SA RONALD A. WILLIAMS, 1947 - 1975, R.I.P.

Dear Supporters:

 

Yet another year has passed, this one reaching what would have been an earthly milestone, 

July 30th, Ron’s seventy-fifth birthday. 

 

How much he would have accomplished is not known, but for those who had the privilege of personally knowing him, and others who have learned about this incredible young Agent, they know these would have been successful and productive years. His FBI career could have been followed by one of his personal interests, flying, and his other ambition to attend law school. Certainly, a family would have followed, and by now, grandchildren. We just don’t know, but surely believe it would have been a great life. 

 

Ron certainly reflects the profile of his birth sign, a Leo, with intelligence, generosity, faithfulness and always showing a great deal of initiative combined with a handsome and charming smile and engaging personality. All of which would have taken him to untold heights and achievements. It is difficult to look beyond and speculate on what might have been, but we can see what was, and in his short twenty-eight years, Ron did leave a lasting impression on the lives he touched.[i]

 

But all that potential was horribly destroyed on that fateful day at Pine Ridge at the hands of an unrepentant, low-life, cold-blooded, and remorseless killer.[ii] A murderer who remains a pathetic excuse for a human being.

 

I believe, as many others, that Ron is watching over us and likely wonders what has happened over these years: Almost irreversible social and political division, economic upheaval and the progression of disrespect for all law enforcement with many injured or killed in the Line-of-Duty, as two more Special Agents have been added to the list of FBI Service Martyrs.[iii]

 

Ron’s dedication and bravery, and that of his partner, Agent Jack Coler, will never be forgotten.

 

Every effort will continue to ensure that their ruthless executioner serves his consecutive life sentences until that eventual day when he will face his final judgement. On that day the myth, folklore, fabrications and lies will finally come to an end. 

 

Our prayers and thoughts remain for the entire Williams’ family as we ask Ron to continue to watch over us.

“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”

Ed Woods

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[i] Meet Ron Williams and Jack Coler: http://www.noparolepeltier.com/meet.html

[ii] Admissions and lack of remorse: http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com The Big Lie: 

http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2022/03/peltiers-big-lie-dinos-truth.html

[iii] Special Agents, Laura Schwartzenberger and Daniel Alfin; https://www.fbi.gov/history/wall-of-honor

Officer Down Memorial Page: https://www.odmp.org

PELTIER: ADMISSIONS OF GUILT AND LACK OF REMORSE

Dear Supporters:      

 

What follows, offered within proper context, relates to Leonard Peltier’s admissions of guilt and his lack of remorse for the June 26, 1975 brutal murder of FBI Agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams: 

 

“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.” [i]   

 

So the deaths of those agents are not murder? “Not to Indian—not in Indian people’s eyes.” [ii]

 

“The m----- -----r was begging for his life but I shot him anyway.” [iii]   

 

“I cannot see how my being here, torn from my own grandchildren, can possibly mend your loss. I swear to you, I am guilty only of being an Indian. That’s why I’m here. Being who I am, being who you are—that’s Aboriginal sin.” (Peltier’s insult to his victims’ families.) [iv]   

 

“I never thought my commitment would mean sacrificing like this, but I was willing to do so nonetheless. And really, if necessary, I’d do it all over again because it was the right thing to do.” [v]  

 

“I don’t regret any of this for a minute.” [vi]

 

“I did not wake up on that June 26 planning to injure or shoot federal agents, and did not gain anything from participating in the incident.” [vii]  

 

“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”

Ed Woods

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[i] Peter Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (New York: Penguin Books, 1991) 552. (Peltier places himself and at least Joe Stuntz at the crime scene with two dead and mutilated human beings at their feet.)

[ii] https://members.tripod.com/~ellis_smith/peltier.html (Last accessed 3/1/22); CNN Interview 10/10/99. 

Mark Potter: “What are they?” (the murders)  Peltier: “Self-defense.”

[iii] https://www.jfamr.org/doc/kmtest1.html (Last accessed 2/27/22) Testimony of Darlene Nichols, 2/3/2004, at the trial of Arlo Looking Cloud for the murder of AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash: “…he (Peltier) started talking about June 26, and he put his hand like this (gesturing with a weapon) and started talking about the two FBI agents.” “He said the m----- -----r was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway.” 

