Dear Supporters:
Just before noon on June 26, 1975 was unquestionably the most critical moment in Leonard Peltier's entire life. Everything from that point on is a result of his decisions and actions that day. A day of choices.
There are two inherently vital dates in everyone's life; the day they are born, and the day they die. Everything in between is the result of a multitude of factors; nurture-nature, good decisions and bad, fortune and misfortune, luck, and of course, fate.
The lives of Jack R. Coler, January 12, 1947 - June 26, 1975, and Ronald A. Williams, July 30, 1947 - June 26, 1975, ended tragically and violently as their paths crossed Peltier's during a fateful encounter that sultry June day.
Now, forty years later, Leonard Peltier clarifies for us the path he chose as he marginalizes his criminal acts and provides specific examples that he believes are relevant (Footnote 1). No matter what he was before, it is evident he has slipped into an obvious and persistent mindset, impairing his thoughts, memories and whatever semblance of morality he may have possessed in the moments leading up to, and including, the murder of two wounded and defenseless human beings.
Peltier begins with his signature panhandling, "Make a donation online/pledge to donate monthly, mail donations to the ILPDC..." that has been the cornerstone of this decades-old scam. (Fn.2)
Peltier talks of the young suicides and despair and desperation on the Reservations, protecting native sovereignty, environmental concerns impacting the Reservations and Mother Earth, and racists mascots.
All of these are of critical importance to Native America, but considering the source, they are shallow and meaningless because the messenger has a fraudulent agenda. This is all part of the sociopathic ploy and the continued tactic from Peltier and his "committee" to divert attention away from the facts, away from what really happened.* They are painfully aware that the myth and folklore have to be promoted at all costs. Otherwise, they look like fools. They are playing the game; "Hey, look over here!" "No, look over there!" using every and any effort to steer attention away from the facts of Jumping Bull. This dodge is to keep the Peltierites (sycophantic followers) blissfully content, as well as the curious, from discovering the truth or asking the really hard questions. Answers to which Peltier has stumbled over many times. They have collectively stroked his twisted ego, manifesting delusions into his own fabricated reality. (Fn.3)
No matter how tough, strong and ruthless he may have been in 1976, we know Peltier's weaknesses.
Certainly there are times, when unable to sleep because of the incessant din of prison life that he is unable to drown out, and while staring blindly at concrete walls he described this in his own words; "Maybe one day you realize one of those voices is your own, and then you really begin to worry." Peltier has shown his weakness in the face of fear; "Suddenly your mind begins to play tricks on you and it's as if you hear your spirit telling you to run, to not go in there, and then fear rushes on you almost unbearably, your knees grow weak, you feel as if you're going to wet your pants, you feel like crying, calling out for help. I had a barely resistible urge to turn to the marshals and plead with them, beg them not to take me in that place. I'm sure, if I had, my voice would have cracked and I would have broken down in tears." (Prison Writings, pp. 6, 155) (Yes, a babbling crybaby peeing himself.)
When Peltier's thoughts inevitably drift back to those crucial moments at Jumping Bull, how many times has he thought or wished or prayed that he had taken some other measure. Not firing the first shots that led to the wounding of the agents; not facing two critically wounded human beings; not confronting one who was asking for mercy; not pulling the trigger--three more times. There is little doubt that given the ability to go back in time Peltier would have made other choices. There could have been many other possibilities, none of which would have resulted in a lifetime of freedom denied behind prison walls.
But he made those choices, and instead, he and the others acted as they really were, cowards.
Peltier ends this message as foolishly as it began: "I continue to to pray for the family of my brother Joe Stuntz and for all those who paid such a dear price in those bitter times 40 years ago."
Certainly, we can have empathy for the Stuntz family, but if there is any anger over his death, it belongs squarely on Peltier. Stuntz was undoubtedly following Peltier. Stuntz followed Peltier to his own death. Peltier aside, Stuntz had decisions to make that day as well. With a rifle he shot at the two agents pinned down in an open field. After the agents were incapacitated, he, along with others, went down to the vehicles. Both Coler and Williams were shot point blank in the face. Did Stuntz witness this? Whether he did or not, there were two dead human beings, faces mutilated, who were rolled over to face the ground, and laying at his feet. He did see this as he smiled at Peltier while stealing and putting on the dead agent's FBI jacket. What did he do next? With the same rifle, fire at responding law enforcement until one of them put a bullet in his head. Stuntz was just another AIM criminal that day. We can empathize with his family, but not for Joe Stuntz. He made bad choices, and paid for it with his life.
But this is where the delusional Petlier leaves off, as tightly wrapped in his psychosis as ever and not a word about two murdered federal agents or one ounce of remorse. But what happened to rest of the narrative? The brave warrior who defended his people? Or, "This story is true," his only alibi and the lie of Mr. X. Fact remains, he ran like the coward he was, letting the women and children catch-up as they could.
Has all this been forgotten? Will it be just set aside for the moment to be recirculated again for another audience? Or will Peltier come up with other excuses, like the pathetically lame recent cry about elder abuse.
