As the world celebrates the 90th birthday of the Nobel laureate and freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela, the United States is hastily rushing through paperwork to repeal the elder statesperson’s appearance on the US Government’s official Terror Watch List. As a result of being on a list that includes the likes of Osama bin Laden as well as that mega nasty bad-guy Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf Islam), Mandela and any member of the African National Congress (ANC) may not enter the United States without a special waiver from the US Government and are automatically flagged for questioning by Homeland Security officials.
‘This is a country with which we now have excellent relations, South Africa, but it’s frankly a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela,’ admitted a flustered US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.