(Referring to the final horrifying moments and murder of FBI Agent Ron Williams.)

[iv] Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1999) 114 (Peltier autobiography) An insult as related from the Coler and Williams’s families.

[v] http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#confession, http://www.noparolepeltier.com/confession.pdf

Peltier references “Joe Stuntz” and excludes nothing else: The murder of Agents Coler and Williams is certainly one of the “…whole series of events…” Peltier is referring to.

[vi] Message from Leonard Peltier, 9/12/2014; “Anyone who has looked at my case knows it is outrageous to an absurd degree; often people simply cannot believe the sheer amount of constitutional violations and injustices.” Peltier ignores over a dozen appeals that upheld his conviction and sentence.  http://www.noparolepeltier.com/court.html

[vii] http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2017/01/peltier-another-admission.html

Quote from February 17, 2016 clemency petition; admission to ‘participating’ and aiding and abetting on June 26, 1975.  http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2016/05/peltier-clemency-application-thank-you.html

 

PELTIER: DEMOCRACY NOW..."JUDGE" KEVIN SHARP...Part 1

Dear Supporters:

Today on the Democracy Now podcast, former federal district court judge and Peltier pro bono attorney Kevin H. Sharp, was interviewed by Amy Goodman.

Mr. Sharp made a number of claims about Peltier's conviction that need to be addressed and corrected.

What follows is a comment posted regarding Mr. Sharp's public statements.  (More to follow)

“Judge” Kevin Sharp is grossly misrepresenting the record of Peltier’s conviction by inappropriately claiming that the ‘standards are different.’ Nonsense. 

Sharp, by referencing Myrtle Poor Bear without acknowledging that she never testified, and that Peltier’s own attorney characterized her as a “…witness whose mental imbalance is so gross as to render her testimony unbelievable,” only plays right into the Peltier narrative. Sharp alleges that ballistics evidence was withheld from the defense, and then ignores the 1985 three-day evidentiary (ballistics) hearing and that the 8^th Circuit reviewed the entire matter concluding “When all is said and done, however, a few simple but very important facts remain. The casing introduced into evidence had in fact been extracted from the Wichita AR-15. This point was not disputed...” and, “the trial witnesses unanimously testified that there was only one AR-15 in the compound prior to the murders, that this weapon was used exclusively by Peltier and carried out by Peltier after the murders.” (The Poor Bear affidavits were used regarding Peltier’s extradition. However, the Canadian Government, in 1999 was unambiguous, that “…Mr. Peltier was lawfully extradited to the United States,” “…the circumstantial evidence presented at the extradition hearing, taken alone, constituted sufficient evidence to justify Mr. Peltier’s committal on the two murder charges.”) Among many of Sharp’s misrepresentations is the wholly inaccurate claim that the government somehow changed its prosecution theory to one of Aiding and Abetting, again, ignoring the basic record that Peltier was indicted on November, 17, 1975 for murder and Aiding and Abetting, warrants were issued based on those charges, and within the Peltier trial transcript {4874 – 5164} the defense and prosecution discussed with the judge, jury instructions on Aiding and Abetting and that it was also included in the government’s closing argument. Sharp’s fatally flawed claim of ‘different standards’ collapses with one of the many appellate decisions from as late as 2003; “Previous federal court decisions provided the (parole) Commission with ample facts to support its conviction that Peltier personally shot Agents Coler and Williams.” “Neither the conviction nor any of the subsequent court decisions have been overturned.” (10^th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1/4/2003). Sharp’s pro bono support of Peltier is admirable; he can be respected for that, but in the process, being a former federal judge and an attorney, he has to accurately assess the facts. Otherwise, it’s just more noise from the Peltier camp, and there would be much more to comment on Mr. Sharp’s public statement.

"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"

Ed

During Peltier's escape after murdering Agents Coler and Williams, he and other AIM members were stopped by Oregon State Troopers. Under the front seat where Peltier was seated was a paper bag. In the bag was Agent Coler's service revolver. Identified on the bag was Peltier's thumbprint. Also recovered in the RV (the RV was provided by actor Marlon Brando) were the weapons pictured above, and a clear indication that they were not just vacationing. Peltier escaped, and with assistance, made his way to Canada where he was arrested on February 6, 1976, now just five days away from the beginning of his incarceration. A passenger in the RV was Anna Mae Aquash who became another sordid chapter in the Peltier/AIM legacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0PGVTy893s Another passenger, Darlene (Ka Mook) Nichols, later testified and emotionally broke down on the witness stand,  in the trial of Anna Mae's killer, that Peltier had described (Agent Williams) final moments, "He said that the M.....F.....was begging for his life but I shot him anyway." 

