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   From: jnstewar@midstatesd.spam.net   
      
   "reporter01"  wrote in message   
   news:1154132935.178438.278360@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...   
   > isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate wrote:   
   >> I was in a novelty shop and aside from perhaps a dozen different posters   
   >> and   
   >> t-shirts of Che Guevara, they also had a variety of Che trinkets.  They   
   >> previously had carried Che Lip Balm but were out, so I bought a very nice   
   >> enameled Che pin for my cap.  Now I'm so kewl, and as soon as a buy a new   
   >> Che t-shirt I'll be the height of revolutionary chic.   
   >>   
   >> I love Che!  Though I don't believe in Communism, Che believed in it and   
   >> was willing to die fighting for it   
   >   
   > Actually he tried to get out of dying for it.   
      
   Quite properly, I'd say.   
      
   > He surrendered and then   
   > begged for his life rather than go out fighting.   
      
   Many would under similar circumstances.  So?   
      
   > Someone should make a   
   > shirt   
   > that says "Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive   
   > than dead."   
   > That would be an interesting shirt to wear to some lefty protest rally.   
   >   
   Sounds somewhat in bad taste, wouldn't you say?  I must say I have never   
   entirely understook the cult of Che, but what do you prove by showing a   
   man's fear at the end.  The significance of any such personality cult is   
   always more in why people admire him than in the facts.  No douby]t many a   
   saint died screaming too.   
      
      
   > Of course they would kill you, but it would be funny while it lasted.   
   >   
      
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