"Guevara's detractors... still see him as a dangerous and deluded terrorist."

The anonymous author owes readers a list of 'detractors'. No doubt they might include people like Kissinger, Bremmer and other heros of the 'free' world. Killers all.

Vive la Guevara!

"Guevara's detractors… still see him as a dangerous and deluded terrorist."

Yeah.
The nazis considered the Jews who fought back in the Warsaw Ghetto to be terrorists, too.
What the hell IS a terrorist, anyway?
A guy with a bomb, but no airplane?
A soldier too poor to buy a uniform?
Anybody who refuses to be a slave?
Apparently, anybody willing to stand up and fight back is a terrorist.

liberty & justice,

sj

www.spartacusjones.com

Canadians are free to travel to Cuba -- except, of course, if you happen to be on the Washington-inspired Canadian no-fly list.

So, dear Cubans, I'll be there in spirit to help you celebrate Che, whose inspiration we could use right now.

F**k Colombus
Vive la Che

I learn about Che in my youth. I am a boomer raised in a rural area of Maryland from a middle class conservative family. Over the years I have come to admire "El Che". In 1998 I was traveling in Peru and Bolivia and on a trip to Tiahuanaco we passed thru a small town prior to the Ruins and I saw a painted icon of "Che" on a picket fence and asked my guide if they still admire him in this part of the world? He replied quietly "yes". I have a backpack with the "Che" Icon. As well I am a cyclist with an assortment of cycling outfits. Today I was wearing my "Aeroflot" cycling jersey and "Che cycling Socks". I do get comments from time to time. Today I want to remember the "October Revolution" and the Death of "Che". God rest his soul.

Che e Vivo!

Indeed, spartucus!

At the end of that list, I almost wondered for a moment what the national celebration of Che would be in America, but then I remembered...

A Hero for these times. Thank god for the memory of Ernesto "Che" Guevera.
No running to avoid a man's responsibilities.
Meeting his manhood with bravery and peace in his soul.
Mildred

I proudly wear a Che shirt, celebrating the good that Che wrote, stood, and fought for, despite some of the things he did that I'm not proud of. A hero doesn't have to be pure or perfect, as with most heroes and holy books that are riddled with contradictions and shameful statements.

In any event, Che believed in a world where people were guaranteed the necessities, where people were equal, where everyone had housing and healthcare, where racism didn't exist, where empire was a thing of the past, where the US didn't buy, bully, invade, and colonize other nations.

I support Che for supporting that vision of social justice and putting his ass on the line (first in Cuba, then in Africa, and finally in Bolivia) to make a better world.

Che Guevera did as a man, what the U.S. as a country has not done: gone to other countries to help the oppressed fight for their freedom, not his own profit. Che could have stayed in Cuba and had a comfortable life, instead he went to Africa and fought with the poor against the US-supported oppressors. Then he went to Bolivia with the intention of helping the indigenous masses to wrest control from the ancient Spanish oligarchy. Revolutionary, yes, terrorist, no.

Presidents Johnson & Nixon supported terrorism and the genocide of several million people. GHW Bush supported terrorism as did Clinton who in addition supported eight years of siege and genocide through sanctions which killed some million people, mostly the very young and old. GW Bush supports terrorism, torture, genocide, and has presided over the devastation of an entire country's infrastructure, cultural heritage, art and archeological treasures, plus the destruction of historical and archeological sites which has erased any further opportunity to study the origins of what we call "civilization" in those places, in the land that has been long known as "the birthplace of civilization."

Under the administrations of these Democrats and Republicans, millions of people have been slaughtered millions more crippled or blinded, disfigured, burned, bloodied, broken, sickened, all for the profit of those GW Bush calls the "haves and the have-mores."

"Che" Guevera, on the other hand, went to Bolivia to inspire the indigenous population to overthrow those who were oppressing them, exploiting them, torturing them, killing them, stealing their land and resources. He didn't carry weapons of mass destruction into Bolivia, nor airplanes, napalm, phosphorous bombs, nor shells or grenades of phosphorous or radioactive particles, nor threaten nuclear devastation. He carried only a rifle, and a message of hope, of inspiration, of freedom from oppression, to rally the oppressed to overthrow the oppressors. There was no "terrorism," only a call for the people to what Thomas Jefferson said the US citizenry should do if the government no longer met their needs: change it, have another revolution.

