Not bad enough to free all the Islamist radicals from shot callers to bomb makers in Gitmo, Now he frees a man rightly convicted of being part of a group that is guilty of 70 or so terrorist attacks on US soil.
A man who has never repented, never apologized, and absolutely does not have remorse for his actions at all. Oscar Lopez Rivera.
Clinton released a number of the FALN terrorists and even offered to pardon Rivera, and boy oh boy is he loved by the leftist bleeding hearts, but finally Obama was able to persuade him to take freedom and he's out of jail.
Never mind that he's the self confessed leader of a terror group that sees the US as an imperialist occupier of Puerto Rico that committed 70+ bombings and other attacks in the US, killing 5 and wounding and injuring many more.
Hell, never mind that the US government is about to have to bail out the whole damned island due to massive liberal overspending that is going to force the government to shutter. Never mind that the nation has had a long history of opportunities to vote on its future and that the country is basically about 55/45 split between going it alone and becoming a state of the US union. So he doesn't even represent a nation that fully wants some kind of independence beyond what it has now, a big chunk of them want to be MORE a part of America.
But that's beside the point. The point is this guy is a TERRORIST. He organized a group of people to commit acts of violence in the hopes of achieving political change. that's the definition of terrorism, and terrorism is a CRIME.
This is like releasing a serial killer b/c that guy also happens to have been a Civil Rights leader or a doctor who cured cancer. You may agree with him, you may like the guy, but if he went around killing people on purpose his ass belongs in jail. Go visit him and tell him he's still great, but do it from behind a plexiglass wall.
You shouldn't get out of your crime b/c a bunch of leftist romantics who think Castro and Che Guevara are moral leaders and they've decided to put you in that camp b/c they think Spanish accents and killing people in the name of social justice (but not the reality of it) is cool and sexy.
Apparently something like half of this country is pathologically insane, and I'm pretty sure it's not my half.
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