"This hero worship is very much misplaced" - John Carlisle MP, on the BBC screening of the Free Nelson Mandela concert in 1990American radical right wingers got into the act as well. In 2000, Dick Cheney defended his vote against freeing Nelson Mandela by stating: “The ANC was then viewed as a terrorist organization. I don't have any problems at all with the vote I cast 20 years ago."
"The ANC is a typical terrorist organisation ... Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is living in cloud-cuckoo land" - Margaret Thatcher, 1987
"How much longer will the Prime Minister allow herself to be kicked in the face by this black terrorist?" - Terry Dicks MP, mid-1980s
"Nelson Mandela should be shot" - Teddy Taylor MP, mid-1980s
Think Progress has a great timeline on all this.
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