tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post115151953737821852..comments2023-10-09T12:55:26.688-04:00Comments on The Burning Taper: Small Town Freemasonry — Part 4: Masonic Coverups, Collusion and CronyismWidow's Sonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05135009678671539418noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-3507043679753450032013-07-08T06:11:28.745-04:002013-07-08T06:11:28.745-04:00Hello from Jr.Warden of Lodge 1371 "Casa di H...Hello from Jr.Warden of Lodge 1371 "Casa di Horus" in Rome, Italy.<br />We have Catholics, Protestants, one jew, one Muslim, one Zoroastrian in our Lodge; hence, we do not use the Bible as our "Book of the Holy Law", but "Anderson's Constitutions".<br />It is not the Jr.warden who must file charges against Brethren in our system, but the Chaplain, whom, incidentally, is not called "Chaplain" but "Orator" meaning "He who speaksout (before the WM has the last word)" to the point the Orator also acts as the Prosecutor in a Masonic Trial. Indeed he is the Keeper of the Law.<br />I am sorry for what you write, and do not even know if you still read the comments to your blog.<br />It seems to me all these troubles could have been avoided "if only" you had never had a website in the first place...<br />With my Fraternal Embrace,<br />M.'.P.'.3.'. R+C<br />Junior Warden<br />R.'.L.'."La Casa di Horus" <br />n.1371 Rome, Italylambdavihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07260824315618737575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-5975555159090901942008-11-28T14:18:00.000-05:002008-11-28T14:18:00.000-05:002 BOWL CAIN wrote: who were CHE's enemi...2 BOWL CAIN wrote: <BR/><BR/>who were CHE's enemies?"<BR/><BR/>"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary," Che Guevara<BR/><BR/>Apparently, children and farmers, without concern for a fair trial: http://cubaarchive.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=20&Itemid=93 Here's a list of some of his enemies, taken from<BR/>http://www.therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm<BR/><BR/>"14 executed by Che in the Sierra Maestra during the anti-Batista guerrilla struggle (1957-1958):<BR/><BR/>1. ARISTIDIO 2. MANUEL CAPITÁN 3. JUAN CHANG 4. “BISCO” ECHEVARRÍA 5. ECHEVARRÍA BROTHER #1<BR/><BR/>6. ECHEVARRÍA BROTHER #2 7. EUTIMIO GUERRA 8. DIONISIO LEBRIGIO 9. JUAN LEBRIGIO 10. “EL NEGRO” NÁPOLES<BR/><BR/>11. “CHICHO” OSORIO 12. ONE UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER (“EL MAESTRO) 13.-14. 2 UNIDENTIFIED PEASANTS<BR/><BR/>10 executed in Santa Clara at Che’s orders in only two days (January 1959):<BR/><BR/>1. RAMÓN ALBA 2. JOSÉ BARROSO 3. JOAQUÍN CASILLAS 4. FÉLIX CRUZ 5. ALEJANDRO GARCÍA OLAYÓN<BR/><BR/>6. HÉCTOR MIRABAL 7. J. MIRABAL 8. FÉLIX MONTANO 9. CORNELIO ROJAS 10. VILALLA<BR/><BR/>156 executed at La Cabaña Fortress prison at Che Guevara’s orders:<BR/><BR/>1. VILAU ABREU 2. HUMBERTO AGUIAR 3. GERMÁN AGUIRRE 4. PELAYO ALAYÓN 5. JOSÉ LUIS ALFARO<BR/><BR/>6. PEDRO ALFARO 7. MARIANO ALONSO 8. JOSÉ ALVARO 9. ANIELLA 10. MARIO ARES POLO<BR/><BR/>11. JOSÉ RAMÓN BACALLAO 12. CEVERINO BARRIOS 13. EUGENIO BÉCQUER 14. FRANCISCO BÉCQUER <BR/><BR/>15. RAMÓN BISCET 16. ROBERTO CALZADILLA 17. EUFEMIO CANO 18. JUAN CAPOTE FIALLO <BR/><BR/>19. ANTONIO CARRALERO 20. GERTRUDIS CASTELLANOS 21. JOSÉ CASTAÑO QUEVEDO 22. RAÚL CASTAÑO <BR/><BR/>23. EUFEMIO CHALA 24. JOSÉ CHAMACE 25. JOSÉ CHAMIZO 26. RAÚL CLAUSELL 27. ÁNGEL CLAUSELL <BR/><BR/>28. DEMETRIO CLAUSELL 29. JOSÉ CLAUSELL 30. ELOY CONTRERAS 31. ALBERTO CORBO 32. EMILIO CRUZ <BR/><BR/>33. JUAN FELIPE CRUZ 34. ORESTES CRUZ 35. HUMBERTO CUEVAS 36. CUNY 37. ANTONIO DE BECHE <BR/><BR/>38. MATEO DELGADO 39. ARMANDO DELGADO 40. RAMÓN DESPAIGNE 41. JOSÉ DÍAZ CABEZAS <BR/><BR/>42. ANTONIO DUARTE 43. RAMÓN FERNÁNDEZ OJEDA 44. RUDY FERNÁNDEZ 45. FERRÁN ALFONSO <BR/><BR/>46. SALVADOR FERRERO 47. VICTOR FIGUEREDO 48. EDUARDO FORTE 49. UGARDE GALÁN <BR/><BR/>50. RAFAEL GARCÍA MUÑIZ 51. ADALBERTO GARCÍA 52. ALBERTO GARCÍA 53. JACINTO GARCÍA <BR/><BR/>54. EVELIO GASPAR 55. ARMADA GIL Y DIEZ CABEZAS 56. JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ MALAGÓN 57. EVARISTO GONZÁLEZ <BR/><BR/>58. EZEQUIEL GONZÁLEZ 59. SECUNDINO GONZÁLEZ 60. RICARDO GRAO 61. BONIFACIO GRASSO <BR/><BR/>62. RICARDO JOSÉ GRAU 63. OSCAR GUERRA 64. JULIÁN HERNÁNDEZ 65. FRANCISCO HERNÁNDEZ LEYVA <BR/><BR/>66. ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ 67. GERARDO HERNÁNDEZ 68. OLEGARIO HERNÁNDEZ 69. SECUNDINO HERNÁNDEZ <BR/><BR/>70. JESÚS INSUA 71. ENRIQUE IZQUIERDO 72. OSMÍN JORRÍN 73. SILVINO JUNCO 74. ENRIQUE LA ROSA <BR/><BR/>75. IGNACIO LASAPARLA 76. JESÚS LAZO 77. ARIEL LIMA LAGO 78. RAÚL LÓPEZ VIDAL 79. ARMANDO MAS <BR/><BR/>80. ENERLIO MATA 81. ELPIDIO MEDEROS 82. JOSÉ MEDINAS 83. JOSÉ MESA 84. FIDEL MESQUÍA <BR/><BR/>85. JUAN MILIÁN 86. FRANCISCO MIRABAL 87. LUIS MIRABAL 88. ERNESTO MORALES 89. PEDRO MOREJÓN <BR/><BR/>90. DR. CARLOS MUIÑO, MD. 91. CÉSAR NECOLARDES ROJAS 92. VICTOR NECOLARDES ROJAS 93. JOSÉ NUÑEZ <BR/><BR/>94. VITERBO O'RREILLY 95. FÉLIX OVIEDO 96. MANUEL PANEQUE 97. PEDRO PEDROSO 98. RAFAEL PEDROSO <BR/><BR/>99. DIEGO PÉREZ CUESTA 100. JUAN PÉREZ 101. DIEGO PÉREZ CRELA 102. JOSÉ POZO 103. EMILIO PUEBLA <BR/><BR/>104. ALFREDO PUPO 105. SECUNDINO RAMÍREZ 106. RAMÓN RAMOS 107. PABLO RAVELO 108. RUBÉN REY <BR/><BR/>109. MARIO RISQUELME 110. FERNANDO RIVERA 111. PABLO RIVERA 112. MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ<BR/><BR/>113. MARCOS RODRÍGUEZ 114. NEMESIO RODRÍGUEZ 115. PABLO RODRÍGUEZ 116. RICARDO RODRÍGUEZ<BR/><BR/>117. JOSÉ SALDARA 118. PEDRO SANTANA 119. SERGIO SIERRA 120. JUAN SILVA 121. FAUSTO SILVA <BR/><BR/>122. ELPIDIO SOLER 123. JESÚS SOSA BLANCO 124. RENATO SOSA 125. SERGIO SOSA 126. PEDRO SOTO <BR/><BR/>127. OSCAR SUÁREZ 128. RAFAEL TARRAGO 129. TEODORO TELLEZ CISNEROS 130. FRANCISCO TELLEZ <BR/><BR/>131. JOSÉ TIN 132. FRANCISCO TRAVIESO 133. LEONARDO TRUJILLO 134. TRUJILLO 135. LUPE VALDÉS BARBOSA <BR/><BR/>136. MARCELINO VALDÉS 137. ANTONIO VALENTÍN 138. MANUEL VÁZQUEZ 139. SERGIO VÁZQUEZ 140. VERDECIA <BR/><BR/>141. DÁMASO ZAYAS "My Name is Still Nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04850691431078980626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-3207439014030019562008-11-28T14:04:00.000-05:002008-11-28T14:04:00.000-05:00Here is another article on Che Guevara, the mass-m...Here is another article on Che Guevara, the mass-murderer. I have no sympathy for a man who ordered the death of thousands, violated human rights left and right. and cared not whether they got a fair trial. All this was done to fight against people driving Mercedes? Pretty shallow. Sounds like justice was served.<BR/><BR/>from: http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/23/171252.shtml<BR/>Che Guevara: Assassin and Bumbler – by Humberto Fontova<BR/><BR/> Humberto Fontova<BR/> Monday, Feb. 23, 2004 <BR/><BR/>"SENTENCE first – VERDICT afterwards," said the Queen.<BR/><BR/>"Nonsense!" said Alice loudly.<BR/><BR/>"Off with her head!" the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.<BR/><BR/>– Alice In Wonderland<BR/><BR/>They say Lewis Carroll was a serious dope fiend, his mind totally scrambled on opium, when he concocted "Alice in Wonderland." A place where the sentence comes first and the verdict afterward, where people who protest the madness are sentenced to death themselves – what lunacy!<BR/><BR/>If only Carroll had lived a bit longer. If only he'd visited Cuba in 1959 when every paper from the New York Times to the London Observer – when every pundit from Walter Lippman to Ed Murrow, every author from Jean Paul Sartre to Norman Mailer, every TV host from Jack Paar to Ed Sullivan were touting the judicial outrages, mass larceny and firing-squad orgies instituted by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara as the most glorious events since VJ day.<BR/><BR/>"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary," Carroll would have heard from the chief executioner, named Ernesto "Che" Guevara. "These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredon (The Wall)!"<BR/><BR/>To be fair, Ed Sullivan later recanted. He saw through the murderous farce and was not above a public act of contrition. Indeed, two years later he featured several recently liberated Bay of Pigs freedom fighters – some hobbling on crutches, others missing limbs – on his show for a fund raising where he declared them heroes and led the thunderous applause himself. I sure miss Ed Sullivan.<BR/><BR/>This from last week's AP:<BR/><BR/>"At The Sundance Film Festival Robert Redford's film on Che Guevara "The Motorcycle Diaries" received a standing ovation." They say this was the only film so raptly received.<BR/><BR/>For the first year of Castro's glorious revolution Che Guevara was his main executioner – a combination Beria and Himmler, with a major exception: Che's slaughter of (bound and gagged) Cubans (Che was himself an Argentine) exceeded Heinrich Himmler's prewar slaughter of Germans – to scale, that is.<BR/><BR/>Nazi Germany became the modern standard for political evil even before World War II. Yet in 1938, according to both William Shirer and John Toland, the Nazi regime held no more than 20,000 political prisoners. Political executions up to the time might have reached a couple thousand, and most of these were of renegade Nazis themselves during the indiscriminate butchery known as the "Night of the Long Knives." The famous Kristallnacht that horrified civilized opinion worldwide caused a grand total of 71 deaths. This in a nation of 70 million.