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Believe it or not (no comment here), Ms. Torres was -- sigh -- the wife of a UCC minister, Jose A. Torres. From Chicago. She has served in fact as both a teacher and officer of the First Congregational Church of Chicago -- where her husband is the retired Pastor. What was Ms. Torres of Chicago and Puerto Rico doing on this surveillance tape? Why, she was making a bomb. Yes, you read that right. The wife of a minister of the United Church of Christ was making a bomb. For this she served 16 years in the federal pen before being handed Clinton clemency. She has also been the subject of a laudatory film narrated by Susan Sarandon, the great American actress whose political addiction to the thuggish is considerably less admirable. Did I mention the plaudits for this UCC honoree from the Marxist-Leninist Daily -- Internet Edition? The paper that bills itself as the "Daily On-Line Newspaper of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)"?

But I digress.

p>Here is the exchange over Alejandrina Torres between the UCC's Reverend Dr. Dipko and Congressman Barr: br> /p> blockquote>MR. BARR. Were you here earlier when we showed the tape of this honored--

REV. DIPKO. Yes, I was.

MR. BARR. That didn't impress you at all? You still believe this is an honored person?

REV. DIPKO. That tape would have to have a lot more unpacking for me to understand where it came from and the circumstances under which it were made.

p>MR. BARR. Let's look at it anyway. br> [The videotape was played.] /p>

MR. BARR. The woman at the bottom is your honoree, Alejandrina Torrez. They are manufacturing bombs designed to kill, maim, injure and destroy property.

REV. DIPKO. If that is an accurate record of the happening and that is in fact what she was doing, the church would wish to, of course, disassociate from it.

MR. BARR. In other words, she would no longer be considered an honored person?

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