Che failed for a variety of reasons, perhaps the prime reason was that the Bolivian peasants weren't psychologically prepared to accept the challenge. The US government and media claimed that Che's failure meant the Bolivian people didn't want socialism/communism. Now, some forty years later it seems the Bolivian people don't want privatization by US corporations (i.e.. the water-war) or exploitative capitalism and have welcomed a government whose leader calls for socialism and is an open admirer of the idealist, Che Guevera.

The Bolivarian revolution which Che tried to begin in Latin America is happening now with Evo, Hugo, and others. Was Che wrong? No, just before his time.

Long live the memory of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Emiliano Zapata, Augusto César Sandino, and all the others who have been brave enough, honorable enough, to do what US citizens are failing to do: overthrow the oppressors. Ours.

mjolnir, why call Che a thug and a cold blooded murderer? Would you please supply some instances and facts that support your view.

It isn't we North Americans who are honoring the memory of Che as much as it is the *millions* of Latin Americans who view him as their hero. Perhaps mjolnir needs to ask himself why these multitudes love and honor Ernesto Guevara 40 years after his murder by the "peaceful" and "civilized" CIA? Maybe he can point out a monument to the arch-criminal Kissinger somewhere in South America?

Che Guevara was a man; a real man. He fought and gave his life for what was right. He even openly stated the truth about the USSR's tyranny calling the Soviet deniers of human rights "horse shit" in Algeria. Because of Che Cuba never aped Stalinist Russia.

TRUE Socialism will leave no one behind: Black or white; male or female; gay or straight; religious or not. Che stood for that and therefore millions venerate Che's stance --and Ultimate Sacrifice-- for this Truth!

I can only echo the sentiments of a posted comment above: God rest the soul of Che Guevara!

Tymoteusz

mjolnir: A thug? A cold blooded killer? Are you sure your not talking about George Bush, or Dick Cheney? The CIA? Blackwater?

And please, it would help your comments to back them up wth some proof. You can believe whatever you want to believe about someone or something, but when you claim that people on this site "idolize" Che Quevara, and state that he was a thug and a cold blooded murderer you're not going to change anyone's mind without some proof of your claims.

On the other hand, the USA is letting a true thug and cold blooded murderer live in Florida, refusing to turn him over to face justice for blowing up an airplane bound for Cuba. I believe he killed close to two hundred innocent people on that occasion. I haven't the time to mention more atrocities this man committed with the tacit support of the US government.

It's a confusing world. I can understand your belief of whatever you hear via the USA's media. You are just another person who has lost the ability to think for yourself and ask questions. You should be proud of yourself. You are a living example of what every good US citizen should do: repeat whatever they hear without questioning anything.

Whenever I hear talk of something or person I don't know about, I go out and get a book or several books about the issue so that I can come to a better informed opinion. I try to keep an open mind. Maybe you should read about this man's life and turn of the TV for a while.

Be like Che!

Mas Vale morir de pie
Que vivir de rodillas!

All of my friends, here in NYC, will wear Che T-shirts today in his honor.

Whatever one thinks of "The Motorcycle Diaries" account of Che's formative years working as a doctor in a leper colony, the fact remains he did. We who honor him as a revolutionary recognize his humanism. His doctor's promise to help humankind was the driving force for his revolutionary actions. He witnessed injustices perpetrated on the poor firsthand and set out to correct them. Injustices now hidden from the public. That's reality, not Mercedes, trophy wives, second homes, golf and money.

Che.... The work this man did... May it be a guide for us all.
We need his lessons more now than ever.

In the early 60's (I'm not sure when exactly), he visited Montevideo, Uruguay.

He was by then quite famous, and of course, received by enthusiastic supporters and would-be revolutionaries bent on carrying out his message.

But Uruguay, with a democratically elected government and a population with the most evenly distributed wealth in South America, received a different message from Che this time.

His message was essentially this: Uruguayos: Be proud of your democratic traditions and of the level of equality you have accomplished in your country; don't resort to violent measures when you should be able to continue progress through the democratic process.

