Did you know yahoo removes questions that reveal nelson mandelas time as a terrorist?

Question

The question I asked.Perfectly sound, about nelson mandelas murdering ,violence encouraging darker days before the loony left wing made him a hero.
A lot of the younger generation dont realise the truth about his past and attrocities he was responsible for.I just wanted to make ppl aware.
Surprisingly, many ppl were aware , but it just took one person against free speech to report me and stifle an interesting debate.

Answer 1

No I did not know that, but come to think of it this is the first time I have seen his name on YaHoo. It would seem to me to be a rather foolish type of censorship, because his terrorist past is an historical fact and a matter of record. As a young man he did some abhorrent acts and deserved to go to prison. However he served enough years in prison, and it was an humane act to release him;especially as he appears to have used those years wisely. It seems that he is now a quite different man from the one who went to prison.
all those years ago.

Answer 2

I think it's wrong that Yahoo deleted your post. But I think you are painting with a pretty broad brush to call Mandela a terrorist.

The African National Congress was definitely the instigator of several horrible acts of violence. But Nelson Mandela did not encourage those acts. He recognized the need for armed struggle but did not condone violence against civilians. Mandela was part of a more peaceful ideological sect within the ANC and after his release from prison was even criticized by others within the organization for being too much a dove. Which brings me to another point: He was in prison during virtually the entire time in which terrorist acts by the ANC occured.

If not for Mandela's ability to encourage peace and respect for the white minority in South Africa after his release, there could have been catastrophe. Look at Zimbabwe to see what might have been.

Answer 3

Nelson Mandela was fighting a regime that was also killing and torturing. He was the leader of the ANC (African National Congress) which, along with many OTHER parties, was fighting Apartheid. So he certainly wasn't alone. But yes, it does point to the fact that he was by no means a saint, contrary to popular belief.

A few years back some ANC politicians couldn't go overseas on a conference or something, because they were still listed as having terrorist backgrounds and criminal records, from their freedom-fighting days in Apartheid. So yes, they pretty much 'theoretically' have criminal records. What si interesting is that once power changes hands, different people change in status from hero to zero & vice-versa.

Maybe your question was removed as it was possibly subjectively skewed towards a too-negative view of Mandela's, and the ANC's, actions?

Answer 4

As part of the "loony left wing" I agree that Mandela is a hero. While I do not agree with violence, and neither did Mandela, it is sometimes necessary to meet violence with violence. (Otherwise how did the ridiculous right manage to get us into Iraq??)

Mandela was charged with treason for encouraging violent resistance to the apartheid regime of the Republic of South Africa. Mandela's reponse to his arrest and trial was to explain the ANC's position and to plead that the Umhonto we Sizwe (Spear of Africa or MK) had come to a position regarding violence; because to not resist would be tantamount to suicide. The targets that Mandela as military leader attacked were considered military or government targets.

I am saddened by the fact that your question was removed, and that a complaint by one person alone "stifle[d] an interesting debate." I always remember "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." I suppose it is determined by which side of the fence you sit on.

Answer 5

Try to write into another way. you can explain and use soft words to describe his past acts.
Yahoo removes everything where is easy to find complains.... but always you will find people that can see world as a Black and White.
Who fought by his freedom (exception Gandhi) did/had been involved in violent things. And people cannot understand that.

We are living into a Label AGE, were complex analysis and context are not part labelling situations wihtout understand that everything are part of CAUSE and CONSEQUENCE and without understand motives, influences and evolution...... Peace, War, Hate does not come from one day to anther, but it takes generations, cultural influences and political movements.

You are right into your question and is interesting to wake up people about different sides of history....(there is only one, winners version)

Answer 6

I am South African and am very much aware of what Mandela did during the apartheid, we even learnt about it in History, but even though he did do those things, it was for the freedom or the balck people , and more black people died during apartheid than white people, it doesnt make it right, but a lot of inncoent people die in the struggle doe freedom, people are still dying to day for it in other countries. I am white by the way and even though I was born in the eighty's , I saw how our Nation came together when he was released.

It is wrong that because someone didnt agree with your views, they reported you though, because what you said is true. Everyone is entitled to freedom of speech.

Answer 7

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Atrocities? Maybe. Compared with the loony right? No comparison.
I remember, after Apartheid, talking to a (black) South African asylum seeker in Switzerland. A well educated young man. His appeal had been rejected, but in the meantime he had met, a Swiss lawyer and intended to marry her. 'But you have to leave,' I said, 'what will you do?'. 'I'll go back home, lie low until the marriage papers are in order and then come back and get married.' 'What about a visa?' 'South Africans don't need a visa for Switzerland.' 'Ah,' I said, 'but they didn't expect the blacks to come.' 'True, but they can hardly stop us now.'
Does anyone really know what it was like for blacks in S.A. during apartheid? Does anyone care?
When I remarked that he didn't have a typical S.A. accent he remarked, quite snootily, 'It's a question of education.' Fair enough!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I agree, they should not have removed the question.

But I need to correct you. Mandela has not committed murder. He was planning to overthrow the government, but before that could happen, he was arrested.

Oh, and he is my hero, for being so forgiving and selfless....Pity he is so old, since his allies are a bit.....well, I will not say more, they might just delete my question.

Answer 10

They will remove anything that anyone complains about. And by the way i fully support all of Nelson Mandelas actions, sometimes you just have to fight.