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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich and an Illinois congressman are standing behind a man who got a high-ranking state job despite serving prison time for refusing to cooperate in a federal investigation of a militant group. U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Chicago Democrat, praised Steven Guerra on Friday for doing "excellent work" in private and public sectors pushing health and education issues. Blagojevich continues to support Guerra, who "unequivocally" condemns violence by the Armed Forces of National Liberation, identified by the acronym FALN, and denies he was ever a member, said spokeswoman Abby Ottenhoff. Guerra, 53, is Blagojevich's...

Gov's aide did time in '80s terror case SPRINGFIELD | Blagojevich stands by Guerra, who refused to testify before grand jury September 7, 2007 BY DAVE MCKINNEY Sun-Times Springfield Bureau Chief SPRINGFIELD -- A high-ranking official in Gov. Blagojevich's office spent nearly two years in a federal prison for refusing to aid a government terrorism probe into a series of bombings in Chicago and New York City. Steven Guerra, Blagojevich's $120,000-a-year deputy chief of staff for community services, was identified by federal prosecutors as a member of the Puerto Rican separatist group, FALN, which was behind a wave of violence...

LISTEN ONLINE TO KABC Joseph Connor, whose father was murdered by FALN terrorists, will be the guest of Al Rantel this morning during the 11am hour on the West Coast. In the hopes of squeezing out some more votes for his evil wife from Puerto Ricans in New York, Bill Clinton pardoned FALN terrorists and set them free. How dare either of the Clintons say one word about the communtation of the sentence of Scooter Libby. Their shamelessness, arrogance, and hubris knows no limits. And, of course, the press uttered very few words about it.

NOTE: I had Joe as a guest on my Rightalk Radio show a few years ago and am trying to get him on other shows. If you know of a host who wants him on, I have his contact info. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Joe has written a current op-ed for the NY POST and hopes they will publish it) BILL PARDONED TERROR FALN CLEMENCY ENCOURAGED KILLERS By JOSEPH F. CONNER Killed by the FALN: Frank T. Connor, the author's father. September 27, 2006 -- BILL Clinton's scath ing, defensive attack against Chris Wall ace and Fox News on Sunday left me once...

Convicted terrorist (later granted clemency by President Clinton) is honored by the United Church of Christ at their headquarters in Cleveland on November 16, 2006. See the exclusive YouTube video of Alejandrina Torres

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING US TO CRASH THE RECEPTION OF THIS TERRORIST ART EXHIBIT ON NOV. 16, 6-8pm at 700 Prospect Ave. Cleveland, OH On November 16, the national offices of the United Church of Christ will be hosting a free reception for the traveling art exhibition "Not Enough Space" commemorating the 25 years of imprisonment of terrorists Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar López Rivera. In their promotional materials, the UCC is positioning the terrorists as political prisoners "serving long prison terms for acts and beliefs in favor of Puerto Rican independence." Sounds innocent enough, doesn't it? The truth is...

BILL Clinton's scathing, defensive attack against Chris Wallace and Fox News on Sunday left me once again struck by the former president's pure hypocrisy and arrogance. Clinton wagged his familiar finger in the face of the American public - which he clearly takes for fools - as he defended the indefensible: his administration's abysmal record on terrorism.

Whenever I hear New York Senator Hillary Clinton talk tough about terrorism, I'm always surprised that a bolt of lightning doesn't strike her atop her $3,000.00 haircut. If I wasn't so angered by her calculating rhetoric I'd probably roll on the floor laughing each time she spoke with her trademark shrill, piercing voice. She's tough on terrorism as long as it brings her closer to her ultimate goal of sitting in the Oval Office. And with the Clintons, talk is cheap therefore they are all talk. But as far as actions, Bill and Hillary's political history reveals they are easily...

Marc Anthony, second from left, Jennifer Lopez, third from left, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, center, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., second from right, march during the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York, Sunday June 11, 2006.

The Clintons pass in the night Written in conjunction with Eileen McGann Bill and Hillary Clinton are the first couple to appear simultaneously and independently on the national political stage. They are using their special circumstances as a convenient shield for one another, fulfilling, at once, Hillary’s dream of no accountability and Bill’s of being able to take both sides of an issue. Did Hillary know that Bill was pardoning the FALN terrorists to help her win Puerto Rican votes in New York? Oh, she was opposed to the pardon. Did Hillary find out that Bill was granting pardons to...

