Actress Diaz Apologises for Mao Bag

The People's Cube has a good T-shirt
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Once again, political correctness is making stories where there are none. She's carrying a bag around with some Chinese characters on them, Whoopity do!
You don't see me beating people wearing a shirt with a British flag on it or cursing at someone wearing a t-shirt that says "Praise Allah!" on it yet those could also invoke 'painful memories' of past events. Water off a duck's back, water under the bridge, water <adjective> <noun>. Get over it and ***** about something that is truly wrong.

I have to agree with Damien here. It was a bad point in history. Get over it. If I asked or expected someone to apologize for doing, saying or wearing/using something that gave me bad memories I would have at least one apology per day.

This is like me saying that Pearl Harbor/Vietnam/Somalia gives me bad memories. Heck I wasn't even alive for one and for the others I was too young or wasn't involved personally.

Her apologizing for having an item that she bought with her own money for her own purposes that does nothing but perhaps offend some people's sensibilities is outrageous.

My questions is this: Did it really offend the persons in question or is it just another way to point fingers at Americans?

I see things that offend me all the time or think are inappropriate in a public venue. I do not question that person or ask them to apologize.
 
I see the same thing all over the USA with idiots wearing those Che Guevara T-Shirts. Che Guevara is a painful reminder of the communist government of Cuba and many other Latin American Nations.

*Whines* But they are sooo cute.

:roll:

How great is that, one woman was able to offend an entire nation without even opening her mouth.
 
*Whines* But they are sooo cute.

:roll:

How great is that, one woman was able to offend an entire nation without even opening her mouth.
FIRE IN THE HOLE!

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]THE REAL CHE GUEVARA[/FONT]​
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] "Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate[/FONT]​
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for[/FONT]​
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!" [/FONT]​
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his[/FONT]​
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is[/FONT]​
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] what our soldiers must become … " Che Guevara[/FONT]​
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]14 executed by Che in the Sierra Maestra during the anti-Batista guerrilla struggle (1957-1958): [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]1. ARISTIDIO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]2. MANUEL CAPITÁN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]3. JUAN CHANG [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]4. “BISCO” ECHEVARRÍA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]5. ECHEVARRÍA BROTHER #1 [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]6. ECHEVARRÍA BROTHER #2 [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]7. EUTIMIO GUERRA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]8. DIONISIO LEBRIGIO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]9. JUAN LEBRIGIO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]10. “EL NEGRO” NÁPOLES [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]11. “CHICHO” OSORIO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]12. ONE UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER (“EL MAESTRO) [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]13.-14. 2 UNIDENTIFIED PEASANTS [/FONT]

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]10 executed in Santa Clara at Che’s orders in only two days (January 1959): [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]1. RAMÓN ALBA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 2. JOSÉ BARROSO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]3. JOAQUÍN CASILLAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]4. FÉLIX CRUZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]5. ALEJANDRO GARCÍA OLAYÓN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]6. HÉCTOR MIRABAL [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]7. J. MIRABAL [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]8. FÉLIX MONTANO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]9. CORNELIO ROJAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]10. VILALLA [/FONT]
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http://therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm
 