PELTIER: REALITY CHECK

 June 26, 1975, Jumping Bull farm, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota:

"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"

Ed Woods

PELTIER: LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATIONS

January 1, 2022

 

To: National Law Enforcement Associations

From: Ed Woods, Founder, No Parole Peltier Association, Cincinnati, Ohio

Subject: Denying commutation for convicted murderer, LEONARD PELTIER

 

Dear Association Leadership:

 

We are writing national law enforcement associations and organizations to bring attention to the possibility that consideration may be underway to commute Leonard Peltier’s consecutive life sentences. Peltier was convicted  for the brutal cold-blooded killing of FBI Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Regretfully, too many people, in and out of government, are not familiar with the facts, only the folklore.

 

Within the law enforcement community and brotherhood, we are all deeply affected when any of our own are killed in the Line of Duty, and certainly in circumstances when justice for their killers may be jeopardized.

 

We surely understand that the Constitutional authority to grant clemency, pardon or commutation on the federal level rests with one person, President Biden. The facts and details of Peltier’s criminal acts must be brought to the President’s attention to counter four decades of continuous fabrications, falsehoods and feigned innocence. 

The summary that follows can be verified through trial transcripts, appellate filings and decisions, primary sources and Peltier's own public statements: 

 

On June 26, 1975, FBI Agents Coler and Williams were performing their lawful duties on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation searching for a fugitive, Jimmy Eagle. In separate government sedans they followed a suspect vehicle from the main highway onto a dirt road leading to a farm. The vehicle stopped at a distance as did Coler and Williams, who were then exposed in an open field. The occupants of the vehicle, including Peltier, began an unprovoked attack with rifle fire on the pinned-down agents. Of critical importance, crucial because of Peltier’s many lies of how the shooting actually began, is that there was an eyewitness. Agent Williams was on the FBI radio describing exactly what was about to happen; trying to describe their location, that they were about to come under fire—the shooting started—and they heard Agent Williams say, “I’m hit.” FBI employees in the Rapid City office and other Agents heard Agent Williams’s transmission and that he also said if they didn’t get there soon, “We’ll be dead.” 

 

Peltier was joined by other American Indian Movement members, with rifles, trapping the Agents in a deadly crossfire. The initial shooting ended quickly as the government sedans were riddled with bullet holes. Agent Coler received what was probably a mortal wound and was likely unconscious. Agent Williams, wounded three times, removed his shirt, waved it as a sign of surrender and used it as a tourniquet on Agent Coler’s severely injured arm. 

 

Court testimony concluded, and the jury accepted, that Peltier approached the wounded Agents. Agent Williams faced his killer. Peltier placed the muzzle of his AR-15 against an upraised hand and blew Agent Williams’s fingers through the back of his head. Peltier then turned the weapon on Agent Coler, destroying his face with two more shots. 

 

Peltier and the others fled the Reservation. While making a getaway to Canada with other AIM members, Peltier described Agent Williams’s last moments. Sworn testimony in a later trial quoted Peltier, “The M…F…begged for his life, but I shot him anyway.” 

 

Peltier was later captured and convicted, receiving consecutive life sentences. Peltier had over a dozen appeals regarding the facts and his many unsupported and often frivolous allegations of a wrongful conviction. Among a multitude of court findings, one concluded, “Previous federal court decisions provided the (parole) Commission with ample facts to support its conviction that Peltier personally shot Agents Coler and Williams.” “Neither the conviction nor any of the subsequent court decisions have been overturned.”  (10^th Circuit Court of Appeals, 11/4/2003)

 

 

We are encouraging Law Enforcement Organizations to contact government representatives and officials, who support the police and law enforcement, to voice their opposition to any consideration by the President to commute Leonard Peltier’s sentence. The President must understand the sacred oath of those who carry a badge. They place themselves in harm’s way to protect the citizenry and enforce our Nation’s laws and in instances where those lives are taken in the Line-of-Duty, justice for their killers must continue.

