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Friday, December 6, 2013

Senator Lee & his Friends

I had to cut and paste Senator Mike Lee's really good statement of respect at the death of Nelson Mandela. Also included are a few of the many comments of Senator Lee's "friends."

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United States Senator Mike Lee · 149,749 like this
9 hours ago · 
  • RIP Nelson Mandela, a champion for liberty and justice, and one of the great heroes of our age. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, the South African people, and friends of freedom everywhere.
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    • Joseph Delloiacovo Political correctness at its finest.
      Like · Reply · 103 · 9 hours ago via mobile
      • 8 Replies · about an hour ago
    • Tom Utley Seriously?
      Like · Reply · 92 · 9 hours ago
    • Adria Jensen Baron I love you Mike, and I really appreciate all you've done as a Senator. I rarely disagree with you, but please do your homework. He was anything but a good guy and certainly not a friend of freedom.
      Like · Reply · 53 · 9 hours ago
      • 4 Replies · 41 minutes ago
    • Katie Did Mandala was a communist. He wrote a book on "How to be a good communist" and you can buy it at Barnes and Noble. Mandela lavished praise on Castro and Qaudifi and he was opposed to capitalism. It will be a very cold day in hell before I sing his praises.
      Like · Reply · 36 · 9 hours ago
      • 4 Replies · 15 minutes ago
    • Leigh Peters Thomas I'm not understanding the love affair with Mandela.... He was a Communist.
      Like · Reply · 33 · 9 hours ago via mobile
      • Mark Hammond With all due respect...SO WHAT?!? What is this, a HUAC hearing?
        Like · 21 minutes ago
    • Debbie Ketchum Griffus Gotta say I am very happy see that the people commenting on here at least know the truth. Very disappointed in the responses of the politicians.
      Like · Reply · 32 · 9 hours ago
      • 6 Replies · 6 hours ago
    • Kevin LHeureux He was a communist Mike
      Like · Reply · 32 · 9 hours ago
      • Nicki Jane If?
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    • T.j. Hill Senator United States Senator Mike Lee I just love you to pieces, but, really? HE WAS A COMMUNIST TERRORIST!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why not call Obummer the greatest white house occupant ever???????????
      Like · Reply · 28 · 9 hours ago
    • John Rhoten Why are all these people who call themselves conservatives, coming out and making this guy a hero? After what he did? The fact is he was a communist, a terrorist and wanted a white genocide! Why are you honoring him Mr. Lee? I would love to hear your justification.
      Like · Reply · 27 · 9 hours ago via mobile
      • Debbie Ketchum Griffus I would love to hear it also!!!
        Like · 4 · 8 hours ago
    • Stuart Heinrichs May he rot in hell with a burning tire around his neck, just like he did to others.
      Like · Reply · 26 · 9 hours ago
      • 2 Replies · 7 hours ago
    • Richard Bishop Sr. Mandela was a terrorist scum.
      Like · Reply · 26 · 9 hours ago
    • Michael S. Actually, Nelson Mandela was a bloodthirsty communist.
      Like · Reply · 24 · 9 hours ago
    • Howard Palasek Sorry but I must disagree with you about Mandela,we cannot allow history to be rewritten about this communist who used terrorism to kill innocents
      Like · Reply · 24 · 9 hours ago
    • Kim Stanley Smith Senator Lee ~ I love you dearly, and have the utmost respect for you concerning freedom and preserving our great country, but you are wrong about Mandela. He was a monster ...... Please, get informed!!
      Like · Reply · 23 · 9 hours ago
    • Betty Lou why are you lying to the American people...Mandela was a murderer...he was no hero...
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    • José Quervo The "Iron Lady" promoted word peace and stability, in her lifetime, she served three terms in her post, for her acomplishments, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, and sat in the "House of Lords" that in itself a impressive feat, as appointments are held mostly by men, and she never went to prison!! Yet no big deal for her??
      Like · Reply · 19 · 9 hours ago
    • Jerry Smith Obvioustly, Mr. Lee, you didn't know much about Mandela. He was a piece of crap murdering terrorist. I was fighting over there in 1991; never heard one good story about him or his wife, Winnie, the firebug. Do you know what 'necklacing' is?
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    • William Ron Swanson Gwin R.I.P. Nelson Mandela. Let's not remember you as the guy that got caught with enough explosives to blow up the city of Johannesburg, while you were a member of a South African terrorist group, or for your wife setting people on fire with burning tires,...See More
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    • Ray Goff I have never heard Nelson Mandela and Winnie publicly confessing their brutal crimes of violence. People try to compare him to our founding fathers. That is insulting to do so. The brutality and heinous acts the MK committed was beyond any comparison. SA is worse off today than before apartheid.
      Like · Reply · 17 · 9 hours ago via mobile
    • Darin Saylor Praising a communist, Senator? So disappointed in you and Senator Cruz bowing to political correctness.
      Like · Reply · 17 · 9 hours ago via mobile
    • Dwight Roberts He praised Castro and Giddafi, give me a break
      Like · Reply · 17 · 9 hours ago
    • Brian Babcock Necklacing?
      Like · Reply · 17 · 9 hours ago
    • Marc Webster major face palm on this Senator!
      Like · Reply · 15 · 9 hours ago
    • Patrick Daniel I'm going to assume somebody hacked Sen Lee's account
      Like · Reply · 14 · 9 hours ago
      • Charlotte Sodd Evans You are being generous, Patrick. Everywhere I turn, I see praise and accolades being heaped upon Mandela. Last night, I was sick to my stomach reading such drivel. If our elected leaders really believe this, they are guilty of serious errors of judgement and cannot be trusted. No wonder Obama is still in office!
        Like · 6 · 5 hours ago
    • Van Zandt Rhonda Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, (MK), the terrorist wing of the ANC and South African Communist Party. At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted ...See More
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    • Joyce Benghazi Fountaine Please don't say that too loudly, sir. The man was corrupt!
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOXqFQw2hc
      Like · Reply · 14 · 9 hours ago · Edited
    • Eileen Kirkpatrick Mandela was a terrorist! All you have to do is research it! Sheesh!!
      Like · Reply · 15 · 9 hours ago via mobile
    • Michael Kim Are all people misled about the truth behind Mandela? Terrorist, communist, activist that promoted violence, prostitution, white genocide, pornography and a whole slew of other heinous acts. Look up neck lacing for a start.
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    • Ray Goff Nelson Mandela and his MK followers would put tires around the necks of whites and blacks, pour gasoline on them and set them on fire. He is not someone I would stand up in high esteem or honor his past. I had a friend in college that was with the Rhod...See More
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    • Alex Griffith Mandela was a Communist and a terrorist! Both he, and the opposing apartheid enforced by the National Party governments were wrong!
      Like · Reply · 12 · 9 hours ago
    • Doug McAdams Makes ya wonder what history will be rewritten as in a few more years if we're already saying this terrorist is a saint........
      Like · Reply · 10 · 8 hours ago
    • Marilyn Larson Well I guess we know why our country is in such a MESS !! when everyone of our leaders past and present praise a communist of this nature ! no wonder Obama is still president ! and even the people we believe are trying to get rid of him are really on his side because it's pc to do so ! Bad is bad ! and good is good ! there is no kind of good and kind of bad !! Mandela was more bad then good so now he is a hero ?
      Like · Reply · 10 · 9 hours ago
    • Fred Balkcom Really senator mandela was a communist and a terrorist that turned a once thriving country into one that has the highest murder rape and unemployment rate in the world besides endind apartheid what good did he do
      Like · Reply · 10 · 9 hours ago via mobile · Edited
      • 2 Replies · 9 hours ago
    • Scott Condict Nancy, I read Mandela's history. That's how I know you are a moron and he was a communist terrorist
      Like · Reply · 10 · 8 hours ago via mobile
    • John Fitzgerald Communists are never champions of liberty
      Like · Reply · 11 · 9 hours ago
    • Annie Ruiz Sorry but uh no... He was a socialist criminal and, if it was possible, his wife Winnie was worse. She's the one the perpetuated and encouraged the torturous practice of Necklacing! 
      So goodbye...
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    • Alan Lee I disagree Sen. Lee. Nelson Mandela was a devote Communist and a terrorist.
      Like · Reply · 11 · 9 hours ago
    • Kris Speelman Funny how people forget his communist terrorist ways
      Like · Reply · 11 · 9 hours ago via mobile
    • Steve Johnson Wait a minute....wasn't he a marxist/communist who also dabbled in Terrorism? Just checkin
      Like · Reply · 11 · 9 hours ago via mobile
    • Becky Carroll Tarantola political correctness from a Senator we are supposed to trust? is it time for reelection?
      Like · Reply · 11 · 9 hours ago via mobile
    • David Steiger MIKE...!!

