Che Guevara: fad and reality

One of the enduring ubiquitous pop culture images of our krazy-mixt-up age is a photo of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in revolutionary garb and dirty, unkempt hair. He's scowling visionarily over your left shoulder. What's it mean? Can his fearsome, dramatic appearance have any reality to it -- are appearances ever that reliable?

In a word -- yes. And here's a brilliant -- yet lamentably obscure -- page documenting the case:

http://justnotsaid.blogspot.com/2012/08/che.html
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The article makes an effective case that there was more to the wild one than meets the eye. Its author tries to leave things in midair -- "there's good and bad in everybody," in effect -- but for my money, the comments people have added close the book on the subject's having any integrity worth mentioning. Guevara was, simply, one of the worst people in existence -- and worked hand in hand with one of the truly greatest monsters, Fidel Castro. Both were bloodthirsty homicidal maniacs, as viciously brutal on children as adults.

That, you see, is the hallmark of the ideology motivating both fiends and many more like them: communism.  An ideology that killed off scary percentages of the human race within the lifetime of many now living, it's virtually forgotten. The establishment, the institutions in the "free world" are in a tough position, still being dewily empathetic with the communists; the unfree world is still in the grip of the stuff, often with rich countries paying the tab for their ongoing oppression.

Kids wear "Che" sweatshirts and put up posters of the infamous image just to annoy grownups and attempt to make some show of mental independence. A half-hispanic cousin of mine, who's getting old enough to know better, signs her emails with a quote from the monster typically framing bloody, demented revolutionism in terms of children and flowers. Nobody rebukes them -- nobody cares. And that is not a good sign.

Search http://www.thenewamerican.com for more on this or any other freedom subject. The above article came my way by one of the most enjoyable routes -- surfing out from here:

http://www.anu.org/forums/threads/1608-Sites-like-%28or-almost-as-good-as%29-ANU-ORG?highlight=sites

Alas, many of the outstanding sites listed there are defunct, but fortunately freedom4um.com is going strong. As you see it led to justnotsaid.blogspot.com and has a gutsy department entitled Pious Perverts!!

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/latestarticles.cgi?cn=117

Communism. Make a note of it. It's vastly outdone Nazism in terror and genocide, but is mentioned about one-millionth as often for reasons that will have to remain unexpounded here.

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