Obama is going to free as many terrorists, Al Qaeda from Gitmo and domestic Marxist terrorists, as he can before being escorted out of the building with a box full of his best bribes and trophies for participation.
The pardon for FALN terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera is utterly unsurprising. Rivera had been one of the left's causes for a while. Right after Mumia. Bernie Sanders campaigned on a promise to pardon him. Bernie didn't get it. Neither did Hillary, whose husband aided plenty of FALN terrorists, so Obama did it for them.
And here's the beneficiary of his latest attack, and hopefully last attack, on America.
Lopez Rivera conspired to transport explosives with intent to destroy federal government property and committed other related crimes — or that the FALN was deemed responsible for a reign of terror that killed six people and injured 130 others in at least 114 bombings.
They includes the 1975 bombing of historic Fraunces Tavern in the city’s Financial District, which left four people dead and wounded more than 50 others, and a New Year’s Eve 1982 bombing at Police Headquarters that maimed three NYPD cops who tried to defuse the explosives.
On January 24, 1975, a ten-pound dynamite bomb planted by the FALN at Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan exploded, killing his father, 33-year-old Frank Connor.
In 2011, Joe Connor attended a parole hearing for López Rivera in Terre Haute, Indiana. He and the other survivors of the FALN’s murder spree offered López Rivera “multiple opportunities” to express remorse. He rebuffed all of them.
Rivera has been very clear that he has no regrets. It's why even Bill Clinton couldn't free him. Even in prison, he was part of an escape plot that included the potential murder of prison guards.
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.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton offered to commute the sentences of 16 imprisoned FALN members. Most accepted, but López Rivera choked on the condition that he renounce his terrorist past. In 1998, he'd told a reporter, "The whole thing of contrition, atonement, I have problems with that."
But it's not hard to see why Obama would have a soft spot for FALN. They have a lot in common. Ideologically.
FALN was a Marxist terrorist group whose goal was to direct “an armed and political struggle in accordance with the Marxist-Leninist principle” and to implement “the Stalinist ideological position concerning the concept of ‘nation’ to the North-American context.”