He was never a "political" prisoner or a prisoner of "conscience" he was a convicted terrorist.

His later official biographer, a columnist for the London Observer, joined a huge international contingent of legal experts, reporters, trial observers and critics of the South African judiciary in Pretoria for Mandela's trial.

They all reported that the judiciary was completely independent and handed down a just verdict, none could discredit the trial and Mandela, trained as a lawyer, pleaded guilty.

Even the left-leaning Amnesty International refused aid to Mandela because they do not defend terrorists.

Using Mandela's own writings, especially "How to Be a Good Communist", he was found guilty of multiple acts of terror costing the lives of hundreds of innocents, black and white.

After his release from prison, Mandela continued to support the terrorist leaders of Africa, Libya, Cuba and Palestine.

He remained a close friend of these promoters of terrorism and an enemy of freedom and the West.

The wretched South Africa of today, almost solely due to Mandela's leadership, is the rape capital and murder capital of the world.

Poverty and lawlessness are endemic and the poor black South Africans are in much worse shape than they ever were under Dutch rule.

Although political correctness demands it, Scripture tells us, for good reason, that it is an abomination to praise the wicked.

- JACK SONNEMANN, Lucaston.