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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I’d hardly call the FDNY and Goya Foods right wing forces.
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.
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.
Is it “OK” to laugh at lunatics???
Is it “OK” to laugh at lunatics???
You’re right.
Communist scumbags the right is coming for you.
Very soon you will be hiding in fear.
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