my connection with the tea party

[kandrathe]

One man's revolutionary hero, is another's frothing lunatic calling for nuclear apocalypse.

So, perspectives differ, therefore it's okay to make up quotes?

I am guilty of not reference checking the quote. I agree the quote took liberal license with the translation, and that they took his words out of context. It is actually snippets of many statements made by Che, over time, then sewn together much like a Micheal Moore film.

For example, "If the missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York. The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.” (Che Guevara, November 1962.) Anderson, Jon Lee (1997). Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-1600-0. Page 545.

My purpose for putting it there was to highlight the extremes of the socialist revolutionary ideology espoused. It is incongruous to me that one could be lambast the Tea party, cherry picking one topic out of context without recognizing the same inflammatory extremism expressed within their own ideology. Also, it is an example of how how "hatred" is used as a weapon... by political movements, including the tea party, to motivate their adherents into action, and often violent destructive action.

A rhetorical mirror, but alas a flawed one.