PELTIER FLOW CHART

Reblogged from Rezinate and Marty Two bulls:

http://rezinate.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/leonard-peltiers-own-words/

"In the Spirit of Coler and Williams"

Ed W.

(Rezinate) I’ve said many times throughout the course of this blog that what I believe precipitated the ambush at Jumping Bull was Peltier’s mistaken belief that agents Williams and Coler were coming after him for a Wisconsin fugitive warrant.

That doesn’t set well with the Peltierites and on occasion has led to some sputtering, fuming, and name calling-they do so completely ignoring various statements made by Peltier himself, below is one such example.

Note the capitalized words, his words, that they were trying to arrest him. That can only raise the question arrest him for what?

Were they able to read his mind and attempting to arrest him for their own murders which hadn’t been committed yet? Did they sacrifice themselves so he could be arrested at a later date?

No? Then what is left other than Peltier’s belief it was about Wisconsin?

In this single paragraph look at the accolades this loser heaps on himself:

He’s not only “courageous” but a “hero” as well. A fearless “warrior” who “fought hard” and was “victorious”.

Now tell the truth – if you were in the company of such a braggart would you hang around listening to this sort of bs, tell him to shut the hell up, or move on?

“…people on my reservation know about what happened that day. They know who fought hard and they know who was courageous and they know who was the hero.They know I fought very,very hard. I was not afraid. I stood there (unintelligible) enemy as a warrior should when he is victorious. I wasn’t afraid. I wasn’t afraid any of those time. I can’t get up here and say, tell the world I was a courageous warrior. Especially in this system, I can’t tell the system I was shooting at their police officers THAT WERE TRYING TO ARREST ME.”

RON WILLIAMS: July 30, 1947 - June 26, 1975: Rest In Peace

Dear Supporters:

In thirty-four days, only a month, Ron would have celebrated his 28^th birthday.

His young and vibrant life to that point was a celebration of his intelligence, charm, personality and admirable accomplishments. Already having served his country in the U.S. Navy, completing college and embarking on a challenging career in the nation’s premier law-enforcement agency. His future was a clean slate; doors yet to open and adventures discovered, limitless ambitions and opportunities and a host of close friends and family to share it all.

We can only speculate or imagine what the next thirty-nine years would have given him. He had ambitions. Ron had entertained pursuing a law degree but it is not clear whether he would have tried to tackle such an enterprise while remaining in the Bureau, or stepping down to pursue it full time.

His time in the Rapid City Resident Agency (RCRA), an assignment typically reserved for those with prior law enforcement experience, like his partner that day, former LAPD Swat member, Jack Coler, was challenging; a far cry from his previous experience and his hometown of the metropolis of Los Angeles. Although the Bureau was increasing the agent compliment of the RCRA to combat the rising turmoil caused by the American Indian Movement, Ron faced those challenges as the consummate young professional agent all knew him to be.

Ron loved flying and had already earned a pilot’s license. The FBI’s aviation program did not formally exist when he entered the Bureau but by the mid 70s where aircraft were used in several major investigations, the opportunity to become a Bureau pilot was certainly a possibility where he could have combined both passions.

Having come from a major city, the possibility of transferring back to L.A., where family and other friends resided, was a good possibility. After serving his time in Indian Country working difficult cases in remote areas, Los Angeles could have been within reach.

Had he returned to L.A., pursued a law degree, perhaps then active in the Bureau’s rapidly growing aviation program, he may have sought to combine those skills and experiences. Perhaps as an experienced investigator, an attorney and a pilot, the National Transportation Safety Board may have been an interesting and challenging career option, or perhaps a legal practice involving airline litigation. We’ll never know.

By now, at age 67 he would no doubt have a family, and perhaps retired from whatever path he chose, as he doted over grandchildren sharing with them career exploits and accomplishments, introducing them to his passion for flying, taking them on flying vacations or out for an afternoon to a not-too-distant airport for one of those famous $50 hamburgers (today they would be more like $300 hamburgers). In any case he would have lived, loved and shared a long, productive and happy life, even if there were a few bumps in the road.

But all that potential and dreams of the future ended on a sultry day in June 1975.

He faced the danger, the enemy, as a young man with the courage and strength of his already proven character. However, the odds were overwhelming and insurmountable.

Undaunted and unafraid Ron and Jack pursued their fugitive felon, only to be ambushed by AIM cowards and severely wounded. Nonetheless, the evidence is crystal clear; he went first to the aid of his gravely injured partner.

His sacrifice is our loss. May he Rest-in-Peace knowing that he will never be forgotten.

