[O29] Fwd: Protest FBI assassination TOMORROW Thurs 9/29 Noon Govt Ctr

[David Rolde]

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>Protest the political assassination of Puerto Rican patriot 
>Filiberto Ojeda Ríos by FBI agents!
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>Thursday, September 29, 12 noon, JFK Federal Building, Boston 
>Government Center.
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>On Friday September 23, 243 FBI agents invaded a rural community in 
>the municipality of Hormigueros Puerto Rico in order to murder 
>Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, leader of the Puerto Rican clandestine pro 
>independence organization Los Macheteros.
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>Filiberto had been sought by the FBI for 15 years in connection with 
>activities of the Macheteros.  Many people in Puerto Rico have come 
>to respect and admire Filiberto and the Macheteros for their 
>unyielding commitment to free our country from U.S. domination.  The 
>heroic feats of the Macheteros include the destruction in 1983 of 14 
>U.S. F16 war planes warehoused at the American Muñiz Base, meant to 
>be used in the murder of thousands of Salvadoran peasants and 
>indigenous people during the U.S. criminal war against El Salvador. 
>That action earned the Macheteros the respect of many Puerto Ricans 
>across the political spectrum, as our people have never been content 
>with the use of our territory for U.S. acts of aggression against 
>other people around the world.
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>It was clear that the intent of the FBI was to murder Filiberto 
>rather than detain him.  His wife, who witnessed their actions on 
>approaching his home, indicated that they were already firing their 
>arms when they arrived.  The FBI sealed off the entire community 
>where Filiberto lived, depriving the rest of our people of any 
>access to him or any of the residents there.  Once his isolation was 
>secured, he was shot by a sniper on the shoulder, and deprived of 
>medical attention so THAT he would bleed to death.  For twenty hours 
>they kept area residents who wanted to help him at bay, and didn't 
>transfer him to a hospital until they'd made certain that he was 
>dead.
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>The assassination of Filiberto is part of a pattern of brutality on 
>the part of the U.S. government against those who fight for the 
>right of Puerto Ricans to be free of foreign domination.  It is a 
>pattern of butchery and criminality that has claimed the lives of 
>heroes like Don Pedro Albizu Campos, Angel Rodriguez Cristobal, 
>Elías Beauchamp, Hiran Rosado, Pinto Gandía, and too many others. 
>Not surprisingly, their cowardly actions mirror their criminal siege 
>of Native Americans in Wounded Knee, their murderous sieges against 
>the Move community in Philadelphia, their war crimes against the 
>people of Iraq, not to mention the atrocities they commit against 
>the Palestinians via their ethnic cleansing, land-stealing, 
>"Israeli" proxy settler state.  But what else can one expect from a 
>rogue settler government and nation that has been murdering for the 
>sake of plunder since they encountered the Native people they stole 
>this very territory from, and the Africans they brought here as 
>slaves?
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>In their arrogance and racism, the American repressive forces chose 
>September 23 as the day they would murder Filiberto because that is 
>the anniversary of El Grito de Lares, our first uprising in pursuit 
>of National independence. They intended to mock our long history of 
>struggle and turn that date into a reminder of what happens to those 
>who seek to rid us of our occupiers.  Judging by the thousands of 
>Puerto Ricans who poured out into our nation's streets to express 
>their rage at our thug invaders and admiration for Filiberto, it's 
>safe to say they miscalculated, and instead galvanized the next 
>generation of resisters.
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>U.S. out of Puerto Rico! Filiberto live on because our struggle continues!
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