Supporting This Parade Is a Slap to All New Yorkers
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s support of an unrepentant terrorist is exactly what is wrong with liberal politicians (“The Not-Marching Honor Roll,” Editorial, May 25) .
Even if you make the case that López paid his debt to society (with which I strongly disagree), to publicly embrace this terrorist is insane. How could any politician take such an obviously wrong stance?
I applaud Police Commissioner James O’Neill and all who take a stance against honoring a criminal. Jerry Mallach Livingston, NJ
The dope from Park Slope strikes again. It really shows the substance of Mayor de Blasio’s character that he would march in the Puerto Rican Day Parade. He supports what everyone else is against.
All right, Mr. Mayor, you go march and honor the leader of a terrorist group, whose actions led to the death and serious injuries of innocent civilians and police officers.
But know it shows the great people of New York what you’re really about. Hopefully, they make you march to the unemployment line after the next election. You should be ashamed of yourself. Lance Lovejoy Maspeth
De Blasio and Mark-Viverito persist in supporting a loser who terrorized this very city as well as Chicago and the nation throughout the 1970s and ’80s.
López, bomb-maker and leader of the FALN terrorist organization, is being honored at the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
The FALN used violence, threats, explosives (courtesy of López) and other weapons in a bid to force the independence of Puerto Rico. The latest status referendum on independence, in 2012, showed only 5.5 percent of the island’s population wanted independence.
The FALN fanatic’s goal was to impose a Marxist regime, tailored after the stellar success of Castro’s Cuba, on the island, against the overwhelming will of the island population. And now, Mark-Viverito is championing his cause.
De Blasio and MarkViverito were entrusted to protect this city and its citizens, not to lionize those who tried to destroy it. Kevin O’Donnell Manhattan
Why did the Puerto Rican Day Parade choose to honor a terrorist ?
Why not give the honor to a Puerto Rican who left the island for a better life in the States? It could have honored a Puerto Rican who gets up every morning to support his family, or a Puerto Rican veteran who sacrificed for this nation, or a Puerto Rican cop who puts his life on the line everyday. With sponsors and participants like Goya, the Yankees, AT&T, FDNY Hispanic Society and Co- ca-Cola pulling out, the parade organizers should really reconsider this honor for a more worthwhile individual. Nelson Jimenez Stamford,Conn.
Mark-Viverito says López was not directly linked to any bombing. But López, as the leader of the group, had to have known the bombings were going to take place.
A terrorist being “honored” by a wonderful community celebration like the Puerto Rican Day Parade will leave a stain on the event, and anyone who supports it should be ashamed. William Dancosse Vernon, Conn.
López has touched a raw New York nerve for four decades.
Mayor de Blasio’s and Mark-Viverito’s positions on him are a slap in the face, not just to New York, but to all Americans, they are nauseated at the thought of honoring a heinous individual whose release from prison was nothing more than a depraved parting gift from President Barack Obama.
Thanks to those from the NYPD and FDNY and many others for refusing to take part in such a travesty. James McCaffery Yonkers
It’s irrelevant at this point that Gov. Cuomo has decided not to march in the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
The mere fact that Cuomo took so long to “review” whether to attend should turn every single decent human being’s stomach. Paul Schettino Hopewell Junction