Che: Cold-blooded killer

[DesertFox]

A ROMANTIC hero to legions of fans the world over, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the poster boy of Marxist revolution, has come under assault as a cold-hearted monster four decades after his death in the Bolivian jungle.

A revisionist biography has highlighted Guevara's involvement in countless executions of "traitors" and counter-revolutionary "worms," offering a new glimpse of the dark side of the guerrilla fighter who helped Fidel Castro seize power in Cuba.

"Attacking an almost legendary figure is not an easy task," said Jacobo Machover, author of The Hidden Face of Che. "He has so many defenders. They have forged the cult of an untouchable hero."

The Argentine-born Guevara has become ever more fashionable, his pre-revolutionary adventures as a medical student dramatised to great acclaim in the film The Motorcycle Diaries and his bearded visage an icon of chic on T-shirts and even bikinis.

Machover, a Cuban exiled in France since 1963, blames the hero-worship on French intellectuals who flocked to Havana in the 1960s and fell under the charm of the only "comandante" who could speak their language.

They turned a blind eye to anything that did not fit in with their idealised image of Guevara. A prolific diarist, Guevara wrote vividly of his role as an executioner.

More (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22428134-36235,00.html)

[DoctorDoom]

He was a commie. To libs/lefties, nothing else matters.

[Timberwolf]

"I carried out a very summary inquiry and then the peasant Aristidio was executed," he wrote about another killing. "It is not possible to tolerate even the suspicion of treason."
There are those in Congress who should now get on their knees and thank the good Lord they live in THIS country. For, if they lived in quite a number of foreign countries, they would be facing summary execution themselves...

[Maggie_T]

He was a commie. To libs/lefties, nothing else matters.


Quite. When I was in France, I saw many T-shirts with Che's ugly mug on them. Then there was this metal-studded-leather-clad, I'm-too-cool-for-words, cigarette-dangling-from-lip, stubbly individual, queueing in front of me at the supermarket, holding a Che-infested wallet in his hand. He was too young to have been around in the happy killing-spree days of Che, so it was obvious it was all a matter of commie chic. :rolleyes:

[ThomasMore]

I remember the Mao shirts in college.

The Lenin shirts.

The Trotsky shirts.

The Che shirts.

None would dare wear a Hitler or a Goebbels shirt, but they have no problem with murderous thugs if they come from a Socialist Worker's Paradise.

[Maggie_T]

I noticed that in my time, too, Tom. And when I asked the fashion victims why they did not wear Hitler chic, seeing as how he was as much a mass-murderer as the rest, I would get the usual slew of insults. LOL. Some things never change.

I was thoroughly disliked at university.

[Timberwolf]

I cannot, for the life of me, fathom WHY, Maggie!! LOL

[DesertFox]

I was thoroughly disliked at university. You'n me both, milady. Once I was arguing (engaging in dialectics) with a Marxist at the Kansas University bookstore in the Fall of 1967. It was set up beside a stairwell, and when it became clear that I was kicking the living shit outta the commie-ass bastard, some other commie-ass bastard dropped a water bomb on me from about two stories up. The onlookers decided I lost the debate since I was the one with water on me.

I eventually quit that school and took my degrees elsewhere. Buncha rich kids and commie moh fohs. I detested it.

[MarlinsFan]

My grandfather escaped Cuba in the early sixties and they took away his business and pretty much everything he ever knew. He's told me that every time he sees one of these douchebags in the Che t-shirts he feels like punching them in the face.

[ThomasMore]

"You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs" -- attributed to V.I. Ulyunov (Lenin).

"Where's the omelet?" -- George Orwell.

[DoctorDoom]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/MiscStuff/CheDead.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/PITA/CheCorpse.gif

[DesertFox]

I believe the quote about omelettes originated with Josif Vissarionovich Djugashvili, aka Stalin.

[DoctorDoom]

Actually it prededed the Russkies, being attributed to Maximilien Robespierre (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre).

Omelettes are not made without breaking eggs.

Original French: On ne peut pas faire d'omelette sans casser des oeufs.

[Wolfcounsel]

A man cannot be free until every man's bonds are broken.




I like that better than the comments from the two assholes, Robespierre and Stalin.