~LPNET: The Fact is/Leonard Peltier is Innocent~ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:56:00 -0500 (CDT) ........................................................................... Beware of the pleas of the oppressed, because they will ask for justice from The Creator, and The Creator does not deny the rights of the deserving. ........................................................................... From: Keith Rabin To: Russell Redner , Harvey Arden Subject: The Fact is/Leonard Peltier is Innocent Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:43:39 -0600 A counterpoint to the words on Leonard Peltier written by the Associated Press reporter Carson Walker, Souix Falls SD. _The Fact Is_ By: keith rabin Copyright July 2005 You cant start a story building on lies and hoping the enduring quality of the words will be as lasting as a Neidhart quote. President Bush attempted to do this same thing and was caught. There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The point being, no matter how many times you say it, it wont change the facts. I would like to state that it was never Fact that Leonard Peltier had anything to do with the killing of the two FBI agents trespassing in Pine Ridge, an indigenous sovereign nation. (Why was the FBI even there?) There is no proof of any wrong doing by Leonard Peltier. Yes, he has been in jail for 30 years, but the only thing he has been guilty of so far is being Innocent and being Indian. The fact IS in America, if you are not liked, or even hated by those in power, you can go to jail or worse, despite being perfectly innocent. Others have been tried for the same offense that Leonard Peltier is doing Prison Time for. Did you know that every person at Pine Ridge tried on these same charges was found to be innocent by means of self defense? They were defending themselves. They were being attacked while cooking a pancake breakfast. The fact is that the whole judicial process, in this case, is a joke from the start. It is a fact the only reason he is still in prison is no one has the eggs to go against the scary FBI guys. A mans life is at stake here. The killer (as noted in the headline) might be looked upon differently, or in a different light. You are correct in saying that Joe Stuntz was murdered by the FBI. The FBI had no jurisdiction in Pine Ridge. They had no cause to open fire, so they created misinformation. Yes, like the Downing Street memos which prove that G. W. Bush, in secret meetings, made up the facts, and created the stories that took us to war. On the Pine Ridge Reservation, the FBI made up evidence to fit the crime and the whole sickening thing is that everyone- including the FBI- knows it. They just want someone to pay the price for the indigenous people expressing themselves. They wanted and continue to want an Indian to pay the price. That's just bad dirt. Thousands of pages of FBI files remain inaccessible to the Peltier legal team 30 years later. If these documents didnt prove his innocence, why is the FBI still withholding this information? When the story comes out pertaining to the Plot Against Wilson, there we will find the real dirt in the White House, Carl Rove, and his attack against America. Then we will know about bad dirt. This is the government who holds Leonard Peltier prisoner for crimes unproven. The fact IS Leonard Peltier has been abused in prison. The fact IS Leonard Peltier endures this and for what? The question is not the definition of the word is, but the definition of human compassion and truth. The fact IS Leonards health is poor, his legal rights are a farce, and he is restricted from practicing his religion. His basic human rights have been abused and denied. In every country, even where the freedom of the individual is not a God given right, they are laughing at our judicial hypocrisy. The fact is the freedom of the press is alive and well in many other countries. Im sorry that freedom of the press in these United States is over for now. When the press has been put in jail for protecting their sources, we lose our freedom of the press. As it is, we may never again be free to write our words, or think our own thoughts, without Big Brother listening in and making up stories. Who will they be about next? For further Information please check these sites: www.freeleonard.org www.peltiersupport.org www.haveyouthought.com _____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note of 7/20/05 from Russell Redner, new Director of LPDC, to Keith Rabin, poet, writer and devoted Leonard Peltier supporter: Keith, another awesome statement tying in today's reality in America! Carson Walker's articles make him sound as a boy of the blue suits. If you can, we would like for you to search everywhere they've published his article (since he's AP) and send this response to them, and if you feel inspired write responses to his other articles. We'd also like to post your letter on our website, publish it on all the indymedia sites, translate it into Spanish and send it out to our friends overseas to publish it (for these purposes you/we need to take out the references to the Carson Walker article). We need more writers to fire back at these people, and help publishing in all the indymedia sites, so any trustworthy volunteers are welcome. Please let us know. Wanbli Watakpe (aka Russ Redner) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- story below Killer of 2 FBI agents moved to Terre Haute facility > > By Carson Walker Associated Press > > SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Terre Haute is the new home for the man serving two life sentences for the 1975 slaying of two FBI agents in South Dakota, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Leonard Peltier's relocation to the United States Penitentiary was prompted by a change in mission at the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., where he has been held. > Maximum-security prisoners had to be moved out of the penitentiary so the facility can be transformed into a medium-security institution. "We kind of thought he was going to be transferred," said Peltier's lawyer, Barry Bachrach. "We didn't know when." The move apparently happened sometime during the past few weeks. Bachrach found out July 1 when Peltier's grandson went to visit him. Peltier, 60, was a member of the American Indian Movement in the 1970s and was convicted in Fargo, N.D., of killing agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler 30 years ago, on June 26, 1975. Both men were shot in the head at point-blank range after being injured in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. AIM member Joseph Stuntz also was shot that day. The Justice Department concluded an FBI sniper killed Stuntz, who was clad in Coler's FBI jacket when his body was found. Peltier has maintained his innocence, but numerous appeals have failed to overturn the convictions or order a parole hearing. Human rights groups including Amnesty International, have called for Peltier's release. .......................................................................... MEMBERS OF LPNET HAVE COMMITTED OURSELVES TO SENDING THESE OCCASIONAL MESSAGES REGARDING LEONARD PELTIER TO AS WIDE AN AUDIENCE AS POSSIBLE. THANKS FROM LEONARD PERSONALLY FOR THE TIME IT TAKES YOU TO DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE TO FOLKS ON YOUR PERSONAL LISTS. NO MASTER LIST. JUST PEOPLE LIKE US DOING OUR PART TO FREE OUR BROTHER LEONARD, WHO NOW BEGINS HIS 30TH YEAR OF IMPRISONMENT FOR A CRIME THE WHOLE WORLD--AND ESPECIALLY THE FBI--KNOWS HE DID NOT COMMIT. PLEASE HELP US FREE AN INNOCENT MAN BY DISTRIBUTING THIS MESSAGE FAR & WIDE-- And please ask your friends to JOIN LPNET by sending a message to harveyarden@starpower.net with I'LL JOIN LPNET on subject line. Thanks! With YOUR help we CAN reach the whole world! We WILL get Leonard OUT--with YOUR help! /Harvey Arden .......................................................................... * Maybe you alone cant save the world * but it certainly wont be saved without you. * ************************************************************************ To be removed from this list, please reply with REMOVE on subject line ************************************************************************ .......................................................................... To JOIN LPNET