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Huju -” I’m lazy with a small L.”
From Webster’s with a small L:
“Definition of lazy (Entry 1 of 2)
1a: disinclined to activity or exertion : not energetic or vigorous
The lazy child tried to avoid household chores.
b: encouraging inactivity or indolence
a lazy summer day
2: moving slowly : SLUGGISH
a lazy river”
“4. What is the basis of your calling Rivera “unrepentant”?”
From NBC News 2017 – I googled it:
“Lopez was considered a top leader of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, an ultranationalist Puerto Rican group that claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings at government buildings, department stores, banks and restaurants in New York, Chicago, Washington and Puerto Rico during the 1970s and early 1980s. The FBI classified the Marxist-Leninist group as a terrorist organization.
The most famous bombing was the still-unsolved 1975 explosion that killed four people and wounded 60 at Fraunces Tavern, a landmark restaurant in New York’s financial district.
Lopez, a Vietnam War veteran who moved from Puerto Rico to Chicago as a child, wasn’t convicted of any role in the bombings that killed six people and injured dozens. But those who lost loved ones hold him responsible.
“This guy was convicted of leading the FALN that murdered people,” said Joseph Connor, whose father, Frank, was killed in the Fraunces Tavern attack.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Lopez said he had no regrets about his involvement with the FALN.”
From the Chicago Tribune:
“Oscar Lopez Rivera
Lopez a leader of FALN, the Spanish acronym for the Armed Forces of National Liberation. He was found guilty in U.S. District Court in Chicago in 1981 of weapons, explosives and seditious conspiracy charges, and sentenced to 55 years in prison. He received an additional 15 years in 1988 after he was convicted of plotting to escape from federal prison.
“I’m willing to forgive, but he never once said he was sorry, showed no remorse at all,” said Mary Connor Tully, whose husband, Frank Connor, was killed in the bombing. “He’s an old man and he’ll get to live his life free, and hopefully he can live with the sins he committed, and that he’ll answer one day to a higher power than us for what he did.”
FALN members and their supporters said those put behind bars by the U.S. government were prisoners of war and questioned the country’s jurisdiction to prosecute them.
Lopez had been a federal fugitive for five years when he was caught by police in north suburban Glenview on a traffic violation. Federal authorities had charged him in 1977 in 16 Chicago-area bombings.
At Lopez’s sentencing in 1981, a federal judge called him an “unrehabilitated revolutionary.” Lopez declined to be present at his sentencing or many previous court sessions.”