Posted on 11/22/2008 9:27:01 AM PST by Pyro7480
A memorial to a murderous socialist thug in the heart of the heart of capitalism:
The base of the sculpture is inscribed with a Che quote that my ignorance of Spanish prohibited me from deciphering. But I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an apology for committing acts of terror and helping to derail a country for nearly half a century.I’ve never understood the left’s fascination with Che. I mean sure, he’s a socialist and that ostensibly means he’s a member of the people’s revolution or whatever euphemism the extremist proponents of government-run everything use for themselves. But the reality of Che doesn’t really match up to myth of Che carried in the hearts (and on the backpacks and t-shirts) of aging hippies and immature college students everywhere.
For instance, did you know that Che Guevera was a terrorist who plotted the murder of tens of thousands of innocents? Well, maybe that doesn’t matter so much given that Bill Ayers was given a pass for plotting the same sort of things. Bug Guevera was also known to rail against rock 'n roll, "long hairs" and homosexuals in his speeches. He was a racist who mocked black Cubans and segregated them in his revolutionary movement. And he was a book burner who personally hosted bonfires fed by the libraries of intellectuals.
Are those things really worth celebrating?
This has to be a joke. How would this get past any committee in charge of ok’ing public art?
This IS ultra-liberal NYC, after all.
Columbia University, and people like Ayers.
A “statute”?
Down town Manhattan on the east side is a building named Red Square. On the roof that you can see from the street is a statue of V. I. Lenin. So if some knuckle heads wanted to petition to have a Che statue in central park, I wouldn’t be surprised. Lot of idiots living in Manhattan.
Can you post the quote?
That’s a private building, you can put up any junk on private property and if it’s not totally visually or noise-level irratating the owner gets to keep it. But a public park has to have standards, and should not put up statues to proven murderers.
Liberals are so confusing. They make no sense anymore.
Che Guevera: “Castro’s executioner.”
Wouldn’t the Fairness Doctrine require a monument to Augusto Pinochet next to Che?
I am not joking.
Yes, look at Seattle with a statue of Lenin in it’s square.
Parts of this country as a bunch of ass-clowns.
When we retake NYC, we pull it over.
Indecent exposure??
why wait ?
Not in NYC, or most parts of the N.E. for that matter.
Of course there probably is something in law about your having to share your needles, and pushing your victims to the side of the paths, so as not to cause injury to others.
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