Obama spends $11m attending Mandela funeral -- not including flight there and back...

◼ VIP Hotel and Vehicles for Mandela Funeral Trip More Than $11M - Jeryl Bier/Weekly Standard

It is unclear from the documents if the lodging and transportation contracts covered just the president and his support staff, or if it included George W. Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and other current and former government officials. The transportation contract included passenger vehicles, SUVs, vans, buses, pickup trucks, box trucks, and "larger capacity vehicles"

What a Former Secret Service Agent Has to Say about the Fake Interpreter at the Mandela Service (Audio)

◼ A lot of folks are wondering how an interpreter who was reportedly charged with rape and murder could get such access to President Obama. Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino, who is running for Congress in Maryland, has some answers. - Becca Lower/IJ Review

This is what Bongino had to say:

The question I keep getting from everyone….is, as a former Secret Service agent: How did this fake interpreter– as it turns out– get so close to the president? Unfortunately, on overseas trips this is what happens sometimes. I think this was a security debacle, I don’t think the Secret Service would run from that. But in my opinion, I think it’s time to seriously reevaluate our decision-making on sending the president overseas on these last-minute trips, to funerals and things of that sort….

The Secret Service does a great job, they’re really competent, dedicated individuals. I think there were a lot of political pressures to make this go well. I don’t want this, at all, to appear like I’m throwing them under the bus. Those are my guys, I still talk to them, they all do great work. I just think this was a really bad situation, and they’ll fix it…. I made some mistakes, too, when I worked there, and we fixed them later on.

◼ Nelson Mandela memorial security scandal: 'There were no checks' - Byron York/Washington Examiner @ByronYork

...And then there was the question of Thamsanqa Jantjie, the fake sign language interpreter who stood next to Obama as the president addressed the crowd. Jantjie has in the past been charged with murder, attempted murder, rape, theft, housebreaking and kidnapping, according to the South Africa-focused news organization eNCA.com. Jantjie also suffers from schizophrenia and told reporters he was hallucinating even as he stood next to Obama.

Allowing a man with Jantjie's record to stand within arm's length of the president of the United States is a huge security concern in itself. In addition, the lack of security checks at entrances raises the question of whether Jantjie had been searched for weapons. It's bad enough to have a violent, crazy man who has been through a body search stand next to the president. It's absolutely unconscionable to allow that man next to the president with no search....

◼ Mandela sign language fake who stood next to President Obama ‘took part in necklace murder of two men who stole a TV’ - Red Alert Politics

Now, days after it was claimed he has faced charges for murder, rape and kidnapping, the four sources said he was part of a vigilante execution squad who placed tyres around their victims’ necks and set them ablaze – a horrific practice known as ‘necklacing’.

Unlike two other suspects who went to trial in 2006 for the killings, the four said on Monday that Jantjie never did because authorities determined he was mentally unfit....

◼ Necklacing: 'Necklacing' is the practice of forcing a tyre filled with petrol over victim's head and shoulders and setting it alight. - Daily Mail

South African news website eNCA reported that Mr Jantjie, who has schizophrenia, has faced charges for rape (1994), theft (1995), housebreaking (1997), malicious damage to property (1998), murder, attempted murder and kidnapping (2003) charges.
VIGILANTE JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA: WHAT IS NECKLACING?

'Necklacing' is the practice of forcing a tyre filled with petrol over victim's head and shoulders and setting it alight.
It can often take a victim more than 20 minutes to die in excruciating agony.
In the violent 1980s and 1990s, necklacing was a common sentence imposed by 'people's courts' on collaborators with the apartheid regime and criminals in South Africa.
It was frequently carried out in the name of the African National Congress and was alleged to have been endorsed by Nelson Mandela's then wife, Winnie. The ANC says it never condoned necklacing.
In 1986 Mrs Mandela, caused controversy when she stated: 'With our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country.'
The statement, which was widely seen as an implicit endorsement of necklacing, caused the ANC to briefly try to distance itself from her.
It is still used in certain, more lawless, parts of Africa, where corrupt police are no longer trusted, to punish thieves and rapists.
Incidents have been reported more recently in Haiti, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and India.
Brazilian drug lords are also known to have 'necklaced' their enemies, most notoriously the journalist Tim Lopes in 2002.
The website said it was unclear if the 2003 murder case was ever concluded as the court file was found to be empty during their investigations.

