As published in Townhall.com and discussed with Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV Joe focuses on Bernie Sanders’ pledge to pardon unrepentant FALN terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera who incredibly refused the Clintons’ craven clemency offer in 1999. Please click on the link below to view Steve Malzberg’s interview with Joe. http://townhall.com/columnists/joeconnor/2016/05/20/i-faced-this-terrorist-and-kept-him-in-prison-lopez-not-a-political-prisoner-n2166077 From Townhall:...
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God bless those innocents murdered in Brussels today by radical islamic extremists. We pray their families find strength, peace and justice. President Obama’s words immediately after today’s attack were the height of hypocrisy, “This is yet another reminder that the world must unite. We must be together regardless of nationality, or race, or faith in fighting...
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As published in National Review Online and Townhall.com: The Guantanamo Bay detention camps have been attacked by many, including our own president, as contrary to American Values, as not “who we are” and a “recruitment tool for our enemies.” For those of us who have been there, who have observed the terrorists in court...
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On Varney & Co. Monday, Stuart and Joe discussed the continued disgraceful Cuban Capitulation; failure to secure the return of fugitives as hard US tourist dollars reward the Castro Regime. Will candidate Hillary Clinton now demand the return of William Morales, escaped, convicted bomb maker for the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN who murdered my father...
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As published in Townhall.com on December 22, 2015. http://townhall.com/columnists/joeconnor/2015/12/22/hillary-not-qualified-to-win-war-on-terror-n2096386 In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, how dare Hillary Clinton lecture us on how to win the war against terrorists. As we endure the politically driven rhetoric about terrorism from Mrs. Clinton, a candidate who refuses to even...
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We Were There presentation www.tributewtc.org/events On September 11th, 2001, Joe Connor worked for JP Morgan Chase, just blocks away from the World Trade Center. As Joe fled from lower New York that day, first responders, like Caitlin Langone’s father, were racing directly into danger. Please click on the photo to the right or...
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New York City’s number 2, Melissa Mark Viverito advocates to the Pope for a convicted terrorist and endorses Hillary Clinton. From Murray Weiss at DNAInfo.com, Viverito advocates for terrorist to Pope She (Viverito) is an elected New York official and instead of asking the Pope to help all kinds of needy people in New York, she advocated...
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New York City’s number two, Melissa Mark Viverito was in Puerto Rico with Governor Cuomo this week pushing for US taxpayer funded federal aid in Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis. Said Viverito, “I thank Governor Cuomo for leading this trip to Puerto Rico to continue to push for an adequate response from the federal government...
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“The President doesn’t negotiate at all…” Joe discussed the Obama Administration’s capitulation to Cuba and Iran with Stuart on Varney & Co Monday morning. For the full interview, please click here, on the photo or copy and paste the link below into your browser. http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2015/08/17/anti-terror-activist-equates-cuba-to-iran-deal.html Also As published in Fox New Latino on...
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New York City Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito’s crusade for a second presidential clemency grant to unrepentant terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera is based on a calculated compilation of lies, omissions and obfuscations including failing to mention that Lopez has already been offered release but refused the Clintons’ 1999 clemency grant. Lopez’s Puerto Rican terrorist group, Armed Forces...
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Our father, 33 year old Frank Connor was murdered in cold blood by William Morales’s and Oscar Lopez’s FALN. Incredibly over this weekend, the Obama administration removed Cuba, who sponsors fugitive FALN bomber William Morales, from the State Sponsor of Terror list and New York City Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito continued her crusade for a second presidential clemency for FALN leader Oscar Lopez Rivera...
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From Fox 5 New York, May 20, 2015 “If we give in to Cuba on fugitives, on freedom its not negotiating, its capitulating. And my father deserved better…” For the full piece, please click the link below or on the photo to the right. http://www.myfoxny.com/story/29120191/us-cuba-talks-fugitives The United States and Cuba head into a fourth...
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In my statement to Fox News Latino, “Only a weak, pathetic Congress who does not have the best interests of the American people at heart would not put up a fight against Obama removing Cuba — a state that has sponsored terrorists for decades — from the state sponsors of terror list.,” said Joe Connor,...
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Only days before President Obama’s inauguration in Jan., 2009, I was invited to testify at Eric Holder’s confirmation hearing regarding his engineering, as deputy attorney general, the infamous 1999 Clinton clemency grants to 16 unrepentant members of the Puerto Rican terror group, Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN). During his own Senate testimony, Mr....
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Perhaps we are reaching a positive tipping point in the quest to bring fugitives back from Cuba to face justice. This week Alan Yuhas of The Guardian and Liz Llorente of Fox News Latino joined the Hartford Courant, New York Post, Bergen Record, Fox News Channel and other news outlets in publishing stories on the return of fugitives from...
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The Bergen Record www.northjersey.com/news/fugitive-nj-cop-killer-chesimard-s-return-from-cuba-possible-1.1309796 ….Connor’s son, Joseph, of Glen Rock, said he was skeptical of the timing of Wednesday’s State Department statement. He said he viewed the announcement of possible talks over Chesimard and Morales as an attempt by the White House to “placate” critics of Obama’s decision a day earlier to remove Cuba...
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Thank you to James Rosen and the Fox team for focusing on the return of FALN fugitive bomb maker William Morales who has been a guest of Castros’ Cuba since 1988. Any normalization of relations with Cuba must minimally be conditioned on the return of Morales, Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur), Victor Gerena, Charlie Hill and the reported...
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Dennis Miller and Steve Malzberg invited Joe on their respective shows this week to remember Frank Connor and the 40th anniversary of the infamous Fraunces Tavern bombing. We also discussed President Obama’s proposed normalization of relations with Cuba and continued the momentum to bring FALN terrorist William Morales and other fugitives back to face justice. The...
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Thank you Fox & Friends for remembering Frank Connor Sunday morning. A day after joining Eric Shawn on America’s News HQs for the 40th anniversary of the Fraunces Tavern bombing, the Fox & Friends team invited Joe to continue the discussion of President Obama’s decision to normalize relations with Cuba and Joe’s decades long struggle for the return of fugitive Puerto Rican FALN terrorist...
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Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan is where, on December 4, 1783, General George Washington bid an emotional farewell to his Revolutionary War officers before returning to his beloved Martha at their Mt. Vernon home in Virginia. It is also where Marxist terrorists committed mass murder forty years ago today. The New York Daily News...
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Doug Urbanski invited Joe to discuss Obama’s capitulation to Cuba on December 30th’s Dennis Miller Show. We moved from the failure of the US to secure the return of FALN bomber, fugitive William Morales (cage right) and Joanne Chesimard to the parallels between the mood in New York today and back in the mid1970s when...
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Fox & Friends and Steve Malzberg furthered justice with me this weekend by demanding the return of William Morales, Joanne Chesimard and all fugitives who have been guests of Cuba for decades. Please see Joe’s NYPost Op / Ed of December 23 detailing Morales http://nypost.com/2014/12/22/bring-this-terrorist-back-from-cuba/ Morales, chief bomb maker for the Puerto Rican Terrorist group FALN...
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