It seems that he valued up and running and functional democratic societies;

And that he only justified violent measures in contexts of nations that were wholly undemocratic, whose wealth was completely skewed in favor of a small percentage of capitalists, and in which any non-violent, grass roots campaign among the least favored portion of the population was doomed to fail before it even started.

Anyone talking trash about Che better not ever be caught wearing a Wolverine T-shirt or a Punisher T-shirt, 'least they forever be written off as utter hypocrites. If you don't know Marvel Comics, let me explain: Both Wolverine and the Punisher are extremely Machiavellian characters who, unlike the vast majority of superheroes, KILL villains.

http://archive.coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1407

http://archive.coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1683

The living legend Hugo Chavez has already done much more for Latin America than Che did in his whole lifetime.

Are the people who like Bush & what he & the republicrats are doing around the world-bombing, torture, murder sick and twisted people? How about invading countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, & using their client states like Israel to bomb Syria, Lebanon, Palestine.
According to a former CIA officer & number two at a CIA station, since its inception in 1947, the CIA has been responsible, as of 1991, for the deaths of more than ten million people.
Tell us more about your idol, Bush, mjolnir.
Wake up! Don't be stupid! Study history!

mjolnir,

Why would anyone try to make a complete fool of themselves on a site like this is truly amazing. Why mjolnir? You must have your reasons.

Many people like mjolnir simply believe all the lies. As Noam Chomsky has said, the American propaganda system is truly "spectacular". Far too many Americans believe the national bullshit- that the USA is a great defender of democracy, freedom, justice etc. The truth is for them, stranger than fiction.

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DemocracyNow has a good piece on Che Guevara
today:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/09/1349224

"Why would anyone try to make a complete fool of themselves on a site like this is truly amazing. Why mjolnir? You must have your reasons."

Saila, my bad [edited] - I didn't notice you quoted the fool mjolnir and thought it was your own.

Luis Posada Carriles is a known terrorist, among many that the US supports, funds, and trains. His arrest and sham trial on violating immigration laws was a travesty of justice, highlighting the double standards of the US when it comes to "fighting terrorism."

Calling someone like Guevara a thug is a joke compared to the cretins we've had. Reagan, the butcher of Latin America, for instance. Kissinger, Negroponte, etc. The list is, sadly, seemingly endless.

Why is Che Guevara a hero? Since Che was a doctor, Castro paid homage to him by forming Cuba's Medical Justice League ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Cuba

Cuban doctors have therefore played a role in many regions of the world. Cuba's missions in 68 countries are manned by 25,000 Cuban doctors, and medical teams have assisted victims of both the South Asian Tsunami and the Pakistan earthquake. Cuba currently exports considerable health services and personnel to Venezuela in exchange for subsidized oil. Nearly 2,000 Cuban doctors are currently working in Africa in countries including South Africa, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Mali. Since the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded in 1986, more than 20,000 children from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia have traveled to Cuba for treatment of radiation sickness and psychologically based problems associated with the radiation disaster ... Operación Milagro (Operation Miracle) is a joint health programme between Cuba and Venezuela, set up in 2005 ... the aim of offering FREE ophthalmology operations to an estimated 6 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean.

... the Medical Justice League INSPIRED BY CHE would've been there when Katrina ravished New Oreleans, except ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9311876/

In separate Washington press briefings, both the White House and State Department spokesmen this week downplayed the Cuban government's offer to send some 1,600 medics, field hospitals and 83 tons of medical supplies to ease the humanitarian disaster. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack asserted last week that the Cuban medical brigade would probably not be needed since there has been a "robust response from the American medical community."

Niggahs in Louisiana are still waiting for that "robust response" ...

Che was a murderer. My parents (from Havana) watch on television how on the order of Che Guevara people were executed. Simply because some people did not agree with the revolution. My grand parents had a modest life style in Cuba. They were middle class. My grandfather had gone to Cuba to flee Franco in Spain. He worked in coal mines at age 14 in Cuba in order to save an eventually go into business. When Castro took power he took everything from my family ... although ... What really hurt my grandfather was when his son (my uncle) was imprisoned for trying to escape Cuba. He had a stroke.

