In response to some delicious news from Venezuela, friend — of mine and of a free Cuba — Gary Harmon offers a fitting denunciation of Ché Guverara and those who would worship at his blood-drenched altar:
Would he describe the shooter as “an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded” glass-blastin’ machine?Or would he vilify the shooter(s) who shattered the glass monument to himself, Castro’s executioner?
No need to stretch for moral equivalence here. Che is an “iconic revolutionary” and the shooter a “vandal.” Che is described as a “cold-blooded killer” as though that were a matter in some dispute.
He is the guy, after all, who declared, “To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.”
Of course, his last words were, “Don’t shoot!” I’m Che! I’m worth more to you alive than dead!”
He was wrong about that, too.
Far from me to brag, but I have wonder whether the "vandals" were graduates of the Ché Guevara Re-Education Program.
Here's another excellent commentary.
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