Dear Supporters:
At this critical point in the Peltier saga it must be asked:
To what depth will Peltier and his attorneys go to change the narrative and attempt
to convince us that he is something other than an unrepentant cold-blooded murderer?
The answer clearly rests in “The Letters” recently sent to
members of the Coler and Williams’ families.
Peltier has had many attorneys who have devoted years and thousands
of work hours along with their own funds to support his case. Most notable
among these is Barry Bacharach, who is no longer with the Peltier cause.
More recently is high profile New York attorney Martin
Garbus*, but while previous attorneys worked pro bono, Marty apparently wanted
a hefty retainer that Peltier was unable to raise. Among his long list of
clients is “Leoonard (sic) Peltier, convicted murderer, for Clemency
application to President Obama. (Footnote 1). Garbus was apparently sought not
for filling out a simple form but his political connections and influence. Another
client, Robert Redford, may have had some sway here. This is the same Redford
(film: Incident at Oglala; Fn: 2), who bought into Peltier’s fabrication
that “Mr. X” (even featured in camouflage cameo in the film along with an AR-15),
attacked and then killed the agents. This has been proven to be one of
Peltier’s greatest lies, (Peltier is incapable of understanding the old adage
that if you never lie, you never have to remember anything else), yet the
gullible Redford is too blind to see or accept it. (Fn: 3)
Another recent addition and the author of “The Letters,” is
Harvard educated attorney Jennifer Harbury* who has a history with Peltier
dating back some fifteen years.
December 15, 2000, Washington, D.C., The White House:
On a cold, crisp, early morning some seven hundred and fifty
FBI agents gathered at the National Law Enforcement Memorial. All were on
personal time. Men and women, professionally dressed, gathered to begin a
solemn and dignified walk to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Leading the long line
that morning was a simple banner “In Memory” and large photos of FBI martyrs
Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams. They walked silently to the gates of the
White House where the then President of the FBI Agent’s Association was invited
in and delivered over 10,000 signed petitions asking the President not to grant
clemency to Leonard Peltier.
Evidently, and obviously, President Clinton was listening. (Fn:
4)
Ms. Harbury’s response to all this was denigrating media
statements, a prior letter to then Attorney General, Janet Reno, and a lawsuit.
Harbury was quoted widely in the media describing this
somber occasion as “armed agents
marching on Washington.” Harbury, so bewildered by her own passions, was
incapable of recognizing the right of American citizens, yes, even FBI Agents,
expressing their own Constitutional rights to free speech, expression, and
assembly. Instead, they were castigated. And now she writes letters.
In her letter she states, “We have both lost loved ones to the terrible and recurring clashes
between Native people and our government.”
As a widow herself, (and this letter was received by one of
the murdered agents’ widow), she fails to recognize the bewildering irony of
her defective logic.
Harbury’s husband was a Mayan guerrilla leader, better known
as Commandante Everado, who was killed by the Guatemalan Army, and yes, there
was, in the early 90’s, CIA involvement with the military.
What exactly is Harbury’s nexus between her husband’s
guerrilla actions (Some may call them terrorist acts. Did her husband kill
Guatemalan soldiers? Did her husband execute civilians as some guerrilla’s did?),
and those of Peltier and American Indian Movement (AIM) members that horrific
day at Pine Ridge on June 26, 1975?
Surely, she isn’t suggesting to the widow of a slain agent
that her husband was the antagonist that day with the “our government” she refers to, since it’s obvious to everyone that
FBI Agents Coler and Williams were representing their government in the lawful
exercise of their duties while searching for a fugitive.
The Native people she refers to, AIM members, or more aptly
referred to by one as the American Indian Mafia—because that was indeed what
they were—an organized gang of criminals, albeit cowards, with Peltier in the
lead. Peltier, though leading only that ragtag encampment at White Clay Creek. (Fn
5)
AIM members taking the two agents’ under fire, pinning them
down in an open field, firing countless rounds from rifles until they were both
severely wounded. Then the final act; cold-blooded murder of two defenseless
human beings. And need we remind Harbury of Peltier’s own admission during his
escape from Pine Ridge about Agent Williams? “He begged for his life but I shot
the *&%-#*! anyway.” (Fn: 6)
So, which is it, Ms. Harbury, with your tortured logic: Who
are the bad guys here? Coler and Williams or the murdering coward Peltier and
the other AIM aggressors?
