Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Myth | A. J. MacDonald, Jr.
Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Myth
Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela, and Yossel Slovo at ANC rally in 1990
Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Myth
“At the end of the day… violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.” ~ Nelson Mandela, 1959“As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., 1956
To alchemists, the phoenix symbolizes the destruction and creation of new forms of matter along the way to the ultimate transformation: physical (= lead into gold) and spiritual (= immortality, as an occult alternative to Christian salvation).
Karl Marx’s Religion of Revolution: Regeneration Through Chaos
“This study examines the major facts of Marx and early Marxism: biography, religion, philosophy, and economics, first published in 1968, it has been updated with a lengthy Preface and a concluding chapter, plus an astounding appendix. “The Myth of Marx’s Poverty,” which proves that in the years when he wrote Das Kapital, Karl Marx was a rich man. It was not poverty that brought Marx to Marxism; it was his all consuming hatred. North shows that it was hatred of humanity that led Marx to revive the ancient pagan belief in social regeneration through systematic chaos, and then to provide it with new clothes and respectability through pseudo-economics. North’s study has been regarded for years as the most penetrating Christian analysis of Marx ever written, and this new edition is even more devastating than the first.”
BOOK – Marx’s Religion of Revolution, by Gary North –http://www.scribd.com/doc/59242941/Marx-Religion-of-Revolution
“Communists everywhere fight to destroy capitalist society and to replace it with Socialism, where the masses of the common people, irrespective of race or colour, will live in complete equality, freedom and happiness. They seek to revolutionise society and are thus called revolutionaries. Those who support capitalism with its class divisions and other evils and who oppose our just struggles to end oppression are called counter revolutionaries.” ~ Nelson Mandela
Source: HOW TO BE A GOOD COMMUNIST, by Nelson Mandela –http://www.rhodesia.nl/goodcom.html
The Revolutionary: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
“During the 1950s Mandela was banned, arrested and imprisoned for challenging apartheid. He was one of the accused in the massive Treason Trial at the end of the decade and, following the 1960 banning of the ANC, he went underground, adopting a number of disguises–sometimes a laborer, other times a chauffeur. The press dubbed him “the Black Pimpernel” because of his ability to evade police. During this time, he and other ANC leaders formed its armed wing–Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Mandela was secretly appointed its commander in chief.”
Source: PBS Frontline – The Revolutionary –http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/revolution/
Nelson Mandela: Flawed Saint
“After the massacre of unarmed black South Africans by police forces at Sharpeville in 1960 and the subsequent banning of the ANC, Mandela abandoned his nonviolent stance and began advocating acts of sabotage against the South African regime. He went underground (during which time he became known as the Black Pimpernel for his ability to evade capture) and was one of the founders of Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”), the military wing of the ANC. In 1962 he went to Algeria for training in guerrilla warfare and sabotage, returning to South Africa later that year. On August 5, shortly after his return, Mandela was arrested at a road block in Natal; he was subsequently sentenced to five years in prison…
“During the Rivonia trial, it had emerged that he advocated cutting off the noses of blacks viewed as traitors or white collaborators. His wife Winnie—whom he divorced in 1996—had during the 1980s advocated that turncoats be punished by “necklacing”—execution by placing a gasoline-filled tire around the victim’s neck and setting it alight. She was later convicted of participating in the stabbing of a young black activist who was suspected of being a police informer.”
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica Blog – Nelson Mandela: Flawed Saint –http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2011/05/nelson-mandela-flawed-saint/
Nelson Mandela`s Defense Of Violence
“A lot of Americans seem suddenly disappointed to find that Nelson Mandela, the man they welcomed to this country as if he were a reincarnated Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, is neither one.
The black South African anti-apartheid leader may be just as brave, eloquent and charismatic as they were, but he is less willing, it turns out, to confine his weaponry to turning the other cheek.”
Source: Chicago Tribune – June 30, 1990 – Nelson Mandela`s Defense Of Violence –http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-06-30/news/9002220709_1_nelson-mandela-american-south-dr-king
NY Times – Why Won’t Mandela Renounce Violence?
See: NY Times – Why Won’t Mandela Renounce Violence? –http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/21/opinion/why-won-t-mandela-renounce-violence.html
Nelson Mandela and the Armed Resistance Movement
“In 1961, Nelson Mandela co-founded and became the first leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”), also known as MK, a new armed wing of the ANC. Several years later, during the trial that would put him behind bars for nearly three decades, he described the reasoning for this radical departure from his party’s original tenets: “[I]t would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and nonviolence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle.”
