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Elizabeth 03/22/2009 05:12 PM Report
Thank you for the quote, William. I think of myself as a political progressive, but am astonished at the confusion on the "left" in their idealization of Guevara and Castro (not to mention Mao!) What in the world is wrong with people? Are they so bored and spiritually impotent that they have to dredge up these psychopaths to feel connected to power, no matter how evil? I'm disgusted and frightened by their inability to think straight, not to mention "feel" straight. Che's story wasn't repressed, because at Catholic schools across America we took in the children of Cuban parents who had to let their children flee, while they stayed behind, when the Castro/Che liars began sending Cuban children to the Soviet Union to be trained to work in "farms", rather than become "depraved" intellectuals. We witnessed the chaos the Castro/Che duo inflicted on their own people, so no "repression" of information about them would have even been possible.
Elizabeth
William 02/06/2009 11:06 AM Report
Here’s what’s missing from Che’s biography: “Here’s a cold-blooded murderer who executed thousands without trial, who claimed that judicial evidence was an “unnecessary bourgeois detail,” who stressed that “revolutionaries must become cold-killing machines motivated by pure hate,” who stayed up till dawn for months at a time signing death warrants for innocent and honorable men, whose office in La Cabana had a window where he could watch the executions - and today his T-shirts adorn people who oppose capital punishment!” – Humberto Fontova
William 02/04/2009 08:50 AM Report
"Don't shoot! I'm Che! I'm worth more to you alive than dead!"
So begins the death song of the coward Guevara.
TTigerX2 02/02/2009 11:15 PM Report
Che's story has to be told in four hours because it has been suppressed by the US the past 42 years since his assassination at the hands of the CIA in Bolivia. On Wikipedia, Che's biography is about the largest and comprises one of the most active biographic source notations. Few men in history have had their lives so well researched and debated. Books on Che have had to be smuggled in and no films have been made until now in America, land of the free. I can hear Che laughing now.