Parallel Lives - Different Coins

What’s the opposite of a freedom fighter?

What do you call a man that dedicates his life to a struggle aimed at enslaving and depriving the God-given rights of his fellow men?

You call that person Che.

A person who dedicates his life to bring freedom and democracy to his fellow men is called a freedom fighter.

A freedom fighter is the natural enemy of the che - Its opposite. Not the other side of the same coin as moral relativist would have you believe, but a different coin altogether. Freedom is a gold coin. A coin everybody wants. The other coin is a lead coin - heavy, dull and poisonous.

Carlos Alberto Montaner tackles the subject in this essay:

Posada and Che Lived Parallel Lives

First Paragraph:

Luis Posada Carriles and Ernesto Guevara were born in 1928 in similar environments. Both were part of the upper middle-class. Both chose the sciences during their college years. Guevara studied medicine; Posada, chemistry. Both shared a bold and adventurous psychological makeup that would lead them to risk their lives and sacrifice the welfare of their families to defend -- violently -- their beliefs.

Nobody understands why the media in the West are less harsh on Guevara than on Posada. Nobody wears a T-shirt with the effigy of Posada, after all. There is something basically hypocritical in all this. A double standard.

Read the Rest, (The Meat is here and it’s not SPAM),Here

Posted by Gusano at May 31, 2007 09:21 AM

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