In Galway, Ireland, the T-shirts aren’t enough:
A major and innovative monument to the Irish-Argentinean revolutionary, guerilla, doctor, writer, and politician Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara has taken a step closer to becoming a reality this week….City Hall’s arts officer James Harrold will commission a scale model of the proposed monument to be made. This will then be presented to the Galway City Council’s Working Group on Public Arts for consideration..
Labour Councillor Billy Cameron:
“Che is an international figure who has inspired thousands of people and it is time we honoured and recognised him…”
Che’ says life is cheap and I don’t really give a tinker’s damn…
“Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine.”
Welcome to Hades ladies and gentlemen, y’all will be having a helluva time.
Psalm 23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“Che is an international figure who has inspired thousands of people and it is time we honoured and recognised him…”
While you’re at it,why not build a monument to Charles Manson? He’s inspired thousands of people and still gets dozens of fan letters every week.
Good lord.
I suppose a fitting tribute to Che could be made – a life-sized Che standing on a heap of his torture victims, a bloodied rod of Asclepius brandished in his heroic fist, still embedded in the body of his latest victim – but I doubt that is what the Labour lickspittle has in mind.
They have got to be kidding,what the hell is wrong with these people,I guess now London will build a statue to Jack The Ripper and New York will erect one to John Gotti,this is insane.
Che: “The negro is indolent and lazy, whereas the European is forward-looking and hard-working.”
“Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots who Idolize Him,” Humberto Fontova
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284118,00.html
There are at least 3 monuments in Canada to the (illegal) Mackenzie-Papineau brigade of Marxists who fought in the Spanish Civil War, one in Ottawa which was unveiled by our Governor General, one in Victoria a 9 iron away from where I am typing this, and one at Queen’s Park in Toronto.
They fought on the side of Comintern imperialists and mass murderers despite Canadian laws forbidding them to do so. And they have three monuments, soon to be a fourth one in Alberta.
This is disgusting and so is what Neil has told us.
No doubt a statue of Iron Felix keeping an eye on our parliamentarians will be next.
“A new biography of Jane Fonda by Patricia Bosworth reveals a lifelong lament by the famous actress: “My biggest regret” Fonda is quoted during a “feminist consciousness-raising session,” according to the book’s account, “is I never got to f*** Che Guevara.”
http://babalublog.com/2011/09/lets-get-it-on-jane-fonda-to-che-guevara/
Wonder if any of those in the MacKenzie-Papineau brigade were involved in the murder of almost 7,000 Roman Catholic clerics and God only knows how many nuns? I am ashamed of my Irish descent, for more than one reason, and this just adds shame to the growing list. The fact that Blair let murderers sign on to the peace accord is revolting, and there were murderers on both sides. I don’t think it will last, the hatreds run too deep. As for Che, even Castro had to get rid of for fear he would murder half the island.
“Exposing the Real Che Guevara”
http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230521/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330318893&sr=1-1
Liberal extremists like Che because he tortured dogs.
Nothing to warm your heart like revisionist history. Our own school boards will soon be ordered to carry stories of how native residential schools tortured and raped pretty well every student, at least according to the blood sucking lawyers making good use of taxpayer funding. Unless Harper intervenes, but he has already show a willingness to perpetuate this nonsense by apologizing to the world for the very few natives actually affected. Our very own truth and reconciliation commission. Some sanity, some sanity, my kingdom for some sanity.(Don’t need a horse)
Interesting how revisionist history always seems to choose the side of evil.
St Patrick, whose life was poured out for the people of his country has now been relegated to a day of drinking as much green beer, wrapped in as much drunkenness and debauchery as can be mustered.
The tale of Che is now being elevated to sainthood, with all the statues and fanfare and smoking of ganja weed as possible.
Good becoming evil; evil now good.
Idiots…complete fools.
I learned a lot about Ireland when I was living there in 2001. One of the most notable facts was that all those who were willing to make sacrifices to work, left.
One of my favourite t-shirts:
http://www.thoseshirts.com/checap.html
No copyright on this one, I guess. He wouldn’t have believed in it anyway.
