Posted on 10/04/2014 4:36:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
“From the first moment I heard about Che, Ernesto Guevara,” gushes Columbia University’s SDS (Student’s for a Democratic Society) leader in 1968 Mark Rudd, “he was my man, or, rather, I was his. Brilliant, young, idealistic, a daring commander of rebels, willing to risk his life to free the people of the world, I wanted to be like him. I was a member of the cult of Che. Who wouldn’t fall for this rifle-toting poet…?”
Columbia University College Republicans, for one. The Young America’s Foundation (YAF,) for another. Indeed such is these organizations’ penchant for blowing raspberries and horse-laughs at the staggering imbecilities swallowed (and spouted ) by gasping groupies like Mark Rudd that they’re a staging a “No More Che Day” at Mark Rudd’s own Columbia University on Oct. 9th.
Worse still, (for such as Rudd and fellow Che groupies) this event features a speaker who --you might say-- “wrote the book,” on exposing the real Che Guevara and the staggering stupidity (or other mental malfunctions) that motivate those who idolize this amazing sadist, coward and epic idiot.
For starters, most of Che’s “rifle-toting” was done in the face of utterly unarmed enemies. "When you saw the beaming look on Che's face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad," said a former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez, to your humble servant here, "you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara."
Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara's writings revealed a serious mental illness. "My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands!” This passage is from Ernesto Guevara's famous Motorcycle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while directing his heart-warming movie.
The Spanish word vencido, by the way, translates into "defeated" or "surrendered."And indeed, "the "acrid odor of gunpowder and blood" very, very rarely reached Guevara's nostrils from anything properly describable as combat. It mostly came from the close-range murders of defenseless men (and boys.) Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from the firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che's theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen. "Viva Cuba Libre! Viva Cristo Rey! Abajo Comunismo!" "The defiant yells would make the walls of La Cabana prison tremble," wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares.
The one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara's life was the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders thousands crumpled. At everything else Che Guevara failed abysmally, even comically.
During his Bolivian "guerrilla" campaign, Che split his forces whereupon they got hopelessly lost and bumbled around, half-starved, half-clothed and half-shod, without any contact with each other for 6 months before being wiped out. They didn't even have WWII vintage walkie-talkies to communicate and seemed incapable of applying a compass reading to a map. They spent much of the time walking in circles and were usually within a mile of each other. During this blundering they often engaged in ferocious firefights against each other!
"You hate to laugh at anything associated with Che, who murdered so many defenseless men and boys," says Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-American CIA officer who played a key role in tracking him down in Bolivia. "But when it comes to Che as "guerrilla" you simply can't help but guffaw."
Che's genocidal fantasies included a continental reign of Stalinism. And to achieve this ideal he craved, "millions of atomic victims" - most of them Americans. "The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!" raved Ernesto Che Guevara in 1961. "Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination. We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies' very home, to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we'll destroy him! We must keep our hatred against them [the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysms!"
This was Che's prescription for America almost half a century before Osama bin Laden and ISIS appeared on our radar screens. Compared to Che Guevara, Iran’s Ahmadinejad sounds like the Dalai Lama.
So for many, the questions remains: how did such an incurable doofus, sadist and epic idiot attain such iconic status?
The answer is that this psychotic and thoroughly unimposing vagrant named Ernesto Guevara de la Serna y Lynch had the magnificent fortune of linking up with modern history's top press agent, Fidel Castro, who -- from the New York Times' Herbert Matthews in 1957, through CBS' Ed Murrow in 1959 to CBS' Dan Rather, to ABC's Barbara Walters, to most recently, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg -- always had American reporters anxiously scurrying to his every beck and call and eating out of his hand like trained pigeons.
Had Ernesto Guevara not linked up with Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico city that fateful summer of 1955 -- had he not linked up with a Cuban exile named Nico Lopez in Guatemala the year before who later introduced him to Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico City -- everything points to Ernesto continuing his life of a traveling hobo, panhandling, mooching off women, staying in flophouses and scribbling unreadable poetry.
Che's image is particularly ubiquitous on college campuses. But in the wrong places. He belongs in the marketing, PR and advertising departments. His lessons and history are fascinating and valuable, but only in light of P.T. Barnum. One born every minute, Mr. Barnum? If only you'd lived to see the Che phenomenon. Actually, ten are born every second.
