political : WHY DO MANY ACTIVISTS WHERE SHIRTS/HATS, ETC WITH CHE GUEVERA ON THEM? [+] serious ballot by xxxxxxxx created Wed Jul 05, 06 He was known for being quite brutal... "Though he has been labeled by some as a "hero", opponents of Guevara, including most of the Cuban exile community (and refugees from other countries under communism), think of him as a killer and terrorist. They point to the less savory aspects of Guevara's life, taking the viewpoint that he was enthusiastic about executing opponents of the Cuban Revolution. Guevara in fact founded Cuba's labor camp system, establishing its first labor camp in Guanahacabibes to jail opponents of the revolution who were not guilty of any crime Cuba's labor camp system was eventually used to jail "gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims." Some of Guevara's writing is cited as evidence of his attitude toward executing dissidents, as quoted in an article by Álvaro Vargas Llosa called "The Killing Machine: Che Guevara, from Communist Firebrand to Capitalist Brand". For example, in his "Message to the Tricontinental", he writes of "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." New York Sun writer Williams Myers labels Guevara a "sociopathic thug". Other critics writing in the U.S. press have made similar remarks. They assert that Che Guevara was responsible for the torture and execution of thousands of people in Cuban prisons, and for the murder of many more peasants in the regions controlled or visited by his guerrilla forces. In 2005, after Carlos Santana wore a Che shirt to the Academy Awards Ceremony, Cuban-born musician Paquito D'Rivera wrote an open letter castigating Santana for supporting "The Butcher of the Cabaña." The Cabaña is the name of a prison where Guevara oversaw the execution of many dissidents, including D'Rivera's own cousin, who, according to D'Rivera, was imprisoned there for being a Christian and witnessed the executions of many Christians at the prison. Detractors argue that while much propaganda depicts him as a formidable warrior, Guevara was ineffective; in reality a poor tactician. They dispute accounts of the Battle of Santa Clara; on the capturing of a train supplying heavy reinforcements, critic Álvaro Vargas Llosa writes, "Numerous testimonies indicate that the commander of the train surrendered in advance, perhaps after taking bribes." Some critics claim that Guevara was a major failure at managing the Cuban economy, as he "oversaw the near-collapse of sugar production, the failure of industrialization, and the introduction of rationing—all this in what had been one of Latin America’s four most economically successful countries since before the Batista dictatorship." There is also the belief by some critics that, because there is no documentary evidence of Guevara having earned a medical degree, he was not actually a doctor. In "The Cult of Che", writer Paul Berman critiques the film The Motorcycle Diaries and argues "that modern-day cult of Che" obscures the "tremendous social struggle" currently taking place in Cuba. For example, the article discusses the jailing of dissidents, such as poet and journalist Raúl Rivero, who was eventually freed after worldwide pressure due to a campaign of solidarity by the International Committee for Democracy in Cuba which included Václav Havel, Lech Wałęsa, Árpád Göncz, Elena Bonner and others. Berman claims that in the U.S., where Motorcycle Diaries received standing ovations at the Sundance film festival, the adoration of Che has caused Americans to overlook the plight of dissident Cubans. This glorification of Che is also satirized by online site che-mart.com, which, among other things, markets T-shirts poking fun at both Guevara and his supporters, casting aspersions on what they perceive as an irony: Che Guevara as one of capitalism's hottest-selling images. Although much criticism of Guevara and his legacy emanates from the political center and right, there has also been criticism from other political groups such as anarchists and civil libertarians, some of whom consider Guevara an authoritarian, anti-working-class Stalinist, whose goal was the creation of a more bureaucratic state-Stalinist regime. " (Wikipedia) Do you think the people that wear shirts and hats with pictures of him on it, are aware of his brutalities? Yes, they most-likely know No, they are probably ignorant of it He sure was fast at picking fruit Because they are idiots Ballot #96885 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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