Is this it?
Posted on 12/13/2006 4:48:21 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Business Ethics: Target, the retailer that distinguished itself last year by banning Salvation Army bell-ringers, has topped itself this yuletide by selling Che Guevara CD cases for a little tyrant-chic right under your tree.
The big box retailer has jumped onto the Guevara bandwagon, selling the murderous revolutionary's image as if it had just turned its stores into Marxist rally stalls.
What next? Hitler backpacks? Pol Pot cookware? Pinochet pantyhose? Target gives this monster a pass, while using common sense on almost everything else it sells.
We can only guess it's because Alberto Korda took one glamorous snapshot of Guevara in 1960 that has delighted leftists and blown around at global anti-American rallies ever since, something Target might do well to consider. ...
All this reflects an indifference to history. For some real market research, Target ought to go to Miami ... for the 20% of Cubans who fled for their lives from Guevara's communist Cuba.
For them, Guevara was no hip revolutionary with a free spirit wearing earbuds, as the Target CD case shows. He was a psychopath with a central role in Cuba's 1961 mass executions in the "year of the wall." Guevara signed at least 600 death warrants and executed children against firing squad walls; he was responsible for at least 2,000 deaths.
After that, the Argentine-born communist organized Cuba's gulag. His violence was so over the top it scared even Castro, who eventually sent him away to fight mercenary wars ...
Guevara also left a lot to be desired on a personal level, never paying bills, living in houses he confiscated and wearing Gatsby suits and smoking from a cigarette holder as Cubans starved.
Target would be well-advised to yank the Guevara trash from its shelves, melt it down and purchase their buyer some history lessons.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Is this it?
Chris Matthews son has a Che shirt, for real.
Not quite, but very close!
My shirt is yellow and Adam is black. His hair is curly and it's more a frontal-face shot than that.
He sorta does look like Che on mine, if you a) squint b) in the dark, and c) forget who's wearing him.
The same group that lionizes this monster now mocks outrage at Pinochet.
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