Dear Supporters:
Considering the last four years and recent spate of unconvincing White House pardons and commutations, it comes as no surprise that a brutal convicted double-murderer will see the light of day.
There is little doubt that the President failed to understand the details of the line-of-duty killings of FBI Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams. The likelihood is that some deceptive staffer slid Peltier’s commutation application across the President’s desk, and he just mindlessly signed it. [i] Certainly, the President did not see the dreadful crime scene photograph.
Peltier sycophants and attorneys, collectively, either do not understand or are predisposed to ignore the facts, understandably so, because facts do not care about feelings and emotions. Marinating in old claims no longer works and will not win over those who have made the effort to review the entire record.[ii]
Over the decades, Peltier’s conviction and consecutive life sentences have been through the courts nearly two-dozen times and not once has his conviction or sentence been altered. Each and every one of his spurious allegations—a tapestry of lies—have been examined in infinite detail and were judged to be meritless.
Peltier’s unrepentant years of falsehoods have sought to redeem the unredeemable. His feigned innocence and all manner of obvious fabrications, along with instances of admissions of guilt, are clearly a matter of record.[iii] In just about every sense one may imagine, Peltier and the truth are strangers to one another.
It is a documented fact that Peltier and other American Indian Movement cowards, unprovoked, fired upon the Agents, critically wounding them. On that fateful day Peltier made a conscious decision to viciously end their lives and has lived with the consequences ever since.
Has justice been served? Are fifty years incarceration enough? No. The rightful sentences have not ended. Nevertheless, all his best years have been behind iron bars. Peltier himself, living in a personal hell of his own making, best described his confinement “Maybe one day you realize one of those voices is your own, and then you really begin to worry.” The vision of Peltier’s heinous act may very well haunt him during nights when he returns to the Reservation. In any event, whether confined or not, his remaining days are finite.
To those many families deeply affected by the recent unconscionable pardons and commutations, you have our respect and sympathies.
The bravery and sacrifice in the line-of-duty of Agents’ Jack Coler and Ron Williams will never be forgotten; long after Peltier fades from memory.
“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”
Ed Woods
Founder, No Parole Peltier Association (April 30, 2000)
[i] In addition to the questionable pardons and commutations, some of the arguably inappropriate awards of the Medal of Freedom and the actions and efforts to obstruct an effective transition of power, history will not treat the Biden administration kindly. Instead, what will be remembered was a feckless president and a disastrous four years for American society, culture and world standing that will doubtless rank at the very bottom.
[ii] 8th Circuit decision, 9/11/1986. “We have not been so convinced.” https://www.noparolepeltier.com/800.html
[iii] Admissions of guilt https://tinyurl.com/y3yu4scd
