Posted by
Icarus on Monday, October 30, 2006 1:42:43 PM
The stupidity of some liberals never fails to amaze me. This morning, as I drove into work, I was amazed by someone trying to live out the Don Henley lyric, "I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac", from his song "The Boys of Summer".
Orange County, California is not generally known as a haven for wild-eyed liberals. It is one of the few areas, in Southern California, that can be characterized as Center-Right and where Republicans are regularly sent to Sacramento & Washington, D.C. The city of Laguna Beach resides within OC and is a stark exception to this (so, naturally, when Hollywood creates a series about Orange County, titled "The Real OC", its setting is Laguna Beach). So when I see a Liberal flaunting their silliness on a bumper sticker in the Reddest parts of Orange County I'm taken aback.
Today it was the sight of a Che Guevara sticker on a BMW 5 Series luxury station wagon that sent me reeling. What goes on in the mind of an adit who would slap one of the most obvious faces of Totalitarian Communism on the backside of a blatant symbol of Western Capitalism? I am confident that, if asked, the irony of this combination would be completely lost on the driver, who was clearly a now graying product of the 1960s.
Furthermore, do these fools who slap Che Guevara's face on t-shirts and car window stickers have any idea what this monster did on behalf of the "People's Revolution" that created Communist Cuba? I could point to
this or
this or
this or
this article for information on Guevara, Castro and the Communist Hell they made out of Cuba. However, some folks might just complain that the website where those articles are published is just a mouthpiece for rabid anti-Communist, Right Wingers. Fine. Don't read those articles. Read
Paul Berman at Slate. Here is Mr. Berman's opening paragraph:
"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."
Berman goes on to quote some of Che's writings that Hollywood or other capitalists who try to get rich from Che's image don't want you to know about:
""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 …"
No doubt the dummy driving the BMW with Che's picture on the rear window does not know the first thing about Che. His information probably comes entirely what Hollywood fed him in the beautifully photographed, well acted bit of Left-wing propaganda "The Motorcycle Diaries".
I should start carrying a camera around with me so I can photograph this stuff. Nothing will make you laugh more then the backside of most Liberal's mode of transportation.