Lest We Forget:
The Truth about Nelson Mandela
(Various articles by Aida Parker and others)
Karl Marx said: “The first battlefield is the re-writing of history.” This is an age when, very rapidly, the truth about the past is being “revised” by Marxists, liberals and others, and unless this wicked revisionism is resisted, people will be thoroughly indoctrinated with lies and myths presented as “truth”. Already vast damage has been done, and even many who lived through more recent historical events have been so well indoctrinated, and conditioned to think along the “party” line, that they actually believe the lies and myths they have been fed. Very few people think critically anymore. They do not even know how to do so. They simply swallow whatever they are told by their Red, almost-Red, and religious-Red heroes and masters.
The purpose of these articles is to counter the deliberate re-writing of history with those stubborn things called facts, and that wonderful thing called truth. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20).
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Introduction
by Shaun Willcock
The ugly truth about the world’s favourite terrorist-turned-politician, Nelson Mandela, has been buried deep beneath the media-created myth of the man, who for decades has been given such a whitewashing by the liberal/Socialist media that the real Mandela disappeared from the world’s eyes, and in his place appeared a messiah, a saviour, a demigod, whose only resemblance to the real Mandela was the outer shell. The man who emerged from prison and became president of South Africa was at heart the same man who had gone into prison so many years before, a Communist revolutionary, much older but just as committed to the ideology and the revolution as he had been when the prison gates slammed shut on him. Yet by the time he emerged from prison, the worldwide liberal/leftist media had repackaged him, presenting him to the world as a wise, big-hearted, moderate, decent man, who had been unjustly imprisoned for his stand against apartheid, and who would, when he became president of South Africa, govern this complex and diverse country with wisdom and magnanimity, creating a wonderful earthly paradise where all would live happily ever after.
The real Nelson Mandela was vastly different from the media-created myth. But this was the deliberately-constructed image which the international Communist movement, and Mandela’s own organisation, the African National Congress (ANC), wanted the world to believe; and the media, so enamoured with Communism and the ANC, ensured the dissemination of this myth. As the saying goes, tell a lie, tell it often enough, and the people will believe it. They did. In their millions.
And this media-created, lying image of Mandela the wise, Mandela the magnanimous, Mandela the elderly statesman, Mandela the Great, indeed Mandela the Messiah, continued to be fed in the years that followed, until he had been transformed into a man so great that in the eyes of multiplied millions he deserved to be placed higher than virtually all others, even on an equality with, or perhaps greater than, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. He had become a Christ-figure.
Alas, if only South Africa’s blacks, and the world in general, had looked beyond the myth to see the truth about this man! Their failure to do so meant that Mandela became South Africa’s president, and led this once-great country down the slippery path of Socialism. Today, South Africa is just another self-imploding African Socialist wreck, and this tragic state of affairs is the true legacy of Nelson Mandela and his vile organisation, the ANC. Yet incredibly, such is the Mandela myth that even as SA continued to spiral downwards, year after year, multiplied millions throughout South Africa and the world continued to gaze with loving, star-struck adoration at Mandela himself; and this idolatry will continue long after his death. No matter how bad things get in SA, “the people” will continue to separate the myth of Mandela from the organisation he so faithfully served, the atrocious ANC, and will continue to view him, in their hearts and minds, as having been somehow above it and beyond it and in some mysterious way disconnected from it. In truth, as the articles below show, he was a lifelong, loyal servant of the African National Congress/South African Communist Party (ANC/SACP) alliance. But such is the power of an image, and SA’s tragedy is that the lying image has taken on a life of its own, and will live on long beyond his death.
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Mandela… Political Rip van Winkle
by Aida Parker
(Published in The Aida Parker Newsletter, Issue No. 134, First Quarter 1990. This article was written soon after Mandela was freed from prison and four years before the ANC came to power and Mandela became president of South Africa)
When discussing Mr Nelson Mandela, it is important to get the time frame right. The prison gates slammed on him in June, 1964. This was the year British socialist leader Harold Wilson first took up residence at No 10 Downing Street; when Lyndon Baines Johnson was in the White House – and the US was getting deeper into the Vietnam War. It was the year when Khrushchev was kicked out of the Kremlin, to be replaced by Alexei Kosygin.
