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EPA: Staff-wide Che Guevara email an ‘inadvertent error’
Daily Caller ^ | September 14, 2012 | Caroline May

Posted on 09/14/2012 1:05:35 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Environmental Protection Agency staff opened their inboxes Thursday to find an agency-wide Hispanic Heritage Month email featuring a prominent picture of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, and largely plagiarized from the website Buzzle.com.

According to the EPA, the email — which heralded the beginning Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday and offered cultural details about Hispanics — was an accident and the employee responsible has apologized.

“The email was drafted and sent by an individual employee, and without official clearance. Shortly after sending the email in question the individual apologized to her colleagues for the inadvertent error,” an EPA spokesman emailed TheDC in a statement.

While it was a mistake, the email caught the eye and ire of Foreign Relations Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who called the image of Guevara “insulting.”

“I am aghast and upset that a federal agency would send an email depicting el Che Guevara in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. This Administration just doesn’t seem to get it,” Ros-Lehtinen said in a statement.

“The image of Che is an insult to countless people who lost family members because of his evil and twisted acts. El Che was a blood thirsty, vengeful, cowardly, sadistic, two bit delinquent who used his position as enforcer in chief of the Castro brothers to send countless innocent persons before the firing squads.”

Fox News Latino reported that some Florida state representatives were also upset, saying they were “insulted” and “outraged” by the memo.

“Che was a cold-blooded murderer who killed so many innocent victims,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida Republican and a Cuban-American, said in an email to Fox Latino. “This Administration has granted visas to Mariela Castro and other top Cuban regime officials, offered the Castro brothers unilateral concessions, and now sends an E-mail with a image of an anti-American mass murderer.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: che; communism; epaemail; murderer
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

When the bureaucracy is part of a political party and a campaign it is called a one-party state tyranny.


41 posted on 09/14/2012 1:59:34 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: auntyfemenist

Yea, I’ve slipped up with my Pol Pot poster a number of times.

Hate when that happens.


42 posted on 09/14/2012 2:30:00 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a Hate Crime. I just Hope they don't like it.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This was not a mistake; it was a statement and war banner. The EPA is a nest of neo-Nazis and communists whose sole purpose is to destroy property rights. They have left a 40-year long trail of sedition, treason and destroyed lives. The Nazi EPA is a gift from Congress to crush you. Can we finally make the logical connection that the Congress is a criminal fascist organization, and it is not your friend?

Vote conservatives and patriots into your state legislatures, local villages and counties this election. We are about to enter step three of the next civil war.

The four steps to a civil war:

1. Choose sides.

2. Hurl insults.

3. Armed skirmishes.

4. The shooting starts.


43 posted on 09/14/2012 3:06:05 PM PDT by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: PhilDragoo

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All caused by a You-Tube video!

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44 posted on 09/14/2012 4:10:12 PM PDT by devolve (----- ------- ------------GO_AHEAD---MAKE_MY_SPAGHETTI-------- ----------------------------)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

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It appears that the Secy of Health & All That Other Crapola is guilty of illegally using her position to illegally campaign for Obama and democrats -

But it is all OK now says the Obama-Rigged White House - she was required to attend ethics training and she has promised to be a good little useful idiot now.

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45 posted on 09/14/2012 4:18:16 PM PDT by devolve (----- ------- ------------GO_AHEAD---MAKE_MY_SPAGHETTI-------- ----------------------------)
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To: little jeremiah; All; Spunky; ~Kim4VRWC's~; ~Peter; 1035rep; 2ndDivisionVet; 3D-JOY; ...

The problem with the USA in such cases is that no sane or half way educated person can imagine let alone believe such insanity, corruption, treachery and in fact TREASON by any person sitting in the Oval office. What’s even worse is the level of the naive IDIOTS who cast their vote for OBAMA. Including some of my friends, who have since openly shown abject regret.


46 posted on 09/14/2012 7:10:31 PM PDT by FARS
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To: FARS

Isn’t that called the “normalcy bias”. IOW - “It can’t happen again/here!” “They don’t mean what they say”. “Their plans are just hot air, will never work”. “We’re too civilized/evolved for that to happen again”. “No one could really mean that”.

etcetcetcetc.

After immersing myself in a number of books about Hitler’s camps in the early 1980s (well, mostly about the camps - titles like “Treblinka”, “Sobibor”, “Anus Mundi”, “Dora” and “Babi Yar”, I think some more), my huge black and white bolded realization was this:

IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. IT IS INEVITABLE.

Why?

Because people are no better; they are worse.


47 posted on 09/14/2012 7:33:54 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
as always, the only mistake was getting caught...

since there are never any consequences, why even bother to apologize???

48 posted on 09/14/2012 8:20:16 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


49 posted on 09/14/2012 8:34:20 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Slyfox

50 posted on 09/15/2012 6:26:07 AM PDT by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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To: FARS
Including some of my friends, who have since openly shown abject regret.

Ya, but there is still not enough "regret" according to Hussein's Daily Approval polls.

RAS - 13% Approval Index
Gallop 49% approve
RCP Average +2 points
Intrade Hussein at 65.1%, Mittens at 33.4%
51 posted on 09/15/2012 7:54:42 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: FARS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel; AdmSmith; ...

Thanks FARS: Pandering: BlacKKK: additional:
52 posted on 09/15/2012 9:55:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: PhilDragoo

Just had a flag removed from a schoolroom in my town this past week. It was a U.S. Flag with Obama’s face on it!!


53 posted on 09/15/2012 6:20:36 PM PDT by potlatch (~~And the truth IS what counts, RIGHT ? ~~)
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