<BR/><BR/>Cuba was a nation of 6.5 million in 1959. Within three months in power, Castro and Che had shamed the Nazi prewar incarceration and murder rate. One defector claims that Che signed 500 death warrants, another says over 600. Cuban journalist Luis Ortega, who knew Che as early as 1954, writes in his book "Yo Soy El Che!" that Guevara sent 1,897 men to the firing squad. In his book "Che Guevara: A Biography," Daniel James writes that Che himself admitted to ordering "several thousand" executions during the first few years of the Castro regime.<BR/><BR/>So the scope of the mass murder is unclear. So the exact number of widows and orphans is in dispute. So the number of gagged and blindfolded men who Che sent – without trials – to be bound to a stake and blown apart by bullets runs from the hundreds to the thousands.<BR/><BR/>But the mass executioner gets a standing ovation by the same people in the U.S who oppose capitol punishment! Is there a psychiatrist in the house?!<BR/><BR/>The first three months of the Cuban Revolution saw 568 firing squad executions. Even the New York Times admits it. The preceding "trials" shocked and nauseated all who witnessed them. They were shameless farces, sickening charades. Ask Barry Farber. He was there.<BR/><BR/>But vengeance – much less justice – had nothing to do with this bloodbath. Che's murderous method in La Cabana fortress in 1959 was exactly Stalin's murderous method in the Katyn Forest in 1940. Like Stalin's massacre of the Polish officer corps in the Katyn forest, like Stalin's Great Terror against his own officer corps a few years earlier, Che's firing squad marathons were a perfectly rational and cold-blooded exercise that served their purpose ideally. His bloodbath decapitated – literally and figuratively the first ranks of Cuba's Contras.<BR/><BR/>Five years earlier, while a communist hobo in Guatemala, Che had seen the Guatemalan officer corps rise against the Red regime of Jacobo Arbenz and send him hightailing to Czechoslovakia.<BR/><BR/>Che didn't want a repeat in Cuba. Equally important, his massacre cowed and terrorized. These were all public trials. And the executions, right down to the final shattering of the skull with the coup de grace from a massive .45 slug fired at five paces, were public too. Guevara made it a policy for his men to parade the families and friends of the executed before the blood-, bone- and brain-spattered paredon (The Wall, and Pink Floyd had nothing to do with this one).<BR/><BR/>The Red Terror had come to Cuba. "We will make our hearts cruel, hard, and immovable ... we will not quiver at the sight of a sea of enemy blood. Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of thousands; let them drown themselves in their own blood! Let there be floods of the blood of the bourgeois – more blood, as much as possible."<BR/><BR/>This from Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Soviet Cheka in 1918:<BR/><BR/>"Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!"<BR/><BR/>This from Che Guevara's "Motorcycle Diaries," the very diaries just made into a heartwarming film by Robert Redford – again, the only film to get that whoopin' hollerin' standing ovation at last month's Sundance Film Festival. Seems that Redford omitted this inconvenient portion of Che's diaries form his touching film.<BR/><BR/>The "acrid odor of gunpowder and blood" never reached Guevara's nostril from actual combat. It always came from the close-range murder of bound, gagged and blindfolded men. He was a true Chekist: "Always interrogate your prisoners at night," Che commanded his prosecutorial goons. "A man is easier to cow at night, his mental resistance is always lower."<BR/><BR/>Che specialized in psychological torture. Many prisoners were yanked out of their cells, bound, blindfolded and stood against The Wall. The seconds ticked off. The condemned could hear the rifle bolts snapping ..... finally – FUEGO!!<BR/><BR/>BLAM!! But the shots were blanks. In his book, "Tocayo," Cuban freedom fighter Tony Navarro describes how he watched a man returned to his cell after such an ordeal. He'd left bravely, grim-faced as he shook hands with his fellow condemned. He came back mentally shattered, curling up in a corner of the squalid cell for days.<BR/><BR/>A real cutup, this Che Guevara. And now the same crowd moaning and wailing about the judicial rights of Guantanamo prisoners give this sadist a standing ovation and adorn themselves with his T-shirt! Again, is there a psychiatrist in the house?!