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   The guy was simply a murderer not a hero.   
   "Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman)"  wrote in message   
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   >> 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.   
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   >> Of course they would kill you, but it would be funny while it lasted.   
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