How many, other than historians and political scientists, have any distinct memory of those men today? An entire generation has grown up who knew them not at all. In consequence, how many can claim to have any true picture of the real-life Nelson Mandela?
Let’s be brutally frank. The problem with Mandela is that he long ago ceased to be a human being. His incarceration worked miracles for his reputation. Here we have hagiolatry (worship of saints) personified. A man who in his time was a pretty run-of-the-mill revolutionary has over the years become the epitome of everything good that the international Left reveres.
After 25 years behind bars he has been propagandised into a fantasy figure, mythologised into a “Black Messiah.” As far as the anti-apartheid legions are concerned, merely being associated with his name means that they, and their cause too, are similarly canonised. They, too, become saintly because he is there. He has much the same magic, the same mystique, as did that other hero of media fiction, Che Guevara. He is a poster image, one you hang on the wall; of whom pop songs are written; roads named; statues erected; films are made.
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Three Mistakes
A meeting was held where it was decided to promote one prisoner as the ultimate martyr: the choice – Mandela. One reason for the choice, perhaps the ultimate reason: that Winnie Mandela was young, attractive, with a much sharper dress sense than the modest, kindly but admittedly dowdy Albertina Sisulu. Most political scientists agree that in his time Mandela made three deadly blunders – and his marriage was the worst.
His three great mistakes are listed: 1. To allow the SA Communist Party to infiltrate and finally dominate the ANC. 2. To endorse violence, a recipe for defeat. 3. To marry Winnie. Of this British journalist Bruce Anderson wrote in the London Sunday Telegraph: “Silly, empty-headed, frivolous and irresponsible, she was the worst possible consort. His imprisonment gave her opportunity to develop ridiculous pretensions as ‘the Mother of the Nation.’”
The rest of the story:
http://www.biblebasedministries.co.uk/2013/07/12/lest-we-forget-the-truth-about-nelson-mandela/
The Truth about Nelson Mandela
(Various articles by Aida Parker and others)
Karl Marx said: “The first battlefield is the re-writing of history.” This is an age when, very rapidly, the truth about the past is being “revised” by Marxists, liberals and others, and unless this wicked revisionism is resisted, people will be thoroughly indoctrinated with lies and myths presented as “truth”. Already vast damage has been done, and even many who lived through more recent historical events have been so well indoctrinated, and conditioned to think along the “party” line, that they actually believe the lies and myths they have been fed. Very few people think critically anymore. They do not even know how to do so. They simply swallow whatever they are told by their Red, almost-Red, and religious-Red heroes and masters.
The purpose of these articles is to counter the deliberate re-writing of history with those stubborn things called facts, and that wonderful thing called truth. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20).
.......
Introduction
by Shaun Willcock
The ugly truth about the world’s favourite terrorist-turned-politician, Nelson Mandela, has been buried deep beneath the media-created myth of the man, who for decades has been given such a whitewashing by the liberal/Socialist media that the real Mandela disappeared from the world’s eyes, and in his place appeared a messiah, a saviour, a demigod, whose only resemblance to the real Mandela was the outer shell. The man who emerged from prison and became president of South Africa was at heart the same man who had gone into prison so many years before, a Communist revolutionary, much older but just as committed to the ideology and the revolution as he had been when the prison gates slammed shut on him. Yet by the time he emerged from prison, the worldwide liberal/leftist media had repackaged him, presenting him to the world as a wise, big-hearted, moderate, decent man, who had been unjustly imprisoned for his stand against apartheid, and who would, when he became president of South Africa, govern this complex and diverse country with wisdom and magnanimity, creating a wonderful earthly paradise where all would live happily ever after.
The real Nelson Mandela was vastly different from the media-created myth. But this was the deliberately-constructed image which the international Communist movement, and Mandela’s own organisation, the African National Congress (ANC), wanted the world to believe; and the media, so enamoured with Communism and the ANC, ensured the dissemination of this myth. As the saying goes, tell a lie, tell it often enough, and the people will believe it. They did. In their millions.
