Che Guevara ,40 Years from his death.

wow jeag ,based on that ,i have new respect for the JWs,but still all religious zealots give me the fantods....

 

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Yes , they are that , as for the Mennonite and Anabaptists, kin souls that they are , have also some pretty ugly skeletons in their past ,
check Munster history in the 16th century ,those guys were loathed by every other religions and sect during the religious wars of the German reformation !


I'm a big fan of the Che , he had noble blood ,Basque and Irish ancestry , played rugby for the Pumas ,and let go of a middle class future to fight for justice .
He had the great luck to have a brilliant photo of him used by rather ignorant young people as a semi-religious icon

in fact during the guerrilla war in the sierra he was in charge of counter-intelligence ,torturing people on suspicion and shooting them himself afterward ,
definitely no shrinking violet .
He was amongst the hard communists of the movement while most including Castro were still not there yet ,
he was pushing for the complete reform of the economy along Marxist line and was minister of the economy for a while and a bad one at that !
his constant pressure to go left led Castro to let him go somewhere else , like... the other end of the world
I's true that he failed at petty much everything but that was not really the point ,
He got the C.I.A. to twist their knickers in knots ,
They got him and stuffed up as usual , making him into a Christ like martyr with the same resonance as Emiliano Zapata and other wildly romantic revolutionary and as such , for better or worst a legend untainted by reality

Mario Teran the sergeant who shot him had his sight restored in a free clinic for poor people run by Cubans doctors , thus completing the propaganda circle in a satisfying fashion :smok:

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Another JW rule is no blood transfusions, which can cause problems:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shro ... 078455.stm

Not sure why that made the news, but it is a good illustration.

 

i know che was tough ,brave and selfless but im filled with about as much admiration for him as if he had been a good national socialist wearing a black tunic with silver pipeing rounding up untermentch ukrainians in 1942

 

I have to agree with woody on this.