Today on the FreeRepublic Hour on Rightalk Radio, my guest was Joe Connor. Joe's dad was killed in an FALN bomb blast at Fraunces Tavern in 1975. Among the people we discussed were Bill Clinton, who pardoned FALN terrorists to help his wife, William Morales, FALN chief bombmaker being protected by Fidel Castro, and Joanne Chesimard, a cop-killer who is also being protected by Castro. The Bush-hating and despicable women from Code Pink, the group harassing wounded soldiers and families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center every week, will soon be off to visit their pal Fidel in his island...

LISTEN ONLINE TO RIGHTALK RADIO Wednesday, 2pm Eastern Wednesday's guest is Joe Connor, whose father was killed by FALN terrorists when Joe was a child. His family was victimized twice --- once by the terrorists, and then years later when Bill Clinton issued pardons for the terrorists. The pardon was one of the last of the impeached Clinton's tricks in office. He, of course, was hoping to solidify votes for his wife in the Puerto Rican community of New York. 1.866.884.TALK

CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS:Justice Undone in the clinton White House by Mia T, 11.04.05 House Committee on Government ReformNB: NEW LINKS Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House March 14, 2002 This report is in PDF format and can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. The report may be downloaded in sections by clicking on the links below:   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY [.1 MB]   INTRODUCTION [.1 MB]     CHAPTER ONE - Take Jack's Word: The Pardons of International Fugitives Marc Rich and Pincus Green [.7 MB]     CHAPTER TWO - Roger Clinton's Involvement in Lobbying for Executive Clemency...

Puerto Rican nationalist's death opens old wounds Tuesday, October 18, 2005 By MIGUEL PEREZ STAFF WRITER He fakes a smile to try to hide it, but the pain of having lost his father is still written on Joe Connor's face. It happened 30 years ago, when Connor was only 9. Yet the way his father was killed keeps haunting him. Connor felt it again recently, when he heard that Puerto Rican nationalist Filiberto Ojeda Rios was given a hero's funeral and eulogized as a martyr following a shootout with FBI agents. "I was absolutely disgusted when I heard people comparing...

LIFE AFTER TERROR By JOSEPH F. CONNOR YOU sometimes hear how the first World Trade Center attack was a warning that the city ig nored. But it wasn't the first: Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the New York terrorist attack that killed my father, Frank T. Connor — the Jan. 24, 1975, bombing of Fraunces Tavern. The killers struck on a warm, clear and pleasant winter's day. My dad, a 33-year-old officer of Morgan Guaranty Trust, was having lunch with clients. The bomb killed him and three others in unspeakably gruesome ways. One of his colleagues was decapitated; silverware...

"hillary--Rosen Victim" Belied by clintons' fav technique: Election Fraud by Mia T, 5.25.05   "I did not have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted," insisted Sen. KnowNothing, seeming to forget her presence at the New-Square/Oval-Office schmooze that secured pardons for the four Hasidic felons who set up a phony school in Brooklyn to swindle the government out of millions intended for the poor. Mia TSen. KnowNothing Victim ClintonEffectively Pleads 5TH in Press Conferenceby Invoking Spousal Privilege   In August 1999 Clinton pardoned 16 FALN terrorists without even being asked, in a move that was...

Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005 10:55 a.m. EST GOP to Launch 'Stop Hillary' Web site A top political adviser to New York Governor George Pataki is reportedly planning to launch a web site targeting Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2006 reelection bid, in an apparent effort to duplicate the success of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in last year's presidential race. The "Stop Her Now" Web site is the brainchild of Arthur Finkelstein, according to the New York Post. "The site could draw millions of dollars in anti-Clinton campaign cash from across the nation," a state GOP source told the paper. The...

Clinton is set to testify before the 9/11 Commission. Now Americans want to know: will he be questioned about his role in pardoning FALN terrorists? The 467-page report, "Justice Undone," released circa March 2002, by the House Government Reform Committee centered on the corrupt machinations of the Clinton administration's sordid pardon procedures via his pardonning of FALN terrorists. At a time when the 9/11 plotters were poised to strike America, Clinton pardoned a group of FALN terrorists who were incarcerated for a series of violent activities including bombings that resulted in five deaths. It was patently clear to observers, Clinton...

Woman wants to mark husband's '75 bomb death Tuesday, October 7, 2003By CHARLES AUSTINSTAFF WRITER Mary Connor-Tully put a plaque in Saddle River Park in memory of her husband, Frank Connor, who was killed in the 1975 bombing at the Fraunces Tavern, and her nephew Steven Schlag, who died in 9/11 World Trade Center attack. FAIR LAWNThe terrorist attack in lower Manhattan killed her banker husband and changed her life forever. A grief-stricken Mary Connor pulled herself together and pondered how best to bring up her sons, Thomas, 11, and Joseph, 9. The year was 1975.Frank Connor, 33, died on...

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