Not to be overlooked, another terrorist sentence commuted by Obama https://t.co/RtJK0r9RiG https://t.co/Rc3n5K6eTm
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) January 17, 2017
Guess President Obama’s got an itchy sentence-commuting finger today:
https://twitter.com/mcmoynihan/status/821485397792485376
Who’s Oscar López Rivera? Oh, only a proud terrorist who deserves to remain in prison where he can rot before claiming his permanent spot in hell:
https://twitter.com/mcmoynihan/status/821486151844372481
From the New York Daily News:
Now 74-years old, López Rivera has served 35 years of a 55-year sentence for seditious conspiracy and weapons-related charges. “I am an enemy of the United States government,” he told federal judge Thomas McMillen in 1983. There is no evidence that he’s changed his mind.
During the 1970s and 80s, López Rivera’s FALN placed more than 130 bombs in American cities. Their goal was to destabilize what they called the “Yanki capitalist monopoly” and achieve Puerto Rican independence. Their method was terrorism.
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When López Rivera was arrested in 1981, the FBI found six pounds of dynamite and four blasting caps in his Chicago apartment along with numerous fake IDs. He was convicted in federal court of seditious conspiracy, violation of the Hobbs Act, illegal weapons possession, and interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicles.
In 1988, his original sentence was extended 15 years after authorities disrupted an escape plot that included a plan to murder prison guards.
More:
https://twitter.com/mcmoynihan/status/821492887368204290
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Rivera and the FALN have blood on their hands. And President Obama basically just said that he’s fine with that. Nice slap in victims’ faces on his way out the door.
https://twitter.com/WrightBrunoS/status/821488029307207680
Cogrars to Oscar Lopez Rivera on his new tenure at Columbia pic.twitter.com/MUQiu41xPO
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 17, 2017
You just know Obama thought "Thank God Bill Clinton left ME one to pardon too!"
— Happy Thanksgiving & Epstein Didn't Kill Himself (@drawandstrike) January 17, 2017
Of course, Bernie Sanders thinks this is great news:
I appreciate @POTUS listening to Puerto Ricans and people worldwide who believe Oscar Lopez Rivera deserves a chance to enjoy his freedom.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 17, 2017
Lovely.
Sanders applauds commutation of convicted domestic terrorist. Off the deep end with these guys. https://t.co/SIkvU2ydUB
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 17, 2017
The take-away from all this:
https://twitter.com/mcmoynihan/status/821486682813984768
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