{"id":99794,"date":"2013-12-18T23:12:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T23:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-schmoozing-with-terrorists-and-tyrants-at-mandela-memorial\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T23:12:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T23:12:05","slug":"obama-schmoozing-with-terrorists-and-tyrants-at-mandela-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-schmoozing-with-terrorists-and-tyrants-at-mandela-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Schmoozing With Terrorists and Tyrants at Mandela Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>At the December 10 memorial for Nelson Mandela, President Obama joined a sordid lineup of heads of state \u2013 a UN-style dictators&#8217; club \u2013 to lavish unstinted praise and adulation upon the former president of South Africa, who died on December 5. In his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fthe-press-office%2F2013%2F12%2F10%2Fremarks-president-obama-memorial-service-former-south-african-president-\">eulogy<\/a>, President Obama compared Mandela to America&#8217;s Founding Fathers and referred to him as \u201ca giant of history\u201d and \u201cthe great liberator,\u201d invoking Mandela&#8217;s name as an inspiration for the advancement of freedom, justice, equality, and human rights throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>However, as <em>The New American<\/em> has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F15888-saint-mandela-not-so-fast\">reported<\/a> for decades, the carefully constructed sainted image of Mandela is marred by a host of facts and overwhelming documentary evidence, to wit: <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mandela was, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F15888-saint-mandela-not-so-fast\">throughout his entire adult career<\/a>, not only an underground member of the violent, Soviet-directed South African Communist Party, but was also a top leader, a member of the Central Committee of the SACP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mandela worked closely for decades with Joe Slovo, head of the SACP (and a Soviet KGB colonel) to help the Reds take control of the African National Congress and purge it of all leaders who opposed the SACP&#8217;s Soviet ties and Communist terrorist tactics. (The photo below shows Mandela and Slovo giving the communist clenched-fist salute in front of a large image of the Soviet hammer &amp; sickle.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mandela and Slovo were appointed by the SACP as the co-leaders of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the Communist-created terrorist group that viciously tortured and murdered thousands of black South Africans, as well as whites, often employing the ANC&#8217;s signature <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F13096-the-comrades-necklace\">\u201cnecklace\u201d<\/a> method of terror\/torture\/murder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mandela steadfastly denied, time after time over the decades, his membership in the SACP and Umkhonto we Sizwe, but on the day after his death, the SACP released a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F17128-south-african-communist-party-admits-mandela-s-leadership-role\">statement<\/a> acknowledging that he had been a top SACP leader all along. This admission is also an admission that Mandela was a lifelong liar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Those who argue that the SACP\/Umkhonto we Sizwe ties belong to an earlier, younger Mandela and shouldn&#8217;t reflect on his later, wiser years, must deal with the facts of his continued involvement in and support for  the organizations to the end of his days, and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F15888-saint-mandela-not-so-fast\">video<\/a> of him singing the Umkhonto we Sizwe anthem, a genocide song used to stir up black mobs to kill whites.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the Mandela memorial attracted many of the world&#8217;s worst oppressors, all of whom joined President Obama in posturing for \u201cpeace,\u201d \u201cjustice,\u201d \u201cfreedom,\u201d and \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/images\/castro_obama_ap.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Raul Castro and President Obama\" width=\"275\" align=\"right\">President Obama went out of his way to meet and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fusnews%2Fforeign-policy%2Fitem%2F17149-obama-praises-mandela-shakes-castro-s-hand-at-memorial\">shake hands with Cuban Communist dictator Raul Castro<\/a> (see photo at right), who, together with his more infamous brother Fidel, has ruled the island prison-state with an iron fist, since 1959. Reportedly, the meet-up was scripted to appear as a chance encounter at the memorial, but had been carefully choreographed as part of an overture by the Obama administration to begin normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations.