INCREDIBLE – AT 11:57 A.M. ET:  What is happening to America?  What is happening to New York City?

If you think pro-Sandinista and pro-Castro Mayor Bill de Blasio is bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet.  Introducing the speaker of the New York City Council, the second highest official in the city.  She makes de Blasio look like Ronald Reagan.  It's important because New York City, a huge media center, influences other cities around the country.  From the New York Post:   

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito on Tuesday eulogized a convicted terrorist and sponsor of political violence against the United States, calling the late Isabel Rosado Morales “our icon and national patriot.”

Morales died in Puerto Rico earlier Tuesday at 107.

She’d been imprisoned three times for seditious acts, the final time in 1954, for her involvement in a plot that culminated in an attack on Congress by four Puerto Rican nationalists. Firing from the House gallery, they shot and wounded five US congressmen.

Morales was apprehended the next day in San Juan, after a two-hour gun battle in which she took vigorous part, at the home of Pedro Albizu Campos, the “Maestro” of the Puerto Rican independence movement.

Tried and convicted for her role in the assassination attempt, Morales was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

And...

For most of her first two terms on the council, Mark-Viverito stood for, but did not recite, the Pledge of Allegiance. Asked about it, a staffer said that she was “unfamiliar” with the tradition and its 31 words.

Council Member Karen Koslowitz disputed this claim, recalling that that Mark-Viverito told her specifically that she opposed saying the Pledge on ideological grounds.

“She wanted Puerto Rico to be independent,” Koslowitz says. “She was looking for Puerto Rico to take its independence.”

COMMENT:  In fact, Puerto Ricans themselves have overwhelmingly voted against independence, but hard leftists like Mark-Viverito don't care.  To them, democracy only exists if they win, no matter how they do it.

And that's New York City today.  You can't make this stuff up.

January 17, 2015