<BR/><BR/>Che made "Alice in Wonderland's" Red Queen look like Oliver Wendell Holmes. His models were Lenin, Dzerzhinsky and Stalin. The Cheka came to Cuba with Guevara.<BR/><BR/>But in actual combat, his imbecilities defy belief. Compared to Che "The Lionhearted" Guevara, Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup" comes across like Hannibal.<BR/><BR/>His performance during the Bay of Pigs invasion says it all. The invasion plan included a CIA squad dispatching three rowboats off the coast of western Cuba (350 miles from the true invasion site) loaded with time-release Roman candles, bottle rockets, mirrors and a tape recording of battle.<BR/><BR/>The wily Che immediately deciphered the imperialist scheme! That little feint 300 miles away at the Bay of Pigs was a transparent ruse! The REAL invasion was coming here in Pinar Del Rio! Che stormed over with several thousand troops, dug in, locked, loaded and waited for the "Yankee/mercenary" attack. They braced themselves as the sparklers, smoke bombs and mirrors did their stuff just offshore.<BR/><BR/>Three days later the (literal) smoke and mirror show expended itself and Che's men marched back to Havana. Not surprisingly, the masterful Comandante had managed to wound himself in this heated battle against a tape recorder. The bullet pierced Che's chin and excited above his temple, just missing his brain. The scar is visible in all post-April '61 pictures of the gallant Che (the picture we see on posters and T-shirts was shot a year earlier.)<BR/><BR/>Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante, a Fidelista at the time, speculates the wound may have come from a botched suicide attempt.<BR/><BR/>"No way!" say Che hagiographers John Lee Anderson, Carlos Castaneda and Paco Taibo. They insist it was an accident, Che's own pistol going off just under his face.<BR/><BR/>Fine, Che groupies. Maybe you're right. Maybe we're being unduly harsh on the man. Maybe the humiliation of being tricked into missing the major battle against imperialist mercenaries by an amplified tape recording and a few Roman candles wasn't enough to prompt suicide.<BR/><BR/>Instead, the sight of the bottle rocket's red glare and the sound of tape-recorded bombs bursting in air roused Che to a Pattonesque fury. He drew his pistol and prepared to lead the charge against the Yankee juggernaut. "Arriba muchachos!" he bellowed as his men sprung from their trenches with bayonets gleaming and charged a tape recorder. With the amplified soundtrack from "The Sands of Iwo Jima" blaring in the background Che stood atop a the tank turret and turned to his men. "Let's wipe 'em out!" he yelled while waving his pistol overhead in the manner of Clevon Little in "Blazing Saddles."<BR/><BR/>Then he managed to shoot himself through the chin. Fine.<BR/><BR/>I've called him cowardly. Yet in all fairness, we don't know. For the simple reason that the century's most celebrated guerrilla fighter never fought in a guerrilla war or anything even approximating one. The few puerile skirmishes again Batista's army in Cuba would have been shrugged off as a slow night by any Cripp or Blood. In Cuba Che couldn't fight anyone to fight against him. In the Congo he couldn't find any to fight with him. In Bolivia he finally started getting a tiny taste of both. In short order he was betrayed, brought to ground and routed.<BR/><BR/>Sadly, Guevara's legacy of terror and torture persists to this day and throughout the world. I refer to the professors who assign his writings.<BR/><BR/>I defy anyone to actually finish a Guevara book. I defy them to hack their way through the first five pages. Che's gibberish makes Babs Streisand sound like Cicero. He makes Hillary's ghostwriters read like Dave Barry. Beside him Al Gore and Hillary Rodham shine as the wackiest of cutups.<BR/><BR/>Food, drink, good cheer, bonhomie, roistering, fellowship – Guevara recoiled from these like Dracula from a cross. He went through life with a perpetual scowl, like Bella Abzug ... almost like Eleanor Clift.<BR/><BR/>As a professional duty I tortured myself with Che Guevara's writings. I finished glassy-eyed, dazed, almost catatonic. Nothing written by a first-year philosophy major (or a Total Quality Management guru) could be more banal, jargon-ridden, depressing or idiotic. A specimen:<BR/><BR/>"The past makes itself felt not only in the individual consciousness – in which the residue of an education systematically oriented toward isolating the individual still weighs heavily – but also through the very character of this transition period in which commodity relations still persist, although this is still a subjective aspiration, not yet systematized."