Evidence that the entire world has jumped the shark

◼ The sign language interpreter at Mandela’s service was an imposter. - Neoneocon

“Senator Cruz very much hopes that Castro learns the lessons of Nelson Mandela... For decades, Castro has wrongly imprisoned and tortured countless innocents. Just as Mandela was released after 27 years in prison, Castro should finally release his political prisoners; he should hold free elections, and once and for all set the Cuban people free.”

◼ BOOM! Ted Cruz walks out on Castro

Why is Ted Cruz the only U.S. senator attending Mandela memorial?

◼ The memorial service for Nelson Mandela is a big deal. "We're now on 91 Heads of State & Gov confirmed plus 10 former Heads of State, 86 Heads of delegations & 75 Eminent Persons," tweeted South African government spokesman Clayson Monyela on Monday. - Byron York/Washington Examiner @ByronYork

From the United States Congress, House Speaker John Boehner appointed a 23-member delegation, led by Illinois Republican Rep. Aaron Schock and dominated by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, all Democrats. Their plane departed early Monday morning.

But what about the U.S. Senate? Senators could have joined the representatives on the congressional plane. But exactly one -- one -- senator will be at the Mandela memorial: Texas Republican Ted Cruz. No member of the majority Democratic or minority Republican leadership will attend. And not the Senate's only black Democrat, Cory Booker, or the Senate's only black Republican, Tim Scott....

Says a spokesman: "Sen. Cruz believes that once-in-a-generation historical leaders, whatever their strengths/weaknesses, who accomplish extraordinary things, should be recognized and celebrated. And he personally wants to be part of demonstrating the recognition in American of the transforming power of the end of apartheid."

While it’s important to tell the truth about Mandela as he was and South Africa as it is that doesn’t solve the media problem nor counter the club that the left/media will use on us with low information voters.

◼ Time for us to Play the Mandela Card Against the Left - datechguy/Minority Report

The secular sainthood myth of Mandela is based on a single undeniable fact, that he is pretty much the only Leftist communist revolutionary in history that didn’t abuse the power he eventually won to gain wealth & power for himself and repress and slaughter those who disagreed with him using either government or extra government methods.

...That is so atypical, so extraordinary (even the peaceful Norwegians after liberation from the Nazis executed Quisling) that I have no problem calling Mandela “great” but more importantly what if we on the right embrace that standard and hold the left to it?

For example, when the left praises Castro, we put Uncle Fidel up against the Mandela Standard

Mandela: Didn’t keep power for himself for 50 years.
Mandela: Didn’t keep a secret police watching his political foes.
Mandela: Didn’t keep dissidents from leaving
Mandela: Held free elections with multiple parties
Mandela: Didn’t have the wives of jailed prisoners beaten

Do you see? The left always seems to have excuses for murderous communist tyrants and dictators, but when we play the Mandela card how do they justify these acts when Mandela himself didn’t do them?

And that doesn’t have to be applied only to foreign affairs consider:

Mandela never used the tax system against his political foes
Mandela never summarily suspended law
Mandela didn’t use the government to suppress his political foes....

◼ link - Andrew Kaczynski/Buzzfeed
◼ Everyone liked Andrew Kaczynski's Seven Nelson Mandela Quotes You Probably Won't See In The U.S. Media. - Discussion at Lucianne
◼ The Mandela Myth - Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage

FULL AUDIO: Breitbart’s Joel Pollak discusses the life of Nelson Mandela on the Mark Levin Show

◼ I must say this is by far the best commentary I’ve heard all night on who Nelson Mandela really was and why he was such a transformative figure for South Africa. - The Right Scoop

R.I.P. NELSON MANDELA

◼ Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid icon and father of modern South Africa, dies - CNN

◼ Mandela, in his own words - FOX

Former South African President Nelson Mandela was revered throughout the world for leading the peaceful transition to multiracial democracy after three centuries of white domination in South Africa.

He was jailed for 27 years under white racist rule and released in 1990. He then steered the divided country from the apartheid era to an all-race democracy, becoming South Africa's first black president in 1994.

Mandela has moved people all over the world with his message of tolerance and peace. Here are some of his memorable quotes