It's not difficult for President Obama to understand Peltier's conviction and numerous appeals that have been upheld at every turn, nor to recognize an unrepentant convicted murderer who publicly says, "And really, if necessary, I'd do it all over again, because it was the right thing to do (2010)," and, "I don't regret any of this for a minute (2014)" (Fn. 4). The President understands that Peltier is the last person deserving of any consideration for leniency, and certainly not clemency.
Peltier acknowledges this as well as he adds "...time is slipping away from me and I know that if I do not get out under this President I will almost certainly die here in prison."
Leonard, psychosis and delusions aside, accept that reality.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
*The "committee" has changed many times over the years. Peltier makes excuses for those who come and go, but the reality is, no matter what their intentions, noble and supportive or vicariously bolstering their own shortcomings through Peltier's notoriety, it all comes down to one undeniable fact: Once they get to know the real Peltier, they don't like it and move on. Some sooner than later, and this includes well-meaning attorneys; with the exception, of course, of Bruce "I'll take the Fifth" Ellison.
Footnotes:
1. http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/general/40th-anniversary-of-pine-ridge-shootout/ (Peltier June 26, 2015 statement; last accessed 7/2/15)
2. http://noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#fraud The ongoing scam of charity.
3. http://noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#unmasked
4) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#confession (2010)
justice.blogspot.com/2015_05_01_archive.html
http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom- justice.blogspot.com/2014/09/peltier-update-broken-record-with.html
Monday, July 6, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
JUNE 26, 1975...40 YEARS.......PART 5
Dear Supporters:
It matters little how much time has passed since Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams were performing their lawfully appointed duties searching for a fugitive on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
It also matters little that many have tried to change the narrative of what happened that fateful day; an agenda filled with fabrications, disinformation and outright lies; nor that a trial and dozens of appeals have proven guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; that many public statements have proven guilt beyond all doubt, and to a moral certainty. Their denouement panders to the unsuspecting, sycophantic, and naive.
It does matter a great deal, however, that Jack Coler and Ron Williams were subject to an unprovoked attack, severely wounded and summarily executed by cowardly members of the American Indian Movement.
What matters to the ultimate extent is that justice continues and USP Coleman inmate #89637-132 remains incarcerated serving two consecutive life sentences and seven additional years for an armed escape.
May Jack and Ron continue to Rest In Peace knowing that their dedication, bravery and sacrifice in the line of duty will never fade from our collective memories.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
It matters little how much time has passed since Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams were performing their lawfully appointed duties searching for a fugitive on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
It also matters little that many have tried to change the narrative of what happened that fateful day; an agenda filled with fabrications, disinformation and outright lies; nor that a trial and dozens of appeals have proven guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; that many public statements have proven guilt beyond all doubt, and to a moral certainty. Their denouement panders to the unsuspecting, sycophantic, and naive.
It does matter a great deal, however, that Jack Coler and Ron Williams were subject to an unprovoked attack, severely wounded and summarily executed by cowardly members of the American Indian Movement.
What matters to the ultimate extent is that justice continues and USP Coleman inmate #89637-132 remains incarcerated serving two consecutive life sentences and seven additional years for an armed escape.
May Jack and Ron continue to Rest In Peace knowing that their dedication, bravery and sacrifice in the line of duty will never fade from our collective memories.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
Monday, June 22, 2015
PELTIER...40 YEARS...Part 4...The Myth updated?
Dear Supporters:
"For Immediate Release," the 40th Anniversary of the Incident of Oglala by the ILPDC is so pathetically inaccurate, all myth and folklore, (disinformation, fabrications and lies would be a better description), that it is not worthy of a response. (Footnote #1) Only to say, however, that there are fifteen years of accurate rebuttal on the NPPA website.
For only the second or third time in a decade and a half, someone actually attached their name to an LPDOC release and it's apparent that PETER CLARK is very new to the Peltier camp. Clark has a lot of research ahead of him (or he can just stick to the same old line), but one point, besides the cowboy boots, allegedly seeking a young Indian, wrongfully convicted, etc. etc., is "A family with small children was trapped in the cross fire." This lame fabrication was debunked in 2001. Not by allegations or supposition, but with facts. Facts from the trial and testimony from those who were there. The only people caught in a crossfire that day were Jack Coler and Ron Williams. (Fn. 2)
The ILPDC, or Clark, provides an updated diagram, loosely based on Peter Matthiessen's drawing, but now adds some details that are predictably inaccurate.
Within the diagram, Clark places colored depictions of the agent's vehicles and "Bodies of SA Williams and SA Coler." Not unexpectedly, Clark missed a critically significant detail. Placing the agents bodies on either side of Agent Coler's vehicle is not what happened. After the cowards of Jumping Bull, in an unprovoked attack, severely wounded both agents, and then blew away both their faces with point-blank shots; they were touched, and moved, and rolled over to face the ground. Both being shot in the face would not leave the bodies lying next to one another on the ground the way they were found. And how do we know this horrible little detail? A crime scene photo. (Fn. 3)
The significance of this latest message...and we've not yet heard from Peltier...is that they are so desperate and recycling the same putrid detritus they started out with decades ago. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work now.