      This man was a Communist murderer who locked lips with tyrants and other communists...!!!
      ...See More
      Like · Reply · 9 · 9 hours ago via mobile
    • Ryan Anderson Mike Christy, facts are facts. It is only your ignorance of those facts that allows you to praise Mandela. Either that it you support his violence and communist ideology.
      Like · Reply · 9 · 7 hours ago via mobile
    • Debra Carey Need to do some research on him Congressman, he was no saint. He was a communist who advocated through the ANC the killing of whites and blacks in S. Africa. Botha offered him freedom if he'd renounce violence and communism and Mandela refused to do so.
      Like · Reply · 26 · 9 hours ago
    • Ryan Lange “We Communist Party members are the most advanced revolutionaries in modern history ... the enemy must be wiped out from the face of the earth before a Communist world can be realized.”—Nelson Mandela, during his 1962 trial for terrorism.
      Like · Reply · 8 · 9 hours ago
    • Randa Perry Mike Lee this is a joke ... right?.. mandela was a terrorist.
      Like · Reply · 7 · 9 hours ago
    • Cindy ONeill While looking at the pictures of Mandela embracing dictator after dictator and listening to all this praise I can't help but think back to the 30's and this...The ANC was financed by the USSR heavily and it became a big movement just like communist gro...See More
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    • Johanna Roberts Except for a post by 'Nancy' it looks like your supporters disagree with your eulogy of mandela. An unfortunate blunder, if it was truly your words used on this post.
      Like · Reply · 7 · 8 hours ago
    • Fred Balkcom Nancy A. Shipp I did read his story maybe you should read it he killed innocent people and called for the genocide of all people who opposed him
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    • Billy Brown This post is why FB needs to put the 'thumbs down' back on!
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    • Jason A Pizzolato Are you on crack this morning, Senator Lee..?
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