 

Correspondence should also be directed to President Biden, the Attorney General and the U.S. DOJ Pardon Attorney. Addresses follow. 

 

Finally, there are those who mistakenly believe that freeing Peltier will in some perverse manner correct the historical wrongs of the past against Native Americans. This could be no further from reality. Peltier’s crimes were, and remain, violent unprovoked criminal acts. 

 

The unrepentant Peltier received a fair trial, validated by numerous appeals, and should continue serving his consecutive life sentences in addition to the seven consecutive years for an armed prison escape.

 

Peltier should be shown as much mercy as he gave to Jack Coler and Ron Williams; and that would be none. 

 

Sincerely, 

“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”

 

Edw. Woods

Edward Woods

justice@noparolepeltier.com

 

Preliminary references:

http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/03/peltier-important-reminders.html (2018)

http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#concise (2009; including 60 footnotes & Addendum)

 

-President Joe Biden, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20500

Hon. Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General, USDIJ, 950 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20530-0000

Hon. Rosalind Sargent-Burns, U.S. Pardon Attorney, 950 Pennsylvania Ave. – RFK, Main Justice Building, Washington, D.C. 20530

 

cc: 

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I NEVER MET RON WILLIAMS

Dear Supporters:

I never met Ron Williams.*

I learned of him, as did thousands of others in the FBI and law enforcement, and citizens across the country, on a fateful day in June, 1975 when the media blasted out the horrible news of the loss of two agents in a nondescript corner of South Dakota.

Learning more about him came much later through conversations with close friends and relatives and later still in an incredible video released by the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.**

There could have been a brief moment when Ron and I may have crossed paths. We overlapped slightly as new agents and could have passed each other in the hallways at the FBI Academy in Quantico, paced each other on the running trails or even sat at the same table in the cafeteria. I'll never know.

There is a strong possibility, since we both shared a love of flying, and if the event at Jumping Bull had some how miraculously not occurred, that we would have participated together in the FBI's then fledgling aviation program. Ron was a licensed pilot and enjoyed the thrill and challenge and of taking friends and family on flying adventures to share the experience he loved so much. Certainly Ron would have volunteered to become part of that program and we could have both flown on the same major cases ("Bureau Specials" as they are called) as the FBI quickly realized that aircraft surveillances were integral components to successful investigations.

Very close and dear friends of Ron, when they all worked together in the Rapid City Resident Agency (a satellite office covering a number of SD counties and reservations out of the Minneapolis Division), gave me a box of personal items and papers they had from Ron. In the box was a little wooden toy biplane, which I understood to have been Ron's from when he was a child. At the moment it's sitting on a shelf as this tribute is being typed.

I learned from another close friend that, although challenging, life and work on the Reservations was demanding, and the Bureau was always pressed to staff the larger cities with agents. It was likely that Ron's tenure in Rapid City could have ended with a voluntary transfer to his hometown, Glendale, California, in the Los Angeles basin. Certainly, getting back to LA would have been fairly easy and something he apparently desired, not just to return to family and friends, but for a much wider variety of federal crimes to pursue, along with greater opportunities. 

Ron, as was related as well, had plans to attend law school, which would have been a challenge while working cases in a major city, but certainly doable once he set his sights on that goal. Where he would have gone from there we’ll never know, but based on what we do know, perhaps continuing in the Bureau or maybe seeking a position in a major prosecutor's office or perhaps the United States Attorney's office. Or, if we are allowed to imagine further, combining his interests and talents and maybe specializing in aviation law while continuing his flying interests. We'll never know how far that would have taken him.

Ron certainly fit the personality profile of his birth sign, a Leo; ruling warmth, generosity, faithful and always showing a great deal of initiative, combined with a handsomely charming smile and engaging personality. All of which would have taken him to untold heights and achievements.

It's difficult to look beyond and speculate on what might have been, but we can see what was, and in his short twenty-eight years Ron did leave his mark on all who touched his life.

I never met Ron Williams, but I'm sure anyone who did would have been better for it.