Let President Obama look at this Peltier message and spend just a few minutes reviewing the actual file, let alone the self-incriminating and unrepentant statements Peltier has made of late, and clemency will disappear as quickly as Peter Clark's and Peltier's credibility and fables.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
Footnotes:
1) http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/press/40th-anniversary-of-theincident-at-oglala/
2) http://noparolepeltier.com/shootout.html
3) http://noparolepeltier.com/noon.html
"For Immediate Release," the 40th Anniversary of the Incident of Oglala by the ILPDC is so pathetically inaccurate, all myth and folklore, (disinformation, fabrications and lies would be a better description), that it is not worthy of a response. (Footnote #1) Only to say, however, that there are fifteen years of accurate rebuttal on the NPPA website.
For only the second or third time in a decade and a half, someone actually attached their name to an LPDOC release and it's apparent that PETER CLARK is very new to the Peltier camp. Clark has a lot of research ahead of him (or he can just stick to the same old line), but one point, besides the cowboy boots, allegedly seeking a young Indian, wrongfully convicted, etc. etc., is "A family with small children was trapped in the cross fire." This lame fabrication was debunked in 2001. Not by allegations or supposition, but with facts. Facts from the trial and testimony from those who were there. The only people caught in a crossfire that day were Jack Coler and Ron Williams. (Fn. 2)
The ILPDC, or Clark, provides an updated diagram, loosely based on Peter Matthiessen's drawing, but now adds some details that are predictably inaccurate.
Within the diagram, Clark places colored depictions of the agent's vehicles and "Bodies of SA Williams and SA Coler." Not unexpectedly, Clark missed a critically significant detail. Placing the agents bodies on either side of Agent Coler's vehicle is not what happened. After the cowards of Jumping Bull, in an unprovoked attack, severely wounded both agents, and then blew away both their faces with point-blank shots; they were touched, and moved, and rolled over to face the ground. Both being shot in the face would not leave the bodies lying next to one another on the ground the way they were found. And how do we know this horrible little detail? A crime scene photo. (Fn. 3)
The significance of this latest message...and we've not yet heard from Peltier...is that they are so desperate and recycling the same putrid detritus they started out with decades ago. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work now.
Let President Obama look at this Peltier message and spend just a few minutes reviewing the actual file, let alone the self-incriminating and unrepentant statements Peltier has made of late, and clemency will disappear as quickly as Peter Clark's and Peltier's credibility and fables.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
Footnotes:
1) http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/press/40th-anniversary-of-theincident-at-oglala/
2) http://noparolepeltier.com/shootout.html
3) http://noparolepeltier.com/noon.html
Monday, June 8, 2015
PELTIER...40 YEARS...PART 3...IT'S ALL THEIR FAULT
Dear Supporters:
While waiting patiently for Peltier's comments on the 40th anniversary of the brutal murders of Agents' Jack Coler and Ron Williams--by the cowards of Jumping Bull, Peltier offers yet another litany of why his fortunes (financially, socially and emotionally) have nearly evaporated; "My life is in your hands."*
More pathetic whining from USP Coleman inmate #89637-132, but this time he provides many reasons why, in his mind, it's everyone else's fault that he has arguably reached the lowest point in his fabricated and feigned popularity.
He claims that "Most of the good volunteers had to leave for their own careers or health reasons and some just wanted to move on...and I must admit, a few who came along who had their own agenda." ("Most?" So much gratitude for those who at least tried.)
Here's what happened: Peltier was able, with the support of sympathizers, to capitalize on his Native heritage; that his crimes were committed on the Reservation and he was convicted in federal court. This developed into a mantra that in some perverse way he did something heroic that sultry June day, that he acted heroically and bravely as a warrior and over time this message morphed into folklore status and the Myth of Leonard Peltier.**
Many of those who were attracted to the cause came with noble intentions and some with the way they believed the campaign should be managed; others, the fringe anti-America types (Jericho Movement #, Et. Al.), went along for the ride and what they could get out of it (and him). (Peltier has displayed a noticeable level of naiveté over the years.)
There were many attorneys as well who poured their hearts and valuable time into finding some justification for Peltier's release, all to no avail. The ones who worked pro-bono should be commended for their efforts; those who charged by the hour, well, it is a business. In either instance, Bruce "I'll take the Fifth" Ellison, being the exception in either case.
But in the end, as has been witnessed many times over the years, they all left the camp for one reason, Peltier. The reality is that they could stand just so much of the bullying narcissist. Peltier stumbled into his own sinkhole. Just as Narcissus in Greek mythology, Peltier eventually fell in love with his own reflection and is now incapable of separating the false image from his own.
