JOHANNESBURG — The sign language interpreter who gestured meaninglessly at the Nelson Mandela memorial in South Africa on Tuesday has faced charges of murder, rape, theft, breaking and entering, malicious damage to property and kidnapping, according toeNCA.com.
The South African news site said the outcome of the murder charge against Thamsanqa Jantjie, brought in 2003, was unknown because the court case file is “mysteriously empty.”
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There was a time - now fading quickly from memory - that Americans could be very proud of their country. No longer.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this seems like a insignificant event, but it's not. It's just another in a string of failures that makes our wonderful country look more like a third-world nation.
It's like there is no one in charge.
He went to the school of Obama.
ReplyDelete1122 how does this reflect negatively on our country?
ReplyDeleteIt reflects directly on the quality of personnel and to the leadership of our country to allow a situation where someone can stand within arm's reach of the leader of the free world without being vetted or screened. Not only just 'somebody', but a known fraud and a person with a known violent past.
ReplyDeleteThis country used to be the Standard of Excellence. The breakdown of security is unforgivable.
I would think we are better - and there was a time I think we were better - than that.