Another glimpse of Bernie

I missed this in May.

Palling around with terrorists.

For God’s Sake, Bernie

At a boisterous town hall meeting Monday in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sanders demanded that President Obama release Oscar López Rivera from federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. 

The 73-year-old mastermind of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), a militant Puerto Rican nationalist organization that terrorized Chicago and New York during the 1970s, López Rivera has served 34 years of a 55-year sentence for seditious conspiracy against the United States and other charges. 

In 1988, he was sentenced to an additional 12 years for his role in an escape plot involving plans to murder prison guards.

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Though his service in Vietnam may have been valiant, upon his return, he took up arms against the United States to achieve the political goal of an independent, Communist Puerto Rico.

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As Bryan Burrough reports in his excellent history of 1970s radicalism, Days of Rage, the FALN enjoyed a formal alliance with the era’s most notorious left-wing terrorists—the renegade Weather Underground movement led by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

The details of his terrorist activities are appalling.

As is this.

Moreover, before leaving office, President Bill Clinton, looking to win the support New York’s Puerto Rican community for his wife’s looming senatorial campaign, offered López Rivera a conditional clemency. 

The condition? 

That López Rivera renounce terrorism and armed struggle against the United States. 

Twelve of his jailed FALN confederates accepted the offer. 

López Rivera rejected it. 

“The whole thing of contrition, atonement, I have problems with that,” he told a reporter.