Che was a crook, a murderer and a hypocrite. They him out like a saint, like he gave a shit about poor people but Che was a prick. Power hungry maniac.

mjolnir,

I am a little surprised. I agree with 75% of the articles posted here on CommonDreams ... I did not realize that there are so many communists posting here. I do not like what is happening with our current administration ... foreign or domestic policy. I can't say Clinton was a good president either but ... by God, Castro and Che. Murderous Thugs is a nice way of putting it.

"Che was a murderer. My parents (from Havana) watch on television how on the order of Che Guevara people were executed. Simply because some people did not agree with the revolution."

a)You better be a dues-paying member of Amnesty International who's actively calling for an end to the death penalty

b)Do you really think the only people executed were dissidents??!!! Batista was a monster and those who did his bidding were monsters, so if anything, Che was a dragonslayer.
Now, I'm against the death penalty, and were it up to me, I'd have simply exiled their sorry asses, but I wasn't even born until ten years after the Cuban Revolution, so those dragons were shit out of luck, huh?

"My grandfather had gone to Cuba to flee Franco in Spain."

Then you of all people ought to appreciate the need to take Batista's evil ass out, since he was as bad if not worse than Franco!

"My grand parents had a modest life style in Cuba. They were middle class ... When Castro took power he took everything from my family"

You better be damn sure about that. Big businesses in America LOVE to disguise themselves as small businesses in order to be let off the hook. Besides ...

http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/04/10/scorched_earth/fear_no_evil/opinionfear.txt

In 1961, New Jersey's poet laureate Amiri Baraka authored an anthology called Home, which ... Jones referred to "that uniquely American sickness called 'identification.' This is a disease wherein the victim somehow thinks that he receives monies or other fringe benefits from Standard Oil, Coca-Cola, Dupont, U.S. Steel, etc., and feels genuinely hurt if some of 'their properties' are expropriated. 'They're taking our oil and our Coca-Cola.'"

Unfortunately, when a truely Leftist movement attempted to democratically start making progressive socioeconomic changes, the U.S. elite and allies use economic sanctions, military provocations, psyops and terrorist black operations to defeat that movement.

If these state-terrorist activities didn't work, the US elite than would militarily (or use CIA-organized counterrevolutionary groups) to unseat any effective Leftist government.

Afterwords, under the newly installed dictatorship, thousands would be kidnapped, tortured and murdered.

What Che observed was when liberal land reform and social welfare programs were implemented, as in 1956 Guatemala, the US would help violently overthrow the democratically elected, liberal government.

We know what occured after the US-backed coup. After all the slaughter from 1956 to the present, the same old oligarchs are in power. The same old military kills inconvenient people. The same old elite manipulate the newly formed democratic political machinery.

I would say the average Cuban has gotten a better deal from 1959 to the present.

Within Cuba, Che attempted to break down the old walls of racial, and social class inequality. In turn, the Cuban elite and officials the US trained and supported as torturers and exploiters had to answer for their crimes.

Usually, others pay for their crimes...like in Guatemala.

Saab Lofton,

Batista was also a bad dictator but with Batista ... people had, at minimum a chance of suceeding and moving ahead in life. With Castro all you have is misery, murder and no freedom. Don't give me any articles to read on the web ... I've read enough in my life about this topic. I rather hear it right out of the mouths who lived it and are living it now. I know of several Cubans who supported Castro back then because of the corruption under Batista ... they regret it now and realize that Batista as bad as he was, was better than Castro. Also, don't blame the state of Cuba on the embargo. I'm not saying our system here in the US is perfect, God knows there are issues here ... but socialism or communism is not better ... it is actually worse. I rather have "every man for himself" rather than "no opportunity at all".

And I'll say it again ... both Castro and Che are murderers.

BTW: This comment ...

"You better be damn sure about that. Big businesses in America LOVE to disguise themselves as small businesses in order to be let off the hook. Besides … "

You are an idiot! Thugs ... your heros were and are thugs! My family lived it ... saw it ... much worse than any US administration ever. As I said, the US has it's issues ... but people have actually bettered themselves in this country. In Cuba, the baker, doctor, teacher are all in the same boat starving ... all you have to see is how they risk their lives, floating on anything to reach the US. Castro and Che destroyed Cuba.

balakirev,

You don't know your ass from your elbow.

