In a column that is unhinged even by his standards, WorldNutDaily founder Joseph Farah opines that Nelson Mandela doesn't deserve to be mourned.
(T)he world has been sold a bill of goods about Mandela. He wasn’t the saintly character portrayed by Morgan Freeman. He wasn’t someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.
Farah then cites a first-hand account from one of Mandela's longtime white supporters, Sonia Hruska. She worked in the administrations of Mandela and his successor, Thabo Mbeki, but claims that she turned on him after seeing "communist elements" taking over. Apparently Farah is referring to
this 2012 article that ran in
The New American, the mouthpiece of the John Birch Society. Yeah, that's a credible source.
Farah then loses what credibility he still has when he claims Mandela wasn't really a political prisoner.
You will read today many stories describing Mandela as a “political prisoner.”
In fact, he served 27 years in prison for 23 specific acts of sabotage and attempting to overthrow the government.
Um, Joseph? That government was a criminal regime upholding a criminal system, and resorted to ghastly violence to defend it--all but forcing Mandela to take up violence himself.
Farah has the right to be wrong. But does he have to be wrong now?