Disgraceful
Remove!
In a country that would reward terrorist with tenured professorships, and that would elect a man president who attended weekly meetings of a racist organization, what’s one statute honoring a blood thirsty killer.
Send it to Bezerkely...they like crap like that.
Most New Yorkers seem unaware that but for the grace of God thousands of them would have been Che's victims too.
"If the missiles had remained (in Cuba),We would have used them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York City. The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims." - Ernesto 'Che" Guevara, November 1962.
If I lived around there, each day I'd sprinkle the statue with bird seed to attract pigeons...lots and lots of pigeons.
KRISTINN, FREEREPUBLIC.COM: We have kids that wear Che Guevara shirts here in the United States.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but they're kind of cute at this point, aren't they? They're not about somebody out to get us now. I think there's a difference. I mean, that's kind of camp almost, isn't it?...is Che Guevara the symbol of hate in the United States anymore?
KRISTINN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: I don't think so. I mean, a lot of our kids wear them. I see kids wearing them all the time, even my kids wear them. It's like a Robert Marley T-shirt at this point.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11943459/
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Matthews: Obama Speech Caused 'Thrill Going Up My Leg'
"During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's presidential primary elections, after the speeches of Barack Obama and John McCain had aired, Chris Matthews expressed his latest over the top admiration for Obama's speaking skills as the MSNBC anchor admitted that Obama's speech created a 'thrill' in his leg"
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/02/13/matthews-obama-speech-caused-thrill-going-my-leg
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Che flag sends 'disturbing' message about Obama
Candidate attracts 'people who think mass murderers are romantic revolutionaries'
February 13, 2008
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
The Fox TV affiliate in Houston has captured images of a volunteer in a campaign office for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama working in front of a flag featuring the image of Che Guevara, the South American revolutionary who became Fidel Castro's executioner after the communist takeover in Cuba.
And while the Obama campaign has issued a statement placing a modest distance between the campaign and its "volunteers," the issue of such an image on display in an office operating on behalf of a man hoping to be commander in chief of the world's last remaining superpower is raising alarms.
Even Obama supporters have been forced into corners because of the issue, with one likening the Texas state Republican Party to Guevara, to whom have been attributed hundreds of executions of anti-Castro leaders.
Under the heading "Barack Guevara," Investor's Business Daily raised some of the more pointed questions, to which the campaign responded only with a statement: "The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign. ..."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56293
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http://store.che-lives.com/t-shirts.php
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Park Avenue Gets a Mao
By KATE TAYLOR | September 8, 2008
The final piece of the Asia Society's exhibition "Art and China's Revolution" was installed over the weekend: a 10-foot-tall sculpture of a Mao jacket, by the artist Sui Jianguo, which will stand on a median in the middle of Park Avenue at 70th Street until mid-November.
The sculpture, called "Mao Suit," is made of corroded steel and weighs 5-and-a-half tons. It is part of a series of Mao jackets — shown without the head or hands of their famous wearer — that the artist, who is in his 50s, began in the late 1990s and has made in a variety of materials, from steel to resin to colored plastic, the Asia Society's museum director, Melissa Chiu, said.
When Mr. Sui first exhibited the sculptures at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he teaches, they were controversial, Ms. Chiu explained.
People "saw it as being somewhat critical of Mao's policies, because it has a very wide bottom, so it suggests that Mao was quite plump," Ms. Chiu said. "The reading was that [the sculpture] suggested that Mao was prosperous and bourgeois."
As the series progressed, the controversy died down, Ms. Chiu said. She herself sees "Mao Suit" as a complex representation of Mao, neither wholly positive nor sharply negative.
"Mao is considered the father of modern China," she said. "Yes, his policies exacted suffering among his people: There is a common saying about Mao being '70% right and 30% wrong.'" But for people who lived through the revolution, she added, Mao "was an inescapable part of their lives."
That Mr. Sui chose not to include Mao's head and hands "suggests an absence," Ms. Chiu said. "So perhaps the sculpture is part critical, part just an acknowledgment of their experience."
"Mao Suit" is on loan from the artist. It was sent by boat to New York, in a 20-foot container, the associate director of communications for the Asia Society, Elaine Merguerian, said. The Asia Society worked with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to find an appropriate spot for the sculpture, and then with the Department of Transportation to make sure that the weight was properly distributed, since the median is above the no. 6 subway line.
"It's the first time we've ever done something on Park Avenue," Ms. Chiu said. "It gives us an opportunity to extend the exhibition."
WOW!!!
I can honestly say that today I have learned something pretty fundamental here in the FRee Republic. Thanks for posting!
As a foreigner I had always thought that America’s treatment of Cuba since — what was it? 1962? — was anally retentive and way over-the-top. And I had also always viewed Che Guevarra as some bad-head communist hippie from Latin America that smoked too much dope and caused ructions in South America, until he got bumped off by his own mates...
...and today I find out that in actual fact, he was more like the Beatles-era Osama bin Laden and that he had hatched a plot with the Cubans to incinerate thousants of you Yanks in New York City!!!
Suddenly a whole bunch of pieces clicked together: they don’t teach this stuff to foreigners (or probably even to American kids these days) so of *course* Che Guevarra is perfect for wearing on a tee-shirt as some sort of icon-of-rebellion.
No wonder you Yanks hate the guy: he was a terrorist that tried to kill American women and children. He didn’t just talk about it, he actually gave it a go. And no wonder you isolate Cuba: they are a terrorist rogue nation.
CLICK.
Thanks for the education. I bet there are millions of people in the Western world who do not know what I just learned today.
*DieHard*
Maybe they should put up a statue with Mel Brooks doing his wacky Hitler impersonation....
Want to bet there will some day be a statue of Bill Ayers somewhere in the US?
It’s NY, therefore quite representative of their values.
You have to love a city that installs an outdoor urinal. New York has something for everyone.
Che wasn’t even a man who just wanted to “fix” his own country as many revolutionary figures were- he was a man always in search of a revolution. Also known as a trouble maker.