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Lori Berenson Set Free

Marxist activist Lori Berenson was convicted in 1995 for her acts of terrorism with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) in Peru.  She was set free on parole where she must finish her remaining five years in Lima without leaving the country.

She served 15 years and was granted parole today.  Lori Berenson probably benefited from the weight of the American government in reducing the original lifetime sentence to 20 years back in 2005.

MRTA was a Communist rebel group that looked to impose a totalitarian form of government in Peru through terrorist activities.  They’re most famous for their takeover of the Japanese embassy in Lima in 1997.

Over 70,000 Peruvians were victims of Marxist and Communist terrorist activities throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Peruvians were upset with the announcement of her release today.  Many still remember a time when children could go out and play and walk at night in relative safety.  Peru today is markedly different from that time because of these terrorist organizations activities.

I’m all for second chances and hope that Miss Lori Berenson is a changed person but I am wary of people like her being raised as a celebrity and hero by Communists everywhere.

Let’s pray for her and the people of Peru.

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(Biretta tip:  Lucien Chauvin of the Christian Science Monitor)

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Frank Wetta
Frank Wetta
Wednesday, June 23, AD 2010 6:59am

Berenson denied for fifteen years that she collaborated with MRTA. Now, it seems, this was a lie. She recently accepted “responsibility for the crime of collaboration with terrorists” and apologized to the people of Peru. Berenson was a revolutionary groupie – a rebel princess who, supported by a trust fund set up by her parents, engaged in various radical left-wing activities in Latin America.

Tito Edwards
Wednesday, June 23, AD 2010 1:16pm

Frank,

You’ve described liberal terrorist John Walker Lindh. He’s the typical Marin County hot-tubber out of the liberal bastion of San Francisco.

Spoiled rotten and raised to hate America.

Typical stuff from your typical America-hating liberals.

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