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NYC Council Speaker: 'Right-Wing Forces' Trying to Undermine Parade Honoring Terrorist
Fox News ^ | 5/28/2017

Posted on 05/28/2017 12:16:57 PM PDT by cll

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-East Harlem) said "ultra right-wing forces" in Puerto Rico are trying to undermine this year's Puerto Rican Day Parade.

The city's parade made national headlines with its decision to designate Oscar Lopez Rivera, a convicted terrorist, as its "National Freedom Hero."

Lopez Rivera led the FALN, a left-wing liberation movement in Puerto Rico, which bombed several sites across the United States - including NYPD barracks.

"A lot of the campaign putting pressure on the sponsors to withdraw... is being manipulated and organized and orchestrated from an ultra-right wing element on the island [of Puerto Rico]," Mark-Viverito said, according to the New York Daily News.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: clintonlegacy; dncbrownshirts; domesticterrorism; faln; militantleft; proterrorist; puertorico; wot
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To: cll

I’d hardly call the FDNY and Goya Foods right wing forces.


21 posted on 05/28/2017 3:34:51 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: cll
FALN, a left-wing liberation movement in Puerto Rico

Fake news. FALN is primarily a movement in Chicago, NewYork, NJ, MA and certain colleges. And half the members here on the mainland are white posers and not Puerto Rican at all.

22 posted on 05/28/2017 4:44:05 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: MarkL

Oscar rejected Bill’s pardon because the pardon was conditional on Oscar organizing for Hillary. That deal is what Oscar rejected and kept him in prison.


23 posted on 05/28/2017 4:47:46 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: GOPJ

Is it “OK” to laugh at lunatics???


24 posted on 05/28/2017 5:31:16 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: GOPJ

Is it “OK” to laugh at lunatics???


25 posted on 05/28/2017 5:31:19 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

You’re right.


26 posted on 05/28/2017 9:16:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (The MSM exaggerates and lies because they're fearful, angry and shallow.)
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To: cll

Communist scumbags the right is coming for you.

Very soon you will be hiding in fear.

27 posted on 05/28/2017 9:20:05 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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