Dear Supporters:
Reposted
from Rezinate:
Rezinate
and I don’t agree on everything, but one thing we certainly do.
“In
the Spirit of Coler and Williams”
Ed
Rezilnate
Blog 6/13/16:
“I’ve
given the same answer for 40 years. I didn’t do it and I won’t say that I did.
I won’t betray my people like that, I won't betray my culture,” said the
activist.
The
more accurate statement would be to say Peltier has told the same lies for
forty years - some of which he has been obliged to drop like the Mr.X fairytale
and the no he never even went near the slain agents or their vehicles - but who
can keep count when the lies have been part and parcel of the fabricated myth?
Peltier
now belatedly says:
“Of
course I feel remorse,” he added. “Nobody should have died that day, the whole
thing should never have happened. It was a terrible tragedy.”
That
may be the most truthful thing Peltier has ever said as he now to quote his
very words related to shooting Coler at point blank range “begs like a m...f...”
for clemency.
And
were it not for his mistaken belief that agents Williams and Coler were looking
for him related to a Wisconsin fugitive warrant no one would died that
day - not Williams or Coler, nor Joe Stuntz whose death is directly
attributable to what ensued as initiated by Peltier and whose blood is on his
hands.
So
what exactly is Peltier remorseful about at this stage of the game in the midst
of a clemency application?
Is
it the stupidity of his actions that landed him behind bars?
Is
it the grief of his victim’s survivors or what he has put his own family and
the nations through?
Or
is merely about the fact that he threw away his own life and longs for the thug
days when he got to tote a gun and stick it in a woman’s mouth to interrogate
her?
Peltier
says he won’t confess because to do so would be to “betray my culture”.
Which
culture is that exactly? Is it the one based on traditional values, a culture
where assuming responsibility for one’s actions was a lynch pin and lying was
anathema?
Where
integrity was the hallmark of a man rather than a lot of whining, crying, and
posturing?
Doesn’t
sound like it to me - it sounds more like the thug culture of the AIM
gangbangers - the code of silence and forsaking everything including family for
the brotherhood.
Peltier
says he’s prepared to die in prison, well that’s wisdom and probably
unavoidable - nothing heroic about it, no warrior’s stance, just an inevitability
based on personal guilt so he might as well try to talk the talk because he
ain’t going anywhere.
“Indian
lives matter”? Damn right they do Peltier - Annie and Joe’s life mattered, as
did the life of every individual that AIM took.
Perry
Ray Robinson Jr., a black man AIM murdered at WK2, his life mattered - the
lives of two white men Williams and Coler mattered, as did the lives of those
buried in unmarked graves at WK2.
But
the life of thug related to whether it is spent in prison or not ……. some might
say that’s arguable.
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