Following the December 15th event Ms. Harbury
went even further and in an email dated January 20th had the dizzying
gall to state about Peltier not being released that there was “…somehow…not
enough to outweigh the outright terror the FBI was able to instill in our
government leadership.” (Fn: 7) Apparently, Ms. Harbury must have been too
preoccupied or paranoid over the previous eight years and failed to notice that
there was one aspect of the President’s persona that was consistent; nobody
intimidates Bill Clinton.
Peltier v. Louis Freeh, ET. AL.:
There’s no direct proof but it’s even money that Ms. Harbury had
knowledge of, or perhaps contributed in some manner to a lawsuit filed by
Bernard V. Kleinman* on April 4, 2002.
As absurd as it was, Kleinman, on Peltier’s behalf, filed a complaint
in U.S. District Court against FBI Director Freeh, the author of this website
and Blog, and others, for
violation of the Bivens case alleging a "...systematic, and officially
sanctioned campaign of misinformation and disinformation designed to prevent
the named Plaintiff from receiving a fair hearing on his claims for both
Clemency... and ...Parole..." Peltier sued for a jury trial and judgments,
which include restraining orders and “Damages in the amount of $1,000,000 for
the knowing dissemination of false and misleading information by each named
Defendant both individually and jointly (including reasonable attorneys’ fees,
court costs, expenses and disbursements).”
Under most
circumstances Kleinman’s frivolous lawsuit would be almost laughable if it was
not intended to chill the NPPA’s exposure of Peltier’s propaganda and ever
changing stories by providing truth and facts, as well as to curtail free
speech by those who are calling attention to fabrications that Peltier himself
had been guilty of for many years. Aside from its many factual errors the
lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice on March 22, 2004. (Fn: 8)
Although Ms. Harbury’s letters offer that she “recognize(s) the tragic loss” and calls
for a “…joint commemoration to honor the
dead,” let’s examine just a little of that tragic loss for a moment.
Harbury certainly includes Jack Coler and Ron Williams, and
undoubtedly, Joe Stuntz as well. The same Joe Stuntz who fired on Coler and
Williams when they were pinned down in an open field. The same Joe Stuntz who
Peltier described: "I seen Joe when he pulled it out of the trunk and
I looked at him when he put it on and he gave me a smile." To simplify
this scene for Ms. Harbury to understand, what Peltier is talking about is Joe
Stuntz smiling and stealing Jack Coler's FBI raid jacket while two dead,
mutilated, human beings (who both were, by the way, rolled over to face the
ground after being shot to death, yes executed, at pointblank range), lay at
their feet. Later, while shooting at responding agents and law enforcement, Stuntz
was killed. He was wearing Agent Coler’s FBI jacket. There is no commemoration
here because the reality is that Peltier is the one responsible for yet another
victim. Stuntz followed Peltier to his own death.
As offensive as Ms.
Harbury’s message is, there are worse letters out there that the family members
had to endure. Cynthia K. Dunne*, who boasts of her tenure as an Assistant U.S.
Attorney has gone around the bend and forsaken both decency and common sense
when she describes Peltier as “…an icon who symbolizes the historic and continuing
injustices facing many American Indians.” Dunne claims to understand the legal
history of Petlier’s conviction; she does not. Dunne ignorantly confuses
Peltier’s blatant criminal act with a pitiable sense of martyrdom. She
certainly feels deeply about the history and plight of Native Americans then
and now—as we all do—but she has become a casualty of her own passion; now a
victim of her own Wasichu-guilt and blinded to the truth. Perhaps a future Blog
will address Ms. Dunne’s many shortcomings. (Fn: 9)
Dunne claims that among
Native America there is a “uniform belief” Peltier had been treated unfairly. However,
she is dreadfully wrong. The fact remains that Peltier is seen for what he
really was and remains, along with AIM, those who contributed absolutely
nothing to the betterment of his “people.” In the meantime history has proven
that Peltier hijacked, demeaned and adulterated an otherwise proud and storied Native
heritage. Regretfully, Ms Dunne is incapable of recognizing that. (Fn: 10)
Previously, Ms. Harbury, as a tool of the former Leonard
Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC), provided a litany of erroneous details taken
from the prepared script of Peltier folklore, all of which have been easily and
repeatedly disproven as their original presentation was altered in an attempt
to make Peltier’s version fit what actually happened. (Fn: 11)
* * *
Ms. Harbury’s letters offer to have a “quiet
conversation” and that “…there is a
time for reflection and discernment.”
