“There’s some very weird, strange and dangerous sh*t going on out there right now, “pontificated Bruce Springsteen at a recent show in Manchester England. ”In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. They’re rolling back historic civil rights legislation…They are removing residents off American streets and, without due process of law… the America I’ve written about,. is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”
But on the other hand: “When Che Guevara taught of love being at the center of revolutionary endeavor, he meant it…for people like Che or George Jackson or Malcolm X Love was the prime mover of their struggle. That love cost them their lives.”
A reminder, refresher (or revelation) about Che Guevara, the man Bruce Springsteen equates with love:
“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!”
And good thing Bruce wasn’t born in Cuba because:
“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates!” snarled the KGB-mentored Che Guevara in 1961. “Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service! Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think of individuals! Individualism must disappear from Cuba!”
“When Castro’s goons caught me with a Led Zeppelin record, they led me to a Stairway alright—but at bayonet-point and this stairway hardly led to Heaven, instead it led down into a dark jail cell.”
Earlier on the orders of Bruce Springsteen’s apostle of love, Charlie was joined by tens of thousands of other Cuban youths. A few years earlier the hundreds of Soviet KGB and East German STASI "consultants" who flooded Cuba in the early 60s, found an extremely eager acolyte in Che Guevara.
You see, amigos: traditionally in the Castro fiefdom rock and pop music was denounced as a “yankee-imperialist”subversion. Sure, here in America we had the much-dreaded and maligned (by leftists) Legion of Decency, Hay’s Code, Catholic League, etc. But the much-admired (by leftists) regime co-founded by Che Guevara went a bit further than finger-wagging sermons and government lobbying by a few church ladies. They even went further than Ed Sullivan issuing a few admonitions before his rocker guests took to his stage (as happened to the Rolling Stones in 1967 before they performed Let’s Spend the Night Together.)
Instead, the (much admired by hipsters) Castro regime simply rounded up Cuban “roqueros” (rock-music fans), blue-jean wearers, draft-dodgers, gays and other such “long-haired, hippie-types” en-masse and herded them into Soviet-designed forced-labor camps. "Work Will Make Men Out of You," read the sign in bold letters above the gate, beside the machine gunners posted all along the watchtowers. The initials for these camps were UMAP, not GULAG, but the conditions were quite similar.
Since Springsteen seems so sensitive to the “civil rights” of foreign gang members committing crimes in the U.S. perhaps he should know that:
Ernesto "Che" Guevara 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.
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