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		<title>By: Jonathan Sarfati</title>
		<link>http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/02/20/the-misery-that-is-cuba-is-not-over-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-62553</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Sarfati</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yet &lt;a href=&quot;http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28915&amp;only&amp;rss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;B. Hussein Obama&#039;s Houston campaign office proudly displayed a Che Guevara flag&lt;/a&gt;.
Jonathan Sarfati, Brisbane</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yet <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28915&amp;only&amp;rss" rel="nofollow">B. Hussein Obama&#8217;s Houston campaign office proudly displayed a Che Guevara flag</a>.<br />
Jonathan Sarfati, Brisbane</p>
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		<title>By: Garth Penglase</title>
		<link>http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/02/20/the-misery-that-is-cuba-is-not-over-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-62344</link>
		<dc:creator>Garth Penglase</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe it&#039;s just me but I have noticed a resurgence of pro-fascist and pro-socialist books and movies appearing on our screens. Take the movie of the book &quot;the Motorcycle Diaries&quot; which was co-produced by Robert Redford. This recount the early travels of Che Guevara, a man cast by Castro (and thus Redford) as a hero of his country, Cuba, who in fact was a rabid murderer with a lust for blood. Himmler has nothing on him. 
&lt;blockquote cite=&quot;http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oaghf019.php&quot;&gt;
&quot;Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!&quot; (Guevara)

This from Guevara&#039;s very own Motorcycle Diaries--the very diaries made into a heartwarming film by Robert Redford--again, the only film to get that whooping&#039; &#039;hollerin, standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival. Seems that Redford omitted this inconvenient portion of Che&#039;s diaries from his touching film.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Guevara is presented as a man truly and passionately taken with the sorry plight of his fellow &quot;Americans&quot; as he referred to all South Americans. However, just as Che Guevara championed and directly aided a revolution that ultimately enslaved the Cuban people to a far greater degree than what he ever saw his people living with, the liberal Democrat-voting Castro-loving Robert Redford, seems to be yet another man seeking to support the very regimes that will bring the destruction of his own country as well as directly supporting the tyrannous regime of Castro&#039;s.

Here&#039;s a mainstream news article promoting Redford and the &quot;legendary&quot; Guevara:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/26/entertainment/main595713.shtml

And here&#039;s a few with a more knowledgeable perspective:
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1535
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200707/NAT20070730a.html (Humberto Fontova talking about Guevara and those &#039;useful idiots&#039; who promote him and Castro)
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y04/jan04/30e7.htm
http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oaghf019.php

Oh, and there&#039;s Fontova&#039;s book: 
&quot;Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him&quot;  available at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595230270?tag=amyjkloussene-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1595230270&amp;adid=17GWDAKZP9SJEMZ0E1XG&amp;

Garth Penglase</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me but I have noticed a resurgence of pro-fascist and pro-socialist books and movies appearing on our screens. Take the movie of the book &#8220;the Motorcycle Diaries&#8221; which was co-produced by Robert Redford. This recount the early travels of Che Guevara, a man cast by Castro (and thus Redford) as a hero of his country, Cuba, who in fact was a rabid murderer with a lust for blood. Himmler has nothing on him. </p>
<blockquote cite="http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oaghf019.php"><p>
&#8220;Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!&#8221; (Guevara)</p>
<p>This from Guevara&#8217;s very own Motorcycle Diaries&#8211;the very diaries made into a heartwarming film by Robert Redford&#8211;again, the only film to get that whooping&#8217; &#8216;hollerin, standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival. Seems that Redford omitted this inconvenient portion of Che&#8217;s diaries from his touching film.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Guevara is presented as a man truly and passionately taken with the sorry plight of his fellow &#8220;Americans&#8221; as he referred to all South Americans. However, just as Che Guevara championed and directly aided a revolution that ultimately enslaved the Cuban people to a far greater degree than what he ever saw his people living with, the liberal Democrat-voting Castro-loving Robert Redford, seems to be yet another man seeking to support the very regimes that will bring the destruction of his own country as well as directly supporting the tyrannous regime of Castro&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a mainstream news article promoting Redford and the &#8220;legendary&#8221; Guevara:<br />
<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/26/entertainment/main595713.shtml" rel="nofollow">www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/26/entertainment/main595713.shtml</a></p>
<p>And here&#8217;s a few with a more knowledgeable perspective:<br />
<a href="http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1535" rel="nofollow">www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1535</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200707/NAT20070730a.html" rel="nofollow">www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200707/NAT20070730a.html</a> (Humberto Fontova talking about Guevara and those &#8216;useful idiots&#8217; who promote him and Castro)<br />
<a href="http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y04/jan04/30e7.htm" rel="nofollow">www.cubanet.org/CNews/y04/jan04/30e7.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oaghf019.php" rel="nofollow">www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oaghf019.php</a></p>
<p>Oh, and there&#8217;s Fontova&#8217;s book:<br />
&#8220;Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him&#8221;  available at Amazon:<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595230270?tag=amyjkloussene-20&#038;camp=0&#038;creative=0&#038;linkCode=as1&#038;creativeASIN=1595230270&#038;adid=17GWDAKZP9SJEMZ0E1XG&#038;amp" rel="nofollow">www.amazon.com/dp/1595230270?tag=amyjkloussene-20&#038;camp=0&#038;creative=0&#038;linkCode=as1&#038;creativeASIN=1595230270&#038;adid=17GWDAKZP9SJEMZ0E1XG&#038;amp</a>;</p>
<p>Garth Penglase</p>
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		<title>By: Jonathan Sarfati</title>
		<link>http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/02/20/the-misery-that-is-cuba-is-not-over-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-61606</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Sarfati</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Too many churchians interpret God&#039;s commandment to Moses, “Thou shalt not steal” as not an absolute, but as “Thou shalt not steal unless you got a majority vote in parliament”.  Hence the many leftist clergy who support confiscation of wealth by force to fund bloated welfare bureaucracies, and even ostensibly conservative ones who support farm subsidies and protectionism.
Jonathan Sarfati, Brisbane</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too many churchians interpret God&#8217;s commandment to Moses, “Thou shalt not steal” as not an absolute, but as “Thou shalt not steal unless you got a majority vote in parliament”.  Hence the many leftist clergy who support confiscation of wealth by force to fund bloated welfare bureaucracies, and even ostensibly conservative ones who support farm subsidies and protectionism.<br />
Jonathan Sarfati, Brisbane</p>
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		<title>By: MurrayA</title>
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		<dc:creator>MurrayA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is a simple reason why the left defends Communism and Marxism: despite its convenient rhetoric about freedom and democracy it is inherently totalitarian. It has an insatiable love-affair with totalitarian regimes, and believes passionately that &quot;from each according to his ability; to each according his need&quot; expresses genuine altruism. They never, of course, explained that that was simply a formula for the tyranny of big government, &quot;fleece the rich rich and give to the poor&quot;, &quot;praise government from whom all blessings flow&quot;, where the government does not rule you, but owns you.

