From Townhall:
Forty three years ago this week, Ernesto “Che” Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. Historically speaking, justice has rarely been better served. If the saying “What goes around comes around” ever fit, it’s here.
“When you saw the beaming look on Che’s face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad,” said a former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez, to your humble servant here, “you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara.” As commander of the La Cabana execution yard, Che often shattered the skull of the condemned man (or boy) by firing the coup de grace himself. When other duties tore him away from his beloved execution yard, he consoled himself by viewing the slaughter. Che’s second-story office in Havana’s La Cabana prison had a section of wall torn out so he could watch his darling firing-squads at work…
The only difference between Che and Stalin is that Stalin preferred to let others do his dirty work – Che seemed to have a zest for the work of murder and oppression.
He is an icon on the left simply because a romantic photo was taken of him and turned in to a pop-culture staple. This is one of the best examples of the shallowness of liberal thinking – what Che did, what he was like, doesn’t matter…the photo is cool, and so liberals have loved him for decades, and will continue to do so for as long as liberalism has adherents.
It is disgusting, but no more disgusting than seeing any communist symbol, anywhere. We are justly horrified at any display of Nazi symbols, but not so for communist emblems…under which far more people were done to death than under the Nazi banner. What has happened regarding this is that a lie has been deeply implanted in to our society – that while Nazism is unrelieved evil, communism is some how not. That there was no functional difference between the two systems doesn’t seem to matter – people have been told, endlessly, that communist ideology is for the people, so even if it has glaring errors, it is ok.
What is important here is to recognize the lie. Each time a lie is seen for what it is, it becomes less potent…and gets further along towards being discarded, altogether. There will come a day when people will look at Red and Brown and see the same evil – and that will be good, because it will then be less likely anyone will ever fall for them, again.
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