This thread is going to go badly like the 9-11 thread did.
"Although initially committed to non-violent protest, he co-founded the militant
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961 in association with the
South African Communist Party, leading a
sabotage campaign against the apartheid government. In 1962 he was arrested, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the government, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the
Rivonia Trial" ...Wikipedia.
There's a lot more on the web about his history that applies here.
Mandela knew that violence was the only solution to discrimination against blacks in South Africa and he was correct. The violence he sponsored solved the problem quite effectively.
Violence will solve certain problems we have here in America and across the world with respect to terrorism. Violence directed at the source of the problem (A certain group of people with clear values), just as Mandela's violence was directed at the source of the problem (A certain group of people with clear values).
Mandela was a great man and his message and methods were clear. But don't forget he became a communist and a terrorist after seeing his non-violent methods fail. Who will step up and fill his shoes here in America? Mandella knew that bad people had to die before change would take place. Who will start using the correct methods against the correct people in order to eliminate the problem here in the US? Chris Christi? I don't think so. Barak Obama? Hell, he's on their side!
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.”
―
Frederick Douglass
Mandela is another great revolutionary lost.