Also, Marxism dazzled its adherents with grandiose plans. If certain classes did not fit in with those plans they were simply eliminated, not for any crime they may have committed, but for being out of line with the plan. The most notorious recent example of this was the Killing Fields of Pol Pot&#039;s Cambodia. Yet I well remember 1975, when the Western left celebrated the Communist victories in Vietnam and Cambodia. Then when the Killing Fields atrocities emerged, they tried with various expedients to explain them away.

All I can say is, I am profoundly thankful that there is a God of justice, who will condemn and sentence these political criminals at the Last Day. But not only the perpetrators, but the &quot;useful idiots&quot; of the Western &quot;intelligentsia&quot; who supported and made gratuitous apologies for these regimes - they too will be guilty of complicity in the act, and suffer the same fate, even if they are churchmen!

Murray Adamthwaite</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a simple reason why the left defends Communism and Marxism: despite its convenient rhetoric about freedom and democracy it is inherently totalitarian. It has an insatiable love-affair with totalitarian regimes, and believes passionately that &#8220;from each according to his ability; to each according his need&#8221; expresses genuine altruism. They never, of course, explained that that was simply a formula for the tyranny of big government, &#8220;fleece the rich rich and give to the poor&#8221;, &#8220;praise government from whom all blessings flow&#8221;, where the government does not rule you, but owns you.</p>
<p>Also, Marxism dazzled its adherents with grandiose plans. If certain classes did not fit in with those plans they were simply eliminated, not for any crime they may have committed, but for being out of line with the plan. The most notorious recent example of this was the Killing Fields of Pol Pot&#8217;s Cambodia. Yet I well remember 1975, when the Western left celebrated the Communist victories in Vietnam and Cambodia. Then when the Killing Fields atrocities emerged, they tried with various expedients to explain them away.</p>
<p>All I can say is, I am profoundly thankful that there is a God of justice, who will condemn and sentence these political criminals at the Last Day. But not only the perpetrators, but the &#8220;useful idiots&#8221; of the Western &#8220;intelligentsia&#8221; who supported and made gratuitous apologies for these regimes &#8211; they too will be guilty of complicity in the act, and suffer the same fate, even if they are churchmen!</p>
<p>Murray Adamthwaite</p>
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		<title>By: John Nelson</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Nelson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gulags were not holiday camps!

John Nelson</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gulags were not holiday camps!</p>
<p>John Nelson</p>
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		<title>By: Jonathan Sarfati</title>
		<link>http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/02/20/the-misery-that-is-cuba-is-not-over-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-61031</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Sarfati</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Australia has its own &quot;Sojourners&quot; equivalent as well, which rails against capitalism and supports many socialist planks.  It also swallows the global warm-mongering so beloved of Leftists seeking more power for big government, and goo-to-you evolution.
Jonathan Sarfati, Brisbane</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Australia has its own &#8220;Sojourners&#8221; equivalent as well, which rails against capitalism and supports many socialist planks.  It also swallows the global warm-mongering so beloved of Leftists seeking more power for big government, and goo-to-you evolution.<br />
Jonathan Sarfati, Brisbane</p>
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