Posted on 10/08/2009 8:54:15 PM PDT by slickeroo
Che Guevara: Assassin, Coward, Imbecile
Humberto Fontova Thursday, October 8, 2009
“SENTENCE first – VERDICT afterwards,” said the Queen. “Nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “Off with her head!” the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. – Alice In Wonderland
They say Lewis Carroll was a serious dope fiend, his mind totally scrambled on opium, when he concocted “Alice in Wonderland.” A place where the sentence comes first and the verdict afterward? Where people who protest the madness are sentenced to death themselves? What lunacy!
If only Carroll had lived a bit longer. If only he’d visited Cuba in 1959 when every paper from the New York Times to the London Observer – when every pundit from Walter Lippman to Ed Murrow, every author from Jean Paul Sartre to Norman Mailer, every TV host from Jack Paar to Ed Sullivan were touting the judicial outrages, mass larceny and firing-squad orgies instituted by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara as the most glorious events since VJ day.
“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary,” Carroll would have heard from the chief executioner, named Ernesto “Che” Guevara. “These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredon (The Wall)!”
For the first year of Castro’s glorious revolution Che Guevara was his main executioner—a combination Beria and Himmler, with a major exception: Che’s slaughter of (bound and gagged) Cubans (Che was himself an Argentine) exceeded Heinrich Himmler’s prewar slaughter of Germans—to scale, that is.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Yup. Its been full bore.
I wish a few of the wealthier conservatives and corporations would get together and buy out at least one of the big media conglomerates. NBC, ABC? Something.
I never fail to be amazed at the things evil people will believe and do. It's likely that Guevara would have been willing to kill everybody on the planet—except himself and a few fellow travelers—in order to prove to himself that his Marxist ideology was correct and everybody who disagreed with him was wrong. And I'm reminded of Bill Ayers, Obama's pal, who once said that it would be necessary to slaughter 25 million Americans in order to bring the ideal New World Order of the Weathermen into existence. The fact that he could even contemplate such an idea shows that he's certifiable. And yet now he's a tenured professor at an American university. Truly astonishing and frightening.
you miss the piont of the piece — he said that Guevara never faced anyone in battle and that his victims were all tied up for him. Surely that’s not courageous?
you should read it anyway — it’s one of the best things I’ve ever read on the Castro /Communist takeover.
Ah, the author's feeble attempt to understand the mind of a mathematician...
The Jupiter IRBM’s were being considered for phasing out as early as 1961. These missiles were intended as stopgaps until more reliable missile technology was available. The PGM-19 was a liquid fueled missile, using liquid oxygen as the oxidizer. This has operational problems such as a 1 hour reaction time, and also above ground (non-hardened) launch facilities at fixed locations. So when these were decommissioned in 1963, they were already obsolete. At the same time, the Minuteman ICBM’s were already coming on line (solid fuel, 1 minute order to launch reaction), and also the Polaris SLBM’s. One SSBN effectively replaced the squadron of Jupiters in Turkey. So in 1963, decommissioning the Jupiters were effectively a convenient throwaway, since they were an obsolete weapon system at the time. Consider even the A-2 version of the Polaris. Reaction time would have been variable - receipt of order to arrival at launch depth, however, where is the sub? This caused the Soviets to divert military resources to ASW. Retiring the Jupiters was no loss. The Atlas and the Titan I ICBM’s, also using liquid oxygen, were phased out soon after due to technological obsolescence.
With the long reaction time (1 hour), and the 30 minute flight time of incoming missiles, the missiles using LOX would have been destroyed before launch.
“The widespread use of opium during the Victorian period may have influenced or been reflected in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.”
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/aiwl5.html
Be that as it may, the media still didn't report the fact that Kennedy agreed to move them. Which, as I recall, is what I said. In the context of the media doing its' job it's irrelevant whether Kennedy and his advisors thought they were putting one over on Nikita Kruschev by agreeing to remove obsolete missiles. The Russians knew they were obsolete but Kennedy's agreement gave them a face-saving opportunity. And the media failed to report that at the time. Instead it portrayed the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis as more one-sided than it really was.
What Newspapers were you reading at the time? I lived in the Washington, DC area, and both Washington papers reported on the removal of the Jupiter missiles, and discussed them in the contex of quid pro quo for the Soviets removing their missiles from Cuba. Moreover, at least one of the articles in one of the papers made the point that the Jupiters were obsolete technology which were due to be retired anyway.
Vietvet
Don’t forget the best part — he’s a *dead* assassin, coward, and imbecile.
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