Imagine the MSM snarkiness and uproar, if somewhere in Sarah Palin's e-mail garbage bins, they scrounged up an item where she equates internet freedom with the co-founder of the regime that Freedom House rates as among the 3 most repressive on earth against the internet, where bloggers were being jailed and tortured for the crime of blogging, while she wrote the message. Because in fact, Cubans were being jailed and tortured for blogging while the U.S. State Department's senior advisor on "internet freedom" hailed the Cuban regime's co-founder as the emblem of internet freedom.
Imagine the media snarkiness and uproar if Sarah Palin claimed that "dictatorships are now more vulnerable" then equated the co-founder of the most enduring Stalinist dictatorship in modern history with the enemy of dictatorships.
"I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated!" (Ernesto "Che" Guevara, 1956.)
Imagine the MSM uproar and snarkiness if Sarah Palin linked "the devolution of power from the nation state to the individual" with a man who worshipped Joseph Stalin, who signed his correspondence "Stalin II," who as chief KGB liaison for a Stalinist regime proclaimed that 'Individualism must disappear! It is criminal to think in terms of individuals! Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates! Youth should learn to think and act as a mass." In a famous speech Che Guevara even vowed, "to make individualism disappear from Cuba! It is criminal to think of individuals!"
Cuba's "social media" (the topic of Alec Ross celebratory speech) is so tiny in the nation run by the regime co-founded by Che Guevara (the hero of Alec Ross' speech) as to be essentially irrelevant. Cuba—a nation with more phones and TVs per capita than most European countries before Che Guevara set foot on her shores– today has fewer internet connections per-capita than Uganda and fewer cell phones than Papua New Guinea. The Stalinist regime Che Guevara co-founded is very vigilant in these matters.
The KGB –trained police employed by the regime Che-Guevara co-founded controls what its subjects, read, say, earn, eat (both both and amount), where they live, travel or work. "Fear is the basic instrument of (Cuban) political control," concluded a report in the mid 1990's by the Catholic Human Rights group Pax Christi.
I provide the following as a public service for nay U.S. State Dept. officials tuning in to The Daily Caller: Ernesto "Che" Guevara (the gentleman a Senior U.S. State Dept. Official hails as an emblem of freedom) was second in command, chief executioner, and chief KGB liaison for a regime that outlawed elections and private property. This regime's KGB-supervised police — employing the midnight knock and the dawn raid among other devices — rounded up and jailed more political prisoners as a percentage of population than Stalin's and executed more people (out of a population of 6.4 million) in its first three years in power than Hitler's executed (out of a population of 70 million) in its first six.
The regime Che Guevara co-founded stole the savings and property of 6.4 million citizens, made refugees of 20 per cent of the population from a nation formerly deluged with immigrants and whose citizens had achieved a higher standard of living than those residing in half of Europe. Che Guevara's regime also shattered — through executions, jailings, mass larceny and exile — virtually every family on the island of Cuba. Many opponents of the Cuban regime qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history, having suffered prison camps, forced labor and torture chambers for a period THREE TIMES as long in Che Guevara's Gulag as Alexander Solzhenytzin suffered in Stalin's Gulag.
Today the world's largest Che Guevara image adorns Cuba's headquarters and torture chambers for its KGB-trained secret police. Nothing could be more fitting.
Imagine the MSM snarkiness and uproar if Sarah Palin, as an official of the U.S. Department of State, lauded a man who insulted the U.S. as “the Great Enemy of Mankind! “ and her countrymen as “hyenas fit only for extermination!” and who openly craved to incinerate millions of them with a surprise nuclear attack. "If the missiles had remained," confided Che Guevara to The London Daily Worker in Nov. 1962, "we would have fired them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York City."
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