This morning Walmart announced they were yanking all items bearing the Confederate flag from their shelves.
"We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer,” stressed Walmart spokesman Brian Nick. "We have taken steps to remove all items promoting the confederate flag from our assortment -- whether in our stores or on our web site."
Walmart’s decision, like Gov. Nikki Haley’s to remove the Confederate flag from her State’s capitol, was obviously provoked by the recent Charleston “hate crime.”
The Confederate flag has flown beside the South Carolina Statehouse since 2000. Photo Credit: AP
Over at Gateway Pundit its ever-vigilant founder Kristin Taylor points out that Walmart sells seventeen different posters and prints glorifying Che Guevara.
So in case any Walmart officials are perusing TheBlaze today here’s a few items to consider regarding the selling or promotion of “hate” or “offensive” merchandise:
*“Hatred is the central element of our struggle!” raved Che Guevara in a famous declaration in 1966 to a gathering in Havana of virtually every terrorist group on earth. "Hatred that is intransigent…Hatred 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 rivers of blood must flow.”
"My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood!” continued Che Guevara in his diaries. “Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered 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!”
Walmart, by the way, proudly sells Che Guevara’s Dairies.
But granted, in the above instance Che Guevara’s hate speech was pretty sweeping, aimed at all freedom-loving people in general and Americans in particular. Your recent merchandizing decision, however, involved a “hate-speech symbol” specifically against blacks. Fine.
Let’s go there with Che Guevara:
“The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities and drink; the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent…The Negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths.”
That’s Che’s diaries again, which Walmart proudly sells.
"'N**ger!' taunted my jailers between tortures,” recalled the world’s longest suffering black political prisoner to this writer. "'We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!' laughed my torturers. For months I was naked in a six by four foot cell. That's four feet high, so you couldn't stand. But I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to commit spiritual suicide.”
Ernesto Che Guevara. Photo Credit: www.biography.com
That wasn’t Nelson Mandela. No, the prisoner was a black Cuban named Eusebio Peñalver, whose incarceration and torture at the hands of the regime whose emblem you promote in 17 different posters and prints stretched to 29 years, surpassing Nelson Mandela's record in time behind bars and probably quintupling the horrors suffered by Mandela during this period.
Che Guevara’s hate-obsession was actually the U.S. He murdered Cubans because of their supposed affiliation with the U.S. ("U.S.--Backed" Batista, the CIA, etc.) as a public service to Wal-Mart shoppers of other than Cuban-American heritage, here’s a more ravings from the racist, Stalinist mass-murderer who Wal-Mart promotes to the tune of 17 different promotional products:
*“The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!”
*“The U.S. is ‘a carnivorous animal' feeding on the helpless!”
*“Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination!”
*“We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ (Americans) very home, to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy (Americans) must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him!
*“We must keep our hatred (against the U.S.) alive and fan it to paroxysm!”
*“The U.S. is the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against all the peoples of the world!”
“If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) 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."
According to the Cuba Archive, the regime co-founded by Che Guevara – with firing squads, forced-labor camps, torture and drownings at sea – has caused an estimated 102,000 deaths, mostly Cuban of course. But whenever they could get their hands on an American “hyena” they really indulged. To wit:
When during the summer of 1960 Castro and Che’s gunmen stormed into almost 6,000 U.S. owned businesses and stole them at Soviet gunpoint, a few owners resisted. One of these was Howard Anderson who owned a filling stations and Jeep dealership (not a casino or brothel, which were relatively rare in pre-Castro Cuba, by the way.) I’ll quote from Anderson v. Republic of Cuba, No. 01-28628 (Miami-Dade Circuit Court, April 13, 2003). "In one final session of torture, Castro's agents drained Howard Anderson's body of blood before sending him to his death at the firing squad."
A motorcycle is parked next to wall painted with a Cuban flag and an image of revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
Castro and Che’s blood-lust against Americans was such that they sent their torturers thousands of miles to get their hands on (defenseless) ones. According to the book "Honor Bound" the tortures of U.S. POWs by Castro’s agents were “the worst sieges of torture any American withstood in Hanoi.”
Testimony during Congressional hearings titled, "The Cuban Torture Program; Torture of American Prisoners by Cuban Agents" held on November 1999 provide some of the harrowing details.
For their experiment in torture the Castroites chose twenty American POWs. One died: Lieutenant Colonel Earl Cobeil, an Air Force F-105 pilot. His death came slowly, in agonizing stages, under torture. Upon learning his Castroite Cuban affiliation, the American POWs nicknamed Cobeil's Cuban torturer, "Fidel."
"The difference between the Vietnamese and "Fidel(the nickname for the Castroite torturer) was that once the Vietnamese got what they wanted they let up, at least for a while,” testified fellow POW Captain Ray Vohden USN. “Not so with the Cubans. Earl Cobeil had resisted 'Fidel' to the maximum. I heard the thud of the belt falling on Cobeil's body again and again, as Fidel screamed "you son of a beech! I will show you! Kneel down!--KNEEL DOWN!” The Cubans unmercifully beat a mentally defenseless, sick American naval pilot to death."
"Earl Cobeil was a complete physical disaster when we saw him," testified another fellow POW, Col. Jack Bomar. "He had been tortured for days and days and days. His hands were almost severed from the manacles. He had bamboo in his shins. All kinds of welts up and down all over; his face was bloody. Then 'Fidel' began to beat him with a fan belt.”
Today the world's largest Che mural (the same image Walmart proudly merchants in seventeen different editions) adorns Cuba's Ministry of the Interior, the headquarters and main torture-chambers for Cuba's KGB- trained secret police. Nothing could be more fitting.
Alas, Walmart officials, a corrective to all this “ignorance” does exist—and on your very shelves.
Listen to Humberto discussing this topic on TheBlaze Radio's "Pure Opelka."
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