Ever the beggar, again Peltier wants the cash, but, as many times as he's been called out, not once has he or his network divulged or admitted how much, or where, any of that money has gone over the years. He now directs would-be donators to a website that proclaims "Leonard's paintings are collected by celebrities and luminaries worldwide," yet in this recent statement contradicts that with, "I also hear that supporters think all my celebrity supporters have donated to the Committee? They rarely do and when they do their donations are far less than you might imagine."
So, which is it? They lavish him with money by buying his "artwork" or they are really cheapskates pandering on his name and who he now pushes off the cliff.
It is, and remains, just part of the ongoing scam, hidden behind alleged charitable and benevolent activities. It's a con job, from a con man. Want proof? Review this Editorial Essay; and although dated 2004, 2006 and 2007, nothing has changed. Same predictable and deceptive fundraising rhetoric.***
Peltier ends with "Please do your part to help convince the President to let me go home."
Again, a reality check! Leonard Peltier, you are home; USP Coleman.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
*http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/dispatch/leonard-peltier-mylife-is-in-your-hands-prison-dispatch05-june-2015/
**http://www.noparolepeltier.com/myth.html
***http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#fraud
#http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#Robideau-NYC
P.S. Not unexpectedly, there has been no reply from RIPDA (see previous blog)
While waiting patiently for Peltier's comments on the 40th anniversary of the brutal murders of Agents' Jack Coler and Ron Williams--by the cowards of Jumping Bull, Peltier offers yet another litany of why his fortunes (financially, socially and emotionally) have nearly evaporated; "My life is in your hands."*
More pathetic whining from USP Coleman inmate #89637-132, but this time he provides many reasons why, in his mind, it's everyone else's fault that he has arguably reached the lowest point in his fabricated and feigned popularity.
He claims that "Most of the good volunteers had to leave for their own careers or health reasons and some just wanted to move on...and I must admit, a few who came along who had their own agenda." ("Most?" So much gratitude for those who at least tried.)
Here's what happened: Peltier was able, with the support of sympathizers, to capitalize on his Native heritage; that his crimes were committed on the Reservation and he was convicted in federal court. This developed into a mantra that in some perverse way he did something heroic that sultry June day, that he acted heroically and bravely as a warrior and over time this message morphed into folklore status and the Myth of Leonard Peltier.**
Many of those who were attracted to the cause came with noble intentions and some with the way they believed the campaign should be managed; others, the fringe anti-America types (Jericho Movement #, Et. Al.), went along for the ride and what they could get out of it (and him). (Peltier has displayed a noticeable level of naiveté over the years.)
There were many attorneys as well who poured their hearts and valuable time into finding some justification for Peltier's release, all to no avail. The ones who worked pro-bono should be commended for their efforts; those who charged by the hour, well, it is a business. In either instance, Bruce "I'll take the Fifth" Ellison, being the exception in either case.
But in the end, as has been witnessed many times over the years, they all left the camp for one reason, Peltier. The reality is that they could stand just so much of the bullying narcissist. Peltier stumbled into his own sinkhole. Just as Narcissus in Greek mythology, Peltier eventually fell in love with his own reflection and is now incapable of separating the false image from his own.
Ever the beggar, again Peltier wants the cash, but, as many times as he's been called out, not once has he or his network divulged or admitted how much, or where, any of that money has gone over the years. He now directs would-be donators to a website that proclaims "Leonard's paintings are collected by celebrities and luminaries worldwide," yet in this recent statement contradicts that with, "I also hear that supporters think all my celebrity supporters have donated to the Committee? They rarely do and when they do their donations are far less than you might imagine."
So, which is it? They lavish him with money by buying his "artwork" or they are really cheapskates pandering on his name and who he now pushes off the cliff.
It is, and remains, just part of the ongoing scam, hidden behind alleged charitable and benevolent activities. It's a con job, from a con man. Want proof? Review this Editorial Essay; and although dated 2004, 2006 and 2007, nothing has changed. Same predictable and deceptive fundraising rhetoric.***
Peltier ends with "Please do your part to help convince the President to let me go home."
Again, a reality check! Leonard Peltier, you are home; USP Coleman.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
*http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/dispatch/leonard-peltier-mylife-is-in-your-hands-prison-dispatch05-june-2015/
**http://www.noparolepeltier.com/myth.html
***http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#fraud
#http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#Robideau-NYC
P.S. Not unexpectedly, there has been no reply from RIPDA (see previous blog)
Thursday, June 4, 2015
PELTIER: 40 Years...Part 2; ELDER ABUSE? & 16 IN RHODE ISLAND
Dear Supporters:
On June 1st, the "International" Leonard Peltier Defense Committee came out with a real prize of a request:
"Recently, Leonard Peltier was again denied a transfer to a medium security facility. No reason was given. Please contact the Bureau of Prisons on Leonard's behalf...Let BOP authorities know that it is an outrage that this 70-YEAR-OLD man and in ILL HEALTH has not been transferred and demand a transfer whereby Peltier can receive help with daily living, quality health care, and PROTECTION FROM VIOLENCE. Let the BOP know that you consider this an instance of ELDER ABUSE." (Emphasis added)
Jack Coler and Ron Williams would willingly trade the lives that were stolen from them by Peltier and others and face the inevitability of aging. Jack and Ron never had the chance to age past twenty-eight years thanks to the cowards of Jumping Bull.
