Dear Supporters:
Peltier is still reeling from the
devastation of January 18th and the realization that he’s not going
anywhere, at least for the next four years. (Thank you, President Obama.*)
The International Leonard Peltier
Defense Committee (ILPDC) announced that it has reorganized (for about the
fifth time since 2000), under new leadership and has moved back to Fargo.
Fargo, where it all began for Peltier
after his trial and sentencing on June 2, 1977 to consecutive life sentences
for the brutal murders of FBI Agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams.
The ILPDC bulletin, on an inartfully
named website, powwow-power.com, announced that Peltier’s niece, Kari Ann
Boushee and cousin, Paulette Dauteuil-Robideau, will be heading up the new
office. Likely a desk and computer in someone’s basement.
The cousin part is interesting carrying the hyphenated -Robideau. Bob Robideau, the now deceased
low-life who participated in the cowardly attack on the Agents and among other
things claimed in an email that “they died like worms,” was according to
Peltier, his cousin. If Paulette married a Robideau, or perhaps even this
particular reprobate, how does that make her Peltier’s cousin? A cousin by
marriage?
Not exactly tolerant or sensitive of
other religions or ethnicities, the home page for the ILPDC announcement was
advertising “Olive Drab INFIDEL T-shirts.”
Dauteuil makes no excuses for her
radical and communist affiliations, boastful even of her association with every
sort of left wing, anti-establishment and un-American cause one could imagine.
Her résumé, proudly posted on the Jericho
Movement’s national website includes references to comrades, revolutionary
change, and peoples struggles.
Listed on this website is the Jericho Movement’s email address, jihadabdulmumit@gmail.com.
Perhaps a sobriquet for Ms. Dauteuil could appropriately be, Jihad Jane.
In 2005, this writer attended a
Jericho Movement meeting in New York City to listen to Bob Robideau make a fool
out of himself in front of a relatively politically astute but radically
unhinged group. It was a rather small gathering (considering the population of
Manhattan) of pathetic leftist radicals that so hate Amerika (with a K) that it
makes one wonder if they despise America so much, why don’t they just leave?
That’s a rhetorical question, of course, because they know anywhere else they
wouldn’t have the freedom to be as vile as they please.**
As a postscript of sorts, remember,
too, that Robideau himself castigated Peltier and left the committee with a public
pronouncement of his disgust for Peltier’s abhorrent and deviant prison
behavior.
Ms. Boushee and Jihad Jane advise they
are “…also putting together a new legal team, working board, fundraising and
Art sections as well as International and National Chapter leadership
positions.”
Translation: Peltier’s fortunes have
collapsed. The uninformed and misguided diehards are discouraged, oozing away
to find some other false prophet to swoon over, along with the leaches who
sucked onto the Peltier myth for their own benefit. Peltier has no idea, or is
perhaps unwilling to admit that so many people over the years have been using
him for their own personal gain or fifteen minutes of fame. That includes a
gaggle of attorneys looking for some notoriety or a few that could care less
that Peltier is actually guilty,*** and the worst kind, the wannabes, those
non-natives who adopt Indian sounding names and assume they have something
meaningful to offer.
No, this will be nothing more than a
weak and failed attempt to reinvigorate or reinvent the cash cow.
We have yet to hear from Peltier
himself and those first utterances will likely be the same shallow whining
we’ve heard for many years. Man up Peltier, you made your decisions that
fateful day, acted on them, made your bed, now lay in it.
Peltier has to face the reality of his
criminal acts and recognize that his days in the sun are over.*^
“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”
Ed Woods
(See editorial essay and Footnote #2
regarding the Jericho Movement.)
*** Over the years there have been
several sincere and dedicated attorneys who took up the Peltier mantle, albeit
unsuccessfully. This doesn’t include the likes of Cynthia K. Dunne, Martin
Garbus, Carl Nadler, Eric Seitz and the wannabe, pony-tailed, Bruce “I’ll take
the Fifth” Ellison.
*^ The U.S. Bureau of
Prisons has facilities for aging lifers. Were it not for an unrepentant
sociopath, Jack and Ron would have grown old gracefully.
