Ché lovers in Ireland disconnect from reality

Let’s face it: In order to admire and idolize a mass murderer like Ernesto “Ché” Guevara, you have to completely disconnect yourself from reality. For Ché lovers in Ireland, the disconnect not only applies to historic reality, but to current reality as well.

According to organizers of the Ché Guevara Festival in Ireland, they honestly believe that glorifying and celebrating with a memorial and a statue the Marxist killer who vigorously pursued the nuclear annihilation of millions of Americans to promote the Marxist takeover of the world will not turn off American tourists and investors to Ireland:

Che Guevara statue won’t deter US visitors, festival chiefs insist

ORGANISERS of a Che Guevara festival yesterday dismissed objections by Libertas founder Declan Ganley to erecting a statue of the revolutionary as “completely misguided”.

And they confirmed that Guevara’s eldest daughter, Almeida, will be a guest of honour at the festival in Kilkee, Co Clare.

The inaugural Che do Bheatha festival in Kilkee took place last year.

Yesterday, organiser Tom Byrne said Ms Guevara “was aware of the controversy” sparked by the news that Galway City Council is considering plans to build a statue of Guevara on Salthill promenade.

Last month, Mr Ganley described the plan as a “monument to a mass murderer”.

But Mr Byrne said that Mr Ganley was “completely misguided” in his view that the statue may deter US investment here.

In related news, it appears that Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, although not necessarily disconnected from reality, has for now at least chosen to avoid and ignore it:

US wants Taoiseach to ban Che Guevara statue

The US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs has written to the Taoiseach asking him to stop Galway City Council erecting a statue in Eyre Square to South American revolutionary Che Guevara.

The hard-hitting letter, which describes Che Guevara as a “mass murderer”, was sent by House chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican representative for Florida, last Tuesday.

The letter said: “Che was a mass murderer and human rights abuser, whose campaigns led to the murder of countless people throughout Cuba, under the Castro regime, and Latin America.”

The letter goes on to ask the Government to intervene in the issue and to prevent the controversial monument being erected.

Last month Galway City Council announced it planned to erect the statue of the Marxist guerrilla who helped Fidel Castro to power in Cuba in 1959 because of Che’s historic link to Galway via his grandmother, who was a Lynch from the city.

Businessman Declan Ganley said the proposal was “a pet project of a small bunch of extremists in the Labour Party” that would damage the reputation of Galway internationally.

The Taoiseach’s department said it was not in a position to comment as the letter had yet to arrive.

2 thoughts on “Ché lovers in Ireland disconnect from reality”

  1. Kenny sounds like a winner, all right. A real statesman. As for daddy’s girl Aleida, that peripatetic propaganda cow, of course she’ll come to the Che festival. Hell, she got on a cheesy Che float in some carnival recently. Hey, it’s a living.

  2. And by the way, Che would be offended that somebody called his daughter Almeida, Castro’s favorite token black “general.” Che looked down his nose at pretty much everybody, but especially people like blacks and Mexicans.

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