We can take solace knowing that every agent and every man and woman who carries a badge and a gun and is willing to place themselves in harm's way to protect the citizenry and enforce the laws of this Nation have a guardian angel looking over their shoulder. His name is Special Agent Ronald A. Williams.

“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”

Ed Woods

PELTIER: SHAMELESS PANDERING, DISTORTED HISTORY

Dear Supporters          

Peltier’s June 26, 2014 “Press release” regarding the 39^th anniversary of the line-of-duty murders of FBI Agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams would have had some meaning if it came from someone with credibility. If the past four decades have proven anything it is that Peltier will say whatever he thinks he can to garner the sympathy of those few who have bought into the folklore.

Peltier takes a giant and fallacious leap into his own history as he provides us with:

“By the time of the Oglala shoot-out there had already been some 60 something of our Native people killed. These people are the ones we are commemorating here today. I always especially remember Joe Stunz (sic) who was a mentor to some of the younger boys in the community.”

Really? “60 something” and “a mentor?” 

Peltier consistently demonstrates that he can’t keep straight or remember his own fabrications (lies) or those proffered by the LPDC and LPDOC. The number of those alleged victims has varied over the years but now it’s down to “sixty something.” Repeating the fable has not validated the facts. Well, and for perhaps the hundredth time, believers and non-believers are invited to look at list and decide for themselves.  Remember too, that one of those on the list was Anna Mae Aquash; the AIM member who Peltier stuck a gun in her mouth suspecting she was an informant (this was consistent with Peltier’s reputation and disregard for women in general), and who was killed, by AIM.  (Footnote 1). Regardless of what AIM thought, Anna Mae was not an “agent provocateur” (a term they love to brand people with). She was not an informant but that mattered little when she was shot in the head and dumped in a ditch.

This is the second time in less than a month that Peltier and his dwindling network cannot even get Stuntz’s name right. Nonetheless, Peltier is directly responsible for Stuntz’s death. As has been pointed out, Joe Stuntz was shooting at responding law enforcement and was killed in that exchange. Joe Stuntz followed Leonard Peltier to his own death.  Peltier’s feckless leadership of AIM members placed them all in jeopardy that June day.

But let’s assume for the moment that after the assault and wounding of Agents’ Coler and Williams, and the brutal point-blank killing shots to their faces, and after stealing Agent Coler’s FBI jacket and giving Peltier a smile in the process…lets imagine what kind of “mentor” Stuntz would have been had he escaped from Pine Ridge that fateful day.

Peltier offers no examples (the NPPA submits there are none) of what kind of mentoring Stuntz had or would have provided the younger AIM members.

Had Stuntz successfully escaped, what lessons would he have imparted to other AIM members, young or old? Let’s not forget that during the escape Peltier made that fateful admission “…the M…..F…..was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway.” (Fn. 2)

So Stuntz makes it out alive and is on the run. He is speaking to others in a private and secluded place not being able to display his trophy in public. He wears the FBI raid jacket and points to the large F.B.I. initials and tells them, “See that’s what you do when the white man and Feds come to the Reservation. You attack. You shoot them and if they ain’t dead, you shoot them in the face like the dogs they are. We counted coup and rolled them over to honor our warrior heritage that the enemy must face Mother Earth so he will never meet the creator in the afterlife. That’s what we did. I took the wasichu’s  jacket instead of a scalp like our brave ancestors would have done so I can show you how brave we were that day. We stole their weapons too, and following the Eagle made our way out of the battle…”

Some mentor Stuntz would have made.

On July 7^th Peltier’s latest message stooped to levels that the NPPA could not believe even he could reach. Entitled “A very personal request,” and concluding with a “Friend in Need,” he claims he has found the “best legal team” and all he needs ”to book him immediately” is $50,000 along with donations solicited on Indiegogo. Not a mere pittance he admits, and in a follow-up on July 10^th from the rented room in Lake Mary, Florida, probably Harry David Hill (aka Mr. X; and the jury is still out whether he was an agent provocateur as well. Fn. 3 ) offers the conundrum:

“It was the great and beautiful Jane Fonda who purchased it last to help Leonard. Jane donated it to the current owner who has been gracious enough to let us sell it for a percentage.   It is Leonard's most sought after piece of artwork.  Beautiful in every way.  The iconic portrait of a warrior.  It is called " Protector of the Woods"

Hanoi Jane. (Fn. 4)

It’s “gracious” (hardly generous) that the current owner is willing to give up a “percentage.”

