What is it with Democratic leaders and wanting to free terrorists?
Via NY Post:
The 57th Puerto Rican Day Parade, which takes place today along Fifth Avenue, promises to be a joyous celebration highlighting the many positive contributions Puerto Rico has had on our city’s social and cultural fabric. Bill Clinton offered to commute sentences of some of the convicted terrorists “if they would renounce terrorism”.
It is surprising, then, that parade organizers and their allies have chosen to embrace the cause of Oscar López Rivera, the imprisoned and unrepentant terrorist leader of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, or the FALN, a group that wrought destruction upon our city.
FALN was comprised of a small group of dedicated terrorists who waged a a violent campaign for Puerto Rican independence.
The independence movement has always been something of an outlier for most Puerto Ricans. In a November 2012 plebiscite, for instance, 61 percent of those voting favored statehood.
It is understandable, then, that most of the larger Puerto Rican population blanched in horror as the FALN earned a reputation as the most violent terrorist group in US history, responsible for 114 separate bombings from 1974 through 1983.
That deadly legacy didn’t dissuade City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito from breathlessly speaking out in López Rivera’s behalf, yet again, at a parade press conference Thursday, in which she vowed to somehow use her office to help free him.
What’s the commonality there? FALN was a Marxist terrorist group, seeking to impose communism on Puerto Rico. They were responsible for more than 120 bombing attacks on the United States. Most in Puerto Rico are happy with statehood and want nothing to do with this, but the Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, herself Puerto Rican, wants to free the head of the group.
Perhaps this should come as no surprise, given that this type of image is how Melissa Mark-Viverito sees herself, in a self-posted Instagram:
According to the NY Post,“I take this as a compliment,” she wrote in an Instagram post that accompanied the homage to Fidel Castro’s right-hand the revolutionary. The Post also noted that she refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at Council meetings until she ran for Speaker last September.
Psst, hey NYC and America, elections have consequences and you are seeing them now, locally and nationally…