In Honor of Che Guevara

theCL 2008-11-29 Myth, Socialism 10 Comments

2008-11-29 Myth, Socialism 10 comments

Things in America keep getting stranger by the minute ...

New York, NY: Take a walk through Central Park, and head on over to 5th Avenue and 60th Street while you're there. This way, you can stop to admire the statue of the "revolutionary" t-shirt king, Che Guevara.

Yes! That Che Guevara, the man who is honored on many walls throughout the United States, inside the campaign offices of none other than "the One," Barack Obama, President of the United States of America - elect.

They've even kept the spirit of Che alive, paying for the statue with tax money confiscated from taxpayers (Public Art fund, NEA, New York Council for the Arts, and the City of New York).

Now ... for those of you who attended public school, I offer up an olive branch: A simple bullet-point synopsis of Che Guevara, the "revolutionary."

Before you jump into your favorite pair of jeans, and throw on that new Che Guevara t-shirt you just know will impress that hot brunette down at Camp Obama ... take a minute to educate yourself.

I'm thrilled that you're all about "justice and equality," Please just read through the list, then ask yourself:

"Does Che Guevara represent 'justice,' or does he really represent the murder and slavery of the masses?"

I believe Che Guevara was violent totalitarian - the enemy of "social justice" - the enemy of free men and women everywhere.

You tell me (comments are open to all) ...

Che Guevara was one of the leaders of a regime that executed more people in its first 3 years in power than Hitler did in his first 6.
"Because of my ideological training I am one of those who believe that the solution to this world's problems is to be found behind the so-called Iron Curtain." - Che Guevara, December 14, 1957.
More than 100,000,000 people have been killed in the name of communism's form of "justice and equality."
The legend that a small number of long-haired, bearded beatniks who overthrew a "brutal U.S.-backed dictatorship that repressed and impoverished Cuba," is a myth.
The real "revolutionary war" in Cuba was fought against Fidel and Che, by an anti-communist insurgency of peasants and humble rural folk (freedom-fighters).
Che Guevara, co-founded with Fidel Castro, a Stalinist police state where the regime mandates what its "subjects," read, say, earn, eat (both substance and amount), where they live, travel or work.
Once they achieved power, Che Guevara, hungering for slaughter, became the chief executioner. His firing squads killed over 14,000 bound and gagged freedom-fighters.
Guevara was put in charge of the prison known as "La Cabaña," where he executed journalists, businessmen and merchants.
Che set up the first forced labor camp, Guanahacabibes, where he imprisoned dissidents, homosexuals, AIDS victims, Catholics, Afro-Cuban priests, and other such "scum."
Many were slaughtered in the Guanahacabibes. Thewere raped, beaten, or mutilated.

Che Guevara's regime imprisoned "roqueros" (Cuban rock-n-roll fans). These prisoner's "counter-revolutionary crimes" were listening to music and having long-hair.
Che Guevara hauled countless young men into the prison camps for the crime of effeminate behavior. The work camps had signs with "Work Will Make Men Out of You," in bold letters above the gate, and machine gunners in the watchtowers.
Many of Cuba's best writers, poets and independent film-makers were jailed or exiled for not cooperating with the Stalinist regime's propaganda agencies.
The regime mercilessly killed thousands - but only after they were bound, gagged and blindfolded.
During the 1960s alone, the regime executed over 100,000 people, and incarcerated some 350,000 political prisoners out of a Cuban population that numbered only 6.3 million in 1960.
Che Guevara became the first head of the Central Bank, and then the minister of finance in order to move to a Soviet-style command economy.
Cuba had a higher standard of living in 1958 than half of Europe, a larger middle class than Switzerland, a more highly unionized work force than the U.S., and more doctors and dentists per capita than Great Britain.
Che Guevara, by diverting resources to industries that collapsed soon after they were created, plunged the Cuban economy into massive poverty.
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro plotted to bomb New York City with nuclear missiles.
In what became known as the "Cuban Missile Crisis," Che Guevara's regime imprisoned "roqueros" (Cuban rock-n-roll fans). The prisoners "counter-revolutionary crimes" were listening to music and having long-hair.,
Che Guevara hauled countless young men into the prison camps for the crime of effeminate behavior. The work camps had signs with "Work Will Make Men Out of You," in bold letters above the gate, and machine gunners in the watchtowers.
Many of Cuba's best writers, poets and independent film-makers were jailed or exiled for not cooperating with the Stalinist regime's propaganda agencies.
Thousands of innocent people were killed - but only after they were bound, gagged and blindfolded.
During the 1960s alone, the regime executed over 100,000 people, and incarcerated some 350,000 political prisoners out of a Cuban population that numbered only 6.3 million in 1960.
Che Guevara became the first head of the Central Bank, and then the minister of finance to move towards a Soviet-style command economy.
Cuba had a higher standard of living in 1958 than half of Europe, a larger middle class than Switzerland, a more highly unionized work force than the U.S., more doctors and dentists per capita than Great Britain
Che Guevara, by diverting resources to industries that collapsed soon after they were created, plunged the Cuban economy into mass poverty, to which they haven't recovered to this day.
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro plotted to bomb New York City with nuclear missiles.
In what became known as the "Cuban Missile Crisis," Nikita Khrushchev, the "Butcher of Budapest," even decided against providing Fidel's regime with nuclear weapons in response to this plot.
"If the nuclear missiles had remained we would have used them against the very heart of America, including New York City ... We will march the path of victory even if it costs millions of atomic victims ... We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm." - Che Guevara, London Daily Worker, November 1962.
On Nov. 17 1962, the FBI cracked a terrorist plot by Cuba's "Foreign Liberation Department" (headed by Che Guevara), to bomb Manhattan's Grand Central Station and other locations (including the retail store Macy's), with 500 kilos of TNT.
This terrorist plot was planned to take place on "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving, and the biggest shopping day of the year.
To put this into perspective, al-Qaida's March 2004 Madrid subway bombings, all 10 of them, that killed and maimed almost 2000 people, used only a total of 100 kilos of TNT.

At the end of his life, this violent slaughterer of men showed his true colors. As the Bolivian soldiers surrounded Che Guevara in his only one, real attempt at guerrilla warfare, he ordered his men to fight to their death.

Che, however, ran like a coward. When caught by only two Bolivian soldiers, Che immediately dropped his fully loaded weapon, and whimpered "Don't Shoot! I'm Che! I'm worth to you more alive than dead!" The soldiers felt otherwise, and shot him.

Today, as you read this, the social struggle of the peasants in Cuba continues. Dissident liberals demanding basic human rights are being rounded up, imprisoned, or killed.

If you wish to express your support for genuine revolution, honor the man who "invented" guerrilla war techniques, as he fought to topple an imperialist regime, and actually established social justice ... Put on a t-shirt with George Washington's face on it!

Che Guevara Quotes:

"We, practical revolutionaries, initiating our own struggle, simply fulfill laws foreseen by Marx, the scientist."

"South American peasants are simply little animals."

"Mexicans are a rabble of illiterate Indians."

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