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]156 executed at La Cabaña Fortress prison at Che Guevara’s orders: [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]1. VILAU ABREU [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]2. HUMBERTO AGUIAR [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]3. GERMÁN AGUIRRE [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]4. PELAYO ALAYÓN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]5. JOSÉ LUIS ALFARO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]6. PEDRO ALFARO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]7. MARIANO ALONSO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]8. JOSÉ ALVARO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]9. ANIELLA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]10. MARIO ARES POLO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]11. JOSÉ RAMÓN BACALLAO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]12. CEVERINO BARRIOS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]13. EUGENIO BÉCQUER [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]14. FRANCISCO BÉCQUER [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]15. RAMÓN BISCET [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]16. ROBERTO CALZADILLA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]17. EUFEMIO CANO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]18. JUAN CAPOTE FIALLO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]19. ANTONIO CARRALERO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]20. GERTRUDIS CASTELLANOS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 21. JOSÉ CASTAÑO QUEVEDO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]22. RAÚL CASTAÑO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]23. EUFEMIO CHALA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]24. JOSÉ CHAMACE [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]25. JOSÉ CHAMIZO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]26. RAÚL CLAUSELL [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]27. ÁNGEL CLAUSELL [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]28. DEMETRIO CLAUSELL [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]29. JOSÉ CLAUSELL [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]30. ELOY CONTRERAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]31. ALBERTO CORBO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]32. EMILIO CRUZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]33. JUAN FELIPE CRUZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]34. ORESTES CRUZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]35. HUMBERTO CUEVAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]36. CUNY [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]37. ANTONIO DE BECHE [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]38. MATEO DELGADO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]39. ARMANDO DELGADO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]40. RAMÓN DESPAIGNE [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]41. JOSÉ DÍAZ CABEZAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]42. ANTONIO DUARTE [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]43. RAMÓN FERNÁNDEZ OJEDA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]44. RUDY FERNÁNDEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]45. FERRÁN ALFONSO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]46. SALVADOR FERRERO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]47. VICTOR FIGUEREDO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]48. EDUARDO FORTE [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]49. UGARDE GALÁN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]50. RAFAEL GARCÍA MUÑIZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]51. ADALBERTO GARCÍA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]52. ALBERTO GARCÍA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]53. JACINTO GARCÍA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]54. EVELIO GASPAR [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]55. ARMADA GIL Y DIEZ CABEZAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]56. JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ MALAGÓN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]57. EVARISTO GONZÁLEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]58. EZEQUIEL GONZÁLEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]59. SECUNDINO GONZÁLEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]60. RICARDO GRAO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]61. BONIFACIO GRASSO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]62. RICARDO JOSÉ GRAU [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]63. OSCAR GUERRA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]64. JULIÁN HERNÁNDEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]65. FRANCISCO HERNÁNDEZ LEYVA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]66. ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]67. GERARDO HERNÁNDEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]68. OLEGARIO HERNÁNDEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]68. SECUNDINO HERNÁNDEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]70. JESÚS INSUA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]71. ENRIQUE IZQUIERDO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]72. OSMÍN JORRÍN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]73. SILVINO JUNCO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]74. ENRIQUE LA ROSA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]75. IGNACIO LASAPARLA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]76. JESÚS LAZO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]77. ARIEL LIMA LAGO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]78. RAÚL LÓPEZ VIDAL [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]79. ARMANDO MAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]80. ENERLIO MATA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]81. ELPIDIO MEDEROS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]82. JOSÉ MEDINAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]83. JOSÉ MESA[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]84. FIDEL MESQUÍA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]85. JUAN MILIÁN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]86. FRANCISCO MIRABAL [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 87. LUIS MIRABAL [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 88. ERNESTO MORALES[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 89. PEDRO MOREJÓN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]90. DR. CARLOS MUIÑO, MD. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 91. CÉSAR NECOLARDES ROJAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]92. VICTOR NECOLARDES ROJAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]93. JOSÉ NUÑEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]94. VITERBO O'RREILLY [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 95. FÉLIX OVIEDO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]96. MANUEL PANEQUE [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]97. PEDRO PEDROSO[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 98. RAFAEL PEDROSO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]99. DIEGO PÉREZ CUESTA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]100. JUAN PÉREZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 101. DIEGO PÉREZ CRELA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 102. JOSÉ POZO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]103. EMILIO PUEBLA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]104. ALFREDO PUPO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]105. SECUNDINO RAMÍREZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]106. RAMÓN RAMOS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]107. PABLO RAVELO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]108. RUBÉN REY [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]109. MARIO RISQUELME [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]110. FERNANDO RIVERA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]111. PABLO RIVERA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]112. MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]113. MARCOS RODRÍGUEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]114. NEMESIO RODRÍGUEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 115. PABLO RODRÍGUEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]116. RICARDO RODRÍGUEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]117. JOSÉ SALDARA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 118. PEDRO SANTANA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]119. SERGIO SIERRA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]120. JUAN SILVA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]121. FAUSTO SILVA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]122. ELPIDIO SOLER [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]123. JESÚS SOSA BLANCO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 124. RENATO SOSA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]125. SERGIO SOSA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]126. PEDRO SOTO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]127. OSCAR SUÁREZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 128. RAFAEL TARRAGO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 129. TEODORO TELLEZ CISNEROS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]130. FRANCISCO TELLEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]131. JOSÉ TIN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]132. FRANCISCO TRAVIESO[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 133. LEONARDO TRUJILLO [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]134. TRUJILLO[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 135. LUPE VALDÉS BARBOSA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]136. MARCELINO VALDÉS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 137. ANTONIO VALENTÍN [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]138. MANUEL VÁZQUEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]139. SERGIO VÁZQUEZ [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] 140. VERDECIA [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]141. DÁMASO ZAYAS [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]*15 additional executions were reported by The New York Times (on 2/6/59, 2/8/59, 3/16/59, and 4/2/59), [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]but names are unknown. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]TRUTH RECOVERY ARCHIVE ON CUBA an undertaking of the FREE SOCIETY PROJECT, INC. www.CubaArchive.org[/FONT]
http://therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm
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Few fashion accessories are as ubiquitous on liberal American university campuses as clothing depicting the visage of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentine-born compa�ero of Cuban despot Fidel Castro. An amusing game would involve counting which items are more commonplace in Harvard Yard-Che t-shirts or iPods.

While Che's chief attraction-his handsomeness-makes for clever merchandizing, the legions who bear his image are often ignorant of a somewhat more salient feature of his persona: Guevara's participation in mass murder and his role as architect of the well-oiled apparatus of state repression that is modern-day Cuba.

Following the collapse of the Batista regime, Guevara served as commander of the La Caba�a prison, where he personally presided over the extrajudicial executions of hundreds-perhaps thousands-of former regime officials and opponents of Castro's dictatorship.

Former dissident Armando Valladares has documented Che's personal involvement in the torture and execution of political prisoners. Lest one dismiss these atrocities as relics of a bygone era, a recent Amnesty International report reminds us that, "Cuban authorities continue to suppress any form of dissent by methods such as harassment, threats, intimidation, detention and long-term imprisonment." In short, the very methods Guevara helped pioneer.

In a July 2005 New Republic essay entitled "The Killing Machine," Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers a chilling description of Guevara's serial bloodletting in the name of communist revolution. Llosa's title is an allusion to Che's famous "Message to the Tricontinental," which contained this charming passage: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine."

Llosa writes, "Che ordered the execution of a couple dozen people in Santa Clara, in central Cuba, where his column had gone as part of a final assault on the island. Some of them were shot in a hotel...among those executed, known as casquitos, were peasants who had joined the army simply to escape unemployment." Guevara later supervised the construction of a constellation of hellish "labor" camps across Cuba, which were used to imprison dissidents and, not long after his death, homosexuals and AIDS patients.
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