Mandela's memorial

[RUDD]

Seems to me it was a memorial for the people but a media opportunity for rock stars, models and world leaders!

[corydoras]

Seems to me it was a memorial for the people but a media opportunity for rock stars, models and world leaders!

Funerals are for the living, not for the dead.

[chesters1]

Funerals are for the living, not for the dead.

Its handy to have a dead person about though ,kinda rounds it all up nicely.

If ofcourse bodies are in the coffin and not findus laseagne today!

Edited December 11, 2013 by chesters1

[Andrew]

Wish they would get him buried and done with, sick to death of the news coverage.

[RUDD]

Wish they would get him buried and done with, sick to death of the news coverage.

 

Read an article that said the BBC alone sent 120 crew to cover memorial!

[Andrew]

Out of our license fee's total frigging disgrace.

And just to think, Cameron and co once held placards that said, HANG MENDELA the terrorist

[garylee]

Out of our license fee's total frigging disgrace.

And just to think, Cameron and co once held placards that said, HANG MENDELA the terrorist

He said alot once but like most politicians it'll change depending on which way the winds blow.

[Dave H]

Funerals are for the living, not for the dead.

 

Very true.

I must admit though as i only watched it for 10 minutes as the commentator got right on my tits.

Talk about over the top ‘Here she is weeping, barely standing up. Two Doctors behind her. I expect her knees are trembling and her heart broken...

I can’t be done with so much OTT commentary like that!

[Andrew]

He said alot once but like most politicians it'll change depending on which way the winds blow.

 

Their lies got them into power IMHO.

[Dave H]

He was a good man but also a political pawn in a game of chess that Africa plays with itself and the west.

I believe he was mentally impaired after a long time in prison where he would have had beatings and torture for most of his life.

Sadly the vultures and the pick pockets and the looters followed him on his release.

Looking at the family’s wealth which they never disguised what would the unemployed black man on the streets must have thought. The man who had a paid job on the plantations and was quite happy to be so.

There were winners and losers in Mandela’s release and although his intent was of freedom for the blacks it also came at a heavy price to many.