COMMENT | Many years ago, I was wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt at a rally near Parliament when a special branch officer approached me. He asked me whose portrait it was as he had seen it many times. I told him he was an actor.

The police officer said, “No wonder lah so familiar”, because he had seen him in football matches and the theatres. Yes, Guevara's (real name Ernesto Guevara) poster was portrayed at the Coliseum Theatre for the movie “The Motorcycle Diaries”.

Guevara has been a symbol of liberation and resistance. He was killed in Bolivia under the CIA’s instruction.

After hearing the news of the restaurant manager being arrested for using food and beverage utensils featuring images of the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Tse Tung, I was...