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Nov. 30, 2004 "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." --Winston Churchill I think we can all see Churchill’s point, that fighting to prevent descending into slavery would be imperative. But what can we say about someone who fights and executes hundreds or thousands of innocent people simply because he doesn’t like the idea of your friendly neighborhood Walmart? That is, at heart, why Che Guevara fought. He wasn’t oppressed or poor. He was a medical doctor, having originally trained to become a doctor at the University of Buenos Aires. Then, in 1952, he set out on a trip through South America. This was recently glamorized in a movie, “The Motorcycle Diaries,” which appear to have made him a hero and role model for the youth of America. T-shirts and sweatshirts with Che’s picture on them are cropping up in malls all around the USA. But do these young kids really know anything about the so-called human being they are idolizing? After he completed his Easy Rider knockoff trip— or did Peter Fonda do a knockoff of Guevara?--, he returned to Buenos Aires to complete his medical degree. Guevara set off again to travel through Central and South America. Somewhere along the way, he developed a hatred of Walmart and joined in communist movements in Guatemala and Mexico and then joined Castro's revolutionary Cuban army in 1956 as a top commander and Castro's personal physician. He helped Castro topple the Batista regime in Havana in 1959, at which point the communists became more vicious murderers than the regime they replaced, following the example of Lenin and Stalin. Guevara ordered the execution of hundreds of people while in charge of the La Cabaña prison in Havana. Being no great believer in civil rights and justice, he said, "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." In this he was much like Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen in “:Alice in Wonderland:” Verdict first, trial later. But he carried it even further, doing away with the trial altogether. Strange to me is that people idolize a man best known as a cold-blooded killer, a man with the capacity for infinite hatred. Indeed, he preached hatred. Hatred was his religion. "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." Heck, that sounds like Osama bin Laden to me! His hatred of Walmart and other corporations was so great that he tried to convince Castro and the Soviet Union that it would be good to start a nuclear war with America during the Cuban missile crisis. For reasons best known to themselves—perhaps Castro and the Soviet leaders weren’t so keen themselves on being annihilated— they backed down and the nuclear missiles were pulled out of Cuba. This hurt Guevara’s feelings, so he decided to take his football and set off on various little forays around Africa and Latin America, and after killing hundreds of innocent people, he vanished from sight and like Elvis was sighted in various places for many years. It seems, though, that some of those people he was shooting in the back of the head got fed up with him and killed him and his little band of merry men in Bolivia, where his body was discovered recently. All the while, it seems, he continued to preach his religion of hate. "Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier into an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary, “ he said in a rousing pep talk to his guerilla thugs in Angola. As communist thugs go, Guevara was a piker, responsible for the deaths of only a few thousand people, most likely, while other communists such as Josef Stalin and Mao managed to kill millions. But I’m glad he finally got his just reward and rotted in a Bolivian jungle. Perhaps we could print up copies of the true story of Che Guevara and staple them to the ignorant kids wearing Guevara T-shirts in shopping malls. Guevara would probably approve, since the idea of selling—EEK! Capitalism!—his T- shirts would probably cause him to spew more hatred and shoot the poor teenagers in the back of the head. So, in the end, rather than fighting to prevent their own enslavement, communists kill innocent people just because they don’t like Walmart. How pitiful. As role models go, I prefer Churchill. On the other hand, just to prove I can say something nice about Che, his handbook on guerilla warfare is a classic and available on Amazon.com. It was quite useful during my tour of duty in Vietnam in the “know your enemy” sense. Still, parents, I wouldn’t let your son wear a Guevara T-shirt. ------------ About the author Brooks A. Mick: 63-yr-old physician, still practicing medicine but retired from the US Army. Write just for the fun of it, but working on novel in the vein of Tom Clancy's politico-military genre. Email: brooks15@cox.net ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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