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Puerto Rican Nationalist Oscar López Rivera Is Freed

posted by n1 on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the free-beer dept.

butthurt writes:

The Chicago Tribune reports that Oscar López Rivera has been freed and has returned to Chicago:

Lopez was considered a top leader of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, an ultranationalist Puerto Rican group that claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings at government buildings, department stores, banks and restaurants in New York, Chicago, Washington and Puerto Rico during the 1970s and early '80s.

[...] former President Barack Obama commuted his sentence in January. Since then he has been on house arrest in Puerto Rico.

The National Review reports that he is to lead the Puerto Rican Day parade in June in New York City, and that

He’ll be granted the title of “National Freedom Hero,” a designation never before bestowed on anyone.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:50AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:50AM (#512541)

    The Do Nothing, and the Do Nothing Good :)

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday May 20 2017, @10:14AM

      by Gaaark (41) on Saturday May 20 2017, @10:14AM (#512571) Journal

      Well, shit: if blowing things up and having people die makes you a hero, Hillary should get a Heroes prize as well!

      And the Bush-es should get a great big Hero sandwich!!

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      --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @05:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @05:34PM (#512654)

      > Lopez was considered a top leader of the [...] group that claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings

      > former President Barack Obama commuted his sentence in January

      Thanks, Obama!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @09:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @09:07PM (#512726)

    > former President Barack Obama commuted his sentence in January. Since then he has been on house arrest in Puerto Rico.

    See, the republicans had it all wrong.
    Barack isn't a crypto-muslim from kenya.
    He is an islander, just not a hawaiian islander.
    He's obviously a crypto-boricua who wants to spread radical catholicism to the us.
    Forget sharia law, canon law is taking over our courts11!!

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