<BR/><BR/>Slap yourself and let's continue:<BR/><BR/>"To the extent that we achieve concrete successes on a theoretical plane – or, vice versa, to the extent that we draw theoretical conclusions of a broad character on the basis of our concrete research –we will have made a valuable contribution to Marxism-Leninism, and to the cause of humanity."<BR/><BR/>Splash some cold water on your face and stick with me for just a little more:<BR/><BR/>"It is still necessary to deepen his conscious participation, individual and collective, in all the mechanisms of management and production, and to link this to the idea of the need for technical and ideological education, so that we see how closely interdependent these processes are and how their advancement is parallel. In this way he will reach total consciousness of his social being, which is equivalent to his full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken."<BR/><BR/>Dude, this dork's image sells beer huggers and vodka! Again, is there a psychiatrist in the house?!<BR/><BR/>Throughout his diaries Che whines about deserters from his "guerilla" ranks (bored adolescents, petty crooks and winos playing army on the weekend). Can you BLAME them? Imagine sharing a campfire with some yo-yo droning on and on about "subjective aspirations not yet systematized" and "closely interdependent processes and total consciousness of social being" – and who also reeked like a polecat(foremost among the bourgeois debauchments disdained by Che were baths).<BR/><BR/>These hapless "deserters" were hunted down like animals, trussed up and brought back to a dispassionate Che, who put a pistol to their heads and blew their skulls apart without a second thought.<BR/><BR/>After days spent listening to Che and smelling him, perhaps this meant relief.<BR/><BR/>Nurse Ratched, Doug Neidermeyer, Col. Klink, Maj. Frank Burns – next to Guevara they're all the heartiest of partiers. Here's the guy who helped turn the hemisphere's party capital into a vast forced labor and prison camp – into the place with the highest (youth) emigration and suicide rate in the hemisphere, probably in the world. In 1961 Che even established a special concentration camp at Guanacahibes in extreme Western Cuba for "delinquents." This "delinquency" involved drinking, vagrancy, disrespect for authorities, laziness and playing loud music.<BR/><BR/>And Che's image adorns Grunge bands, jet-set models and spring break revelers! Again, is there a psychiatrist in the house?!<BR/><BR/>Who can blame Fidel for ducking into the nearest closet when this yo-yo came calling? Call Fidel everything in the book (as I have) but don't call him stupid. Guevara's inane twaddle must have driven him nuts. The one place where I can't fault Fidel, the one place I actually empathize with him, is in his craving to rid himself of this insufferable Argentine jackass.<BR/><BR/>That the Bolivian mission was clearly suicidal was obvious to anyone with half a brain. Fidel and Raul weren't about to join him down there –you can bet your sweet bippy on that.<BR/><BR/>But sure enough! Guevara saluted and was on his way post haste. Two months later he was dead. Bingo! Fidel scored another bulls-eye. He rid himself of the Argentine nuisance and his glorious revolution had a young handsome martyr for the adulation of imbeciles worldwide. Nice work.<BR/><BR/>Che Guevara was monumentally vain and epically stupid. He was shallow, boorish, cruel and cowardly. He was full of himself, a consummate fraud and an intellectual vacuum. He was intoxicated with a few vapid slogans, spoke in clichés and was a glutton for publicity.<BR/><BR/>But ah! He DID come out nice in a couple of publicity photos, high cheekbones and all! And we wonder why he's a hit in Hollywood.<BR/><BR/>********************<BR/><BR/>Humberto Fontova holds an M.A. in history from Tulane University. He's the author of "Helldiver's Rodeo," described as "Highly entertaining!" by Publisher's Weekly, "A must-read!" by Booklist, and "Just what the doctor ordered!" by Ted Nugent.My Name is Still Nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04850691431078980626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-66154197541142660452008-11-28T13:59:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:59:00.000-05:00I am not 'anti Halcyon', but I do want to know the...I am not 'anti Halcyon', but I do want to know the truth. If they are truly innocent, I wish for nothing more than justice to be served. If that's 'anti-Halcyon', so be it. If justice proves the GL of Ohio in the wrong, then I still want justice to be served.