Reposted from Rezinate Blog:
An
article on the ILPDC site asks the rhetorical question “when is enough enough”
related to Peltier’s imprisonment.
I
wouldn’t think it a difficult question to answer for the survivors of Peltier’s
victims, and I can imagine they might reply when their dead have come back to
life.
That
isn’t possible though as we all know, a secondary response might be when
Peltier comes clean and accepts responsibility.
Not
much likelihood of that either as Peltier is fully involved in the myth created
for him, and when you think about it that’s all he has ….. the myth, even down
to being Lakota which he is not.
Peltier
was never anything more than a thug, never a person of “consequence” within
AIM, that is until he became a cold blooded killer.
The
same article includes a quote or two, one claiming we as a people and nations
have no heroes, with Peltier being the exception as he was “fighting for treaty
rights” - which to put it bluntly is pure unadulterated bullshit.
Peltier’s
“fight” was about falsely assuming that two federal agents who were looking for
someone else had come to arrest him on a fugitive warrant from Wisconsin.
More
than a little difficult to somehow convert that from a thug referred to among
his cohorts as “dumb as dirt” to a “political prisoner.”
The
reality is AIM’s politics led to a reign of terror that included multiple
murders, and in creating a smoke screen it became necessary to turn Peltier into
a “hero”.
Another
quote says that “Peltier” belongs to the nations and “we” don’t want our
brother to die in prison like Geronimo.”
To
begin with Peltier belongs to AIM, he’s their boy and they are saddled with him
as a man who would commit cold murder, interrogate women at gunpoint, and make
a career of lying.
Peltier
is no Geronimo, not even close, nor does he or has he ever spoken or done
anything “in the spirit of Crazy Horse.
If
any comparisons are to be made attempting to liken Peltier in any way with the
Apache or Geronimo better to liken him to Mickey Free, a child of mixed Mexican
Irish ancestry by the name of Felix Ward who was taken and basically raised by
Apaches, no more an Apache than Peltier is Lakota.
As
to heroes the nations have many both past and present - neither Peltier nor a
single member of the AIM leadership qualify.
Peltier
has become a long running media and internet meme sustained in large measure by
the uninformed, the misguided, and those who basically don’t give a damn what
he or any other “political prisoner” has done.
How
many lies they’ve told, or any part of their history - for those who fall into
that category while talking about “healing” I would have to say they don’t have
a clue and they should stop pretending that they do.
If
they believe their “indianness” whether in this life or a "previous life”
is defined or dependent upon advocating for a thug they’ve been hanging around
the fort for too long.
(further
comments by Rezinate…)
Even if I could personally find some work around
about the murders AIM and Peltier committed, which I cannot, I don’t believe I
could ever do the same about Peltier’s interrogating Annie at gunpoint.
And Annie wasn’t the only woman Peltier pulled his
tough act with, there was Minnie Two Shoes and others as well.
No one can ever convince me in light of such things
that while on the run from Jumping Bull he wasn’t in touch with AIM leaders
like Bank$, Means, and the rest them, that he didn’t know of the plan and
advocated for her murder thinking it would protect his sorry ass.
All of which would be in his parole hearing records
and the reason why neither he nor ILPDC ever want them to see the light of day-
Peltier’s signature on a release form is all that’s required.
He’s spent years in prison? Yeah, but he’s also
spent years lying and refusing to sign off.
Then when the RCMP captures him what does dumb as
dirt say? He says agents Williams and Coler were murdered because his belief
was they were
looking for him on a Wisconsin fugitive warrant.
And of course says he personally had nothing to do
with but knows who did – that while also playing the “warrior” role and saying
if he had known the RCMP were coming he would have blown them out of their
shoes.
Now ask yourself this – how many people do you know
or think would take it upon themselves to kill a cop(s) whether federal or not
to protect someone, anyone, much less a person like Peltier because his belief
was they were coming for him when in fact they were not and didn’t even know he
was around?
I don’t know if dirt is dumb or anything is dumber
than dirt, but if it is, and something is, Peltier fills the bill, and offhand
I’d have to say dirt is smarter than Peltier.