For the benefit of potential graffitists, the word is spelled p-s-y-c-h-o-p-a-t-h-i-c. “Thug” is spelled phonetically.
Alternative headline:
Che @#hashtag Hipster d0uchebags worldwide.
Given his brutal, torturing, and murderous real history, why aren’t we allowed to curbstomp anybody who adorns their sunken, vegan chest with his image?
Isaiah 5:20 – Good News Translation Catholic Edition (GNTCE)
20You are doomed! You call evil good and call good evil. You turn darkness into light and light into darkness. You make what is bitter sweet, and what is sweet you make bitter.
We name High Schools after Louis Riel.
“Che is an international figure who has [inspired] tortured and killed thousands of people and it is time we honoured and recognised him…”
dwright at 2:03 AM
“Given his brutal, torturing, and murderous real history, why aren’t we allowed to curbstomp anybody who adorns their sunken, vegan chest with his image?”
Good question….
I suspect wearing such a T-shirt in Cuba would not be clever.
Castro had to exile Che, or execute him…..before Che executed him…..
I don’t approve unless they sell tickets. In my opinion, the only fitting remembrance of Che is to thoroughly and completely commercialize his legacy. Thus recognizing his fame while completely subverting his message.
“One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter”
Today the left views Conservatives and Libertarians as terrorists, especially those that speak out and fight against Liberal Progressive ideologies and the UN sanctioned world governance.
There is reason that the lefts religious messiah Obamba signed the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) into effect on Dec 31 2012, essentially making the US a battlefield and any citizen a potential enemy of the state.
Really it’s all we need to know.
Sasquatch: Che’s photo is all over Cuba.
I don’t know why people look up to bad people….it is a mystery that I can’t solve. The Irish is understandable, after all, how many of the IRA were murderous rogues?
“…I guess now London will build a statue to Jack The Ripper… this is insane.”
Posted by: Frankemm at February 26, 2012 11:18 PM
See, the problem there is that we don’t know what he looked like yet.
marc @11:55 – Fonda’s ex-husband, the vile Tom Hayden, once called my mother a “right-wing bitch” (and I’m not completely sure he used the word “bitch”) to her face. It makes me proud.
Chris @5:10 – “We name High Schools after Louis Riel.”
Isn’t there a Louis Riel Day in Manitoba? I swear I was just reading about this.
We name high schools after Louis Riel because, before he became a murderous criminal, he was a figure of great importance and heroic stature who played a vital role in our history. We hanged Louis Riel because, years after his historic role, he bacame a murderous criminal. Both the schools and the hanging are perfectly justified.
Riel is in no way comparable to Che Guevara, who did nothing but conduct mass murder on a horrific scale, and is venerated for it.
Now I understand where our happy-go-lucky Irish syndicalist Sid “vicious” Ryan gets his inspiration.
Does Ireland even have enough money to pay for this?
I love Irish beer and whisky, Irish music and poetry, literature, and the beautiful Irish countryside. It pains me that they produce so many idiots like this. “…Watch the sun go down on Galway Bay” will never sound the same again.
Nope, it’s a testament to Ireland’s radical thinking, and devotion to law and order. Che had it right, you know. Far better to kill 4 or 5 innocents to make sure you got the one guilty bugger. Especially killing those who disagree with you about politics.
Put it to the far left as “you support capital punishment prior to a trial, let alone a guilty verdict?” and see how long the idea lasts.
In other news, Londoners will be building the Jack The Ripper Memorial Hospital.
Guevara personally murdered hundreds; simultaneously serving as their judge, prosecutor, jury and executioner. Some hero.
The CIA and Bolivian army committed a public service by ending his murderous career.
This is of a piece with the Irish Republic’s current adolescent rebellion against its own culture. A similar process continues, though rather aimlessly, in Quebec.
Will a statue of Cromwell be put next to it?
What a pack of idiots!
Surely a monument is such an inadequate testimonial to such a great revolutionary. I thought Galwegiand had better imagination than that. How about a public two-penny washroom with images of the great man emblazoned on the toilet bowl?