"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"

Ed Woods*SA Ronald A. Williams, July 30, 1947 - June 26, 1975: Rest In Peace: His memory, bravery and sacrifice in the-line-of-duty will never be forgotten. (A favorite blog posted originally on July 30, 2015)
**Meet SA Jack R. Coler and SA Ronald A. Williams here:
http://www.noparolepeltier.com/meet.html

p.s.

Things to consider and remember regarding the lying, murderous Leonard Peltier:

http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2019/06/

http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2019/03/why-is-peltier-worst_8.html

http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/10/peltier-fatally-flawed-lie.html

http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2018/03/peltier-important-reminders.html

PELTIER: SAME ANSWER, SAME LIES...

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:

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/same-answer-same-lies/

“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.

Rezinate

PELTIER: Spiritual BS...Rezinate

Dear Supporters:

Reposted from Rezinate:

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/a-spiritual-camp/

The BS emanating from ILPDC just keeps getting deeper and deeper - it isn’t enough to portray Peltier’s participation in the murder of two federal agents as “fighting for treaty rights”, or attempt to portray him as some honored AIM leader.

Now the public is to be told another lie, that he was “called” to “help provide security amidst political tensions and violence between rival groups”- a contrived way of describing a cheap petty thug.

Really, tension between rival groups - would that be AIM and the Dick Wilson group, or would it be the rival factions within in AIM vying for territory and ascendency?

Was Peltier at WK 2? No.

Was he at the standoff in Ajo, Arizona between rival AIM groups? No.

Did he seek to provide his security and political expertise to tamp down the talk of labeling Annie Mae Pictou Aquash a snitch?

No, he in fact contributed to it and interrogated her gunpoint.

Did he demonstrate his “spiritual” nature or act “in the spirit of Crazy Horse” when he and Dave Hill forced Annie into making bombs with them? No.

Peltier in his latest interview makes an attempt to cast the Jumping Bull encampment and by extension AIM as being a “spiritual camp”.

Well how spiritual is it to intimidate, threaten, and bully people?

How spiritual is it for Peltier to steal Dino Butler's "pancake story" and attempt to make it his own, or to swear Mr. X was a stand up guy and actually existed?

How spiritual was it when he and Dennis Bank$ fled like scared rabbits during the Oregon RV stop leaving women behind to fend for themselves?

How spiritual are the unmarked hidden graves of AIM’s WK 2 victims?

How spiritual was it to ransack, pillage, burn, loot, and take elders hostage as AIM did at WK2?

How spiritual was all the drug and alcohol use or chasing after young girls thirteen or fourteen years old?

How spiritual were all the scams, all the grants and donations that went into the leaderships pockets?

To hell with AIM and Peltier.

Rezinate

PELTIER: ANOTHER OPINION...STILL THE SAME...

Reposted from Rezinate Blog:

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/leonard-peltier-and-felix-ward-aka-mickey-free/#respond

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.

PELTIER: ANNA MAE & CLEMENCY

REPOSTED FROM REZINATE:
https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/annie-mae-and-clemency/#respond

Annie Mae whose abduction, rape, and murder remains a guilt and shame the AIM leadership can never overcome – “warriors” and “liberators” making war on a lone woman.

Dennis Bank$, Clyde and Vernon Bellecourt, and Russell Means all complicit in Annie’s murder – all knew and know, and all have remained silent.

I remain convinced Leonard Peltier knew as well, was an advocate for her murder and was an active participant in the decision months later after interrogating her at gunpoint and on the run for the murders committed at Jumping Bull.

The AIM leadership has effectively been granted “clemency” for their role in Annie’s murder in the absence of prosecuting a single one of them, and now call for the “healing” of clemency for Peltier.

So I have to wonder what is the standard for clemency? How high must the body count be before it becomes a consideration?

The AIM leadership is responsible for multiple murders  from Wounded Knee 2 to Annie – Peltier by any reasonable standard has four that are known of either by actual participation or complicity.

Two federal agents, another in Peltier’s escape attempt, and his complicity in the murder of Annie.

Is four enough or does the body count need to be higher in order to qualify?

Apparently the leadership believes it is – apparently his supporters do likewise.

Not a one of AIM’s or Peltier’s victims can be granted clemency, no release from the grave, nor should clemency be granted those among the living who are responsible.

To do so has nothing to do with healing, it has to do with condoning murder.