Source: Nelson Mandela and the Armed Resistance Movement –http://www.history.com/topics/nelson-mandela
On This Day: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
“In 1961, believing that non-violent measures would not be successful, Mandela and other ANC leaders formed Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a militant wing of the ANC. Beginning on Dec. 16, 1961, MK, with Mandela as its commander in chief, launched bombing attacks on government targets and made plans for guerilla warfare.”
Source: On This Day: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison –http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/June/Nelson-Mandela-Sentenced-to-Life-in-Prison.html
MANDELA THE MYTH
“No matter how many speeches are given or how many news articles are written, it is safe to bet that the full truth about Mandela will not be told except by those who know and care about history being recorded factually.
“In fact the truth about Mandela is so hidden in mythology and misinformation that most know nothing about him prior to Robben island, and those who do tend to exercise a form of self censorship, designed to bolster the myth whilst consigning uncomfortable facts into the mists of history.
“For most people all they know about Mandela, prior to his release in 1990, was that he had spent 27 years in prison and was considered by many on the left at the time (and almost everyone now) to be a political prisoner. However, Mandela was no Burmese Aung San Suu Kyi, he was not an innocent, democratically elected leader, imprisoned by an authoritarian government.
“Mandela was the terrorist leader of a violent terrorist organisation, the ANC (African National Congress) which was responsible for many thousands of, mostly black, deaths. The ANC’s blood spattered history is frequently ignored, but reminders occasionally pop up in the most embarrassing places, indeed as recently as this month the names of Nelson Mandela and most of the ANC remained on the US government’s terrorist watch list along with al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and the Tamil Tigers. Of course the forces of political correctness are rushing to amend that embarrassing reminder from the past. However, Mandela’s name was not on that list by mistake, he was there because of his murderous past.”
Source: MANDELA THE MYTH – http://www.spainvia.com/sarahmandela.htm
The Myth: “South Africa’s Bumpy Road to Democracy”
“This article is dedicated to the one year anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, which took place on April 27, 1994. Nelson Mandela became president as a result of the elections. His approach was to create a nonracial democracy, as opposed to multiracialism. The difference between these two approaches is that multiracialism emphasizes diversity but fails to unite people, while nonracial democracy respects diversity but values unity. This unity can be achieved only through bringing the truth about the past to light. In South Africa this is done through a “committee that investigates crimes and promotes reconciliation…, as well as an affirmative action program”
Source: “South Africa’s Bumpy Road to Democracy” –http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/example/sout6302.htm
ANC necklace murder
The Truth: South Africa’s “Regeneration” Through Fiery Chaos
Winnie Mandela: “How should we deal with collaborators and traitors?”Nelson Mandela: “We should cut off their noses!”Winnie Mandela: “No, I have a better idea: we should throw tires filled with gasoline around their necks, light them on fire, and burn them alive.”Nelson Mandela: “That’s a good idea!”
Necklacing
“Necklacing is the practice of summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire, filled with petrol, around a victim’s chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The victim may take up to 20 minutes to die, suffering severe burns in the process.
“The practice became a common method of lethal lynching among black South Africans during disturbances in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. The first recorded instance took place in Uitenhage on 23 March 1985 when black African National Congress (ANC) supporters killed a black councillor who was accused of being a collaborator.
Necklacing “sentences” were sometimes handed down against alleged criminals by “people’s courts” established in black townships as a means of enforcing their own judicial system. Necklacing was also used by the black community to punish members of the black community who were perceived as collaborators with the apartheid government. These included black policemen, town councilors and others, as well as their relatives and associates. The practice was often carried out in the name of the ANC. Winnie Mandela, then-wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and a senior member of the ANC, even made statements that endorsed its use. The ANC officially condemned the practice. The number of deaths per month in South Africa related to political unrest as a whole from 1992 through 1995 ranged from 54 to 605 and averaged 244. These figures are inclusive of massacres as well as deaths not attributed to necklacing.
“The first victim of necklacing, according to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was a young girl, Maki Skosana, in July 1985.”
Source: Wikipedia: Necklacing – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
VIDEO – Winnie Mandela calls for revolution and violence –http://youtu.be/FP_r5ET5CFU
VIDEO – Nelson Mandela Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? – http://youtu.be/R36lCK4IFuk
“As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., 1956“At the end of the day… violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.” ~ Nelson Mandela, 1959
VIDEO – Louis Theroux – Law and Disorder in Johannesburg (2013) - http://youtu.be/KZJ1w9-Umcw
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ReplyDeleteThe Truth: South Africa’s “Regeneration” Through Fiery Chaos Winnie Mandela: “How should we deal with collaborators and traitors?” Nelson Mandela: “We should cut off their noses!” Winnie Mandela: “No, I have a better idea: we should throw tires filled with gasoline around their necks, light them on fire, and burn them alive.” Nelson Mandela: “That’s a good idea!”