<BR/><BR/>I don't consider it 'anti-Masonry' when W.S. posts about the failings of some of the members of other lodges, why should inquiry into Halcyon be treated differently? Just seems like a double standard, that's all.My Name is Still Nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04850691431078980626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-39178598623660028482008-11-28T13:45:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:45:00.000-05:00is that enough non topic posts like Nobody is sooo...is that enough non topic posts like Nobody is sooooo intnet on doing?<BR/><BR/><BR/>start your own anti Halcyon blog and quit your agenda driven myopic pursuit!Tubal Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704479584240584425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-90519426087266808932008-11-28T13:43:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:43:00.000-05:00Capture and execution The day after his execution ...Capture and execution<BR/> <BR/>The day after his execution on October 10, 1967, Guevara's corpse was displayed to the World press in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital. (photo by Freddy Alberto)<BR/> Face Side angle Shoes<BR/><BR/>Félix Rodríguez, a CIA operative, said that he headed the hunt for Guevara in Bolivia.[96] On October 7, an informant apprised the Bolivian Special Forces of the location of Guevara's guerrilla encampment in the Yuro ravine. They encircled the area, and Guevara was wounded and taken prisoner while leading a detachment with Simeón Cuba Sarabia. Che biographer Jon Lee Anderson reports Bolivian Sergeant Bernardino Huanca's account: that a twice wounded Guevara, his gun rendered useless, shouted "Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead."[97]<BR/><BR/>Guevara was tied up and taken to a dilapidated mud schoolhouse in the nearby village of La Higuera on the night of October 7. For the next day and a half Guevara refused to be interrogated by Bolivian officers and would only speak quietly to Bolivian soldiers. One of those Bolivian soldiers, helicopter pilot Jaime Nino de Guzman, describes Che as looking "dreadful". According to De Guzman, Guevara was shot through the right calf, his hair was matted with dirt, his clothes were shredded, and his feet were covered in rough leather sheaths. Despite this however, he recounts that "Che held his head high, looked everyone straight in the eyes and asked only for something to smoke." As a result, De Guzman states that he "took pity" and gave him my small bag of tobacco for his pipe, with Guevara then smiling and thanking him.[98] Later on the night of October 8, Guevara despite having his hands tied, kicked Bolivian Officer Espinosa into the wall, after the officer entered the schoolhouse in order to snatch Guevara's pipe from his mouth as a souvenir.[99] In another instance of defiance, Guevara spat in the face of Bolivian Rear Admiral Urgateche shortly before his execution.[100]<BR/><BR/>The following morning on October 9, Guevara asked to see the "maestra" (school teacher) of the village, who ended up being 22-year-old Julia Cortez. Cortez would later state that she found Guevara to be an "agreeable looking man with a soft and ironic glance" and that during their conversation she found herself "unable to look him in the eye", because his "gaze was unbearable, piercing, and so tranquil."[101] During their short conversation, Guevara complained to Cortez about the poor condition of the schoolhouse, stating that it was "anti-pedagogical" to expect campesino students to be educated there, while "government officials drive Mercedes cars" ... declaring "that's what we are fighting against."[102]<BR/><BR/>Later that morning on October 9, Bolivian President René Barrientos ordered that Guevara be killed. The executioner was Mario Terán, a sergeant in the Bolivian army who had drawn a short straw after arguments over who would get to shoot Guevara broke out among the soldiers. To make the bullet wounds appear consistent with the story the government planned to release to the public, Félix Rodríguez ordered Terán to aim carefully to make it appear that Guevara had been killed in action during a clash with the Bolivian army.[103]<BR/><BR/>Moments before Guevara was executed he was asked if he was thinking about his own immortality. "No," he replied, "I'm thinking about the immortality of the revolution."[104] Che Guevara also allegedly said to his executioner, "I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."[105] Terán hesitated, then pulled the trigger of his semiautomatic rifle, hitting Guevara in the arms and legs. Guevara writhed on the ground, apparently biting one of his wrists to avoid crying out. Terán shot him again, this time hitting him fatally in the chest – at 1:10 pm, according to Rodríguez.