The average Cuban is doing better from 1959 to present. Yeah right ... Cuba was booming economically, people were iopening businesses, education BTW, was always good ... my mother and father were educated when they came to the states, technology was at par with the US. Cuba is a shame now ... In Cuba you don't have freedom of speech, food or anything ... nothing .... there is no hope for Cubans. I have friends who go there all the time ... the people are miserable. It's funny, the only people that think the way you morons think are not Cuban ... You'd be hard pressed to find a Cuban that agrees with you.

rcarrace,

Before 1959, Cuba was booming economically for a very small minority. The revolution happened because the masses were oppressed by Batista and his US corporate puppet masters. I have met Cubans in the US and Cuba who are devoted to the socialist project. It will live on, as it will in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and ....

"I rather have 'every man for himself' ..."

That pretty much says it all. Earlier, you said, "They [make Che] out like a saint, like he gave a shit about poor people ..." Well, you evidently don't give a shit about the poor if you'd rather have a system where every man is for himself.

"don't blame the state of Cuba on the embargo"

Jonathan Power is the pointman of Amnesty International (Are you a member or are you a hypocrite?) and this is from my interview with him ...

http://archive.coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1985

Lofton: How much of Cuba's Human rights abuses can legitimately be blamed on the paranoia caused by the embargo, American imperialism and the decades of attempts on Fidel Castro's life? Most? Half?

Power: More than half.

DESPITE the evil American embargo, Cuba STILL managed to send tens of thousands of FREE doctors around the world to the worst of disaster areas over the years -- so imagine how much more good could be done if the embargo was ever lifted ..?

"Cuban doctors working in Bolivia have saved the sight of the man who executed revolutionary leader Che Guevara in 1967, Cuban official media report."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7023706.stm

"Your comment is awaiting moderation."

What is that? Jeez, why bother? What is commondreams afraid of? Viva Che!

rcarace

It's amazing to me how vehement anti-Castroites are when their mindset is challenged.

I used the Guatemala model to demonstrate what happened when a democratically elected social democratic government attempted to change the status quo in order to benefit the bottom at the expense of the local oligarchs and US corporations.

They were subjected to over 40 years of brutal repression. Now that an elite democracy has been introduced, the average Guatemalan is still terrorized by constant hunger, lack of access to clean water, lack of access to medical attention, lack of access to any form of an up-to-date education.

The above goes for much Central America (where I lived).

In fact, after butchering a much greater percentage of its citizens than the Castro party elite, the same Guatemalan oligarchs maintain the present terrorist form of socioeconomic inequality from which they accrue their benefits.

The US elite and the Guatemalan security forces are always in the background ready to pounce when any group attempts to reform this institutionalized terrorism.

rcarrace
Call Castro and Che what you will, they changed a nation and rescued it from the thugs that ran it, Batista an the well heeled, the mob and the U S of A. The freedom under Batista was illusionary, you had none that mattered, you had many things while the majority had very little.
One can only call you cuban because you lived there, you certainly did nothing to build the nation before or after and when the going got tough you went as your parents did before. You reside in the right place where you only have to think of your own well being and no one elses, "every man for himself" what a foundation for a nation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9969997/

Updated: 11:01 a.m. PT Nov 8, 2005
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly urged the United States Tuesday to end its 44-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, a call U.S. Ambassador John Bolton dismissed as "a complete exercise in irrelevancy."

It was the 14th straight year that the 191-member world body approved a resolution calling for the U.S. economic and commercial embargo against Cuba to be repealed "as soon as possible."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110801747.html

U.N. Urges U.S. to End Cuba Embargo
By EDITH M. LEDERER
The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 8, 2006; 7:27 PM

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to urge the United States to end its 45-year-old trade embargo against Cuba ... It was the 15th straight year that the 192-member world body approved a resolution calling for the U.S. economic and commercial embargo against Cuba to be repealed "as soon as possible."

... the 14th straight year, the 15th straight year ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9969997/

Updated: 11:01 a.m. PT Nov 8, 2005
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly urged the United States Tuesday to end its 44-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, a call U.S. Ambassador John Bolton dismissed as "a complete exercise in irrelevancy."

