So the Puerto Rican terrorists renounce violence and they're granted clemency by the president? We could clear out every jail cell in the country if this sets a precedent.
Warden: "Mr. Dahmer, we'll let you go on one condition: Do you promise not to kill anyone and chop them up in little bits before eating them?"
Jeffrey Dahmer: "Yes, I do."
Warden: "Well, I'm convinced. Let him go."
Meanwhile, the freed terrorists are giving the U.S. the middle finger, so to speak. The ex-prisoners met for several hours in an airport transit lounge, exploiting a technicality allowing them to be together there without violating parole conditions that forbade them to associate with convicted felons, including each other.
All but one of the released belonged to a group called FALN that was responsible for 130 bombings between 1973 and 1984, killing six and maiming dozens. Puerto Ricans have argued that the sentences against them - from 35 to 90 years - were excessive for people convicted of sedition but not the actual bombings. Still, the attacks stopped after the arrests.
Edwin Cortes, a Chicago-born terrorist, made some interesting comparisons for the group, saying he hoped "to follow the examples [of] Nelson Mandela, Gerry Adams and Yasser Arafat, who were also labeled as criminals and terrorists, but in the minds of their people were patriots...Today, they are considered international statesmen."
Actually, only South African president Mandela fits that bill. Adams, of the Irish Republican Army, and Arafat, of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, are still considered to be less-than-stellar examples of peace.
We're being told that these terrorists are heroes to Puerto Ricans, but in 1998 only 2.5 percent of the country voted for independence. Apparently, then, few support the terrorists' stance on their homeland (even though only one was actually born in Puerto Rico), and I would suggest even fewer support their methods to gain independence.
Fueled by the words of Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell and his cronies, supporters of the city's affirmative action program--motto: "So what if minorities are the majority in town. We're discriminating against ourselves and it must stop!"--marched around Flowers' Midtown Baking Co., whose chairman was a member of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, the organization fighting the city in court. The chairman resigned from the SLF in July, citing economic pressure on his firm. So basically the protestors are kicking him while he's down.
What else are the protestors doing wrong? Of the 72 employees in the bakery, 80 percent of them are black.
"Thirteen out of 16 of my guys are black," Kavin Davenport, an African-American sales manager said as he watched the protestors. "I see where they're coming from, but I don't know if this is the way to do it, by destroying my men's livelihoods."
With the way this city is operated, it sounds exactly like something Campbell's cronies would do in order to advance their agenda; they don't care who they ruin in the process.
This is a quote by former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, supporting the city's affirmative action program:
"When I look at Bosnia, and see Serbs and Croatians and Muslims, and Orthodox and Jews not able to live together, it's because they never worked out a program of affirmative action that assured everyone a place in society."
Sure, the reason they have hated each other for a millenium is because a Muslim was hired for a contracting job over a Christian. Good reasoning, mayor.
By JIM FITZGERALD
Associated Press Writer
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Before she moves into her new house in Chappaqua, Hillary Rodham Clinton will have to learn at least one thing about Westchester County: the district attorney is a Republican.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign made the mistake of inviting District Attorney Jeanine Pirro to a Sept. 23 "lunch and conversation in support of Hillary's U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee."
The "Hillary 2000" invitation noted that contributions would not be tax deductible.
Mrs. Pirro, who has been the county's top vote-getter and whose backing is sought by many other politicians -- Republican politicians -- did not appreciate the invitation to a Democratic fund-raiser.
But she didn't just throw it away. Prosecutor that she is, she decided it was against the law because it was addressed to her office in the county courthouse.
"I would refer you to Section 107(3) of the Civil Service Law (enclosed) which prohibits any solicitations of this kind from being made in or sent to any government office," Mrs. Pirro wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to Mrs. Clinton. "Please be on notice that this practice is inappropriate and unlawful."
The letter was signed, "Very truly yours, Jeanine Pirro."
The accompanying statute prohibits sending a letter "giving notice of, demanding or collecting a political assessment" to a government office.
Recently, the fund that is raising money to pay the legal bills for President and Mrs. Clinton hit another unsympathetic target: Monica Lewinsky's father.
Clinton, the country's "first black president" as called by a leading black author, called Serena Williams after she won the U.S. Open tennis championship on Sunday.
It's all well and good until you realize that he hasn't called other Americans who won major titles. Lindsay Davenport won the same championship in '98 with nary a call by the prez.
After Sunday's men's final, in which both competitors were American (Andre Agassi and Todd Martin), did Clinton make a congratulatory call? Nope.
Serena is black, the others I mentioned are white. One more reason to doubt his motivations for anything, anytime, anywhere.
In conjunction with Hillary's differences with her husband over granting clemency to the Puerto Rican terrorists, I offer this example of how journalism no longer holds the same meaning as ten years ago:
"For awhile I was very interested in 'What does she know?' When did she know it?' on this. Then I thought, 'The mental energy it takes to sort this out,' I don't want to go there." -- Margaret Carlson on CNN's "The Capital Gang."
Yes, God forbid you actually have to research and hammer out a timeline! I'm sorry, I thought you actually did journalistic work rather than sit on sets and jabber about RUMORS of drug use of presidential candidates. God forbid, Margaret, that you actually do some digging into anything that might be bad for the Clintons!