Really? Elder abuse? That's the latest excuse to keep the unsuspecting away from the facts, from the truth of what happened four decades ago?
And what happened to all the braggadocio of Peltier the brave warrior, the wannabe Chief, who allegedly stood up for his people, as he ran for the hills after he's the one who put every one of his own people in jeopardy that day.
The latest message, pure myth as it is, refers to June 26th as a--firefight. It was nothing of the sort. It was an unprovoked attack on two easily identified federal agents. And we have Ron Williams' own voice as definitive proof, overheard by a number of people, on exactly what was about to happen.
So now Peltier is whining from his cell in USP Coleman that he needs protection from violence. The absurdity of that has the permanence of breath on a mirror. The convicted murderer and aider and abetter in murder is no longer the tough guy he was when facing two critically wounded human beings and then shooting them both in the face. No, maybe he's not the "Tug" (to use his own term for Thug), he was in 1975, but the fact remains he is among his peers at Coleman. Deal with that reality!
The June 1st message included reference to a resolution for Peltier's clemency from the Rhode Island Progressive Democrats of America (RIPDA). Perusing their year-old website one can't help but think that mainstream, real Democrats, must wince at this fringe group's message and wish they would just go away. The resolution's thirteen WhereAs' and Therefore's are all Peltier boilerplate filled with the same disinformation and fantasy of the Peltier folklore.
An email to RIPDA (Rest-in-Peace Democrats of America?), pointed out that two statements were true, two were inaccurate, four were irrelevant, and five were just outright false, and offered to provide them with some facts...from the records of Peltier's conviction, appeals and self-incriminating public statements...to correct their position. But they probably don't want to be confused with the actual details.
Interestingly, the resolution states that "18" members (their entire membership?) were present and "16" signed in the affirmative, "0" for "nay" and "2" abstained. It would be curious to know what kind of debate was held, if any, and what, if anything, the two who abstained had to say.
The good news is that Peltier is bragging about 16 people as if it's a victory of some sort. What it does do, however, is reinforce Peltier's pathetically meager popularity and hallucinations of clemency prospects.
But let's offer this to those RIPDA folks, a direct quote from Leonard Peltier; "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." For those 16, 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), lay at their feet.
Perhaps Peltier wasn't at Pine Ridge that day after all. Maybe he just got lost and wound up in Providence, Rhode Island.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
On June 1st, the "International" Leonard Peltier Defense Committee came out with a real prize of a request:
"Recently, Leonard Peltier was again denied a transfer to a medium security facility. No reason was given. Please contact the Bureau of Prisons on Leonard's behalf...Let BOP authorities know that it is an outrage that this 70-YEAR-OLD man and in ILL HEALTH has not been transferred and demand a transfer whereby Peltier can receive help with daily living, quality health care, and PROTECTION FROM VIOLENCE. Let the BOP know that you consider this an instance of ELDER ABUSE." (Emphasis added)
Jack Coler and Ron Williams would willingly trade the lives that were stolen from them by Peltier and others and face the inevitability of aging. Jack and Ron never had the chance to age past twenty-eight years thanks to the cowards of Jumping Bull.
Really? Elder abuse? That's the latest excuse to keep the unsuspecting away from the facts, from the truth of what happened four decades ago?
And what happened to all the braggadocio of Peltier the brave warrior, the wannabe Chief, who allegedly stood up for his people, as he ran for the hills after he's the one who put every one of his own people in jeopardy that day.
The latest message, pure myth as it is, refers to June 26th as a--firefight. It was nothing of the sort. It was an unprovoked attack on two easily identified federal agents. And we have Ron Williams' own voice as definitive proof, overheard by a number of people, on exactly what was about to happen.
So now Peltier is whining from his cell in USP Coleman that he needs protection from violence. The absurdity of that has the permanence of breath on a mirror. The convicted murderer and aider and abetter in murder is no longer the tough guy he was when facing two critically wounded human beings and then shooting them both in the face. No, maybe he's not the "Tug" (to use his own term for Thug), he was in 1975, but the fact remains he is among his peers at Coleman. Deal with that reality!
The June 1st message included reference to a resolution for Peltier's clemency from the Rhode Island Progressive Democrats of America (RIPDA). Perusing their year-old website one can't help but think that mainstream, real Democrats, must wince at this fringe group's message and wish they would just go away. The resolution's thirteen WhereAs' and Therefore's are all Peltier boilerplate filled with the same disinformation and fantasy of the Peltier folklore.
An email to RIPDA (Rest-in-Peace Democrats of America?), pointed out that two statements were true, two were inaccurate, four were irrelevant, and five were just outright false, and offered to provide them with some facts...from the records of Peltier's conviction, appeals and self-incriminating public statements...to correct their position. But they probably don't want to be confused with the actual details.