 Indiegogo as of 7/12/14 reached 10% of it’s projected goal of 175K with $17,818. So there are a few gullible people out there who have never asked Peltier the tough questions. How much has he taken in and where has all the money gone? Has he paid his taxes on this income? Money and funding remains Peltier’s dirty little secret. Transparency is not a word he either understands or honors. Perhaps more follow-up letters to the IRS are in order.

Peltier’s motivation for all this is designed to generate a false sense of hope to keep the coffers from completely draining with donations from  über-gullible, misinformed and misguided supporters. Those who are incapable of moving past the fabrications (lies), myth and folklore; the fantasized version of who Peltier is in real life.

The heart of the matter is the new dream team.

Looking back over the years there have been many capable attorneys who have, as a matter of course, reviewed the entire legal history, from the trial, evidence, testimony and transcripts and throughout all the appeals. Some were motivated by notoriety, trying to glean some free publicity from representing the likes of Peltier, others, were genuinely committed to ensuring that no stone was left unturned and devoted hundreds, even thousands of  hours of their professional time and effort, and many, a significant amount of their own personal finances (pro bono; free to Peltier), to advance the Peltier cause. Collectively they have all reached the same point in the process; there’s nothing left. Only once in the four decade history of the Peltier case has there been any progress, and that was the October 1984 “ballistic hearing” where they alleged that an October 2, 1975 FBI teletype received through the FOIPA meant something other than it really did. But the final word from the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals was crystal clear: “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; although the defense had its own ballistics expert, it offered no contrary evidence.” (Fn.5)

In other words, another allegation without substance.

Peltier’s attorneys have collectively, and valiantly in some instances, tried every manner of legal technicality and maneuvering to no avail. There are no smoking guns or loopholes to explore. Many of those who have tried to support Peltier learned the hard way that his ungrateful, ragged demeanor and sociopathic, unrelenting personality pushed away even the best of them.

None of this goes to innocence however. We just don’t need the intimately examined court record proving his factual guilt; we have Peltier’s own statements over the years, proving beyond any doubt, his actual and unrepentant guilt; “And really, if necessary, I’d do it all over again, because it was the right thing to do.” (Peltier 2/6/10) (Fn.6)

“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”

Ed Woods

Footnotes:

1) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/response.html#7

http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#right (For more details of AIM related and suspected murders see http://rezinate.wordpress.com/

2) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#right (Paragraph 14 and footnote #4 of that essay: Looking Cloud trial transcript at 144-145; in reference to a statement made to the witness by Leonard Peltier: Prosecutor: “Exactly what did he say?” Witness: “He said the M…..F…..was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway.”)

3) http://rezinate.wordpress.com/

4) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#fraud

From 2004 Editorial Essay: The funding issue is a constant source of frustration for the LPDC and may help explain why they are still in El Paso instead of Lewisburg. Their online store is filled with hackneyed and uninteresting flea market items except for one puzzling piece of artwork entitled "Protector of the Woods."  The painting is uninspiring, even confusing; it's difficult to tell exactly what's hiding behind that white birch. But the real problem with this particular piece is that the original is owned by the one person who is an anathema-the antichrist-to every American serviceman and servicewoman, prior, present, living and deceased; Hanoi Jane³, aka Jane Fonda.

5) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/800.html

6) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#confession

 http://wwwnoparolepeltiercom-justice.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html

PELTIER: POLITICAL PRISONER? June 26, 1975

PELTIER: POLITICAL PRISONER? Peltier and the
significance of June 26, 1975, June 2, 2014
and June 13, 2014.

Leonard Peltier has repeatedly referred to himself as a “Political Prisoner.”

If we do ascribe that term to Peltier, then the Incident at Oglala—the killing of FBI Agents Coler and Williams—must take on an entirely different meaning.

If one is to accept that premise—then that June morning, Coler and Williams in their search for a fugitive didn’t just happen to, or accidentally spot, a red vehicle driven by Peltier with passengers Norman Charles and Joe Stuntz, thinking one of them may have been Jimmy Eagle.

(As a matter of clarification, there was no doubt, based on common belief and testimony at all the trials and among all who live on the Reservation, that white men in civilian clothes driving late model vehicles with antennas, were Feds. No mystery or misunderstanding on that point. Everyone knew who they were shooting at.)

If the American Indian Movement’s actions were politically motivated, that is to say, confronting historically perceived wrongs against Native Americans, then their act, with Peltier at the moment as the tip of the arrow, Coler and Williams were instead, lured off Highway 18 and into a trap and an ambush: A deliberate criminal act motivated by radical political views, backed by “extremist” (today they would be called terrorist) actions. Coler and Williams were then trapped in a deadly crossfire by AIM members and after both being severely wounded, were summarily executed. That’s the act of political defiance, violence and terrorism.