Ms. Harbury, just how would that conversation go?
Will Leonard Peltier finally admit his guilt, tell the truth
and confess to the brutal killing of two defenseless human beings? Will he
apologize and show remorse for the deaths he caused and ask for forgiveness not
only for the murders but the decades of lies and denigration of the sacrifice
and memory of Jack Coler and Ron Williams? Hardly not. Even if he did, and if by
some miracle was released, it would take about a second outside the walls of
FCI Coleman for him to backslide to the same Peltier we have known since 1975.
No, Ms. Harbury and Ms. Dunne, no discernment, no
reconciliation. Your efforts to contact the victim’s families is obscenely obvious.
So transparent that anyone can see you have neither the moral character nor
ethical standards as you speak for the likes of Leonard Peltier.
As attorneys how do you get beyond Peltier’s own remorseless
admissions of guilt?
Attack his conviction all you’d like, but after thirty-five
years he publicly stated
“And really, if necessary, I’d do it all over again, because
it was the right thing to do.” (2010), and after thirty-nine years, “I don’t
regret any of this for a minute.” (2014)
Ms. Harbury (and Ms. Dunne) are being made the fools for
buying into the Peltier myth. (Fn. 12)
Ms. Harbury is engaging in irresponsible pandering in a dismal
attempt to garner some sympathy, or God-forbid, support from the victims’
families to engage even the remote possibility of adding legitimacy to
Peltier’s cries for clemency.
Your letters are pathetic and shameful. They are dishonorable
reminders that there are those few who will go to any depth to prove a negative,
that Peltier is nothing more than a remorseless cold-blooded murderer. Your
feckless and shallow efforts are an embarrassment to yourself and chosen
profession.
So, to ask again, to what depth will Peltier and his
attorneys go to attempt to legitimize his existence?
As low as imaginable, to here, scraping the detritus from
the bottom of the putrid Peltier cesspool.
“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”
Ed Woods
*Martin Garbus, 3 Park
Avenue, 16th Floor, NY, NY 10016, (212) 561-3625 mgarbus@evw.com
(Email to Ms. Harbury for a dialogue went unanswered. No
surprise there.)
Bernard V. Kleinman, 2 Gannett Dr., Suite 418, White
Plains, NY 10604 (203) 981-0781
(Email to Ms. Dunne for a dialogue went unanswered. No
surprise there either.)
Footnotes:
1) Clemency and a crayon: http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2015/08/peltier-scam-contiuessend-money-here.html
2) Mr. X the movie:
http://www.noparolepeltier.com/movie.html
3) Mr. X, the lie: http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html
4) Peltier calls former President Clinton a sleazebag: http://www.noparolepeltier.com/speak.html
5) American Indian Mafia: http://americanindianmafia.com
6) “He begged…” http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html
7) Outright terror: http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#4
8) Lawsuit: http://www.noparolepeltier.com/suit.html
9) Dunne/Anaya: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/26/free-peltier-says-ex-federal-prosecutor
(Last accessed 9/10/15); Anaya http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html,
Anaya: http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2014/01/un-rapporteur-leonard-peltier.html
10) Rezinate re Peltier popularity: https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/expressions-of-love/
11) Harbury: http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#4
Concise history of guilt: http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#concise
12) The Peltier psychosis: http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2015/07/40-yearslast-part-peltier-psychosis.html
