Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 10 2002 @ 07:23 PM CDT

Nelson, Nelson, Nelson! For shame! After all the U.S. did for you! I mean, we allowed a racist, fascist government to lock you up for the best and better part of your life, but after all, we did repent, and let you out of prison, and make you a hero! Doesn\'t that count for anything! I mean, children here write book reports about you!

You should really reconsider what you said. I mean, you remember what happened to the good Dr. King when he bit off more than he could chew, right?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 10 2002 @ 08:34 PM CDT

I think Mr. Mandela is just providing aid and confort to the terrorists.

Wait, wait, wasn\'t he a \'terrorist\' at one time?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 10 2002 @ 09:00 PM CDT

Mandela should head a United Nations peace keeping force that would help remove the current regime in Washington, overseeing a peaceful transition to a system that does not threaten world peace (Cheney for one should be put under some kind of close supervision :). If a majority of U.S. citizens supported it then there would be major defection in the military and no resistance to Mandela\'s mission. With world peace finally achieved, countries could begin to decentralize their governments, redistrubute wealth and land, the U.N. could be abolished as superflous, as borders disappear, etc...

well it\'s nice to dream anyway

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 10 2002 @ 09:54 PM CDT

What makes you think that \"world peace [would] finally [be] achieved\" just because the US government was replaced? Leaving aside the question of what, exactly, would replace it, there are hundreds of other governments out there, many of which make ours look downright benevolent. And when has a governmental body, global or otherwise, \"be[en] abolished as superflous\"?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 11 2002 @ 03:34 AM CDT

Propaganda is to a democracy(commonly used name for a capitalist state) what violence is to a dictatorship.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 11 2002 @ 06:16 AM CDT

Actually the us is the worst violator of human rights in *other countries*. No one can claim to make us look benevolent

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 11 2002 @ 06:42 PM CDT

glad someone gets it anyway, it\'s not all humor though, i mean if the US stopped supporting so many of the world\'s violent dictators, if the US actually became a force for encouraging world peace, with a government whose main goal were to eventually abolish itself along with every other centralized hierarchical institution in the world...

like i said, i\'m just dreamin\', i don\'t think it will be that easy to establish world anarchy, though that\'s really the way it \"should\" happen if everyone would all of a sudden wise up, develop a conscience and start doing the right thing like they \"should\"

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 11 2002 @ 11:31 AM CDT

I think that comment was what we around here commonly refer to as \"humor.\" Allow me to explain.

See, the United States often demands that that international forces (led by the US of course) supervise regime changes in other countries. So quasiestereo\'s comment was an attempt to be ironic and funny by suggesting that the United States experience something similar. Get it?

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