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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nPuerto Rican terrorist 74-year-old Oscar Lopez Rivera, the founder of FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) was also a recipient of a presidential commutation of the remainder of his sentence from President Obama. Lopez-Rivera had been sentenced to 70 years in prison and he served about half of that before he was on the street with an unusually large band of supporters. Among those supporters was New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito who has spent years trying to win his freedom from the charges that he had attempted to overthrow the US government and that his organization had set off more than a hundred bombs, mostly in the New York City area. From the New York Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really sickening,\u201d said former NYPD Detective Anthony \u201cTony\u201d Senft, 70, who lost an eye while trying to defuse a bomb planted by FALN \u2014 or Armed Forces of National Liberation \u2014 at the Brooklyn federal courthouse in 1982.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re making him a folk hero, and he\u2019s a terrorist. They\u2019re making this guy like Robin Hood.\u201d<\/p>\n FALN has claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in the Big Apple and other US cities in the 1970s and early 1980s.<\/p>\n The militant group\u2019s attacks killed six people and wounded at least 130 others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Lopez-Rivera will be honored at this year’s Puerto Rico Day Parade;<\/p>\n Parade organizers said in a statement, \u201cOscar\u2019s involvement does not endorse the story that led to his arrest or any form of violence. Rather it is the recognition of a man and the struggle of a nation for its sovereignty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Every so often, Puerto Rico has a referendum vote to poll the residents as to whether or not they want to remain a territory of the United States and most want to stay with that favored status. So, I don’t know what exactly Lopez-Rivera was battling, other than the popular opinion of his countrymen.<\/p>\n So, this terrorist will be free to amble around the streets of New York with his former terrorist pals. <\/p>\n Thanks, Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"