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October 24, 2005
Hillary Guevara
Radical chic has never been known for its tastefulness, but this has got to be a new low:
Yes, this is a pair of underpants with a face on it meant to look like Hillary, in the style of the famous photograph of Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda.
Che Guevara as a fashion accessory is certainly nothing new. The New York Public Library used to sell Che Guevara watches with the accompanying ad copy "Revolution is a permanent state with this clever watch, featuring the classic romantic image of Che Guevara, around which the word 'revolution' — revolves."
Anyone who is not disgusted and horrified by the enduring faddishness of Guevara's image needs to bone up on their Cuban history. A recent piece in FrontPage Magazine would be a good place to start.
Guevara was to Castro what Felix Dzerzhinsky was to Lenin, what Heinrich Himmler was to Hitler, and what Lavrenty Beria was to Stalin — namely, chief executioner. Guevara ordered thousands of executions during the first year of the Castro regime. Not that this lay heavily on his conscience; after all, the victims were all "imperialist spies and CIA agents" according to Che.
Here's what the eloquent Che had to say when a fellow revolutionary balked at the execution without trial of some "war criminals":
If your bourgeois prejudices won't allow you to carry out my orders, fine. Go ahead and try them tomorrow morning — but execute them NOW!
Guevara wasn't good for much besides murder. Despite attending medical school in Argentina, there is no record that he attained a medical degree. Prior to the revolution, he was a bum in Guatemala. Afterwards, his stints as Minister of Economics and Minister of Industries were unmitigated disasters — unless his objective in these roles was to deliberately destroy Cuba's economy, on the grounds that half-starved slaves are easier to control than a self-sufficient middle-class.
Despite the heroic battlefield exploits attributed to Guevara by his useful idiot fan club at the New York Times, there really wasn't much fighting involved in the Cuban Revolution — just a lot of shooting blindfolded men with their hands tied behind their backs.
Here are a few nuggets of the wisdom that has made Che so chic on the left:
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!
We don't need proof to execute a man. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.
And, perfectly summing up the mentality of communism, here's how Guevara described shooting a defenseless man in the head:
He went into convulsions for a while and was finally still. Now his belongings were mine.
The same execution inspired Guevara to write, "at that moment I discovered that I really like killing." It was this enthusiasm for senseless bloodshed that made him useful to Castro, who employed it for his own ends: the liquidation of political opposition and the paralysis by terror of the population.
As commander of La Cabana prison, Guevara had many opportunities to indulge this enthusiasm. He often did the killing personally. The FrontPage piece includes a chilling eyewitness account of Che blowing out a 14-year-old's brains.
Even Hillary is done a gross injustice by being associated with a demonic sociopath like Che Guevara. I wish I could say the same for everyone on the left.
Hat tips: Byron, Moonbat Central

Posted by Van Helsing at October 24, 2005 9:04 AM
Comments
At first I wondered what could be your objection. But you are right.
Even Hillary, whom I despise as a politician, and to whose views I am opposed, and who is a cunning, amoral, bloodthirsty, extremist, does not deserve this.
Let's leave the cheap shots to the Democrats.
Posted by: Steve O at October 24, 2005 9:32 AM
I am reminded of a comment I recall from another blog, that people who display/buy such do it in part, because it is chic, and they’d do the same if fascism was chic. On the Moonbat Central site was a comment about the need to root out communism in its last frontier, Hollywood and “academia”. Ironic, that having overseen the general demise of Communism, we have, as portrayed in the ‘Alien’ movies, an embryonic leftist/ communist/moonbat-alien resides in the host of the body politic here, just waiting to bust out.
Posted by: ex-expat at October 24, 2005 12:37 PM
Excellent posting. I must say I honestly never knew much of anything about Che, but now that I actually know a few things I hope he's sitting an escpially hot part of Hell. ALso, whoever did that picture of Hillary made her look like Monica Lewisnky than herself. Somehow it's actually an improvement on the hideous crone.
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Posted by: Daniel Levesque at October 24, 2005 3:18 PM
Those who think that communism was or is dead had better re-think things. As the Venona Progect showed, soviet agents infiltrated American unions, universities, media, military, and government. Most of them were never caught and lived out their lives pedaling their poison. That poison is still there, and in recent years it has started to come out in the form of Mickey Moore, Sean Penn, et al. Some call the new communism "cultural communism", and it very dangerous.
With the emergence China, and the continuous efforts of the UN to impose itself on democratic countries and with the support these giants have in media, unions, the celebrity crowd, not to mention most DNC members, the danger of cultural communism is real. What happens, is that more and power is taken from elected representatives, and is transfered to courts, and bureaucrats. Canada and the US are well into this, but they are far behind the EU. The average European has already given up control to faceless manderins who exist not for the public good, but for the extension of bureaucracy.
Che Guevera is alive and well, and we need all to realize how dangerous he and his ideology still are. But, the revolution this time is slow, creeping, and is supported by all but the most ardent conservatives and libertarians. Ironically, both of these are often fighting each other.
Posted by: Debris Trail at October 24, 2005 3:57 PM
Those quotes sound like Che had been reading the Koran.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at October 24, 2005 4:44 PM
Interesting post from Debris Trail. One could say then that the cold war has not really ended; that it continues, albeit internally.
Posted by: ex-expat at October 24, 2005 5:23 PM
Exactly: Only this time it'll be up to the voters, not armed conflict. Imagine Howard Dean's branch of the DNC getting elected for, say, 4 terms. It's the radical youth and acedemics and media that support him that are really scary. Hillary almost seems like a safe bet in comparison.
By the way, you are lucky in the USA because your democratic institutions have so many safeguards built in; in Canada we have none, and are much further down the road to a bureaucracy and union run form of government. Our constitution is nothing like yours, in that the business of government has no rules and relies on traditions... imagine that, a modern country whose parliment relies on traditions and not law to set out how it acts within the elected body itself. Even our Supreme court would have a hard time ruling on breaches, as there are no constitutional guidelines for running the business of the house of commons; even to the point that defeating a minority government is only a tradition... with no specific legislated guidelines. Now that's scary. At least you folks have strong rules that make it difficult for anyone to take over your country using non-violent means... ours can be taken over by simply chipping away at the power of elected reps, and giving instead to the manderins.
Posted by: Debris Trail at October 24, 2005 8:52 PM


