Ahhh, now I see why they are so upset. In the Land of the Left, not paying federal taxes is a bad thing...
Posted on 02/13/2006 12:43:40 PM PST by neverdem
An FBI sweep launched in Puerto Rico to prevent a "domestic terrorist attack" is eliciting widespread outrage on the island - and as far away as New York City - with critics accusing the agency of trying to use terrorism as a guise to turn public opinion against Puerto Rico's independence movement.
The Friday morning raid on the U.S. commonwealth, which targeted five private homes and one business, was launched to prevent attacks from the Boricua Popular Army, the FBI said. The special agent in charge of the San Juan Division of the FBI, Luis Fraticelli, said the searches were undertaken because investigations disclosed planning was under way for an attack "where explosive devices were to be used." It was to be "directed at privately owned interests in Puerto Rico, as well as the general public," he said Friday. No arrests were made.
The pro-independence group, also known as the Macheteros, or "cane cutters," engaged in violent attacks in the 1970s and 1980s, and took credit for the 1979 bombing of a U.S. Navy bus that killed two American sailors. More recently, it has taken credit for bombings of American military and government sites on the island.
While recent polls have indicated that most of Puerto Rico's residents do not support independence from America, criticism of the raid quickly spread beyond the movement's sympathizers.
From the governor of the island to lawyers to journalists, calls came out to investigate the FBI's operations on the island.
Although residents of Puerto Rico, a former Spanish colony, are American citizens, they cannot vote for president, have no voting representatives in Congress, and pay no federal taxes.
Public displeasure with the FBI was already high. The sweep comes on the heels of the death of one the group's leaders, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, during an...
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Puerto Rico's independence movement has a long association terrorism.
Didn't Clinton pardon some of them?
Let's see...It's okay to blow up buildings and kill people if you're for PR independence, but not if you're an Islamosfascist.
He didn't set the precedent. Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. The one that survived the gunfight was pardoned by Jimmy Carter in 1979.
See my #6.
Gee, didn't Clinton pardon some PR killers?
Jimmy Carter. Just when you think he can't be dumber and more dangerous, he proves you wrong.
Always the same "outraged" types.
Ahhh, now I see why they are so upset. In the Land of the Left, not paying federal taxes is a bad thing...
60% of PR however does receive welfare checks from you and me.
We only kept them around for our naval bombing range...and with it gone, they can go, too.
Puerto Rico would make a good penal colony.
American Gunfight : The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out that Stopped It
by Stephen Hunter, J. S. Bainbridge
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743260686/qid=1139864851/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-8757544-7920640?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Just finished it last week.
As long as we don't publish any cartoons, I think we'll be okay. Just whatever we do, let's not offend them or God help us all.
You mean people who want to be associated with America should be either be treated badly or kicked out? What sort of logic is that?
No. I'm simply saying that if Puerto Rico wants independence, they can have it.
It just means fewer welfare checks to be mailed.
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