Message from Leonard Peltier

[Annces]

Crazy Horse in Chains
30 Years in Prison and the Struggle Continues
By LEONARD PELTIER

Well here it is another year. Another birthday. This one makes me 62 years old. Also this makes it my thirty plus years in prison. I believe it was right after I was illegally convicted in Fargo, North Dokota when I wrote a statement telling everyone that my freedom would only come after the masses had demanded it. But first we would have to unite and organize, to reach them. So far we have been unable to do so. Yes we have reached millions who have signed my petitions we have circulated throughout the world asking for my release. True most of those good peoples are from Europe, but we have also made a lot of gains here in the United States. At one time we had fifty five (55) members of Congress sign a letter for a new
trial or my release.

Fifty-five members is historical. No other prisoner in history has ever been able to accomplish this, nor has anyone else, individually I mean, and there are other accomplishments we have made and won here in the United States. Still I sit in prison not because I am guilty of the alleged crime I was illegally convicted of but because we still are unable to reach the masses here in America. The reason for this is not because the American people do not care or want to help, but because we have been unable to reach them. Personally I believe the majority of them do care and want to help. We sense this from the ones we are able to reach. We are moving forward very slowly in this freedom campaign of mine. The reason is we just do not have the financial resources to move forward at the pace we would like to be.

This is the real and only reason that we have not been able to reach the people in the United States. Nothing is free here in America, not justice or the media. So although there is still no light at the end of the tunnel for me or my freedom, we continue struggling forward. I continue to search for the hope and strength I need to survive. I continue to pray and hope that one day I will get the support I need from the American people and one day I will still be able to walk out of prison. So my hopes and spirits are still high at my 62 years of age. I continue on this continued struggle. We are still finding bits and pieces of new evidence to file new appeals on. Those of you who have followed my case closely I can imagine are thinking How can this be, as there has been so many constitutional violations already. But the same old problem exists. The courts continue to cover up the continued criminal acts of my conviction committed by my prosecutors.

Your help is needed, Give what you can to FreedomWalk.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,
Leonard Peltier

http://www.counterpunch.org/peltier09132006.html


http://www.freedomwalk.com

[uppityperson]

1. Happy Birthday Mr. Peltier

so sorry you are still in prison, my condolences.

[TomInTib]

2. God. It's really been thirty years. Railroaded. k&r

Man, he just scared them to death, didn't he?

[Union Thug]

3. In Solidarity with Leonard and AIM

If you would like to write to Leonard to express your solidarity, please visit this link for more info:

http://www.aimovement.org/peltier/index.html

[Bobbieo]

4. What Leonard has to do is get his own people -

the Native Americans - behind him and he is not getting them united. Christ, I've been trying to get them united for the past four years in my blog - Native Unity. T'aint easy!!!!

[Greyhound]

5. But wait, I thought amerika was a perfectly wonderful place before *Co.

carried out the coup?

Happy birthday isn't really appropriate, but my thoughts are there today.:banghead:

[Name removed]

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[Annces]

7. Peltier was unjustly convicted of murder of two FBI agents

on a reservation in South Dakota.

Anyhow, there is nothing wrong with bringing up his story. People are intrigued by such stories and go on to find out the facts, even if it is new to them.

Also, Peltier has more support from people in Europe. What is up with that?

[Bobbieo]

10. Because his own people are not so certain of his innocence.

This is a long, involved story of violence and intrigue.

[H2O Man]

16. That's not true.

It isn't a mystery. The identities of the actual gunmen is pretty well known. They were interviewed on 60 Minutes years ago. "His own people" know that Leonard did not shoot the FBI agents.

[Greyhound]

8. I was too young to remember the specifics that were presented to

us, but I have a healthy mistrust of power since I have seen it abused first-hand, over and over, all of my life.

Not knowing the specifics, I don't necessarily support him, but am suspicious the administration of "justice" as our government metes it out, and therefore will lend credence to his advocates and make a judgment based on the evidence.

On edit; What's up with "you white people"?

[Shakespeare]

11. Actually, this white person has extensively researched Peltier's case.

And his trial was a sham--the man was railroaded.

"you white people" :eyes:

[truebrit71]

12. Why don't you enlighten us 'white people' then...

:eyes:

[Greyhound]

14. WTF? Just because of a minor faux pas, his reply is deleted?

Bad call. Ether we can discuss issues or we can't. I'm not on any side of this, but it seems to me we should be able to tolerate dissent.

[H2O Man]

17. If you are interested,

perhaps the single best source of information is Peter Matthiessen's book "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse." I would recommend getting the editions with his "afterword" (1991), as it adds a lot to the book's value.

Besides being a strange and tragic story, it provides a most curious study of just how "free" our press is to tell a true story. There is a heck of a legal story involving the book's publication and distribution.

[Bushfire]

18. He was fired upon by undercover FBI agents who didn't identify themselves,

and fought back on his reservation at Pine Ridge SD. Rent the movie Incident at Oglala .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104504/

[Bushfire]

9. I expected Bush I not to pardon, but Clinton had no excuse...

I urged him several times in the waning days of his second term, and cannot ever forgive him for that. He's a toadie of the corporate elite, and a huge disappointment for human rights in our own backyard. Native Americans deserve better...

[tomp]

13. agree, i can't forgive clinton for that either. nt

[Greyhound]

15. I'll second that. n/t

:hi: