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January 30, 2017
Days of Rage
Forget the presidential assassination attempt. Forget the mass shooting in the Congressional chamber. Just look at the FALN stuff: a years-long bombing campaign in multiple American cities, by perpetrators trained and initiated by a foreign power. A terrorist organization that parasitized a church so effectively, it got the church infrastructure to act on its behalf. A stunning escape from custody almost too astounding to believe. Why is this not a movie? Why is this not two or three movies? This story is amazing! And it's just totally memory-holed. Here's how memory-holed it is: I didn't even know that, in 1999, seeking Puerto Rican voter support in New York for HRC's senate run, President Clinton offered clemency to 16 imprisoned FALN. 14 accepted. Congress condemned it at the time. But people remember the Mark Rich pardon. Not FALN. = = | Status 451
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 30, 2017 7:15 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I remember the FALN pardon.
Posted by: pbird at January 30, 2017 9:27 AM
I remember it too. And Obama just did another before leaving office.
Hard core of this type cannot be handled by police except to locate them. Military assault and killing all is the only means of eradicating this pestilence.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at January 30, 2017 11:00 AM
Why is this not a movie? Why is this not two or three movies? This story is amazing!
Is the above a serious question? It cannot be. Hollywood could not make such a movie without turning the scum involved into Che type heroes.
Posted by: John Venlet at January 30, 2017 11:39 AM
It's all true. I do notice, in certain places on the Net, people are aware of it and do study it.
Posted by: Teri Pittman at January 30, 2017 2:46 PM
And of course no mention of 1970's terrorism would be incomplete without mention of this
"Kahane's life changed dramatically in 1968, when he and several colleagues founded the Jewish Defense League. Brandishing guns and provocative slogans ("Every Jew a .22," "Never Again"), Kahane's JDL quickly attracted considerable media attention. Kahane pointedly exploited rising anti-black sentiment among Jews in the New York area. (note 5)
Kahane and his new organization received important and probably crucial support from two powerful allies: Israel's right-wing Herut political party and the New York Mafia.
Between December 1969 and August 1972, Kahane's JDL -- with important support and guidance from Menachem Begin's Herut party in Israel, top officers of Israel's Mossad secret service, and several wealthy American Jewish businessmen -- carried out a campaign of criminal attacks against Soviet Russian diplomats and other Soviet targets in the USA. The goal was to focus attention on and generate sympathy for Soviet Jewry, and to damage relations between the United States and Soviet Russia. (note 6)
On May 12, 1971, Kahane and a dozen other JDL members were arrested by federal agents for conspiracy to manufacture explosives. One day later, Kahane announced an alliance with a group founded by Mafia boss Joseph Colombo, Jr., a one-time killer who had risen to head the Colombo crime syndicate. "Kahane received substantial aid from the New York Mafia," writes Israeli journalist Yair Kotler in his biography of the JDL founder. Until Colombo's murder in 1971, relations between Kahane and the New York City mob boss were very close, and the two criminal chiefs worked closely together. (note 7)"
http://www.ihr.org/books/ztn/ztn.html
Yet somehow it does go unmentioned, Odd dat.
Posted by: Bill Jones at January 31, 2017 8:19 AM