PBS was just showing how scumbag Reagan and that waste of fecal matter Jesse Helms defended

[RainDog]

7. Dick Cheney also sided with apartheid

Cheney bristled in response to questions about his voting record, revealing a mindset that never understood what was at stake in South Africa -- or perhaps understood all too well. Challenged last Sunday to defend his 1985 vote against a House resolution urging the release of Nelson Mandela from 23 years of imprisonment, he first denounced such inquiries as "trivia." Does he really think that the oppression inflicted on millions of black citizens during more than five decades was a trivial matter?

He quickly tried to correct that gaffe, praising Mandela as "a great man." (He also remarked, with baffling condescension, that the African leader has "mellowed," whatever that means.) He had opposed the resolution to free Mandela, according to Cheney, because it was attached to recognition of the African National Congress. "The ANC was then viewed as a terrorist organization," he said. "Nobody was for keeping Nelson Mandela in prison. Nobody was for supporting apartheid."

I guess Cheney would've supported torturing Mandela and others fighting for their civil rights in South Africa since he considered them "terrorists." Good thing we didn't have the laws then that we have now.

http://www.salon.com/2000/08/01/south_africa_3/