Posted on 07/11/2007 6:59:49 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Cuba's late Marxist revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, is experiencing something of a revival these days. His fiery-eyed visage and rock-star good looks, immortalized in an iconic snapshot by photographer Alberto Korda in 1961, seem to epitomize the youthful idealism of revolution, rebellion and free-spiritedness.
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FReepers were already aware he was a blood-thirsty wanna-be dictator.
Jolie owns the movie rights to "Atlas Shrugged". What kind of a dog vomit hash do you think she'll make of that?
Totally true. What Fontova says is that often the intelligent people know he was bad, but have no idea just how bad. Che was worse than anyone realizes.
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So does Mike Tyson. So I guess IQ's tend to stick together.
Che: “We do executions.”
A lot more than I knew yesterday.
Thanks!
Perhaps, like the proverbial crucifix neck jewelry, the Che shirt is more a work of pop art, more fad, than actual political statement.
Well, it's a "fad" that needs to stop. Imagine if people wore Hitler shirts as a "fad."
Remember that the next time you see some young punk on the streets in a Che shirt.
Several years ago, an American blogger (can’t remember who) suggested that the successful free market venture of selling Che t-shirts is more than a little ironic and is a sure sign that communism is a failure. The blogger’s conclusion was a warning to communists: “Oppose us and we’ll merchandise you.” :-)
I read most of this new book last week and enjoyed the very extensive history and references.
“Well, it’s a “fad” that needs to stop.”
Perhaps we should have a funeral for it, and bury a few shirts in a graveyard somewhere? Perhaps we could have a few people in Miami do this for us? I mean, the NAACP showed us the way here, right?
In Alex Cox's bio-pic, the Communist hammer and sickle was used and considered less offensive/more in line with what punk politics "should" be...
I'm doing Indian take out, a couple and a third-wheel come in and sit near where I'm waiting, male member of the couple is wearing a Che shirt. On the way out, I wander by their table, and say "Good evening! Since you're wearing a Che t-shirt, I couldn't resist pointing out my version of that, since it's brand new. By the way, your guy is dead, the Berlin wall came down, and Communism is mostly gone. Y'all have a good night!"
Guy and the gal looked like deer in the headlights. The third-wheel guy "got it", and had a huge grin on his face, as I exited the scene.
“Cuba in 1961 had 6.3 million people. According to Freedom House, 500,000 Cubans have passed through Cuba’s prison systems, proportionately more than went through Stalin’s Gulag. At one time in 1961, 350,000 Cubans (were) jailed for political crimes and 1 out of 18 Cubans was a political prisoner.”
According to the Black Book of Communism, published in Paris, 14,000 men and boys were executed in Cuba by that stage, that would be the equivalent of 3 million executions in the U.S., and yet that man who carried them out was hailed by Jesse Jackson, who wrote a book condemning capital punishment.
Che had an arrogant nature. I interviewed people who visited him and tried to save their sons from firing squad executions without trial. He liked to toy with them. He liked to pick up the phone in front of weeping mothers and bark out, “Execute the Fernandez boy right now!”
The Heroes of American Democrats........
... and the last thought:
“Alan Colmes of “Hannity and Colmes” once asked me, “Why are these stories coming out now as opposed to 20 years ago? All of a sudden, you discover all this horrible information on Che.”
I said, “No, Alan, people have been talking about this since 1959, but it never made it past the mainstream media filter.”
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