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The Schwarz Report Dr. Fred Schwarz Volume 52, Number 4 Dr. David Noebel April 2012 Sean Penn—Socialist Revolutionist by Humberto Fontova Sean Penn was Hugo Chavez’s guest of honor (again) last week, serving as keynote speaker at graduation ceremonies for Venezuela’s Salvador Allende Medical School. “Allow me to impart a little anecdote,” beamed the two-time Oscar winner to the enchanted crowd. “I had the privilege to introduce my children to comandante Fidel Castro and as he posed for a photo between them I told him: ‘President, I’ll now be denounced in the US for educating my children as socialist revolutionaries.’” So Castro responded: “That’s among the best things that could happen to them.” Besides his fame as a baseball bat-swinging wifebeater, Sean Penn also claims fame as an advocate against the death penalty. His Oscar–winning role in “Dead Man Walking,” where he played a convicted rapist and murderer who perished by lethal-injection in Louisiana, seems to have made a deep impression upon Penn. Unlike Louisiana’s penal system, however, the role model for Penn’s kids used firing squads, forced labor, and prison beatings to murder his thousands of defenseless victims. And their “convictions” were curtly explained by Castro’s chief hangman, Che Guevara: “Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. We execute from revolutionary conviction,” he once said. Castro himself confirmed: “Legal proof is impossible to obtain against war criminals. So we sentence them based on moral conviction.” Among these “war criminals” were farm kids younger than Penn’s children. Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when a volley from Castro’s firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father crumpled beside Carlos from the same volley and tumbled into the same mass grave. All had resisted Castro and Che’s theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen. This “moral conviction” allowed the role model for Sean Penn’s children to jail more political prisoners as a percent- age of population than Stalin and murder more people (out of a population of 6.5 million) in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered (out of a population of 65 million) in his first six. Enlightened opinion, including most “liberal,” “human-rights” and “peace” groups worldwide, either yawned or actu- ally applauded the bloodbath. Harvard Law School merits special attention regarding the latter. By April 1959, almost a thousand Cubans had been “judged” (see above) and murdered by Castro and Che’s firing squads. Cuba’s prisons were packed to suffocation with ten times the number of political prisoners as during “the Tyrant” Batista’s reign. Among Castro and Che Guevara’s prisoners were hundreds of women, a Stalinist horror utterly unknown in our hemisphere until it was introduced by the “leader” swooned over by Barbara Walters, Andrea Mitchell, and Diane Sawyer. Furthermore, the death penalty was being applied retroactively (none had existed under the unspeakable Batista regime). Habeas Corpus had been abolished. Cuban defense lawyers attempting to defend the accused were being jailed themselves. That’s when Fidel Castro received a fawning invitation from Harvard Law School asking the honor of his addressing them. Seems that both the student body and faculty were smitten with the Cuban Revolution’s shining judicial record. Castro accepted on the spot, making Harvard the last gig on his 1959 US tour. “Castro Visit Triumphant!” headlined Harvard’s Law School Forum for April 30, 1959. “The audience got what it wanted: the chance of seeing the Cuban hero in person!” “Viva Fidel!” roared these fervent foes of capital punishment and double jeopardy upon first glimpsing their hero. THE SCHWARZ REPORT / APRIL 2012 Though the adoring crowd was too enormous to fit into any campus arena they remained chipper, “even if we Castro’s Executioneer and didn’t see Castro at as close a range as might have been Mercedes Benz desired,” an attendee was quoted as saying. by Humberto Fontova Interestingly, Fidel Castro had actually applied to Harvard Law School in 1948. This was brought to light The top act at the Consumer Electronics Show in by Harvard’s Arts and Sciences Dean, McGeorge Bundy, Las Vegas this week featured Mercedes Benz’ Chairman (later to serve as JFK’s national security advisor). “Caught Dieter Zetsche peddling his company’s new gadgetry up in the exuberance of the event,” continues the Harvard under a huge picture of Che Guevara, who sported the Law Forum, “Harvard Dean, McGeorge Bundy, declared Mercedes logo on his beret. “Viva la Revolucion!” beamed that Harvard was ready to make amends for its mistake in the cheeky Herr Zetsche while unveiling his brilliant ad 