Posted on 03/27/2012 12:21:28 PM PDT by WPaCon
Dear editors,
As a victim of Che Guevara’s atrocities, as a historian, and as a Cuban of Irish descent, I am deeply disturbed by the fact that the city of Galway is planning to erect a monument to Ernesto “Che” Guevara. I don’t mind one bit if those behind this monstrous project want to believe lies — that’s their right in a truly free society — but it would be wrong to allow their abysmal ignorance or willful blindness to stand unchallenged. Those who think highly of Che may be surprised to hear it, but they have way too much in common with Holocaust deniers.
Advertisement Che was my neighbor in Havana, and I actually saw him in the flesh several times. He lived in an opulent mansion just a few blocks from my very small house, and also ran the prison of La Cabaña, where some of my relatives ended up being tortured and murdered. Their crime? Voicing an opinion different from Che’s. Or, in the case of my uncle, simply having a son who voiced an opinion contrary to Che’s. The awful truth about Ernesto “Che” Guevara is that he was a violent thug with despotic tendencies. Che’s admirers prefer to think of him as a righteous warrior, and often cite certain books that portray him as a saint. I hate to break the news to them: Some books are full of lies. Fortunately, others are not, like the memoir Cuba 1959, La Galera de la Muerte, written by Javier Arzuaga, the priest who accompanied all of Che’s victims to the firing squad during the first nine months of the so-called Revolution. Read it and weep, please, all of you who love Che.
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They’re building a monument to Che????????????
...I don’t recognize this nation anymore. :(
That’s Galway, Ireland where the monument will be built. Still... Ireland... WHY???
we have let the Left conquer the culture across the globe.
Che was a cold-blooded murderous bastard; but he looks cool on a T-shirt.
I talked to some young kid about his Che sticker on his truck and asked if he knew about him - he motioned not really. I told him about some of Che’s atrocities. However, I haven’t seen the truck for a while in my neighborhood.
A lot of folks are ignorant on him !
Seattle hosts a 16 foot tall statue of Lenin.
That about sums it up.
“my relatives ended up being tortured and murdered. Their crime? Voicing an opinion different from Che’s.”
Sounds very much like the leftist mob in our country.
The depths to which a liberal will sink are not measurable.
Even Ireland has not managed to free themselves of this cancer.
Probably the same mentality that makes the every day Irish person protest against Israel and support Palestine. They are my ancestors but I don’t agree with them on this kind of crap.
Che was a pig and died like he deserved. He put people to death all because of politics. He is a hero to the left who would also put conservatives to death just because we won’t see life in the way that they do.
When ever I see a kid or adult in a Che shirt I want to walk up and pimp slap them.
Because the last, *semi-successful* group of Irish nationalists were also heavily Socialist in character. They ended up creating an Irish nation, but that nation, like all nations has its flaws, in this case a medium-sized dose of Marxist philosophies...
the infowarrior
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