His pathetic whimpering while dropping his fully-loaded weapons as two Bolivian soldiers approached him on Oct. 8 1967 ("Don't shoot!" I'm Che!" I'm worth more to you alive than dead!") proves that this cowardly, murdering swine was unfit to carry his victims' slop buckets.
Sign up here for The YAF’s “No More Che Day.”
—not that I wish anyone harm , but every time I see a
“Che” t-shirt , the word “target” comes to mind-—
The truth opens some eyes while others choose to remain blinded by emotions and blind allegience. The Zero One anybody?
The major reason Che is ubiquitous is not really mentioned in this piece.
It is, of course, that his face was made into one of the most iconic images of the last century. It is an indisputably great graphic.
Without this image, nobody outside of Cuba, and possibly not there, would remember him.
This is so but there is also the fact that his psychopathy is shared by so many on the left who dream of actually being able to act as Che acted. Rudd, for example. And Obama incubators Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn, for a couple more.
Thanks for the history lesson. Have always thought Che was a worm because of the way he surrendered. Now we know the rest of the story.
"NOW..."??? The "story' has always been available.
It seems even Freepers are increasingly relying on media and propaganda hypes for their knowledge.
And THIS is how the enemy advances...
THIS is how an enemy of our country gets elected - twice.
Used to be some great - and intelligent - Freepers.
Easy to understand why they left.
I'd bet that 19 out of 20 wearing those shirts do not know who he really is.
Liberals just care more about others, they want peace, they want freedom of expression, they want rights for minorities, ...... and they worship Che. That last part alone trumps everything else they say.
Bump!
Agreed. But very, very few of the people who wear his image are aware of these facts. They just think the image is cool, which it is, and extrapolate that to mean that the original was also cool, which he wasn’t.
The photo of Obama’s Houston campaign office during the ‘08 campaign said it all for me.That great big picture of “Che” on the wall reminded me of something my mother always said..”you’re known by the company you keep”.
I wouldn’t be so harsh on your fellow Freeper. The facts on everything are usually available, and even well informed people are often unaware of them. I would cut this fellow a break. It is our job as veterans on FR to help people understand.
There isn’t anyone who knows everything. Speaking for myself, I was unaware of who Joseph McCarthy REALLY was until I was (beyond the liberal vilification I had been indoctrinated with by adults, teachers and the Media my whole life) until I took it upon myself to find out because a fellow conservative framed it for me in a way that compelled me to learn more about it. That led to the book “Witness”, and when I read that, the worm really turned for me.
A lot of people think Che is bad, and rightfully so, but they think he was “bad” because he was associated with Castro and the Cuban Revolution.
They don’t know that is just part of it. They don’t know he was even more pathetic because he not only bought into the communist indoctrination, hook line and sinker (I have always viewed Che Guevara as a “Useful Idiot” who happened to be power) he was a sadist and a pussy to boot.
Che Guevara was to Fidel Castro as Elizabeth Warren is to Bill Ayers.
So, as I said, I would give Montana_Sam some slack. The fact that he is here is at least one indication he is trying.
(link may be dead -- it's REALLY old)
FBI Informant Reveals Weather Underground Advocated "Killing 25 Million Americans."
I asked, "well what is going to happen to those people we can't
reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" and the reply was that
they'd have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to
eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which
have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational
centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination
of 25 million people.
And they were dead serious.
...and from http://pjmedia.com/blog/eyewitness-to-the-ayers-revolution/ ... PJ Media: You stated in your interview in No Place to Hide that you wanted us to “imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.” A lot of people have now had the opportunity to listen to you, and contemplate the horrors these people planned. Can you recall who these people are by name, and who the ringleaders of this plan were? Larry Grathwohl: Conversations regarding this occurred in Cincinnati, Detroit, Flint, and Buffalo. Participants included Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Linda Evans, Jeff Jones, and many others.
I too learned the truth about McCarthy here at FR, though I never believed in the black-and-white villain presented by the media, simply because I’ve found it a good rule of thumb to take anything the media says, especially regarding a person on the right, especially a famous person who fought one of their cherished ideologies, with a bucket of salt.
I always knew instinctively that Guevera was a murderous thug. I learned the facts here at FR, but I knew the truth instinctively. What other kind of person could he be, to be involved in a shooting war on the side of communism?
—agree—
If you really want to know what Cuba is like read Armando Valladares “ Against all Hope” his autobiography about his 20 years as a political prisoner in Cuba on the Isla de Pinos. It’ll make your blood boil.
Hey, if you’re into sadism....
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