1948. ‘I’ve decided to admit him!’ declared Dean Bundy.” campaign. “Viva Fidel!” The Dean’s quip brought the house down In other words: to sell cars in the US, Mercedes Benz and shook the very roof. “Viva Fidel!” roared and cheered is relying on the mass appeal in the US of the mass- the cream of America’s law students (and their faculty). murdering Stalinist who craved to destroy the US. Alas, given the law of averages, an independent “The US is the great enemy of mankind!” raved Mer- thinker was bound to pop up—even among ten thousand cedes Benz’ new US sales icon. “Against those hyenas Harvard students and faculty. One such wiseacre brought there is no option but extermination! We will bring the up the questionable legal procedures preceding those war to the imperialist enemies’ (Americans) very home, to hundreds of executions in Cuba. his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy “If the defendant has a right to appeal,” answered (Americans) must feel like a hunted animal wherever he Castro, “then so do the people! And don’t forget, Cuba’s moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! We must keep our ha- is the only people’s revolution in Latin America!” tred (against the US) alive and fan it to paroxysm! If the Well, this assembly of America’s most nimble verbal nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have gladiators went absolutely wild over Castro’s brilliant fired them against the heart of the US including New York riposte. They erupted again, roaring and whooping at the City. The solutions to the world’s problems lie behind the mass-murderer’s incontestable rejoinder. This creme de Iron Curtain. The victory of socialism is well worth mil- la creme of America’s most cunning ratiocinators found lions of atomic victims!” the Stalinist’s logic not only perfectly airtight but posi- No doubt Mercedes-Benz chuckles at the ironic cheek- tively dazzling in its ingenuity and completely sound in iness of using a Communist “man of the people” to tout a its principle of justice. A delirious pandemonium swept luxury product. After all, Time magazine’s encomium to the hall as America’s most ingenious and best-tutored law Che Guevara in 1999 as “Hero and Icon of the Century” students (along with their tutors) went absolutely berserk asserted that: “Nothing could be more vicariously gratify- with veneration and joy at this point-blank elucidation of ing than Che Guevara’s disdain for material comfort and Castroite justice. everyday desires.” Similar receptions had come at the National Press Alas Time’s (and Mercedes’) “research” overlooked Club, Overseas Press Club, United Nations, and on Meet some important details. In fact, quite unwittingly, Mer- the Press. cedes-Benz has chosen an ideal sales emblem—and one Not one heckler from among America’s brightest and utterly devoid of irony. To wit: cheekiest college kids. Not one rebuttal from America’s Che’s mansion was among the most luxurious biggest assemblies of its top journalists. Not one snigger in Cuba,” wrote Cuban journalist Antonio or frown from the top cut of America’s adversarial press. Llano Montes in 1960. After a hard day at the Not one raised eyebrow from the nation’s most hard-boiled office signing firing-squad murder warrants investigative reporters. and blasting defenseless teenagers’ skull’s So let’s be fair: why pick on Sean Penn? apart with the coup-de-grace, Che Guevara —FrontPageMagazine, February 24, 2012 repaired to his new domicile just outside Havana on the pristine beachfront (today reserved exclusively for tourists and regime apparatchiks.) Until a few weeks prior, it had 2 THE SCHWARZ REPORT / APRIL 2012 belonged to Cuba’s most successful building house, which is the truth,” replied Llano Montes. contractor, who escaped Cuba just ahead of “We’re not going to allow all the press foolishness a Guevara firing squad. “The mansion had (freedom) that Batista allowed. I can have you executed a boat dock, a huge swimming pool, seven this very night. How about that!” bathrooms, a sauna, a massage salon, and sev- “You’ll need proof that I’ve broken some law” re- eral television sets,” continues Llano Montes. sponded Montes. “One TV had been specially designed in the “ ‘We don’t need proof. We manufacture the proof,’ US and had a screen ten feet wide and was Che said while stroking his long hair, a habit of his. One operated by remote control (remember, this of his prosecutors, a man nicknamed ‘Puddle-of-blood’ was 1959.) This was thought to be the only TV then walked in and started talking. ‘Don’t let the stupid of its kind in Latin America. The mansion’s jabbering of those defense lawyers delay the executions!’ garden had a veritable jungle of imported Che yelled at him.

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