[106] In all Guevara was shot nine times. This included five times in the legs, once in the right shoulder and arm, once in the chest, and lastly in the throat.[107]Tubal Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704479584240584425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-12523291287755480442008-11-28T13:39:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:39:00.000-05:00“ This epic before us is going to be written by th...“ This epic before us is going to be written by the hungry Indian masses, the peasants without land, the exploited workers. It is going to be written by the progressive masses, the honest and brilliant intellectuals, who so greatly abound in our suffering Latin American lands. Struggles of masses and ideas. An epic that will be carried forward by our peoples, mistreated and scorned by imperialism; our people, unreckoned with until today, who are now beginning to shake off their slumber. Imperialism considered us a weak and submissive flock; and now it begins to be terrified of that flock; a gigantic flock of 200 million Latin Americans in whom Yankee monopoly capitalism now sees its gravediggers. ”<BR/> — Che Guevara, to the U.N. General Assembly, December 11, 1964Tubal Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704479584240584425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-84828272818171153242008-11-28T13:34:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:34:00.000-05:00Riding a mule in Las Villas province, Cuba, Novemb...Riding a mule in Las Villas province, Cuba, November 1958“ Che convinced Castro with competence, diplomacy and patience. When grenades were needed, Che set up a factory to make them. When bread was wanted, Che set up ovens to bake it. When new recruits needed to learn tactics and discipline, Che taught them. When a school was needed to teach peasants to read and write, Che organized it. ”<BR/> — Time Magazine: "Castro's Brain", 1960Tubal Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704479584240584425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-62565604155748513262008-11-28T13:33:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:33:00.000-05:00After graduation, due to special circumstances and...After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it. Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger and disease; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money; with the stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment, to the point that a father can accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident, as occurs often in the downtrodden classes of our American homeland. And I began to realize at that time that there were things that were almost as important to me as becoming famous for making a significant contribution to medical science: I wanted to help those people. ”<BR/> — Che Guevara, 1960Tubal Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704479584240584425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-38842800921134178482008-11-28T13:27:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:27:00.000-05:00"Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatre..."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. This is what our soldiers must become … " Che Guevara<BR/><BR/><BR/>who were CHE's enemies?Tubal Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704479584240584425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-33628916995061197962008-11-28T13:26:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:26:00.000-05:00yawnstart a blog "anti che", then, why use WS as y...yawn<BR/><BR/><BR/>start a blog "anti che", then, why use WS as your platform?<BR/><BR/>start an anti gousa then too<BR/><BR/>then an anti halcyon....<BR/>start your own up, maybe you will get some convo, but trying to wedge it in on every topic of WS's blog will only turn more off to you and your agenda?<BR/><BR/>thanks for caring about halcyon and che's victims!Tubal Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704479584240584425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-68765051686355254212008-11-28T13:22:00.000-05:002008-11-28T13:22:00.000-05:00skip, as the broken goes, skip, skip,skip,skip,ski...skip, as the broken goes, skip, skip,<BR/>skip,<BR/>skip,<BR/>skip, as the broken goes, skip, skip,<BR/>skip,<BR/>skip<BR/>skip, as the broken goes, skip, skip,<BR/>skip,<BR/>skip<BR/>skip, as the broken goes, skip, skip,<BR/>skip,<BR/>skip<BR/><BR/>just blog it yourself, why TRY and force someone else?Tubal Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704479584240584425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-68358370726690787072008-11-28T11:47:00.000-05:002008-11-28T11:47:00.000-05:00Hey 2 Bowl, did these people murdered by your