nelson mandela

[lumos2000]

yes obviously, but I dought everyone at that funeral would be so forgiving.

 

[ian.allen2]

There will be a lot there just for publicity as well.

 

[highlandsflyer]

But hopefully Usher won't be wailing into a mic whilst stroking the casket, watched by a tearful Beyoncé and P.Diddy Didn't He Though..

 

[grahame]

I'd love to see Cameron at the funeral. Especially if the other mourners got wind of Cameron's views of Mandela expressed in 1985:
http://celebritydaze.com/2013/06/mandel ... prptest2=0

 

[pigman]

work blockers are preventing me see the 1985 link, but Cameron would have been young then (obviously!). We all did and said stupid things as teenagers, doesn't mean we haven't learnt and changed.

 

[tintin40]

I'd love to see Cameron at the funeral. Especially if the other mourners got wind of Cameron's views of Mandela expressed in 1985:
http://celebritydaze.com/2013/06/mandel ... prptest2=0

great poster. I bet that won't be on the Conservative web site.

 

[rosstheboss]

Mandela was no angel in his youth either, let's remember the facts.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I guess the majority have put that in context. Let's remember that.

 

[tintin40]

Mandela was no angel in his youth either, let's remember the facts.

true. He is an angel now. But only the good die young.

 

[Ivo]

Cameron is not the only one who 'forgets' about his previous acts and speeches. Some even forget very fast. Today Dutch TV repeated a programme about Mandela and the various Dutch people who met him. Among them former Amsterdam mayor van Thijn. Scenes of Mandela's first visit to Amsterdam were shown. When Mandela is shown to a balcony by van Thijn you can just hear the last remnants of booing before the crowd changes to cheering. No explanation about that. I was there, I know why. In the front ranks of the square there were many known faces from anti-apartheid demonstrations. Among them many who had been at the blockades of the Shell laboratory in Amsterdam not that many years before. The same man leading Mandela to the balcony was allready mayor of Amsterdam then. He ordered the policy to disperse the blockade using massive violence. It was even the first time in the Netherlands that tear gas was used since the Dodewaard protests. My memory doesn't fail me, it looks like his does fail.