Communists Pay Tribute to Attempted Murdereress of U.S. Congressmen
Cross posted from KeyWiki Blog
While the Communist Party USA feigns moderation these days, so as not to embarrass their friends the Democrats, their true colors still come to the fore on occasion.
When Puertio Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebron died August 1, the comrades couldn't resist paying tribute to her. - even though Lebron had participated in an armed attack on the U.S. Congress that had injured 5 Congressmen.
From the Peoples World.
Arrested March 1, 1954
While the Communist Party USA feigns moderation these days, so as not to embarrass their friends the Democrats, their true colors still come to the fore on occasion.
When Puertio Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebron died August 1, the comrades couldn't resist paying tribute to her. - even though Lebron had participated in an armed attack on the U.S. Congress that had injured 5 Congressmen.
From the Peoples World.
Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican freedom fighter widely known as the mother of the island's independence movement, died Aug. 1, in San Juan at age 90.
Arrested March 1, 1954
Lebron is most remembered for leading an armed attack on the U.S. Capitol in 1954. She and three other Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from an upstairs spectators' gallery onto the crowded floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Lebron unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and shouted, "Viva Puerto Rico libre!"
No one was killed in the attack but five U.S. representatives were wounded.
Lebron was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison. She was in jail for 25 years until President Jimmy Carter granted Lebron and her comrades clemency in 1979.
Lebron later said that she never intended to kill anyone and that all four nationalists expected to be killed in the attack.
Police found a note in her purse that said, "My life I give for the freedom of my country." The note continued, "The United States of America is betraying the sacred principles of mankind in their continuous subjugation of my country."
"I am a revolutionary," she said at the time. "I hate bombs, but we might have to use them."
After their release from jail, Lebron and the others were widely celebrated and received a warm welcome from independence activists in Puerto Rico. Lebron became a symbol of nationalist pride and continued to protest U.S. involvement on the island...
Lebron was an advocate for women and children's rights and fought for a more equitable economic system. Her ideals were based on socialist and feminist principles.
Protesting, May 2000
In 2001, she was arrested at age 81 while protesting the U.S. military's use of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a bombing range. She was sentenced to 60 days in jail for trespassing.Yes, what's a little treason and attempted murder between comrades?
After wide protests the U.S. finally closed the bombing site in 2003.
Today independence fighters say Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony and the people should have the right to self-determination and decide their own national sovereignty.
In recent years Lebron said the fight for social justice could be won without violence.
"I think times have changed, and there is no need now to kill for freedom," she told El Mundo newspaper in 1998. "I would not take up arms nowadays, but I acknowledge that the people have a right to use any means available to free themselves."
Lebron will be remembered as a heroic, leading figure in the Puerto Rican people's struggle for justice, equality and freedom.
posted by Trevor Loudon at
8/04/2010 04:50:00 PM
3 Comments:
I am very conservative, but strongly feel Puerto Rico should be given their independence. They want it and I am tired of them being subsidized by the US government and taxpayers. Let them have their own way without our having to carry them with no appreciation.
Absolutely. Rather than have another entitlement state in the Union, just turn them loose. If they believe they can govern themselves and deserve national sovereignty - let them go.
There is the slight codicil about being sucked into the Castro-Chavez dance of economic death, but if the US can reduce their economic assistance by feeding Puerto Rico foreign aid rather than subsistence and require the independence from foreign meddlers under the Madison Doctrine - then they should get the chance to fail on their own.
As a Puerto Rican, I shiver at the thought to have my island ravaged by communists like those.
Contrary to what you have heard, Restorevalue and Dr.Druhl, the grand majority of Puerto Ricans do not want independence. Independentistas make only 5% of the general population.
47% want a soft Socialism under the U.S. Colonial Flag(as proposed and promoted by The Democrats and their Progressive Ilk).
The remaining 47% do fight for full Statehood integration into the U.S..
The malaise, ambivalence, and confusion that you all feel, is as a result of the Social-Democratic policies that have devastated the moral fibre of the island during its 70-years of rule.
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