Policy wonk: A Deliberate Insult to Terror Victims
As corporate sponsors and police groups continue dropping out of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito held a rally “to defend” the march — though, as Seth Barron notes at City Journal, the only thing that needs defending is “the inclusion of a convicted terrorist as guest of honor.” If the FALN’s Oscar López Rivera is “the George Washington of his country,” as she claims, he should be saluted in Puerto Rico. “But it stretches credulity to demand that New York City celebrate the man [whose group] actually blew up Fraunces Tavern (where George Washington bade his officers farewell), and [which] in fact murdered and mutilated New Yorkers.”