Interestingly, the resolution states that "18" members (their entire membership?) were present and "16" signed in the affirmative, "0" for "nay" and "2" abstained. It would be curious to know what kind of debate was held, if any, and what, if anything, the two who abstained had to say.
The good news is that Peltier is bragging about 16 people as if it's a victory of some sort. What it does do, however, is reinforce Peltier's pathetically meager popularity and hallucinations of clemency prospects.
But let's offer this to those RIPDA folks, a direct quote from Leonard Peltier; "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." For those 16, 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), lay at their feet.
Perhaps Peltier wasn't at Pine Ridge that day after all. Maybe he just got lost and wound up in Providence, Rhode Island.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
Monday, June 1, 2015
June 26, 1975...40 Years Later, Part 1
Dear Supporters:
On June 23, 1975 there was an incident on the
Schwarting ranch, near Batesland, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South
Dakota.
After a day of ranch work branding cattle, Jerry
Schwarting, along with a young friend, Robert Dunsmore, gave a ride to Hobart
Horse, a family friend, to the residence of Teddy Pourier. Also at this
residence was Herman Thunderhawk and Jimmy Eagle. What started out as casual
evening of unwinding and jesting turned into a dangerous and violent
confrontation.
Jerry Schwarting was beaten by the others and young
Dunsmore was stripped of his clothes. They were both threatened, even with
castration, and had guns repeatedly fired over their heads. Schwarting's
vehicle, jacket and new cowboy boots (that were two months old and cost $200)
were stolen. Schwarting carries scars from knife wounds to this day.
As a result of this crime on a government
reservation, a violation under the jurisdiction of the FBI, federal
warrants were issued for the four individuals.
Special Agents Jack Coler, on temporary assignment
from the Denver Division, and Ron Williams, both from the Rapid City
Resident Agency that covers the surrounding counties and Pine Ridge, were
assigned to search for the fugitives.
On June 25th, Teddy Pourier was arrested.
Later that day three young Indians; Michael
Anderson, Wish Draper and Norman Charles walked along Highway 18 to the
hamlet of Oglala to take a shower. While returning they were stopped and
questioned by Agents' Coler and Williams who believed one of them may have been
Jimmy Eagle. The three were taken to the Tribal Police in the town of
Pine Ridge and it was determined that none of them was Eagle, however, at some
point Coler and Williams learned that Jimmy Eagle had been seen in the Oglala
area driving a red vehicle. A Tribal Police Officer later dropped off the
three on Highway 18 a few miles south of Oglala near a small farm owned by
the Jumping Bull family.
Unknown at that time to Agents' Coler and
Williams, or the FBI, was that members of the American Indian Movement had
set up a new camp in a ravine along White Clay Creek just south of the
Jumping Bull farm. The FBI was painfully aware of AIM's presence on
the Reservation, most noted through violent conflicts with the Tribal
Government and the utter destruction of the village of Wounded Knee in 1973, along
with the killing of civil rights worker Perry Ray Robinson and the suspected
disappearance of others. Nor did they know that Leonard Peltier, then a
fugitive from the attempted murder of a Milwaukee police officer, was also at
the White Clay camp.
Coler and Williams decided to meet the next morning
to continue searching the Oglala area for the fugitive, Jimmy Eagle.
It is absolutely undisputed how the shooting at
Jumping Bull began sometime around noon on that fateful following day of June
26th.*
A number of FBI agents and employees heard Ron
Williams on the radio describing that they had followed a vehicle from Highway
18; that the vehicle stopped, that it looked like they were going to be
fired upon…and the shooting began. They could hear Ron trying to describe their
location. They heard him say that if help didn't get there soon they would be
dead. They heard Ron get shot.
During those fateful moments, the three in the
vehicle, a white and red Chevrolet suburban, fugitive Leonard Peltier, Joe
Stuntz, and the young Indian who knew exactly who Agents' Coler and Williams
were, Norman Charles, began firing at the agent's who were now pinned down in
an open field. Peltier was quickly joined by other AIM members from the camp,
including Dino Butler and Bob Robideau, who, along with others, trapped the
agents in what can only be described as a deadly crossfire.**
Local agents and law-enforcement responded; the
first to arrive turning onto the same dirt road travelled earlier by Coler and
Williams, were taken under rifle fire and forced back onto Highway 18. None
were able to reach their besieged comrades.
In all likelihood, and under a hail of rifle fire, the
shooting didn't last long as Jack Coler received a devastating wound to
his right arm, was incapacitated, and probably going into shock. Ron,
wounded three times and hoping that help would soon arrive, removed
his shirt, crawled to his downed partner and used it as a tourniquet on
his badly injured arm; and then waited.
Both Jack Coler and Ron Williams, severely wounded
and unable to defend themselves, were then brutally executed.
Two young agents, one a former police officer, the
other a veteran, remained loyal to their sworn obligation to uphold the law, honored
their oath of Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity, and made the ultimate sacrifice
in the line of duty.
