happy birthday mr mandela

Dear Nelson Mandela.
You have been receiving a lot of praise on your 90th birthday.
I think it might also be healthy for you, and for early 21st century societal discourse, if you were privy to the opinions of those who do not think you deserve such praise.
I have just seen a picture of you, taken this week, surrounded by grinning music industry low life.
In the photo a singer who styles herself Annie Lennox is smiling gormlessly into the camera.
An actor called Will Smith is hovering at your shoulder, grinning vacuously, his eyes firmly fixed on the camera.
I find this photo infinitely depressing.
It represents to me the ultimate triumph of flash over substance.
You should not be too impressed Mr Mandela by the plaudits of entertainment industry low lifes such as the ones you have just been photographed with and lionised by.
Even so their fathers praised the false prophets.
Now, to work.
I remember back in the 1980's a music industry low life styling himself Bono along with his low life friend Bob Geldoff, endeavouring to have you released from prison in South Africa so that you might take over the rulership of that country.
I never supported the campaigns for your release.
I took one look around Africa, and I asked myself: "Does that continent really need another Marxist Stalinist murderer in power?"
My answer to this was no.
So I never supported you.
In fact I could not understand how anyone supported you.
Marxian, Arabist and Black Nationalist governments had taken over all the African countries vacated by the British empire along with those countries vacated by the lesser empires of France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.
By the 1980's these Marxians and Arabists and Black Nationalists were already writing a new chapter in the history of barbarism.
Mr Mandela I could see no excuse for supporting you.
Your equivalents were killing too many people in every other African country.
Futhermore Mr Mandela, there was a choice.
It was actually possible to discern Black leaders in South Africa who heroically and responsibly espoused non violence in seeking to free their country.
I thought the world should have supported those.
Where are they now by the way?
They're dead Nelson.
You and your supporters burnt them alive didn't you?
Literally.
But more of that anon.
Mr Mandela I will not lie to you. I do think Africans were royally ripped off by the independence movements which ended the western colonial era.
Not one African country has escaped civil war since independence.
Not one has become a democracy.
Not one has avoided the rulership of the thug.
Why is this Mr Mandela?
What excuse is there for black Africans murdering black Africans in their millions?
What excuse is there for black Africans causing tens of millions of black Africans to starve by forcing them to live under an economic system that even the Russians figured out was a load of old cobblers twenty years ago?
What is YOUR excuse Mr Mandela for the murders that have mushroomed exponentially throughout South African society since you and your friends took over?
But I digress.
Let me digress a bit more.
Three and a half million dead in Sudan.
Four million dead in Zaire. (Okay, okay maybe five million.)
A fifty year civil war in Angola carried on for decades by the Marxist Jose Maria Dos Santos, initially backed by the Russians and the Cubans, now backed by... er... by you Mr Mandela.
What is the excuse for these African and Arabist dictators who have turned Africa into a charnel house for half a century and still show no signs of letting up?
Jose Maria is still there in Angola isn't he?
At least he's not white, eh Nelson?
Sudan is now enjoying its own fifty years of Arabist genoicide, a continuing maelstrom of mayhem unbroken since independence. At least three and a half million Sudanese dead in the past ten years alone. There seems little doubt that if you held a plebiscite in Sudan the people would beg to rejoin the British empire.
Why were there famines in Africa Mr Mandela?
Here's my answer.
Because African Marxists shot anybody who worked for a living, and seized any farms that looked like they might be worth seizing, and then watched in gormless atheistic murderous dismay as the riches of Africa turned to dust in their hands.
Africa was never over populated Mr Mandela.
There were never too many Africans.
There were too many Marxists.
Marxists like you.
I'm going to stick with my 1980s decision not to support you Mr Mandela.
There were other reasons for it of course, aside from your espousal of violence and Soviet style communism.
I had become disquieted by the actions of your then wife Winnie Mandela.
Do you remember Stompie Moeketsie?
The 13 year old boy she killed.
I mean the one she killed that we know about.
How did she do it?
With a garden shears wasn't it?
And how did the doctor die who examined Stompie Moeketsie's body?
Just remind me.
It was all very satanic, wasn't it?
Perhaps you can begin to understand why I feel the need to quibble with the image of you as propagated by Will Smith, Annie Lennox and their ilk.
And do you remember your then wife Winnie Mandela telling the world how you would liberate South Africa?
She said: "With our necklaces and our match boxes we will liberate South Africa."
Ah yes.
The necklace was a car tyre placed around a person's neck and filled with petrol. The matchbox provided the means of igniting the petrol.
How many people did you and your wife cause to be murdered in this way?
You know Mr Mandela my own country Ireland has had its share of terrorists and its share of freedom fighters.
We became quite adept at distinguishing the ones who really just wanted to violate human beings in as grotesque a manner as possible, from the ones who had some genuine aspiration towards freedom.
It's not always easy.
When I discovered you and your supporters were burning human beings alive, I formed the opinion, a lasting opinion Mr Mandela, that you were not freedom fighters, that you were not a suffering minority, and that you were not indeed by any stretch of the imagination the sort of individuals who should be put in charge of a country.
I formed the opinion that you were psychotic hate filled Marxists insane with your own blood lust.
Was I wrong about this Mr Mandela?
Honestly now.
In the intervening years I have managed to find no reason to change my opinion. Unlike Bono and Bob Geldoff and Annie Lennox and Will Smith, I felt I had something of a duty to keep an eye on South Africa after you and your fellow Marxists took power.
You get a good press but the truth about South Africa is that it has become an ever more violent society which, in its periodic pseudo elections, only ever returns the same political party.
Your party Nelson.
It's Marxist isn't it?
Another one party State for Africa.
Don't it make ya weep.
There's more.
In the past seven years during the War On Terror, it has seemed to me that your sympathies have lain clearly with the Jihadi's.
The only statement I can find that you made about the current wave of Islamic expansionism was the following:
"George Bush can't even talk right."
Well Mr Mandela.
I think your statement lacked something.
I think it lacked class.
Worrying for a man that the newspapers and television stations are lauding as the new Mohandas K Gandhi.
Gandhi never burned anyone alive.
You're not Gandhi, Mr Mandela.
You're not even close.
So, to Zimbabwe, a country adjoining South Africa which relies on your government to sustain it.
You have failed, and your successor Thabo Mbeki has failed, to take any action to protect the people of Zimbabwe from the dictator currently ruining their country and their lives.
You have failed to do this simply because Robert Mugabe the President of Zimbabwe is like you a Marxian thug applying those ingenious economic theories that twenty years ago even the Russians figured out were a crock.
Your one statement about Robert Mugabe as the situation worsened this past week, was couched in a further juvenile attack upon President George Bush.
Well done Mr Mandela.
At this stage, I would nearly have been disappointed if you had acted with even a smidgin of integrity, courage, discernment or genuine concern for the oppression of Africans by the Black Nationalist elites which you yourself exemplify.
It is your 90th birthday.
I think it is good that you should hear these opinions. That I should submit this assessment to you and allow proper public scrutiny of it.
For the truth still has some currency.
You will never hear these opinions from Annie Lennox, Will Smith, Bono or Bob Geldoff, CNN, the BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Channel Four, The Guardian, Le Monde, the Irish Times, Fox News or the Nazi channel Al Jazeera.
They all love you.
They are all wrong Mr Mandela.
Terribly wrong.
Happy birthday and long life to you.
James Healy


Footnote: Mandela is 92 today. This letter was first sent to him on his 90th.