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And the law firm representing him? Need it even be named? That’s right, the PLO.
But it’s compelling to look specifically at the lawyers repre- senting Solache. One is Jan Susler. Remember that one of the groups that the PLO represented was the FALN. This group holds some high distinctions when it comes to domestic ter- rorism. Here’s what TV commentator Michelle Malkin wrote about the FALN:
The 16 members of the FALN (the Spanish acronym for Armed Forces of National Liberation) and Los Macheteros had been convicted in Chicago and Hartford variously of bank robbery, possession of explosives and participating in seditious conspir- acy. Overall, the two groups had been linked by the FBI to more than 130 bombings, several armed robberies, six slayings and hundreds of injuries.
Susler played a key role in helping members of the group get out of prison during the Clinton administration, despite evidence from the FBI that they were connected to 130 bomb- ings and six slayings.
Here’s what Susler had to say about FALN members in a Tri- bune article:
“The FALN are really lovely human beings. They aren’t the kinds of people that have horns and a tail. They are intelligent, gifted and tolerant.”
It is Susler’s job — along with New York Attorney Michael Deutsch — to make the FALN’s legal case for a presidential pardon. It’s a tough sell, and she knows it. Susler, who practic- es out of the PLO, near the corner of Division Street and Mil-
waukee Avenue, wrote the 70-page pardon application.
The Tribune didn’t bother asking the family members of the victims of FALN bombings about whether they have horns
and tails or the level of their tolerance.
Joe Connor did, in an article for the National Review. He lost
his father in an FALN bombing:
My father, 33-year-old Frank Connor, and three other in- nocent men were murdered, while scores were injured and maimed, on Jan. 24, 1975, when the Marxist Puerto Rican terrorist group Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN) blew up New York’s historic Fraunces Tavern during a crowded lunchtime. The FALN appointed themselves my father’s judge, jury and executioner, profiling, targeting and savagely murder- ing so-called “reactionary corporate executives.” The Connor family had planned to celebrate my ninth and my brother’s 11th birthdays that very night.
How’s that for tolerant?
All of this brings us back to Cook County Prosecutor Kim- berly Foxx.
Why does Foxx seem to go so easy on cases in which the offender is represented by the PLO? Why is she willing to ex- onerate criminals when her predecessor refused? Why is she releasing criminals while at the same time admitting they are likely guilty? And why are these offenders then marching into federal court hoping to get multimillion-dollar settlements or jury awards while being represented by law firms like the PLO?
Foxx seems engaged in a massive transformation of the prosecutor’s office. How massive? Why, it’s almost revolutionary.
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