Memorial Day
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“Happy Memorial Day “ seems to be all you hear in the week prior to
Memorial Day. When the very definition of memorial is to remember, it seems
odd to say ...
9 years ago
- L S. "Spencer" Olsen
- I don't really care if you agree or not. Just saying what I think.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen the end of the internet. I have been from the beginning to the end. So I often get bored when I am in front of the magic box. The other day was one such day. So I filled the time by looking at upcoming movie trailers. In doing so, I came across this particular trailer...
I gave the trailer the benefit of the doubt, but as it played on, I realised that it was exactly as I feared. Hollywood has made a movie that will glorify the life of Che Guevara. You know, This guy:
He was Fidel Castro's proxy butcher. You know, stir up the revolution and kill anyone who gets in your way. Che was a champion of Socialism and saw Capitalism as the main catalyst for all of society's ills. Che was that crazy overly liberal guy on campus that didn't bathe or change his clothes. People who knew him in school called him "pig" because of his hygenic indiscretions including the proud wearing of a "weekly shirt". He found a revolutionary cause he could hang on to. He was put in command of a regiment of the revolutionary army by Fidel Castro. Che executed those who he deemed to be a threat as well as his own soldiers for desertion. He has a following of indoctrinated free thinkers who buy his merchandise and by doing so, unwittingly support the capitalist system poor Che murdered and died for.
So in comes Hollywood to glorify this anti-capitalist murderer with capitalism. Now the press is just eating this up. No doubt that most of our reporters and journalists went to college and had his posters on their wall and wore his T-shirts. One reporter for Esquire magazine writes: "Rarely has such a magnetic, principled, educated warrior been an ideological foot soldier for the downtrodden." He then continues to make love to Che's memory adding, "And a life cut short in the jungle-warfare battlefields of Bolivia, fighting for another country’s oppressed masses"
He was a murderer. Plain and simple. He believed in the ideologies of Communism and destroyed all who stood in his path with a bullet. Che believed so much in his ideology that he was willing to murder for it. I am reminded of another who wanted to force his ideology on the people. His name was Lucifer. Agency is the root of our rights granted us by God. To deny that is tantamount to satanism. Any government that takes away your agency is guilty of conspiring with evil. This man took lives in order to secure his will and ideas. He was a butcher and brutal murderer. To glorify him is to glorify evil.
Paul Berman, a columnist at the Slate wrote in 2004:
"The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967, leading a guerrilla movement that had failed to enlist a single Bolivian peasant. And yet he succeeded in inspiring tens of thousands of middle class Latin-Americans to exit the universities and organize guerrilla insurgencies of their own. And these insurgencies likewise accomplished nothing, except to bring about the death of hundreds of thousands, and to set back the cause of Latin-American democracy—a tragedy on the hugest scale."
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