Although forty years have passed, their dedication
and memory will never diminish.***
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
Comments on Just After Noon, June 26, 1975
Comment on the timing of the attack on Agents' Coler
and Williams
Meet Jack Coler and Ronald Williams
Sunday, May 17, 2015
PELTIER: No Clemency, More Pathetic Begging & Whois?
Dear Supporters:
No clemency: President Obama made it very clear (again) (USA Today May 1, 2015) of his intentions and cautious approach to allow those who are "deserving and qualified" for consideration for Executive Clemency. In his guidance to the Pardon Attorney, the President specifically eliminated crimes of violence and gun crimes, both of which exclude Peltier. Peltier's case has been under the proverbial microscope for decades and his conviction(s) and sentencing(s) have never been altered. Peltier's long incarceration for his heinous crimes is deserved and not a consideration under the President's guidance. Rehabilitation could be a factor, but Peltier has removed that as well, demonstrating not one shred of remorse for his crimes with even a fairly recent public statement in 2014 when he said "I don't regret any of this for a minute."
On June 26, 1975, in the span of a few brief moments, Leonard Peltier's life was inexorably and forever changed. However, he was still the same person the day before and has remained so ever since.
Peltier, an unrepentant cold-blooded murderer, is neither deserving nor qualified for clemency consideration; a fact he needs to finally comprehend.
More Pathetic Begging: In public messages on May 1st and 8th Peltier and his network make pitiful pleas for cash:
"Legal visits?" That ship sailed a long time ago, so anyone who buys into the notion that Peltier has legal expenses is a victim of the continuing con job. Peltier can submit his clemency application with a piece of paper and a crayon. No attorneys need to visit him or Washington, D.C. Besides, a number of well-intentioned and dedicated attorneys have devoted thousands of dollars and their time and efforts, pro bono, (without charge, gratis, free) to help Peltier over the years. All to no avail because his factual guilt stands on its own merits and his moral guilt, by his own admissions, is without question.
"Incidental expenses?" Peltier has been challenged many times to come clean with the finances, but never has and never will.* For those who are blinded to the "Peltier the poor Indian victim" rhetoric, his guilt notwithstanding, there remains an enduring dirty little secret: How much money (and where has it all gone) has Peltier fleeced from those bemused disciples? Peltier and a select few know, however, they'll keep that misinformation to themselves.
If there's any doubt as to the continuing scam Peltier has perpetrated, unabashedly in the name of his "cause," spend a few minutes seeing how all that stacks up to the realities: http://noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#fraud
As for family members visiting Peltier at USP Coleman in Florida, that's too bad, but there's a more realistic view: Jack Coler and Ron Williams' families have never been able to visit thier loved ones.
Whois? To clarify the message in the "Peltier comes Clean" April 30th NPPA blog, it was, of course, satire, making the point of exposing Peltier's criminality and hypocrisy. He has become delusional and actually believes the myth and folklore that has grown like mold around him. Peltier's claim that what happened at Jumping Bull had anything to do with the history of a proud and storied native heritage borders on sacrilege. He wants to believe that by diverting attention away from his own criminal acts to the real brave warriors and leaders of Native American history that he can somehow walk in their honorable moccasins. Any but the foolhardy know that is impossible.
Set aside for the moment Peltier's disrespect for women and shoving a gun in Anna Mae's mouth to make her confess to something she was not (an informant) and AIM attorney Bruce Ellison's "taking the fifth" for his involvement in her eventual kidnap, rape and brutal murder, and notice Peltier's downward slide of fortunes; most recently in a rag-tag, rent-by-the-week office in Florida, under the auspices of David Hill, (who has more AIM baggage than even Ellison), to a P.O. Box in Hillsboro, Oregon.
And yet, still prominent on the whoisleonardpeltier.info website (note that it's not .org, .net, or .com; see below), is the most blatant and provable lie in the Peltier lexicon of four decades old fabrications (lies). Redford's film "Incident at Oglala" features the admission of guilt, the airing of Peltier's only alibi that has been proven by his own people (the former LPDC and Dino Butler), and of late, one of his own lead attorneys, that the whole Mr. X fabrication was a lie. A lie certainly now known to Redford who is too blinded or naive to admit he was duped by the wannabe leader Peltier.
It borders on incredulous that the ILPDC still believes that this film does anything but reinforce Peltier's obvious guilt and propensity to lie about the facts. Watch and listen as Robideau describes Mr. X killing the agents and escaping in the infamous red pickup (at 1:20:50 to 1:23:40hrs in the film) and then as Peltier confirms the canard with "This story is true." It wasn't true in June, 1975, during the making of this flawed film, nor is it today.
