Another UN scandal...

I like Nat Hentoff - always willing to tell the truth...

Then, recently, for only the second time in U.N. history, a movie, "Che" — glorifying the ruthless presiding executioner in Castro's Cabana prison from 1957 to 1959 — was permitted to be filmed in the U.N.'s General Assembly, with Annan's authorization.

While he was commander of that notorious Havana prison, Che Guevara ordered and often personally executed — according to the Free Society Project's Truth Recovery Archive — more than 200 Cubans. As the archival project's director, Maria Werlau, said to the Jan. 30 New York Sun, "Che stood for the opposite of what the U.N. charter upholds."

The glowing promises of the U.N. charter, however, have often been betrayed. Steadily increasing numbers of black Africans in Darfur, for example, have been murdered, gang raped and torn from their villages by the government of Sudan, while the veto power of China on the Security Council — where this celebration of Guevara was filmed — preclude any meaningful intervention by the United Nations.

Not only the United Nations honored the murderous Che Guevara. In the Dec. 25 New York Sun, William Meyers reported on the continuing exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York of "Che! Revolution and Commerce." The wall text speaks reverently of the "classical, even Christ-like demeanor" of this "young and charismatic idealist who gave up the security of his middle-class world for his convictions."

The one time I met Guevara, at the Cuban mission to the United Nations, he expressed one of his convictions. Guevara professed not to understand English. So, looking at him and his interpreter, I asked this idealist: "Can you conceive — however far into the future — a time when there will be free elections in Cuba?"

Not waiting for his interpreter, Guevara broke into laughter at my naively ignorant question. He made it clear that I had no understanding of a true people's revolution, firmly guided by Maximum Leader Castro.