Opinion

No nonsense on terror

Kudos to Queens City Council member Dan Halloran for standing up to a colleague’s attempt to have the entire Council endorse a terrorist’s parole bid.

Melissa Mark-Viverito, who represents East Harlem, called on fellow council members to support Oscar Lopez-Rivera, the onetime leader of the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN now doing 70 years for seditious conspiracy.

Or, as she disingenuously put it: “for his commitment to the independence of Puerto Rico.”

This outraged Halloran, who remembers that more than three decades ago, the FALN was responsible for a reign of terror that killed six people and injured 130 others in more than 100 bombings.

That included the 1983 bombing of Police Headquarters, which maimed three cops who tried to defuse the bombs.

Halloran says his “jaw hit the ground” when he read Mark-Viverito’s note. “I guess the 9/11 bombers could make the same argument,” he replied in an email that was copied to the entire council.

“They were merely responding to the ‘evils’ of the US. Will you be asking for them to be pardoned, too?”

Lopez-Rivera was initially included in Bill Clinton’s shameful 1999 pardon of top FALN leaders — but rejected the offer, because it would have required him to publicly renounce violence.

Mark-Viverito, it should be noted, called Halloran’s response “inappropriate and offensive.”

That’s more accurately a description of her effort to get the City Council to endorse a legacy of terror.