Nelson Mandela continues to dissipate his reputation with foolish statements. Now he says that the UN is getting dissed by the US because Kofi Annan is black. Following his recent comments that Israel is a "white" nation and Iraq is a "black" one, this myopic and distorted race-based view of politics is rendering, if it hasn't already rendered, this once-notable and respected man into utter irrelevance.

Libertarian talk show host Neal Boortz has a few very tart comments about Mr. Mandela. Some merely restate the obvious: South Africa is not a target of The Jihad. They didn't attack South Africa, and they aren't threatening to continue to attack South Africa. Mandela is simply out of his league, and depth, on this issue.

If one views race as a social construct, then by placing religious, cultural and ethnic conflicts in a neat dichotomy of white versus black you can avoid having to examine nuances and simply label one side as racist. Hence you get events such as the World Conference against Racism in Durban where anti-Semitism masqueraded as anti-racism.

You mean the former leader of the pro-communist African National Congress?

I believe Nelson's reputation as an elder statesman will outshine the Shrub's as a nova to a red dwarf. Of course the US is xenophobic, always has been, and this is reflected in the current government. By the way, did you read the excerpt of Richard Butler's speech, saying that US citizens have a deep rooted inability to comprehend the hypocrisy of hanging onto their weapons of mass destruction while trying their dag-darndest to deny them to everyone else? For telling it like it is, he'll be on the Shrub's shitlist, I suppose.

Of course the US is xenophobic. When was the last time you heard of the US letting in immigrants from other countries? Oops, we do that all the time.

As for our nuclear weapons they serve the prupose of preventing war, not conquering other countries to make their inhabitants our slaves. Prior behavior by Saddam Hussin shows that sort of conquest to be his goal in seeking nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

No doubt we shall now hear the tired old cant about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We used nuclear bombs then to end a horrible war which had gone on far too long and could not be ended any other way except by invasion of Japan. Their use massively reduced the numbers of people who would otherwise have died in ending World War II. That includes Japanese lives, incidentally, not to mention Chinese, Indonesian, Filipino lives and the lives of hundreds of thousands of our allies' people. Criticizing Truman's decision to use those bombs, with decades of hindsight (mostly ill-informed) implies all those poeple ought to have died, so that today's "pacifists" could feel better about themselves. No way.

I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE OT IF SOMEONE WOULD HELP ME GET AN E-MAIL TO SOMEONE WHO IS IN THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD. I AM INTERESTED IN GETTING SOME INFORMATION ON JOINING.
THANK-YOU

SINCERELY,
GINA

i too am intrested in joining the brotherhood can some one please tell who to contact plz