Why Do They Want to Free Leonard Peltier? posted 8/1/2009 8:41:30 AM | 2 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: crime, indians, fbi

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Perhaps most of you at one time or another have seen the political ad, "Free Leonard Peltier!" Unless you are Native American, you probably don't have a clue what this is about. His parole hearing was held on July 28, 2009.

In the early 1970s Leonard Peltier, a Lakota (Sioux), was a leader of a extremist faction in the American Indian Movement. On June 26, 1975, Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams were searching for a young Pine Ridge man named Jimmy Eagle, wanted for questioning in connection with the recent assault and robbery of two local ranch hands. The agents were captured in an ambush and then executed while being held by their captors. One of the Native American assailants was later killed by Federal agents in the counter attack.

The violence was in the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Occupation on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation. As many of you probably saw on the PBS Documentary on this sad incident, it is clear that the Nixon Whitehouse intentionally placed undercover agents inside AIM and the Pine Ridge Reservation to stir up trouble. A recently arrived North Carolina Cherokee man was shot in the head by an army or FBI sniper while sitting in a living room inside the reservation. This was done in hopes that the Indians would then go into a rage, race out into the prairie with guns blazing and then be mowed down by tanks and machine guns.

In 1977, Peltier was convicted for the murder of the two federal agents and sentenced to two life sentences. Three other Lakotas alledgedly in a vehicle with Peltier were found not-guilty by means of self-defense. Since that time, AIM, plus many organizations around the world have sought to have Peltier freed because they feel that his trial was rigged and that Peltier is innocent of the crimes.

If you actually read the details of the case, instead of going on emotional impulses, there is conflicting evidence on the case. One of the most incriminating aspects is that Peltier burned his vehicle containing the weopens that killed the law enforcement officers, and escaped to Canada. On the other hand, Federal law enforcement officers did some awfully fishy things to insure Peltier's conviction. Personally, I am not convinced that a pardon or parole is justifed. However, I do think that the case needs to be re-examined during an era when perhaps all parties involved would behave more rationally.

To me, Peltier at least looks like an accessory to a very brutal crime. I wasn't there however. On the other hand, I personally was the victim of an attempted frame up in 2000. Shortly, after arriving in this town, a rogue FBI agent visited the town's police chief and told him that I was a dangerous, violent person prone to shooting off guns and probably a serial killer. Shortly, thereafter, a 32 year old single mother in Andrews, NC, to whom I had sent an email, but never met, was brutally murdered. Items from my house were placed at the crime scene. I had originally told several people via email that I planned to camp near the location where she was murdered. Fortunately for me, at the time of the murder, instead I was at my mother's bedside in a hospital 150 miles away. Keep in mind that just a few years before in Virginia, I cooperated with FBI agents there for 2 years to help bring down a drug-running ring operated by Virginia state police officials. I was a FRIEND of the FBI. Why they did this, I don't know.

So what you see on the TV news is not necessarily what actually happened.

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