Posted on 02/17/2017 11:30:48 AM PST by PBRCat
A man whose father was killed at a New York City restaurant bombing for which the militant Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN claimed responsibility lashed out at Chicago aldermen Thursday for approving an honorary street designation for FALN leader Oscar Lopez Rivera.
At the behest of local Ald. Roberto Maldonado (26th), the City Council’s Transportation Committee voted without a word of debate to designate a three-block stretch of North Luis Munoz Marin Drive as Oscar Lopez Rivera Way.
Joseph Connor was just 9 years old when his 33-year-old banker father Frank was killed in the 1975 explosion at Fraunces Tavern in the Wall Street area of Manhattan. The FALN claimed responsibility.
Lopez Rivera was not convicted in connection with the bombing. But he spent 35 years of his life in federal prisons for his role as a leader of the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for dozens of bombings across the U.S during the 1970s, including here in Chicago.
“His group murdered my father. . . . He is a sworn terrorist. . . . He was convicted of bombings in Chicago that did injure people. He tried to escape from prison with machine guns and plastic explosives where he was gonna kill the guards. . . . And Chicago is gonna put up a sign in his honor?” Connor said Thursday.
“This is worse than a disgrace. It is sinister. It’s a direct insult to my father’s life. The commutation was politically driven. But to honor in the second-largest city in the United States the leader of the terrorist group that murdered my father? It is so over the top, shameful and disgusting and vile, reprehensible.”
Connor said the designation is particularly galling during a week when three innocent children were gunned down in Chicago.
“The idea that people will walk by and see this street sign and think that Oscar Lopez was some sort of great person — it’s diabolical. The world is upside down here. What’s next for Chicago, bin Laden Boulevard? Charles Manson Court?” he said.
Riddle me this if America is so oppressive why do the Puerto Rican nationalists always on the losing end of referendums and plebiscites to grant Puerto Rico a separate identity as a an independent nation state? Is it about taking American tax dollars and subsidies?
I’ll say it again. From Che Guevara to Mumia to these a**holes, all of their heroes are murderers.
Today’s Democrat. What else need be said?
There are no good Democrats...none
The only good Democrats are dead, but we can’t win, ‘cause they still vote.
But there are the first to call for the police when they feel threatened. Cowards!
WTF? What’s next, Adolf Eichmann lane?
The POS terrorist had been offered clemency by Bill Clinton on condition of renouncing terrorism but the POS REFUSED to renounce terrorism.
Now Obozo went and granted the clemency even though the guy is still an avowed political terrorist. Never should have happened.
Honoring him is absolutely outrageous and ridiculous, but typical of life of the left-wing Democrat plantation.
But they took down the honorary Donald Trump street designation.
The Chicago city government —top to bottom — is full of nothing but sh*theads.
Right you are!!
The word needs to be spread far and wide throughout the USA to help stop this insanity.
These areas with streets named after misfits and criminals are often bereft of any Americans anyway (at least taxpaying ones); that is why all kinds of crimes (including murders) are simply ignored. These areas are irrelevant to “people that matter” - and the people that don’t matter are finally realizing it. That is why they have to leave the ‘hood to bring their protests to other areas.
Instead either the referendums are not binding or they include some sort of third choice like staying as they are now.
And with only a 2plus majority in the Senate, now is not the time to bring in a population that has been brain washed into drinking the demonrat koolaide to such an extent that they are bankrupt as we speak.
But if anyone can turn this around, it is DJT. VIVA TRUMP
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