05-01-2006, 02:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-02-2006, 02:31 PM by Occhidiangela.)
While the spectacles at Red Square in Moscow every May Day have gone the way of the plains buffalo, in the West a willingly myopic subset of malcontents continue to pay homage to a man surnamed Lynch.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna y Lynch. (Ernesto Guevara Lynch (Guevara's father) was born in 1900. Guevara Lynch married Celia de la Serna y Llosa in 1927, and they had three sons and two daughters.)
Wiki on Che, a puff piece
That he was Castro's chief revolutionary exectioner should come as no surprise -- just living up to his name. Checking his family history, you see that Argentine expatriots living in San Francisco are among them. Can you smell the historic irony?
The poster boy of the 1960's counter culture had this to say about trial by jury:
OK, so Humerto Fontava (author of "Fidel's Executioner") may not be the most objective of observers. Neither are, or were, the morons who fell in love with a face on a poster, and now on t-shirts.
Image over substance, greater than one.
But something needs to be pointed out, in the contemporary setting: Che's ambitions of a Spanophile America. His voice, his rhetoric, his legend, and his legacy are a part and parcel to Spanish-American cultural ghosts, images, and icons. Is it any surprise that the great Illegal Immigrant protest march is staged on a Che Day: the Communist May Day? (Forget for a moment that Che was a Maoist, and not all that popular in Moscow.)
It shouldn't be. Symbols and icons trump the messy details.
The nice thing about irony is that is spreads like a cancer. It is within the realm of possibility that President Bush and his team overlook the spooky parallel of location. Guantanamo Bay is, for the geographically impaired, in Cuba. The prison there is not a site for Che-genre executions, thank goodness, and is being challenged by lawyers (some in uniform) of the folks who set it up. Such archaic bourgeois details. :rolleyes:
Someone is going to draw the Cuban parallel anyway, as symbols again trump messy details. Is the counter message, the counter symbol, ready?
I doubt it.
"Shills 'R us" aren't that clever. Welcome to the show, Tony Snow, you have been co-opted. Make sure you wear your Che T-shirt today at the podium, to show with standard Bush public affairs "elegance" your empathy with the Latin voting bloc: registered and otherwise, alive and otherwise. (Hey, I live in South Texas, ghosts have voting rights down here!) :whistling:
From where I sit, the "it item" for the foreseeable future is an air sickness bag. Pick one up on your next airline flight, from the seat pocket in front of you, and save it for those moments when the waves of spin and nonsense get too nauseating.
You'll be glad you took my advice.
Occhi
Edit: two bits added for clarity (OK, the water isn't quite as muddy)
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna y Lynch. (Ernesto Guevara Lynch (Guevara's father) was born in 1900. Guevara Lynch married Celia de la Serna y Llosa in 1927, and they had three sons and two daughters.)
Wiki on Che, a puff piece
That he was Castro's chief revolutionary exectioner should come as no surprise -- just living up to his name. Checking his family history, you see that Argentine expatriots living in San Francisco are among them. Can you smell the historic irony?
The poster boy of the 1960's counter culture had this to say about trial by jury:
Quote:"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary," Carroll would have heard from the chief executioner, named Ernesto "Che" Guevara. "These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredon! (The Wall)"
OK, so Humerto Fontava (author of "Fidel's Executioner") may not be the most objective of observers. Neither are, or were, the morons who fell in love with a face on a poster, and now on t-shirts.
Image over substance, greater than one.
But something needs to be pointed out, in the contemporary setting: Che's ambitions of a Spanophile America. His voice, his rhetoric, his legend, and his legacy are a part and parcel to Spanish-American cultural ghosts, images, and icons. Is it any surprise that the great Illegal Immigrant protest march is staged on a Che Day: the Communist May Day? (Forget for a moment that Che was a Maoist, and not all that popular in Moscow.)
It shouldn't be. Symbols and icons trump the messy details.
The nice thing about irony is that is spreads like a cancer. It is within the realm of possibility that President Bush and his team overlook the spooky parallel of location. Guantanamo Bay is, for the geographically impaired, in Cuba. The prison there is not a site for Che-genre executions, thank goodness, and is being challenged by lawyers (some in uniform) of the folks who set it up. Such archaic bourgeois details. :rolleyes:
Someone is going to draw the Cuban parallel anyway, as symbols again trump messy details. Is the counter message, the counter symbol, ready?
I doubt it.
"Shills 'R us" aren't that clever. Welcome to the show, Tony Snow, you have been co-opted. Make sure you wear your Che T-shirt today at the podium, to show with standard Bush public affairs "elegance" your empathy with the Latin voting bloc: registered and otherwise, alive and otherwise. (Hey, I live in South Texas, ghosts have voting rights down here!) :whistling:
From where I sit, the "it item" for the foreseeable future is an air sickness bag. Pick one up on your next airline flight, from the seat pocket in front of you, and save it for those moments when the waves of spin and nonsense get too nauseating.
You'll be glad you took my advice.
Occhi
Edit: two bits added for clarity (OK, the water isn't quite as muddy)
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete