Steve R.
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The Democratic party is going berserk to make the mostly peaceful January 6th rally a National catastrophe threatening the very foundations of our Republic. But there are several historical footnotes that have been conveniently overlooked. The instances below make a mockery of the Democratic hyperbolic bombastic claims that the January 6th rally was worse than Watergate or Pearl Harbor. The citations below are minimal and incomplete, but they do provide a "taste" that Carter, Clinton, and Obama (all Democrats) have been lenient concerning far left radicals who have, on occasion, actually attacked the Capital with guns and bombs.
A History of Attacks at the US Capitol
- 1954 United States Capitol shooting by Puerto Rican Terrorists
The nationalists, identified as Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and began shooting at Representatives in the 83rd Congress, who were debating an immigration bill. Five Representatives were wounded, one seriously, but all recovered. The assailants were arrested, tried and convicted in federal court, and given long sentences, amounting to life imprisonment. In 1978 and 1979, their sentences were commuted by President Jimmy Carter. All four returned to Puerto Rico.
Most of the members who went above ground following the reckoning of the FBI's illegal acts received large fines and short stints of probation. In 1980, Bill Ayers turned himself in. All of his charges were dropped.
Those responsible for the crime were arrested in May 1988 and charged with the bombing. An investigation also uncovered the group’s ties to related bombings of Fort McNair and the Washington Navy Yard which occurred April 25, 1983, and April 20, 1984.
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Susan Lisa Rosenberg’s spent 16 years in prison, but kindhearted President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence on January 20, 2001, his last day in office.
Former Weather Underground terrorist group leader Bill Ayers on Tuesday said he was on an airplane “dancing in the aisles” over news that President Obama commuted the sentence of FALN activist Oscar López Rivera, whose group was linked to over 100 bombs placed in U.S. cities in the 1970s and 1980s.