In what other way can we view this political/terrorist act other than in this sequence of events if Peltier himself wants to wear the label of “political prisoner?”

If Peltier, as do many of his followers believe he is a political prisoner, then the deaths of Agents Coler and Williams can only be viewed from one other perspective. So then, not by inference, but admission, Leonard Peltier the political prisoner must also be branded an assassin. The attacking and assassination of the agents was then for some political gain, a violent act to demonstrate their extremist political influence, their ongoing violence-fueled radicalism with, and hatred for, the United States government. 

Peltier, although born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, has said “…that I don’t consider myself an American citizen.”  Peltier’s disassociation with being an American citizen is irrelevant because he committed the highest of felonies, murder, within this country.

On June 2, 2014 Peltier may have seen a ray of light, a slight ring of hope, peaking through the muggy overcast as he lumbered along through the yard at Florida’s Coleman Penitentiary, or perhaps he heard the news on the day-room television that the President had made an unapologetic exchange of Sgt. Bergdahl for five of the high-value Taliban detainees from Guantanamo.

Peltier may have jumped for joy learning that documented killers with American blood on their hands; acknowledged, unrepentant and dangerous enemies of the United States had, in a manner of speaking, received a grant of clemency.

However, the President made it clear that this was in effect an exchange of prisoners of war, and the President, as Commander-in-Chief, has the power to negotiate prisoner exchanges and repatriate hostages. The nature of the war on terrorism we now face is global, without defined borders or an easily identified enemy. No matter what Sgt. Bergdahl’s ultimate fate may be will rest with the military authorities.

Sgt. Bergdahl is not a Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier is not a POW.

Peltier and his supporters opinion will differ about the exchange, but then from what war was Peltier taken prisoner? From which battlefield? Was Jumping Bull on June 26, 1975 a paramilitary skirmish where AIM forces drew its line in the sand and killed two enemy combatants? One can easily recognize the absurdity of such an argument.

Peltier should not expect a Rose Garden ceremony and realize that Bergdahl’s situation and the release of the detainees has no bearing on his conviction for murder (and as Peltier has often tried to dismiss), aiding and abetting in the murder of Agents Coler and Williams.

Through the prison walls one can almost hear Peltier’s thoughts, “Hey, I only killed two FBI agents, why not let me out?”

Not going to happen; apples and oranges, and diametrically opposed circumstances.

June 13^th marked an important date of only the forth time in American history a sitting President visited a Reservation (Calvin Coolidge, 1927; Franklin Roosevelt, 1936) and, much to the dismay and lament of Leonard Peltier, Bill Clinton in 1999.

It was during that visit, to of all places, Pine Ridge, that President Clinton, when asked about Peltier, responded, “Who’s Leonard Peltier,” which prompted Peltier’s famous characterization that “These politicians are such sleazebags.” (Footnote #1)

While at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota the President and First Lady met with the children, spoke with tribal elders and leaders and watched a “Flag Day Powwow” celebration. (For Peltier’s edification the Flag Day was for the American Flag, a tradition dating back to the late 1700s.)

What the President did say was that he was announcing plans to reform the Bureau of Indian Education to better educate native children and increase tribal control of schools, remove regulatory barriers to infrastructure and energy development, encourage the use of tax-exempt bonds for economic development, that his administration has given back land to tribes and worked one-on-one with tribal governments and cracking down on crime in Indian Country. (Fn #2)

What the President didn’t say was that he would give any consideration to an unrepentant murderer who made it clear to all that he would “…if necessary, do it all over again, because it was the right thing to do.” (Fn. 3)

The President should show Peltier as much mercy as Peltier showed Jack Coler and Ron Williams…none.

“In the Sprit of Coler and Williams”

Ed Woods

Footnotes:

1) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/speak.html

2) Washington Post, June 13, 2014

3) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#confession

PELTIER CELEBRATES MURDER: JUNE 26, 1975

Dear Supporters: 

Excerpts from a “Distribute Widely” May 11^th Press Release:

 “The Oglala Commemoration is very happy to announce the 15^th Annual Oglala Commemoration Event / 2^nd Annual Leonard Peltier Day on June 26, 2014, Oglala, South Dakota. This event is open to all Leonard Peltier family, friends and supporters. BUT NOT NON BELEVIERS…Day begins at Noon with Prayer Ceremony at Little Family Cemetery, (place of Joe Stunts gravesite)…‘March for Justice’ follows to the Jumping Bull Property…Main Security – AIM Grassroots…This event is part of Leonard’s Humanitarian Efforts for  “Let the Great Healing Begin.” This is a NO Drug, Alcohol, Violence or Ego event.”

