Posted on 11/05/2013 6:43:27 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
William Potts burned with the desire to change the world. Nothing really turned out the way he planned...
... he returned to the United States and in 1984 he concealed a .25-caliber pistol in a plaster cast and hijacked a plane to Cuba, among the last in a flood of dozens of self-styled revolutionary hijackings. To Potts' surprise, Cuban authorities didn't offer him guerrilla training. He was convicted of air piracy and imprisoned for more than 13 years.
Now, 29 years after he changed into a black beret and leather jacket in a plane bathroom and hijacked more than 100 people on their way from Newark to Miami, Potts is optimistic that he'll soon be heading home. He said Friday that U.S. officials in Cuba are processing a passport application he submitted earlier in the week and they have told him it could be completed in a matter of weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.theindependent.com ...
Let him rot in Cuba. We don’t need any more Obama voters.
Let him rot and die in Cuba. Eff him!
When he gets here and sees the atrocities Obama is pulling he’ll want to go back.
Obama and his Democrats will probably pin a medal on him.
A former U.S. militant who hijacked a plane to Cuba almost 30 years ago flew home to the United States to face air piracy charges on Wednesday and was taken into FBI custody in Miami, an FBI spokesman said.
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