How do Democrats react to left-wing insurrectionists?
1950 - members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party try to assassinate President Harry Truman
1954 - members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party shoot 5 congressmen during a debate on the floor of the US House
1979 - President Jimmy Carter commutes their life sentences, releasing them from prison
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After these terrorists were convicted, Puerto Rican nationalists responded with a bombing campaign.
The FALN first surfaced on October 26, 1974, when five large bombs exploded in Manhattan—in the Wall Street area, in Rockefeller Center, and on Park Avenue—causing considerable property damage but no injuries. The FALN claimed responsibility for these acts, as it did later for bombings in Puerto Rico.
Throughout the following year, the FALN boasted of a series of bombings, beginning on January 24 with a Wall Street explosion that killed four people and injured more than 50 and climaxing on October 27 with nine nearly simultaneous explosions in New York City, Washington, and Chicago that produced only property damage. Bombings continued sporadically thereafter.
Bill Clinton pardoned most of the perpetrators in 1999, but was rejected by the leader Oscar Lopez Rivera. He later received a pardon from Barack Obama and a personal performance of "Hamilton" in his honor.
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In 1971 the Weather Underground detonated a bomb inside the US Capitol to protest the invasion of Laos. Bill Ayers, who led the organization, later became a close friend and mentor of Barack Obama.
Bill Ayers said, "I don't regret setting the bombs."
Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, who led the Weather Underground together, would become professors, with Ayers getting a taxpayer-funded job in Illinois.
Ayers and Dohrn would also raise Chesa Boudin, son of Weathermen David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, then in prison for killing 3 people in an armed robbery. Andrew Cuomo commuted Gilbert's sentence in 2021. Boudin later became a professor at Columbia.
Bill Clinton pardoned the perpetrators. One of these, felony murderer Susan Rosenberg, would go on to receive various activist jobs, including as a fundraiser for BLM and a taxpayer-funded teaching position at City University of New York.
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In 1983, the Resistance Conspiracy bombed the US Senate as well as several other government buildings.
Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of the two perpetrators who were still in prison in 2001, Linda Sue Evans and Susan Rosenberg.
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