To real Native Americans Peltier is a pariah, a humiliation to their otherwise storied history, and a festering sore created by Petlier and the American Indian Movement that they would just as soon relegate to the garbage heap and forget ever happened. Peltier and AIM contributed nothing to the betterment of Native America and the vast majority understand that.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
*See NPPA Blog "A dog-dare for Leonard Peltier," October 3, 2010
No clemency: President Obama made it very clear (again) (USA Today May 1, 2015) of his intentions and cautious approach to allow those who are "deserving and qualified" for consideration for Executive Clemency. In his guidance to the Pardon Attorney, the President specifically eliminated crimes of violence and gun crimes, both of which exclude Peltier. Peltier's case has been under the proverbial microscope for decades and his conviction(s) and sentencing(s) have never been altered. Peltier's long incarceration for his heinous crimes is deserved and not a consideration under the President's guidance. Rehabilitation could be a factor, but Peltier has removed that as well, demonstrating not one shred of remorse for his crimes with even a fairly recent public statement in 2014 when he said "I don't regret any of this for a minute."
On June 26, 1975, in the span of a few brief moments, Leonard Peltier's life was inexorably and forever changed. However, he was still the same person the day before and has remained so ever since.
Peltier, an unrepentant cold-blooded murderer, is neither deserving nor qualified for clemency consideration; a fact he needs to finally comprehend.
More Pathetic Begging: In public messages on May 1st and 8th Peltier and his network make pitiful pleas for cash:
"Please donate $5 or $10. No amount is too small...to defray the cost of air and ground transportation, lodgings, meals and other incidental expenses for legal visits and to help Mr. Peltier's family members, most of whom have been unable to visit him at all in recent years, to travel to Florida."
"Legal visits?" That ship sailed a long time ago, so anyone who buys into the notion that Peltier has legal expenses is a victim of the continuing con job. Peltier can submit his clemency application with a piece of paper and a crayon. No attorneys need to visit him or Washington, D.C. Besides, a number of well-intentioned and dedicated attorneys have devoted thousands of dollars and their time and efforts, pro bono, (without charge, gratis, free) to help Peltier over the years. All to no avail because his factual guilt stands on its own merits and his moral guilt, by his own admissions, is without question.
"Incidental expenses?" Peltier has been challenged many times to come clean with the finances, but never has and never will.* For those who are blinded to the "Peltier the poor Indian victim" rhetoric, his guilt notwithstanding, there remains an enduring dirty little secret: How much money (and where has it all gone) has Peltier fleeced from those bemused disciples? Peltier and a select few know, however, they'll keep that misinformation to themselves.
If there's any doubt as to the continuing scam Peltier has perpetrated, unabashedly in the name of his "cause," spend a few minutes seeing how all that stacks up to the realities: http://noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#fraud
As for family members visiting Peltier at USP Coleman in Florida, that's too bad, but there's a more realistic view: Jack Coler and Ron Williams' families have never been able to visit thier loved ones.
Whois? To clarify the message in the "Peltier comes Clean" April 30th NPPA blog, it was, of course, satire, making the point of exposing Peltier's criminality and hypocrisy. He has become delusional and actually believes the myth and folklore that has grown like mold around him. Peltier's claim that what happened at Jumping Bull had anything to do with the history of a proud and storied native heritage borders on sacrilege. He wants to believe that by diverting attention away from his own criminal acts to the real brave warriors and leaders of Native American history that he can somehow walk in their honorable moccasins. Any but the foolhardy know that is impossible.
Set aside for the moment Peltier's disrespect for women and shoving a gun in Anna Mae's mouth to make her confess to something she was not (an informant) and AIM attorney Bruce Ellison's "taking the fifth" for his involvement in her eventual kidnap, rape and brutal murder, and notice Peltier's downward slide of fortunes; most recently in a rag-tag, rent-by-the-week office in Florida, under the auspices of David Hill, (who has more AIM baggage than even Ellison), to a P.O. Box in Hillsboro, Oregon.
And yet, still prominent on the whoisleonardpeltier.info website (note that it's not .org, .net, or .com; see below), is the most blatant and provable lie in the Peltier lexicon of four decades old fabrications (lies). Redford's film "Incident at Oglala" features the admission of guilt, the airing of Peltier's only alibi that has been proven by his own people (the former LPDC and Dino Butler), and of late, one of his own lead attorneys, that the whole Mr. X fabrication was a lie. A lie certainly now known to Redford who is too blinded or naive to admit he was duped by the wannabe leader Peltier.
It borders on incredulous that the ILPDC still believes that this film does anything but reinforce Peltier's obvious guilt and propensity to lie about the facts. Watch and listen as Robideau describes Mr. X killing the agents and escaping in the infamous red pickup (at 1:20:50 to 1:23:40hrs in the film) and then as Peltier confirms the canard with "This story is true." It wasn't true in June, 1975, during the making of this flawed film, nor is it today.
To real Native Americans Peltier is a pariah, a humiliation to their otherwise storied history, and a festering sore created by Petlier and the American Indian Movement that they would just as soon relegate to the garbage heap and forget ever happened. Peltier and AIM contributed nothing to the betterment of Native America and the vast majority understand that.
"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"
Ed Woods
*See NPPA Blog "A dog-dare for Leonard Peltier," October 3, 2010
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