Brings us right back to bill clinton...as all roads from this administration seem to:
The Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña, FALN) was a Puerto Rican clandestine paramilitary organization that, through direct action, advocated complete independence for Puerto Rico. At the time of its dissolution, the FALN was responsible for more than 120 bomb attacks on United States targets between 1974 and 1983. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) classifies the FALN as a terrorist organization.
The FALN was led by Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, who was one of the FBI’s most wanted criminals. The group served as the predecessor of the Boricua Popular Army. Several of the organization’s members were arrested and convicted for conspiracy to commit robbery and for firearms and explosives violations.
On August 11, 1999 then United States President Bill Clinton offered clemency to sixteen of the convicted militants under the condition that they renounce any kind of violent manifestation. This decision drew criticism towards the Clinton administration from figures that include the United States Attorney, the FBI, and the United States Congress.
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Sounds awfully like bill ayers and company, doesn’t it?
obama has supposedly said he opposes Puerto Rican statehood. But if it should possibly happen, it would be a gift to the SEIU which would be organizing these people before the ink was dry.
bill clinton ALWAYS calls in his markers, and right now, obama is on his S List.
Hasn’t it struck you odd at how much clinton has been speaking out lately?
Filiberto Ojeda Rios was a young trumpet player in Chicago when he was involved in the efforts of the revolutionary Cuba intelligence in that city to promote independent sentiment in that city, and after that, he came back to Puerto Rico and founded what was known as the Ejercito Popular Boricua Macheteros, the clandestine sector of the nationalist movement in Puerto Rico that was responsible, as you know, for several successful attacks, including the blowing up of several airplanes in the military base in San Juan for $45 million, and later for the assault of a truck, a brinks truck in Hartford, Connecticut, also successful, again, in the course of independence.
He was tried for those events in a federal court in Puerto Rico, and he was absolved unanimously by a Puerto Rican jury.
cll told me that FALN no longer exists. I suppose that’s possible, just like ACORN might ‘disappear’.