Posted on 03/03/2017 8:29:29 AM PST by Interesting Times
Recently, the Chicago City Council named a street in honor of Oscar Lopez-Rivera, the founder of the notorious terrorist group FALN. In President Obama's waning days in office, he commuted his sentence. He had been scheduled to serve until June of 2023, and after Obama's order, he still would remain incarcerated at the Federal Prison in Terre Haute, Indiana until May 17 of this year.
But early in February, a fervent Lopez-Rivera supporter, the far-left Chicago Congressman Luis Gutierrez, succeeded in having him transferred to Puerto Rico, where he will be with his daughter while under house arrest until his release this spring. "He got to go home to be with his daughter," said Gutierrez. But knowing the history of the FALN, which Lopez-Rivera founded and trained to kill, the same could not be said of the families of many of his victims.
In the 1970s and 80s, the FALN set off more than 130 bombs around the country. Twenty-nine of the bombings were in Chicago, where 10 people were injured, some of them seriously. But in New York, six were killed and scores injured, including four fatalities at the historic Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan on January 24, 1975.
Within 15 minutes after the bombing, the FALN boasted in a phone call and communiqué about the murderous attack. Lopez-Rivera's group would continue on until 1983, including bombings in Chicago, Miami, and Washington, and with two more fatalities in New York.
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Ping.
How low can they go? Maybe we should just let them live with the “conditions” they have created.
How low can they go? Maybe we should just let them live with the “conditions” they have created.
Thanks for the ping
I think to honor this “freedom fighter” the US should meet his major demand: give Puerto Rico independence. Get that literally welfare state off the books.
Snake Plisken movies presaged sanctuary cities.
Ah, a different unrepentant terrorist. I was thinking of Obama’s memoir ghost writer and unrepentant terrorist bomber Bill Ayers. Perhaps he’ll be next or his terrorist bomber wife Bernadine Dorn.
Ayers evaded justice for his crimes long ago.
BTTT
Thanks for posting this article and for the ping. Obviously, Chicago honors criminals.
Unfortunately, a large portion of the voting population has no idea what FALN is. Many weren’t even born and we know public schools don’t teach real history.
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