandela himself who established the ANC's armed wing in the early 1960s before he was imprisoned.