(The capitalizations are theirs and one would think they would at least spell Stuntz’s name correctly.)

Let’s examine Peltier’s Press Release.*

Commemorate: (Webster’s) To exist or be done in order to remind people of; to do something special in order to remember and honor (an important event or person from the past).

They’re “very happy.”

In a perverse sense they are entitled to be, however, inmate #89637-132 remains in Coleman Penitentiary.

June 26^th, 1975: Jumping Bull, Pine Ridge, South Dakota: Three (3) dead.

Joe Stuntz: The first question to ask is who should the Stuntz family be angry with concerning his death? The answer is simple. Leonard Peltier.  Peltier and Peltierites would like to frame this as Joe Stuntz’s murder. But look at the facts.

After the initial attack on Agents’ Coler and Williams they were both brutally murdered with point-blank blasts, destroying their faces. It’s likely, or possible, that Stuntz may have even witnessed those final moments. We do know, however, what he did next: “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,” Leonard remembers. “I didn’t think nothing of it at the time; all I could think of was, we got to get out of here.” (Footnote #1)

So imagine the scene; two dead and mutilated men at his feet while he steals the dead agent’s FBI jacket and gives Peltier a smile as the rest of the AIM cowards steal their weapons.

Stuntz and the others—Norman Brown, for example, gives us a graphic description of having Agent Adams’ head in his sights—shoot at the agents and officers responding to Agent Williams’ radio calls for assistance. Stuntz is later shot and found wearing Agent Coler’s jacket. (Fn #2)

Had it not been for the would-be warrior Peltier, who chose to fire at the agents and start the gunfire placing not just the agents, but all the AIM members present and Angie Long Visitor and her family in jeopardy and danger, Joe Stuntz would probably still be alive today. Joe Stuntz followed Peltier to his own death.

It is difficult, if not nearly impossible not to engage in persiflage when speaking or writing about Peltier and his dwindling support network.

NON BELIEVERS: Give them an “A” for transparency. That’s right, if you don’t buy into the Peltier the Warrior, Peltier the Victim scam, sprinkled with four decades of lies, fabrications and statements from Peltier himself that remove any doubt as to his actual guilt, then you’re uninvited.

However, this does make it official. Leonard Peltier is a cult.

A cult; along, (Peltier would love to believe he has that much influence), with the likes of Jim Jones, David Koresh, Charles Manson, Marshall Applewhite and others. The Peltierites have taken the full measure of Cool Aid and perhaps, even their mysterious patron saint, Mr. X, may become an apparition at Jumping Bull. Or, Harry David Hill may make another masked appearance. Let’s not forget Peltier’s own words in Redford’s remake of Matthiessen’s tale, Incident at Oglala; “This story is true,” Leonard said, as he affirms the two-decade long lie of Mr. X killing the agents.

Peltierites fall into one of a number of diverse categories. Some well-meaning who are fundamentally opposed to incarceration; some who believe he’s actually innocent; those who ascribe to the historical burden of white-man’s debt to Native Americans; the America-haters who use Peltier as a prop but don’t have the courage of their own conviction, and if the U.S.A. is really that bad of a place, they could just leave. (The Jericho Movement is a classic example. Isn’t it a conundrum for them that no one is trying to escape from America? A quandary they abuse without understanding why. They are free to go.); those who bought into the myth and fabrications and have neither the time nor energy to do some serious research; those, who no matter what they hear from Peltier, his many contradictions, false alibis—statements that are tantamount to admissions of guilt—accept the warrior/victim scam no matter what; European factions who voice their opinions but don’t have a dog in this particular fight; perhaps now even cultists, and, maybe the worst kind, the wannbe’s. Those who adopt Indian sounding names and parade around championing a cause they can only defend with diversions from the facts.

Peltier’s comingling with his supporters has a simple premise with but two sides; he is either using them, or being used by them. Either way, the fraud is transparent.

But amidst all the low-frequency cultural noise surrounding the Myth of Leonard Peltier, he has not deceived his followers as much as they have deceived themselves.

Main Security – AIM Grassroots: If this is a solemn ceremony as they imply, and if non-believers aren’t on the guest list, then why would security be an issue? It’s just a peaceful gathering to remember one of three who died that June day. Have there been security issues at prior events? Besides, and this cannot be ignored, as AIM’s history has confirmed, having them around creates it’s own danger.

