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[[User:Alfred123|Alfred123]] 11:32, 5 June 2008 (EDT)
[[User:Alfred123|Alfred123]] 11:32, 5 June 2008 (EDT)
''And since he was convicted of terrorism this should be included in his article.'' Convicted by a legal system that used an evil brand of racist ideology to maintain the position of the privileged few to the detriment of an oppressed minority. A system that was the object of universal scorn of virtually every country that it shared a continent with and most of the people of conscience in the rest of the world. Really, I have no interest in validating the apartheid regime by recognizing Mandela's conviction for anything more than it was: Part of a racially-motivated attempt to keep a people down.
''Just because you oppose a system, does it give you the right to use violence to change it?'' Sometimes yes. At the risk of invoking Godwin's law this early in the debate (though you already seized the moral high ground by evoking 9-11, so I feel okay with this)- was there any otther solution that violence to the evil of Nazi Germany? Colonialism IS violence. Read Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth," he put it more artfully than I could ever hope to. [[User:AliceBG|AliceBG]] 21:22, 5 June 2008 (EDT)