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| Chicago Moving To Name Street After FALN Terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera |
| 2017-02-23 |
| The location of North Luis Munoz Marin Drive is in Humboldt Park. That neighborhood has seen a total of 20 shootings this year... 17 wounded and 3 killed. Oscar Lopez Rivera Street seems darkly appropriate for one of the deadliest neighborhoods in Chicago. Chicago is considering naming a street after Oscar Lopez Rivera, the domestic terrorist who founded the FALN terror group responsible for killing six people and perpetrating some 130 bombings and terror attacks on U.S. soil between 1974 and 1983. Twenty-sixth Ward Alderman Robert Maldonado submitted a proposal to name a three-block stretch of North Luis Munoz Marin Drive after the convicted terrorist early in February. The proposal was quickly pushed through ahead of new rules that would prevent people who are still living from having a Chicago street named after them. Alderman Maldonado attempted to claim that the new street name is not meant to honor the FALN terror outfit but is only meant to honor Rivera. Others note that it is farcical to claim you are honoring a man whose only claim to fame is in starting a terror group while pretending you are not also honoring the terror group. Joe Connor, the son of a man killed by a FALN terror attack in 1975, was furious at the move to honor his father’s murderer, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. "He is a sworn terrorist," Connor said. "He was convicted of bombings in Chicago that did injure people. He tried to escape from prison with machine guns and plastic explosives where he was gonna kill the guards. ... And Chicago is gonna put up a sign in his honor?" Until reading this article, I was unaware that Ringo Starr was a Chicago copper... |
| Posted by:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy |
| #1 Oh... so we can blow up the city hall now and claim it is for social justice? Sweeeeeet... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-02-23 18:42 |