Reposted
from Rezinate Blog, August 20, 2013:
As
long as rivers flow and grasses grow Peltier will remain the unrepentant
liar he is. His own words spoken over the decades verify such is the case.
Peltier to
Richard LaCourse:
“All I can say is this, people on my reservation know about what happened
that day. They know who fought and they knew who was courageous and they know
who was the hero. They know I fought very, very hard that day. Although I
didn’t kill nobody, I fought very, very hard. I was not afraid. I stood there
(unintelligible) the enemy as a warrior should when he’s victorious. I wasn’t
afraid. I was not afraid any of those times. I can’t get up here and say, tell
the world I was a courageous warrior. Especially in this system, I can’t tell
the system I was shooting at their police officers that were trying to arrest
me. They’ll hold that against me. I’ve got to be careful about that stuff.”
Here
above he admits he was shooting at Williams and Coler, and in typical
fashion can’t resist the opportunity to flatter himself in saying he fought
hard as a hero and courageous warrior-elsewhere he has said he was merely
shooting in a direction where no one could be “hit, hurt, killed.”
And he’s so ignorant he says he can’t say something and then does.
Note also
his statement about “police officers that were trying to arrest me”-that is the
key to everything that transpired as Peltier believed they were coming for him
regarding a Wisconsin warrant.
Peltier to
Darrin Wood:
“For me it’s something very heroic that he’s done. He’s putting himself
at risk, seriously at risk. I will say this: that this brother is a very strong
brother. He is not a cold-blooded murderer. He is not a bad person, he’s very
kind, generous and sincere.”
The choice
of words are bizarre even by Peltier standards-he is saying that the non
existent Mr. X despite shooting two wounded men in the face at point
blank range is a “kind” person.
To Mark
Potter:
Mark
Potter: So with those cars down there, at the center of all that,
you, as a leader, never, never went down to see what was going on?
And after
being told Robideau placed him there Peltier had the following to say.
“Yeah, Well, shoot. I
mean I, I. Yeah, I guess, you know. I knew they were dead, they got killed; I
heard they got killed. I knew they got killed.”
And from
Mathiessen’s In The Spirit of Crazy Horse”
“I felt
like we were all dead,” he said to somebody. “I was feeling crazy because there
were still women and children up there in June’s cabin. When Joe came down
there to the cars, I said to him, I think they’re gonna kill everyone here.
That’s what I told him, this is the day to be a warrior.”
This
admission that he was present at the cars predates his initial attempted denial
to Potter-guess he must have forgotten it.
Maybe a
Peltierite would care to explain the obvious contradictions?
Like I said
before-if Peltier were Pinochhio a separate cell would have to be provided to
accommodate his nose.
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