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<H1 align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 36pt">The Che iPhone App</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> </SPAN></H1>
<H1 align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">by Humberto
Fontova<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
/><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H1>
<H1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><A
title=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/the_che_iphone_app.html
href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/the_che_iphone_app.html">http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/the_che_iphone_app.html</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H1>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">You
knew it was coming. Well, now you can carry around Che Guevara's quotes on your
iPhone -- as just announced by the good folks at iPhone!</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Alas, many of us, though not customer of this
unquestionably hip product, suspect that most of Che Guevara's hippest quotes
are missing from this hippest of iPhones. Among those we fear were
overlooked:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of
gunpowder and blood...Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while
slaughtering any <EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">surrendered</SPAN></EM> enemy that
falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the
sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!" (From
Che's own diaries, later immortalized as <EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The Motorcycles Diaries</SPAN></EM>,
though we note that executive producer Robert Redford "overlooked" this
unquestionably dramatic citation for his movie.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Hatred</SPAN></EM> as the central
element of our struggle!...<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Hatred</SPAN></EM> that is
intransigent....<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Hatred</SPAN></EM><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></STRONG>so violent that it
propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him violent and
cold- blooded killing machine...We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is
inevitable. To establish Socialism <EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">rivers of blood must
flow</SPAN></EM><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">!</SPAN></STRONG>... The imperialist
enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we'll destroy him!
These hyenas (Americans) are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred
alive and fan it to paroxysm! The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of
atomic victims!" (thus spake the icon of flower-children) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"Don't Shoot! I'm Che! I'm worth to you more alive than
dead<STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">!</SPAN></STRONG>"
The plea was whimpered with a Eddie Haskell-in-front-of June Cleaver-esque
smile on Oct. 8th 1967 in <EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Quebrada de Yuro</SPAN></EM>,
Bolivia, as Che dropped his fully-loaded weapons. At the time, Che,
dragging along his guerrilla charge Willi, was trying to slink away from a
firefight when confronted by two Bolivian soldiers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">That's exactly <EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">two </SPAN></EM>flunky Communist
guerrillas facing<EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">
two</SPAN></EM><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">
</SPAN></STRONG>Bolivian soldiers, by the way. But then, Che's
bloodthirsty bluster (see above) always had a habit of evaporating when facing
men (or boys) capable of defending themselves. His stock-in-trade was blasting
their skulls apart from five feet while they were bound and gagged. (Amazingly,
Steven Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro overlooked any depictions of such
guaranteed drama in their recent movie.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"The Negro is indolent and spends his money on
frivolities and booze, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and
intelligent." <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"What will our Revolution would do for blacks?--why,
we'll do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I
mean: <EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">nothing</SPAN></EM>!"<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well
known habit <EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">of avoiding
baths</SPAN></EM>" (as if Che had room to talk)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">("Viva Che!" bellowed Jesse Jackson while arm in arm
with Fidel Castro in Havana in 1984. "I'm like Che with a bling!" sings rapper
Jay Z.) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"The solutions to the world's problems lie behind the
Iron Curtain.....If the nuclear missiles had remained we would have fired them
against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The victory of socialism
is well worth millions of atomic victims." (look for Che t-shirts and any and
all "Peace" demonstrations.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"Mexicans are a rabble of illiterate Indians." (Note the
numerous Che T-shirts and banners at May Day demonstrations by Mexican
immigrants) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"Bolivian campesinos are simply <EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Animalitos</SPAN></EM>" (Note
Bolivian President Evo Morales' frequent genuflections to the ghost of Che
Guevara and to his puppeteer, Fidel Castro.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of
governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work
and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible. ("Che is
our fifth band member!" Rage Against the Machine's Tom
Morello).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Che the Lionhearted's image indeed belongs on college
campuses. But it's usually in the wrong places. He belongs in the marketing, PR,
advertising -- and especially -- psychology departments. His lessons and history
are fascinating and valuable, but only in light of Sigmund Freud or P.T. Barnum.
"One born every minute," Mr. Barnum? If only you'd lived to see the Che
phenomenon. Actually, 10 are born every second.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Here's a "guerrilla hero" who in real life never fought
in a guerrilla war. When he finally brushed up against one, he was routed and
surrendered while a sniveling, whimpering wreck.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Here's a cold-blooded murderer who executed thousands
without trial, who claimed that judicial evidence was an "unnecessary bourgeois
detail," who stressed that "revolutionaries must become cold-killing machines
motivated by pure hate," who stayed up till dawn for months at a time signing
death warrants for innocent and honorable men, whose office in La Cabana had a
window where he could watch the executions - and today his T-shirts adorn people
who oppose capital punishment!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Here's a humorless teetotaler, a plodding paper-pusher,
a notorious killjoy and all-around fuddy-duddy - and you see his T-shirt on
MTV's Spring Break revelers! Perhaps competent psychologists (if any exist) will
explain this some day.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Che excelled in one thing: mass murder of defenseless
men. He was a Stalinist to the core, a plodding bureaucrat and a calm,
cold-blooded - but again, never in actual battle - killer. Che's true legacy is
simply one of terror, murder and sniveling cowardice.<BR><BR>All above quotes
are fully-documented in my books. The documentation passed under the magnifying
glass and (realizing the horribly blasphemous nature of my book) was
quintuple-checked by the entire legal dept. of the 2nd biggest publisher on
earth. All documentation passed with flying colors. <BR></SPAN><BR><EM><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Humberto Fontova is
the author of four books including Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant and
Exposing the Real Che Guevara. Visit </SPAN></B></EM><A
title=http://hfontova.com/ href="http://hfontova.com/"><EM><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">hfontova.com</SPAN></B></EM></A> <o:p></o:p></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>