No to Che
Oscar Wilde said "When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is foolish to shake hands with her". It is foolish to commemorate Che Guevara whose hands are covered in the blood of thousands.
If Galway erects a monument to Guevara it should bear the inscription: "When critical reasoning is asleep, in morons and monsters creep."
The only revolution is from a closed society to an open society. Cuba is a closed society. Guevara murdered thousands to inflict dogmatic Marxism on others, which brought poverty to Cuba and nearly nuclear devastation.
Dogma necessitates compulsory conformity urging violence and murder to silence the dissidents.
Karl Popper, the father of the Open Society in the 1930s, predicted the imposition of the Marxist regimes.
Prosperity comes from pushing out the frontiers of knowledge, creating centres of excellence and going from a potato chip economy to a computer chip economy.
Prosperity is a by-product of human development in an open creative scientific society. Prosperity is about knowledge, keeping pace in a hi-tech race.
Cuba has excellence in poverty. Cuba has excellence in curtailing human growth.
A monument to Guevara in Galway means the people of Galway do not value human rights and they agree with humans having the same quality of life as ants working in an ant colony.
Stephen Fallon
Barrington Street, Limerick
