Coffee For Morons
"A Just Cup"? Tell that to all the people murdered by Che Guevara, you buttwads. Here's an excerpt from a piece by Humberto Fontova:
Outside of Havana and in the countryside Che's murder victims often faced the firing squads untrussed, shoved in front of a recently dug pit with their hands free. "Aim right HERE!" was a favorite among some of the these as they reached below the belt. This was a favorite, they say, of the campesinos Castro and Che's firing squads were murdering during the Escambray rebellion. "Cause y'all ain't got any!" yelled these Cuban rednecks right before the volley shattered their bodies.Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro's theft of their humble family farm.
On Christmas eve 1961 Juana Diaz spat in the face of the executioners who were binding and gagging her. They'd found her guilty of feeding and hiding "bandits" (Cuban rednecks who took up arms to fight the theft of their land) When the blast from that firing squad demolished her face and torso Juana was six months pregnant.
..."Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!"
This is from Che's famous "Motorcycle Diaries," recently made into a heartwarming movie by Robert Redford. It seems that Mr Redford omitted this passage from his touching film. The "acrid odor of gunpowder and blood" never reached Guevara's nostril from actual combat. It always came from the close-range murder of defenseless men(and boys.)
... One defector claims Che signed 400 death warrants during the first month of the Cuban Revolution. Another says over 600. Cuban journalist Luis Ortega, who knew Che as early as 1954, writes in his book "Yo Soy El Che!" that Guevara sent 1,897 men to the firing squad. In his book "Che Guevara: A Biography," Daniel James writes that Che himself admitted to ordering "several thousand" executions during the first few years of the Castro regime.
The scope of Che Guevara's mass murder is unclear. The exact number of widows and orphans is in dispute. The number of men (and boys)who Che sent, without trial, to be bound to a stake and blown apart by bullets runs from the hundreds to the thousands. And the mass executioner's T-shirt adorns the very people who oppose capitol punishment--as Harvard Law School's faculty certainly did while clapping, hyperventilating and throwing their panties at Castro on stage.
Here's my previous entry on Che Guevara, with links to pieces by Paul Berman and Jay Nordlinger.
Only first-year poli-sci students and uneducated hipster wannabee's idolize Che. OTOH, these are kind of amusing: http://www.t-shirthumor.com/Merchant2/products/chen.html?Category_Code=newr
deja pseu at October 12, 2005 9:04 AM
C'mon. He had to kill those people, in order to save them from themselves.
He just looks so hot on those tshirts. He reminds me so much of Bob Marley. Minus the uplifting tunes, of course.
I heard Redfords next film is a heartwarming bio-pic about a young Austrian painter, and his deep love for his mother.
John O at October 12, 2005 11:32 AM
This is the way the left think: see, he's OK, Che, because he did bad things for GOOD reasons. The Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm had no hesitation in agreeing to the proposition that he would accept the murder of MILLIONS if it brought socialist utopia. Hence, of course, Joe Stalin.
Dave F at October 19, 2005 5:14 AM
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