It was the 14th straight year that the 191-member world body approved a resolution calling for the U.S. economic and commercial embargo against Cuba to be repealed "as soon as possible."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110801747.html

U.N. Urges U.S. to End Cuba Embargo
By EDITH M. LEDERER
The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 8, 2006; 7:27 PM

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to urge the United States to end its 45-year-old trade embargo against Cuba ... It was the 15th straight year that the 192-member world body approved a resolution calling for the U.S. economic and commercial embargo against Cuba to be repealed "as soon as possible."

... the 14th straight year, the 15th straight year ...

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ksinghz/cubamed/FoodMedicine.htm

In 1989, the World Health Organization extolled Cuba's health care system as a "model for the world." Cuba, with its nutritional safety net, extensive system of family doctors and sophisticated tertiary care facilities, had achieved the highest quality of life indicators in Latin America, including an infant mortality rate 30 points below the average, on a par with the developed world. But ten years later two studies, conducted by the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the American Association for World Health (AAWH), indicate the Cuban people, especially the children, are now facing dangerous shortages of medicines and medical supplies. Although some of the blame can be placed on the dissolution of the Soviet bloc countries and inefficiencies within Cuba, the APHA and the AAWH find that the fault lies *primarily* with the U.S. embargo of Cuba.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ksinghz/cubamed/FoodMedicine.htm

In 1989, the World Health Organization extolled Cuba's health care system as a "model for the world." Cuba, with its nutritional safety net, extensive system of family doctors and sophisticated tertiary care facilities, had achieved the highest quality of life indicators in Latin America, including an infant mortality rate 30 points below the average, on a par with the developed world. But ten years later two studies, conducted by the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the American Association for World Health (AAWH), indicate the Cuban people, especially the children, are now facing dangerous shortages of medicines and medical supplies. Although some of the blame can be placed on the dissolution of the Soviet bloc countries and inefficiencies within Cuba, the APHA and the AAWH find that the fault lies *primarily* with the U.S. embargo of Cuba.

Love Che Guevara or hate him, and despite his shortcomings and his heart (or lack thereof - depending on who one discusses Guevara with) no one can deny him as a hero to the Third World and actually participated in a very successful uprising to the benefit of a majority of citizens in a society. Whether one agrees with the Cuban Revolution of 1959 or not, a modern day Revolution became a success for good and bad. That is quite an accomplishment in 20th century History.

One may claim, with some degree of validity, that Guevara was the chief enforcer of post-revolution Cuba. One must remember though that the Cuban Revolution was VERY popular when it happened. I would not doubt if 95% of the Cuban people backed Guevara and Castro - wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Who EXACTLY did Che Guevara kill? The types that could be compared to CEOs and multi-millionaire greedy heartless pieces of s***! That's who! That could be one group. Another would be those who disagreed with what the majority wanted - the Revolution itself. Again the Cuba Revolution was very popular.

In short, it seems that people would rather be fed and taken care of by those who create for the society than forego this for vague, conditional ambiguous concepts such as "freedom." After all...freedom is not free. That one of your slogans Americans. is it not? Freedom may not be free in the USA, but in Cuba, a house, school and a doctor is free.

"people would rather be fed and taken care of"

Actually, people would rather have BOTH free health care AND free speech. The Cold War was based on a false premise: Would you rather see or hear. Well obviously, no one in their right mind wants to be blind OR deaf!

"... the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

Look to Amsterdam -- it has BOTH free speech AND free health care ...

Che is a Medical doctor who Killed !!!!! Nice hero, No wounder they love Terry Fox soo much

Have you seen Saab's new official website?

http://www.webstarts.com/Saab-Lofton

http://www.saablofton.org/announcement.html

In case anyone is actually paying attention and has read this thread all the way though, what we have is a stalker psychotically obsessed with me — hence his use of my fictional characters as pseudonyms and his penchant for impersonating yours truly …

Because of his right-wing notion of what work is, the stalker has a problem with me living in subsidized housing while I pursue my LABOR of love — as opposed to flipping burgers full time in order to impress him (as if impressing him is so damn essential) …

So the stalker figures that by spreading LiEs about me being a black supremacist, a gay prostitute, etc. then I'll eventually be forced to flip burgers. Well, since that constitutes a direct attack upon my way of life and I've acted accordingly. In fact, if I can ever prove who it is, I'll sue him in a court of law for libel. And I'll win too.

http://www.saablofton.org/announcement.html