hero...Hey 2 Bowl, did these people murdered by your hero Che have 'ears to hear'? <BR/><BR/>"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. This is what our soldiers must become … " Che Guevara<BR/><BR/>"All took place without affording the victims fair trials and due process of law"<BR/> <BR/>So, you proudly use the image of someone who does not care about fairness at all. There were for a long time 'no ears for listening' to Che's victims.My Name is Still Nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04850691431078980626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-23477155438090012952008-11-28T11:18:00.000-05:002008-11-28T11:18:00.000-05:00It's surprising the same amount of 'light shedding...It's surprising the same amount of 'light shedding' has not yet occurred here with the Halcyon matter. Someone else has posted the charges: <BR/><BR/>http://abelscenotaph.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>Why have a MASONIC COVERUP run by the Grand Orient of the U.S. in their infancy? "everybody just loves to bury their collective heads in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong!"My Name is Still Nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04850691431078980626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-7280821654598635402008-11-27T05:47:00.000-05:002008-11-27T05:47:00.000-05:00get used to it nosexonthe alter.it really is every...get used to it nosexonthe alter.<BR/><BR/>it really is everywhere once the Light sreads into the dark recessess of American Freemasonry.<BR/>Spreading like a diseaseAdolphe Isaac Cremieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07213463358458824755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-65292615255375354422008-11-26T19:01:00.000-05:002008-11-26T19:01:00.000-05:00A similar attack upon certain members is underway ...A similar attack upon certain members is underway at Hillsborough Lodge No. 25 in Tampa, FL; spearheaded by a quad of like and small minded individuals who apparently pay annual dues for the purpose of openly hating people on Tuesday and Thursday evenings while spending the remainder of the week plotting their next acts of maltreatment.NotNiceMommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11086283075766863374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-1167691000728703582007-01-01T17:36:00.000-05:002007-01-01T17:36:00.000-05:00Audi Vidi TaceAudi Vidi TaceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-1151868985284378202006-07-02T15:36:00.000-04:002006-07-02T15:36:00.000-04:00I don't live in your Jurisdiction, and thankfully ...I don't live in your Jurisdiction, and thankfully I cannot complain that my own Grand Lodge acts like the one that permitted this to happen to you. But for me, what's demoralizing is that you and masons like you, who have been similarly victimized by their Grand Lodges, are being dismissed as a handful of disgruntled brothers making much ado about nothing. "Move along, move along, nothing to see here, nothing at all..." So much for Masonic integrity and standing up for what's right.<BR/><BR/>In the end, I think you need to reconcile yourself to the fact that the Grand Lodge that permitted this to happen to you is plainly unmasonic and apparently has been for some time. Good luck to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-1151863213086007402006-07-02T14:00:00.000-04:002006-07-02T14:00:00.000-04:00Its such a sad day when you stand fir what is righ...Its such a sad day when you stand fir what is right you are shoved to the ground.New Masonryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05827809863355293906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-1151585856280522982006-06-29T08:57:00.000-04:002006-06-29T08:57:00.000-04:00God Bless brother to have the balls to perservere....God Bless brother to have the balls to perservere. Young masons in my neck of the woods had problems from "power" masons. Slander,expulsion and charter pulling was a norm for over a year. It sucks if there are no ears for listening.<BR/>everybody just loves to bury their collective heads in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong!Tubal Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704479584240584425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15872122.post-1151556484776018982006-06-29T00:48:00.000-04:002006-06-29T00:48:00.000-04:00Absolutely brilliant.You should get a megaphone. s...Absolutely brilliant.<BR/><BR/>You should get a megaphone. stand outside the next meeting, give your speech, video it for youtube.com and post.<BR/><BR/>Kthxs!Grouchogandhihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06313525695162718988noreply@blogger.com