Steamboat Institute Blankley Fellow Jillian Melchior has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal pointing out the left’s long history of praising terrorists. For instance, she highlights their support of terrorist Oscar López Rivera, who is being featured in this weekend’s Puerto Rico Day Parade in New York City:
When the fourth bomb exploded in lower Manhattan on New Year’s Eve 1982, Detective Richard Pastorella took shrapnel from his stomach to his scalp. It blinded him, maimed his right hand, left him nearly deaf. Surgeons used 22 titanium screws to hold together his ruined face.
“When my granddaughters present me with crayon drawings and are pleased to show them to me, I have to pretend that I can see them and enjoy their effort,” Detective Pastorella later testified. “I have sacrificed my pride, my dignity and will never be free.”
Now the leader of the terrorists who maimed him is free. President Obama granted Oscar López Rivera clemency in January. This weekend he will march in New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Read the full op-ed here.
