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A Che Anecdote Too Precious to Miss

by Heywood U. Reedmore -- June 6, 2006 at 6:53 pm | In No, Seriously |

In today’s Vent, Michelle Malkin pokes fun at the fashion sense of liberals. She puts on display the left’s love of Che Guevara, something that is beyond comprehension.

There’s a great anecdote in the book Tocayo written by Antonio Navarro, one of the Cuban resistance leaders. In the book, Navarro details how the communists demonized and waged war on the upperclass driving them out of the country. Navarro, who was upperclass, was wondering whether or not he had a future in Cuba, whether or not there would be room for a factory owner in the new regime. Here’s how he describes Che’s eventual answer:

“Tony,” he said gently, using my first name, “have you read Kafka’s The Trial?”

Navarro answered that he had not.

“If you haven’t read The Trial, read it, Tony. Read it. It may explain a lot of things to you. It may not.”

The Trial is Kafka’s tale of a man, K, who is arrested and — without even knowing the charges against him, without confronting his accusers or standing before a judge — is eventually executed with a butcher knife in an abandoned quarry, his executioner pronouncing, “Like a dog,” as he twists the knife in K’s heart.

This is Che’s primer for life under Castro. Why is it the left celebrates this guy? Oh, that’s right. Because he only wanted to execute the “richest ten percent.”

 

p.s. You have to love the fact that Jacobs spent all that money that storefront sign and because of a column, it actually appears to read: “WORST RESIDENT EVER” which of course, would refer to him.