(Fn #3)

Humanitarian Efforts: On that note Peltier has been dared to either put-up or shut-up. His humanitarian efforts do not, have not, and never will stand up to any scrutiny. It’s all part of the ruse that brings money to the coffers but never produces anything of value in return. Disclose your finances, he has been asked…even at one point his own people were demanding “transparency,” but that never happened and never will. It’s all part of the smoke and mirror’s routine supported by the unknowing. This is just another fork in the road, part of Peltier’s “Let the great healing begin,” which in Peltierspeak means, let the check-writing and “tax deductible” donations continue. (Fn #4).

This is a NO Drug, Alcohol, Violence or Ego event: That covers a lot of contradictions. If it is what it’s supposed to be, you know, a commemoration with invited like-minded believers, with a prayer at a cemetery, a march for justice to visit where Peltier started this whole disaster to begin with, then why is it that those attending have to be warned not to include or indulge in drugs, alcohol and violence? Is that what this is all about? Keeping the followers in check? They can’t even set one day aside and act like responsible adults?

The Ego part is almost humorous. Peltier will be nearly 2,000 miles away in central Florida so the biggest ego is too far away to matter, that is unless some of the other outsized AIM egos should appear and try to steal the show as they have been known to do.

March for Justice: There was another March for Justice where nearly a thousand FBI and law enforcement men and women gathered at the Law Enforcement Memorial on a crisp December morning in 2000. They went in a dignified, orderly and respectful procession to the White House carrying a banner “In Memory” and a large photo each of their fallen comrades where a representative delivered over 10,000 petitions asking the President not to consider clemency for the murderer Peltier. The President didn’t but there’s another part of that story as well. Those attending didn’t have to be reminded about how they should dress, act or conduct themselves at that solemn event. Notwithstanding, Jennifer Harbury, another “former” Peltier attorney (no surprise they never last), was quoted in a Washington paper describing the event as “Armed Agents Marching on Washington.” So typical of the Peltier spin on events. If it doesn’t fit their narrative, then freedom of speech, a First Amendment right of free expression is diminished and stifled, or worse yet, labeled with ignorant comments. In other words, free speech for me, but not for thee. Although, these tactics do have a name (Fn #5).

Of course Peltier never testified at his own trial. He had a right not to and his attorney’s were smart not to allow it. However, his public statements and interviews have all the weight of the testimony we never heard. Everyone, Believers and Non-Believer’s are invited to watch and listen to some of the YouTube videos of Peltier as he stumbles and mumbles through interviews, sometimes even contradicting what he just said. His sincerity is pathetically absent as he gropes to find an answer that fits into the many flimsy narratives he’s offered in the past; the lies and versions of events he’s unable to keep straight. 

If it’s anything like prior commemorations, which were minor and poorly attended events, it won’t draw much attention anyway. The FBI, BIA and Tribal Police could care less. Perhaps the Tribal Police may provide coverage for the safety of those parking or walking on Highway 18.

However, there will be another celebration that day as tens of thousands of dedicated men and women from municipalities to the federal government remember. Those dedicated individuals who wear a badge and are willing to place themselves in harms way to protect the innocent, assist victims and enforce the laws of this nation against criminal elements. They will remember Leonard Peltier and the other cowards of Jumping Bull and honor the memory and sacrifice and in-the-line-of-duty deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams. They will mark this event by remembering that just four years ago Peltier’s own description of June 26, 1975 was, “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.”

“Because it was the right thing to do” will reverberate among the hills surrounding Jumping Bull and across the country and will marginalize an unrepentant and remorseless murderer. Yes, in a single moment, for whatever his real motivations were that day, his life changed as much as any man’s possibly could. Yet the reality is that Peltier was still the same person the day before and all the days since.

“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”

Ed Woods

Footnotes:

1) Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, p.552

2) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/movie.html

 http://www.noparolepeltier.com/interview.html

 http://www.noparolepeltier.com/lie.html

3) http://rezinate.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/the-same-crooked-path/

    http://americanindianmafia.com/

4) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#fraud

    http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#free

5) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#unmasked

*The next NPPA blog will examine the significance regarding Peltier and June 2, 2014.

