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Walmart Yanks Confederate Flag as 'Offensive'—But Sells Slew of Items Honoring Che Guevara

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“Walmart has stopped displaying the Mississippi state flag — which includes the Confederate battle flag — in stores. Walmart said the decision to no longer display the Mississippi flag is in line with its 2015 policy ending sales of all merchandise featuring the Confederate flag," CNN reported last month.

"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 website."

As they never tire of spouting, the groups that Walmart caved to on this issue all regard the confederate battle flag as a “symbol of hate!”…speaking of which:

“HATRED is the central element of our struggle!… HATRED that is intransigentHATRED so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him a violent and cold-blooded killing machine…We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is inevitable! To establish socialism rivers of blood must flow!” 

“We must keep our HATRED (against the U.S.) alive and fan it to paroxysm!” 

"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!"

“The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!” 

“Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination!” 

All Che Guevara quotes above are thoroughly documented here. 

 “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.” 

Now here’s one for Walmart shoppers in the great southwest, especially California: “Mexicans are mostly a rabble of illiterate Indians.”

No doubt BLM and their Democrat/media allies (who Walmart caved to) would all brand the above as “hate- speech!” Yet some issue from Che Guevara’s very diaries, which Walmart proudly merchants among a huge array of Che Guevara items, a small sampling of which can be found here.

Walmart shoppers (and staff) should be informed that 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.) 

Che's genocidal fantasies included a continental reign of Stalinism. And to achieve this ideal he craved, "millions of atomic victims"--most of them Americans: 

“We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies' very home, to his places of work and recreation. We must keep our hatred against them [the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysms!" raved Che Guevara in his Message to the Tri-Continental Conference in 1966. “The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him!"

Whatever else we might say about him, Che Guevara was not one to simply talk the talk. Regarding his hatred of the U.S. he was fully prepared to walk the walk. To wit:  

On Nov. 17, 1962, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI discovered that Che Guevara's bombast had substance. They infiltrated and cracked a plot by Cuban agents that targeted Macy's, Gimbels, Bloomingdale's and Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set to go off the following week, the day after Thanksgiving. Che Guevara was the head of Cuba's "Foreign Liberation Department" at the time.

A little perspective: For their famous March 2004 Madrid subway blasts, all 10 of them, which killed and maimed almost 2,000 people, al-Qaeda used a grand total of 100 kilos of TNT. Castro and Che’s agents planned to set off five times that amount of explosive power in the three biggest department stores on earth, all packed to suffocation and pulsing with holiday cheer on the year’s biggest shopping day. Macy’s gets 50,000 shoppers that one day. Thousands of New Yorkers, including women and children—actually, given the date and targets, probably mostly women and children—were to be incinerated and entombed. 

Back in 1962 the FBI relied heavily on “HUMINT” (Human Intelligence.) So they’d expertly penetrated the Black Friday plot, knew the plotters and had them tapped. One by one the ringleaders were ambushed and arrested.

Had those detonators gone off, (or if the FBI of the time had been headed by somebody like Comey instead of J Edgar Hoover) 9/11 might be remembered as the SECOND deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. 

It can’t be repeated often enough: Che Guevara’s main targets of hatred and scorn were the U.S. and Americans—not Cubans. 

Sure, the people he tortured and murdered were overwhelmingly Cubans–but that was only because he couldn’t get his hands on any Americans. Che Guevara regarded his Cuban torture and murder victims as proxies for the hated “Yankee imperialists,” (as CIA agents, pawns of United Fruit, etc.).

In fact, on the few occasions when the Castroites were able to get their hands of some of those hated Americans (as POW’s in Vietnam, for instance), the results were horrific.  Might any Walmart shoppers conceivably be offended by the items thoroughly-documented here?