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To: REDWOOD99

Accusing Che, a man of high ideals, of being a terrorist is laughable coming from someone that undoubtedly supports acts of state terror being carried out in our name in this so called war on terror. While Che was not a nonviolent activist, the violent acts he carried out pale in comparison to acts carried out by the U.S. and allies. In addition, it is arguable whether his violent acts can be constituted as terrorist at all.


43 posted on 07/08/2005 10:57:32 PM PDT by Brandon_Hill
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Tag team trolls! What a novel idea! I guess since Che's acts of violence pale in comparison to those of the U.S. that explains why his communist paradise never achieved more than third-world status. You should elevate your level of hero.


48 posted on 07/08/2005 11:03:12 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967, leading a guerrilla movement that had failed to enlist a single Bolivian peasant. And yet he succeeded in inspiring tens of thousands of middle class Latin-Americans to exit the universities and organize guerrilla insurgencies of their own. And these insurgencies likewise accomplished nothing, except to bring about the death of hundreds of thousands, and to set back the cause of Latin-American democracy—a tragedy on the hugest scale.


54 posted on 07/08/2005 11:26:07 PM PDT by dancusa (Appeasement, high taxes and regulation collects in the diapers of bed wetting liberals.)
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To: Brandon_Hill
Accusing Che, a man of high ideals, of being a terrorist is laughable coming from someone that undoubtedly supports acts of state terror being carried out in our name in this so called war on terror.

This, young man is really sad. You make me afraid for the future if you are an example of what Clovis schools (from which I am an alumni) are turning out these days.

You are obviously full of yourself, but that is not the only thing you are full of.

72 posted on 07/09/2005 12:24:30 AM PDT by ladyinred
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