U.N. Rapporteur, Deuxième partie (Part Two)

Dear Supporters:

Waited patiently, to no avail, for a reply from U.N. Special Rapporteur, University of Arizona, Professor, James Anaya to the NPPA’s email and letter dated January 27, 2014 (see 1/27/14 blog below). The letter was in response to the January 24^th “Media Advisory/Press Release” and Prof. Anaya’s visit with Peltier at Coleman Penitentiary. (Footnote #1)

The “press release” incompletely quotes Prof. Anaya but referenced his 30 August 2012 “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, on the situation of indigenous peoples in the United States.” (The ‘Report’)

The latest “Director” of the newly reformed ILPDC quoting from the Report, pages 13 & 20, relates directly to Peltier. But, there’s even-money that Harry David Hill did not read beyond those two quotes or the entire fifty-page Report. But we did.

Prof. Anaya compiled an historical document reviewing dozens of reports, federal programs and information and allegations in summary form presented in Appendices I and II that comprised fully one-half of his Report (pp. 24-50), and by visiting seven States in eleven days between April 23 to May 4, 2012 to reach his conclusions presented in the first half of the Report.

Nothing new was presented in Prof. Anaya’s Report, analysis, and statistics reviewing the history of the treatment of Native Americans (and other indigenous cultures). He comes to conclusions that are commonly known and accepted by all who understand these historical perspectives.

Early on he mentions “Of course their (Native American tribes, Indian Nations) greatest contribution is in the vast expanses of land that they gave up, through treaty concessions and otherwise, without which the United States and its economic base would not exist.” This is a common theme that Prof. Anaya fails to, or avoids placing into its proper perspective. Of course these things happened, but contrary to the prevailing myth, before the Europeans entered the continent and under Manifest Destiny continued the push from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the North American continent was not a Valhalla as many are led to believe. Long before, and during the European colonial powers or the successor United States and the white man’s relentless quest for land and resources, there was trouble in paradise.

And for the vast stretches of the continent, who’s to say who owned what? Many tribes claimed rights and ownership of the same lands.

Anaya’s Report devotes considerable space, an entire section, to crimes against women.

While visiting and posing for smiling photos with Peltier at Coleman Penitentiary, did the good professor ever think to ask Peltier to clarify the details of when and why he stuck a gun in Anna Mae Aquash’s mouth trying to force her to admit she was an informant (or provocateur as they like to be labeled). Or why Peltier’s AIM comrades went with their unfounded suspicions anyway and put a bullet in the back of her head, dumping her body in a ditch? Or, how Peltier knew that Anna Mae was dead in December 1975 when her body wasn’t found until the next March? Was that part of the Anaya-Peltier hug fest in the visiting room? Obviously, not.

A challenging statistic offered in Anaya’s Report (p.11) is:

“Estimates are that nearly 80 per cent (sic) of the rapes of indigenous women are by non-indigenous men, many of who (sic) have made their way into indigenous communities but who are not presently subject to indigenous prosecuaorial authority because of their non-indigenous status. Congress has yet to pass key reforms in the Violence Against Women Act that would bolster tribes’ ability to prosecute these cases.”

Neither of the references Prof. Anaya offers (Steven W. Perry, Statistical Profile and U.S.D.O.J. Report) supports that conclusion. Although, Perry’s decade old study relating to “Victimization in Indian Country” indicates that “Violent victimization of American Indians, by race of offender and type of victimization, 1992-2001,” the “rape/sexual assault” statistic does approach 80%, but the findings do not account for or differentiate those crimes against Native American women by white offenders occurring on “Reservations” per se, or elsewhere. It does, however clarify that attempts were made to determine “…how many victimizations took place at those locations (Reservations or Indian lands). “From 2000 to 2002—0.5% of all reported violence—occurred on Indian reservations or Indian lands.” And that, “Victims could be of any race.” Not all Native Americans live on Reservations, nor are all residents on Reservations, Native American. So, Professor Anaya’s 80% conclusion is suspect and may be erroneous.

Although based apparently on a faulty assumption, Prof. Anaya’s point of allowing more tribal authority against anyone who commits a crime on a Reservation or tribal land is well taken.

Prof. Anaya’s support of Peltier is fatally flawed (Fn. 2). He has bought into the mythology that in some perverse way a free Peltier will see some level of reconciliation and some payback of the “historical” (white man’s) “debt.” A careful examination of the facts, adding to that Peltier’s own self-incriminating statements over the years since his conviction should be the topic of the professor’s next Report.

Referring to Peltier as an “activist and leader in the American Indian Movement,” describing the murder of Agents’ Coler and Williams’ as “…a clash on the Pine Ridge Reservation” clearly indicates that Professor Anaya needs more time for additional research on both the facts surrounding Peltier’s actions that day at Jumping Bull and the devastation wrought by AIM, an organization that contributed nothing, along with Peltier, to the betterment of Native America.

