Posted on 10/07/2017 10:09:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Irish post office, An Post, is to release a stamp immortalizing Che Guevara 50 years after his death at the hands of the Bolivian Army.
Long ago, Irish artist Jim Fitzpartrick created the iconic image of Guevara with his trademark cap, shaggy hair and piercing gaze transposed onto a red background. Now for the first time, it has been placed on a stamp.
The word ‘Éire’, the Irish word for ‘Ireland’, declares the stamp’s origins for all who care to Google it, and it costs one euro to buy. […]
Earlier this year, the Irish government issued an apology for displaying a picture of the revolutionary in Miami as part of an exhibition about the contribution of people with links to Ireland in South America. Miami is home to a huge Cuban American population, and as Che was a loyal comrade of the hated Castro brother, the poster caused uproar locally. […]
Considering community sensibilities, it might not be a great idea to send any letters to Miami with the stamp on. …
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
They never used to be like that. The ideology of many of the politicians after independence was not as far left, although there were a lot of communists in the wars of independence and civil war; but the big change seems to have come with the European Union.
Ireland has not been a sovereign nation since 1972. The Third Amendment, which was created to formalize the joining with the EEC (now the EU), puts European law supreme over Irish law.
Why have them fake? If the Irish are in love with totalitarian thugs they’ll print them with the smallest suggestion... Shame on them.
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