U.S. has Mandela on terrorist list (Condoleezza Rice, Congress, independent)

[expat007]

U.S. has Mandela on terrorist list

WASHINGTON — Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation "embarrassing," and some members of Congress vow to fix it.
The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC), the once-banned anti-Apartheid organization. In the 1970s and '80s, the ANC was officially designated a terrorist group by the country's ruling white minority. Other countries, including the United States, followed suit.
Because of this, Rice told a Senate committee recently, her department has to issue waivers for ANC members to travel to the USA.






U.S. has Mandela on terrorist list - USATODAY.com

[arimor]

the terror watch list is a joke, bush and a wad of cia operatives should be on there including j edgar hoover.

[Delta Planter]

Originally Posted by arimor

the terror watch list is a joke, bush and a wad of cia operatives should be on there including j edgar hoover.

gone be hard getting jeh. a joke, eh? you must be fearing it, then? or would you like to be included?

[Nietzschean Gangsta]

It is a good thing that Nelson Mandela is on the Terror Watch List, and hopefully he will stay on it indefinitely. Nelson Mandela is a tireless defender of human dignity and a shameless advocate of social equality and human rights, furthermore he's an advocate of Democratic rule.

Such a person cannot be considered as anything but a danger to the number one purveyor of violence and repression in the world; the godfather uncle Sam, who acts and behaves more like a mafia don, than a respectable country.

[arimor]

Originally Posted by Delta Planter

gone be hard getting jeh. a joke, eh? you must be fearing it, then? or would you like to be included?

nah i found it amusing he's on there after he's a freedom fighter.
President.Regan labeled him a terrorist cause he(PRESIDENT regan) supported apartheid! but we're suppose to be a free democratic society of freedom?

whispers" how many of those societies the U.S messed up for its own agenda".

[LauraKGrisgby]

Originally Posted by expat007

U.S. has Mandela on terrorist list

Watch out that Duh-bya doesn't declare war on South Africa.

[Tricky D]

Originally Posted by expat007

The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC), the once-banned anti-Apartheid organization.

Would those rebel Americans who fought against the British in their war over an independent America end up on the same Terror Watch List if time travel was possible?
I guess rules are rules and we can't make any exceptions, right?

[chielgirl]

Tricky, this is the US we're talking about. No reason to use reason in our decisions.

[Tricky D]

I guess expat007 finds nothing wrong with apartheid since America also used it in the past?

[arimor]

Originally Posted by Tricky D

I guess expat007 finds nothing wrong with apartheid since America also used it in the past?

isrealis and the president regan administration did not think so.