In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”

Ed Woods

Footnotes:

1) Didn’t really expect a reply, nor not waiting or expecting one from Robert Redford. It’s so typical that supporters want to avoid any serious follow-up discussions. They make their emotional pleas and then move on to other matters. Healthy debate uncovering the precise details and facts only serve to remove the sheen from the Peltier folklore and that’s unacceptable to the diehards. Especially when those details come from Peltier’s own words.

2) Not an uncommon theme in the history of the Peltier matter.

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PELTIER: The “witness” who was “not even actually there.”

Dear Supporters:

Leonard Peltier desperately needs a new campaign manager.

He now has one who is unable to get the facts straight.

In a 4/15/14 “Team Freedom” message entitled “Gaining Perspective,” Peltier Campaign Manager, Indigo Cantor, laments over Peltier’s health, incarceration, etc., and provides the following brilliance for all those wannbes and Peltier hangers-on (Footnote #1)

“Leonard remains in prison after years of proof backing his innocence, and stacks of evidence showing the trials were rigged, the testimony was false, the so called ‘witness’ was not even actually there, and in fact she had NEVER even met Leonard.”

Aside from certainly never reading the entire trial transcript or any of the many appellate decisions, the Campaign Manager is challenged to offer one shred of “proof” of Peltier’s feigned and alleged innocence. Beyond Peltier’s own statements establishing his guilt, begin here and at least read the testimony of those “critical witnesses against Peltier” (Fn.2).

But first, let’s clarify which “witness” Ms. Cantor is referring to. With the detail that this was one who had “NEVER even met Leonard,” then there’s one, and one person only she can be referring to; Myrtle Poor Bear.

This may come as a bit of a shock to Ms. Cantor, but why is it that she doesn’t know that Myrtle Poor Bear never testified against Peltier?

Another attempt at creating facts out of whole cloth or just a deliberate attempt to confuse the uninitiated, those too blind to see or too lazy to do their homework? Maybe a bit of each, or more likely just their everyday coAIMintelpro tactics. (Fn.3)

But can Ms. Cantor answer why Poor Bear never testified even though she was a subpoenaed witness?

Well, there’s a very simple answer; because Peltier’s own attorneys didn’t want her to. That’s right; Peltier’s side did not want her on the witness stand.

Matter of fact (since facts are those pesky little things that get in the way of Peltier myth and feigned innocence), at the beginning of the trial: “”Indeed, defense counsel, anticipating that she would be called as a witness for the government, described her in his opening statement as a “witness whose {F.2d 333} mental imbalance is so gross as to render her testimony unbelievable.”” (Fn. 4)

Did she seem credible in the beginning? Sure, listen to her in Redford’s Incident at Oglala. Were her affidavits used…as only part of the extradition process from Canada? Yes, and the Canadian government concluded, Peltier “…was lawfully extradited to the United States“ (Fn. 5).

Better still. Cantor should stay, along with Harry David Hill. Peltier’s latest sequel (and there have been many) of frustrated and confused “leaders” manifesting the continuing downhill (no pun intended…but if the moccasin fits…) slide of Peltier’s support base. The Department of Justice, the Attorney General and the President can recognize Peltier’s crimes and understand that a free Peltier will heal and accomplish nothing. Peltier, at once a self-proclaimed warrior and “a victim” serve only to show how much he has diminished a proud heritage that he has polluted for his own self-serving and egocentric purposes. Crazy Horse, if he’s watching the Peltier mess, must be disgusted that his name is being tainted by the likes of the coward of Jumping Bull.

“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”

Ed Woods

Footnotes:

1) Not one to linger on subtleties, Indigo Cantor, the self-proclaimed tree hugging, social activist is recognized for her fortitude to take personal ownership of her words. For all too many years messages and “press releases” have been “launched into cyberspace by…” the LPDC, LPDOC, and International Peltier-whatever, with no one standing up to defend their support for Peltier; to put name to paper and show even the slightest amount of courage of their convictions. Ms. Cantor’s passion for Peltier the warrior-victim cannot be denied, however misplaced her facts may be, but she is applauded for standing up for the first time.

2) http://noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#critical

3) http://www.noparolepeltier.com/debate.html#unmasked

4) U.S. v. Peltier, September 14, 1978, Decided. Ibid. II.B.2.i.

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5) Previous blog dated April 20^th and http://www.noparolepeltier.com/canadaletter.html