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Old Dec 5, 2013 | 02:10 PM
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RIP Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela dead at 95: The life of the anti-apartheid hero & South African President - NY Daily News






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Old Dec 5, 2013 | 02:12 PM
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Heroes are become more and more rare these days. The world has lost a great man.
Old Dec 5, 2013 | 02:30 PM
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Kind of eerie that I was listening to the specials last week and made a comment about this song because it goes back to a time when he was still in prison; and that wasn't even that long ago. Much respect to and rest in peace Nelson. G/F said now he is truly free.

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Woke up to this today, RIP Nelson Mandela, if only we had more leaders like him.
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this movie about him just came out last week




I actually watched Invictus just a few weeks ago. good movie, morgan freeman plays mandela

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Wow rip to another great man! It's crazy how famous people dir in packs of 3 first Paul walker and now Nelson
Old Dec 5, 2013 | 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by w0ng3r
Woke up to this today, RIP Nelson Mandela, if only we had more leaders like him.
That order terrorist bombings?
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That order terrorist bombings?
Not to mention, he was a ****ing communist.

I'm just going to leave this here... 3 Things You Didn
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I'll stir the pot.

There was this other group that charged violent rebellious movements against a tyrannous oppressive government in the name of freedom and equality. Some d-bags named Washington, Adams and Jefferson. Yeah, **** those guys.
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Originally Posted by Brfatal

That order terrorist bombings?
Originally Posted by Lurk

Not to mention, he was a ****ing communist.
Well aren't you two well informed? Have some ****ing respect.

Originally Posted by Rev. Rob Large
I'll stir the pot.

There was this other group that charged violent rebellious movements against a tyrannous oppressive government in the name of freedom and equality. Some d-bags named Washington, Adams and Jefferson. Yeah, **** those guys.
well said sir.
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Originally Posted by Rev. Rob Large
I'll stir the pot.

There was this other group that charged violent rebellious movements against a tyrannous oppressive government in the name of freedom and equality. Some d-bags named Washington, Adams and Jefferson. Yeah, **** those guys.
Dick Cheney didnt like mandella
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Originally Posted by Brfatal
That order terrorist bombings?
That fight for equal rights.
Old Dec 6, 2013 | 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Lurk
Not to mention, he was a ****ing communist.

I'm just going to leave this here... 3 Things You Didn
He was a member of the communist part. He found backing for his movements there. He said many many times that he did not hold to most of the communist values.

" In his court testimony Mandela said that he did not become a communist, though he qualified his statement. If by a communist was meant a person who was a member of the party and who believed in the theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and who adhered strictly to party discipline, then, Mandela claimed, he had not become a communist. "



I have met a lot of "republicans" that don't hold to all "republican" values but you find similar views there.

Our president is a socialist that bombing people and killing people for no good reason. Mandela was fighting for equal rights against an increasingly more violent group that held no value for those they killed. They killed 70 protesters and put Mandela in prison for trying to overthrow their government. THe violence from his side came after those 70 people were killed.


You could say the same about our violence on the middle east....



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