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?
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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.
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.
“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.”
Bump, and I loved this exchange:
IBD: The media missed all this. Will it ever change?
Fontova: The mainstream media monopoly is being broken. 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.” That monopoly is over, so our side can tell its story to middle America. I like to think this book is an example of that.
Definitely a great book title!
This is my favorite picture of Che. My first Spanish teacher in 1961, Sr. Portilla alumna of University of Havana, told me, "Ah, Felipe, Fidel es muy malo, muy malo, es veddy veddy bad man." Had our cinc and cia had the will, we would have a similar photo of Moqtada al-Sadr and Ayman al-Zawahari. To the days of old when you captured your enemy by the sat phone in his hands--then took the hands. Hey, Che, we do executions right.
99.9% of the kids wearing the t-shirt have no idea who the guy was or what he did. There is just a vague idea that he was some kind of “rebel.” However, the t-shirt’s iconography is appealing for its semi-Warhol style, the fact that copyright can’t be enforced, and that it is incredibly easy to produce via silk-screen.
Why can’t FReepers excerpt more than 2 sentences anymore?