6 Dec
2013
6 Dec
'13
10:11 p.m.
On Fri, December 6, 2013 11:24 pm, Russell Coker wrote:
While somewhat controversial in the past it's now generally accepted that opposing the racist policies of white South Africa was the right thing to do.
"At the time" was as recent as the mid-1980s, when the Federation of Young Conservatives in the UK produced a poster and badges etc declaring that Mandela should be executed. Mind you, the FYC were considered so extreme that Norman Tebbit, the Conservative Party chairman, shut it down in '86. The current Speaker of the UK parliament, John Bercow, was the last ever FCS chairman. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GCertPM, MBA mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt