It’s one thing for gullible college students (but I repeat myself) to go around wearing Che Guevara T-shirts; it’s quite another for a luxury auto maker to hitch its brand to the odious little psychopath.
Hey Mercedes: You sure you want to be associated with the guy who said that “to send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary”—and then followed that up by murdering hundreds of innocent people? You sure you want to cross-brand with the guy who partnered with the KGB and the East German Stasi to create the Cuban secret police? You sure you want to honor a man who jailed poets, musicians, and artists (when he wasn’t shooting them), and whose legacy has made librarians enemies of the state?
You’d think that a company who received arms contracts and tax breaks from the Nazis in exchange for its support would be a little more careful in 2012.
