An anniversary that doesn't need to be commemorated

October 9 is the 40-year anniversary of the death of Che Guevara. Ian Robinson, a conservative Canadian writer wonders why so many on the left and so many youths still celebrate this man.

After the revolution toppling the Batista regime, Castro put his buddy the doctor in charge of a prison to deal with the new enemies of the state. Cheerfully violating his Hippocratic oath -- he was a licensed physician -- Che said: "To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary ... 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 Wall!"

The best scholarship available shows he approved or participated in the illegal executions of at least 200 people -- including a 14-year-old boy.

Think of that if you see some people wearing the T Shirt this week.

(Sorry, I just corrected my math error on which anniversary this would be.)