And this media-created, lying image of Mandela the wise, Mandela the magnanimous, Mandela the elderly statesman, Mandela the Great, indeed Mandela the Messiah, continued to be fed in the years that followed, until he had been transformed into a man so great that in the eyes of multiplied millions he deserved to be placed higher than virtually all others, even on an equality with, or perhaps greater than, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. He had become a Christ-figure.
Alas, if only South Africa’s blacks, and the world in general, had looked beyond the myth to see the truth about this man! Their failure to do so meant that Mandela became South Africa’s president, and led this once-great country down the slippery path of Socialism. Today, South Africa is just another self-imploding African Socialist wreck, and this tragic state of affairs is the true legacy of Nelson Mandela and his vile organisation, the ANC. Yet incredibly, such is the Mandela myth that even as SA continued to spiral downwards, year after year, multiplied millions throughout South Africa and the world continued to gaze with loving, star-struck adoration at Mandela himself; and this idolatry will continue long after his death. No matter how bad things get in SA, “the people” will continue to separate the myth of Mandela from the organisation he so faithfully served, the atrocious ANC, and will continue to view him, in their hearts and minds, as having been somehow above it and beyond it and in some mysterious way disconnected from it. In truth, as the articles below show, he was a lifelong, loyal servant of the African National Congress/South African Communist Party (ANC/SACP) alliance. But such is the power of an image, and SA’s tragedy is that the lying image has taken on a life of its own, and will live on long beyond his death.
.......
Mandela… Political Rip van Winkle
by Aida Parker
(Published in The Aida Parker Newsletter, Issue No. 134, First Quarter 1990. This article was written soon after Mandela was freed from prison and four years before the ANC came to power and Mandela became president of South Africa)
When discussing Mr Nelson Mandela, it is important to get the time frame right. The prison gates slammed on him in June, 1964. This was the year British socialist leader Harold Wilson first took up residence at No 10 Downing Street; when Lyndon Baines Johnson was in the White House – and the US was getting deeper into the Vietnam War. It was the year when Khrushchev was kicked out of the Kremlin, to be replaced by Alexei Kosygin.
How many, other than historians and political scientists, have any distinct memory of those men today? An entire generation has grown up who knew them not at all. In consequence, how many can claim to have any true picture of the real-life Nelson Mandela?
Let’s be brutally frank. The problem with Mandela is that he long ago ceased to be a human being. His incarceration worked miracles for his reputation. Here we have hagiolatry (worship of saints) personified. A man who in his time was a pretty run-of-the-mill revolutionary has over the years become the epitome of everything good that the international Left reveres.
After 25 years behind bars he has been propagandised into a fantasy figure, mythologised into a “Black Messiah.” As far as the anti-apartheid legions are concerned, merely being associated with his name means that they, and their cause too, are similarly canonised. They, too, become saintly because he is there. He has much the same magic, the same mystique, as did that other hero of media fiction, Che Guevara. He is a poster image, one you hang on the wall; of whom pop songs are written; roads named; statues erected; films are made.
......
Three Mistakes
A meeting was held where it was decided to promote one prisoner as the ultimate martyr: the choice – Mandela. One reason for the choice, perhaps the ultimate reason: that Winnie Mandela was young, attractive, with a much sharper dress sense than the modest, kindly but admittedly dowdy Albertina Sisulu. Most political scientists agree that in his time Mandela made three deadly blunders – and his marriage was the worst.
His three great mistakes are listed: 1. To allow the SA Communist Party to infiltrate and finally dominate the ANC. 2. To endorse violence, a recipe for defeat. 3. To marry Winnie. Of this British journalist Bruce Anderson wrote in the London Sunday Telegraph: “Silly, empty-headed, frivolous and irresponsible, she was the worst possible consort. His imprisonment gave her opportunity to develop ridiculous pretensions as ‘the Mother of the Nation.’”
The rest of the story:
http://www.biblebasedministries.co.uk/2013/07/12/lest-we-forget-the-truth-about-nelson-mandela/