<\/p>\n<p>Far less known than Castro, but now casting a much larger shadow, as leader of the most populous nation in Latin America, with the largest economy, is Brazil&#8217;s President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fsouth-america%2Fitem%2F16993-moderate-president-of-brazil-rallies-communist-party-forces\">Dilma Rousseff<\/a> a lifelong communist activist, who was actually a \u201cmost wanted\u201d terrorist in her youth (much like President Obama&#8217;s friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the unrepentant Weather underground terrorists). Rousseff&#8217;s police mug shot after her capture is shown below.<\/p>\n<p>Like Mandela, Rousseff&#8217;s radicalism was not merely a youthful indiscretion; she continues on the same path, as this recent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2F%2520http%253A%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4Ut_0Z5ZTYc\">Brazilian news video<\/a> of her addressing a large Communist gathering demonstrates \u2013 on a stage flanked by giant portraits of Marx and Lenin and festooned with flags and symbols sporting the communist hammer and sickle. She is also a longtime member and participant in the notorious <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fsouth-america%2Fitem%2F16804-u-s-ambassador-outs-powerful-totalitarian-cabal-in-latin-america\">Sao Paulo Forum<\/a>, an annual gathering of dictators and terrorist leaders. Among the many communist-style programs she has foisted on Brazil is the criminal, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fsouth-america%2Fitem%2F14131-amid-federal-land-grab-in-brazil-whole-towns-evicted-at-gunpoint\">forced removal<\/a> (at gunpoint, using the military) of whole towns and thousands of Brazilians from their ancestral homes in the name of environmental \u201csustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/images\/stories2012\/rousseff.001.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rousseff\" width=\"400\" align=\"left\">By embracing and kissing Rousseff at the memorial \u2013 an image that not only flashed around the planet but was used extensively by the pro-Rouseff media in Brazil \u2013 President Obama gave the impression that the most powerful nation in the world fully supports her pro-communist regime.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many other notables at the memorial, whose presence and prominence belied the much-stated claims of eulogists&#8217; commitments to peace, justice and liberty, were (to name only a few):<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mahmoud Abbas, successor to Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist group and president of the Palestinian National Authority since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Li Yuanchao, vice president of Communist China<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jacob Zuma, South Africa&#8217;s own president, whose lifelong involvement in the terrorist SACP\/ANC\/ Umkhonto we Sizwe is accented by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F15888-saint-mandela-not-so-fast\">recent video<\/a> of him leading a mob in vicious song that urges the murder of white (Boer) South Africans.<\/p>\n<p><sup><em>All photos above are from AP Images except for the mug shot of Dilma Rousseff<\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><em>Related articles<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F17200-fake-interpreter-at-mandela-memorial-implicated-in-brutal-murders\">Fake Interpreter at Mandela Memorial Implicated in Brutal Murders<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fusnews%2Fforeign-policy%2Fitem%2F17149-obama-praises-mandela-shakes-castro-s-hand-at-memorial\">Obama Praises Mandela, Shakes Castro&#8217;s Hand, at Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F15888-saint-mandela-not-so-fast\">\u201cSaint\u201d Mandela? Not So Fast!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F17128-south-african-communist-party-admits-mandela-s-leadership-role\">South African Communist Party Admits Mandela&#8217;s Leadership Role<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F13920-new-evidence-shows-mandela-was-senior-communist-party-member\">New Evidence Shows Mandela Was Senior Communist Party Member<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F15836-mandela-s-messianic-image-the-rest-of-the-story\">Mandela&#8217;s Messianic Image: The Rest of the Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F13096-the-comrades-necklace\">The Comrades&#8217; Necklace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Fafrica%2Fitem%2F13280-genocide-communism-threaten-south-africa\">Genocide and Communism Threaten South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/foreign-policy\/item\/17206-obama-schmoozing-with-terrorists-and-tyrants-at-mandela-memorial\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Obama: Schmoozing With Terrorists and Tyrants at Mandela Memorial\">The New American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the December 10 memorial for Nelson Mandela, President Obama joined a sordid lineup of heads of state \u2013 a UN-style dictators&#8217; club \u2013 to lavish unstinted praise and adulation upon the former president of South Africa, who died on December 5. In his eulogy, President Obama compared Mandela to America&#8217;s Founding Fathers and referred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":99795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}