Puerto Rico is America's own Northern Ireland

Moslem terrorists weren't the first people to try to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993 or 2001. Puerto Rico nationalists were in 1977.

Puerto Rico nationalists were in 1977. The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (English: Armed Forces of National Liberation, better known in the United States as the FALN, has left behind a trail of bloodshed and mayhem for nearly six decades -- 18 pages worth at least.

In 1954, members of the FALN opened fire on the House of Represetatives from the visitor's gallery and attempted to kill Presdient Truman.

A 1983 FALN robbery in West Harford, Connecticut was aided by Fidel Castro. In fact:

When President Clinton in August offered clemency to 16 radical Puerto Rican nationalists, he was freeing members of two groups that were created in consultation with Cuban intelligence agents and that bombed more than 120 U.S. targets with Cuban support since at least the 1970s.

The Puerto Rican nationalists have consistently dimissed suggestions of Cuban support for their movement - even when presented with evidence that Cuba received about a third of the stolen [$7.1 million of] Wells Fargo money.

"Statehood will mean war. Violence is hard to stomach, but George Washington killed thousands of British to gain recognition for 13 colonies that claimed the right to be independent. If the United States wants its very own Northern Ireland, let them continue this farce." - Carlos M. Ayes, a professor at The Center for Advanced Study located in San Juan, The New York Times Magazine, February 18, 1990 that statehood will not necessarily put an end to the independence movement.