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Richard65 · M
"Felon" is a term used primarily by the USA, but not other nations. The UK doesn't use the term after it was abolished in 1967. So no, Mandela wasn't a "convicted felon", as you state. He was charged with sabotage and crimes equivalent (in SA at the time) to treason.
NoThanksLeon · M
@Richard65 fel·o·ny
[ˈfelənē]
noun
a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year
Says NOTHING about the USA or any specific country.
[ˈfelənē]
noun
a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year
Says NOTHING about the USA or any specific country.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
@Richard65 He is also not only a liberal icon but an icon to all freedom loving people both conservative and liberal alike.
Richard65 · M
@NoThanksLeon you're talking legal terminology. When Mandela was convicted he wasn't regarded as a felon as SA didn't use the term within its legal system. Neither does the UK. The law doesn't regard them as "felons" because the law in the respective countries outside the USA rely on their own legal parlance. If Mandela was convicted in a US court, he'd be regarded as a felon. He wasn't and he isn't.
You asked the question. Don't complain because you don't like the answer.
You asked the question. Don't complain because you don't like the answer.
NoThanksLeon · M
@Richard65
You asked the question.
I asked no question. I stated a fact.you're talking legal terminology.
Sorry. I thought courts that convict were part of the legal system, so I used unbiased legal[/b] terminology instead of convenient liberal terminology.
Richard65 · M
@NoThanksLeon all you've got left is to be disingenuous. You're just not as smart as you think you are. Mandela isn't a convicted felon because the country and the legal system that convicted him doesn't call him that.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
NoThanksLeon · M
@Richard65 Sorry. I thought courts that convict were part of the legal system, so I used unbiased legal terminology instead of convenient liberal terminology.
Richard65 · M
@NoThanksLeon I accept your apology.
NoThanksLeon · M
@Richard65 I need to get with the program and use terminology that's conveniently favorable to the Nazi advance.
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