After Rebuff by Clinton, Actor Peter Coyote Hopes to Sway Obama on Leonard Peltier Clemency
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2012
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In a renewed push, President Obama is being urged to grant clemency to the legendary Native American activist Leonard Peltier who has spent 37 years in prison. On Friday, singers Harry Belafonte and Pete Seeger will host a "Bring Leonard Peltier Home In 2012 Concert" at the Beacon Theater in New York City to raise awareness of Peltier's 37-year ordeal and plea for executive clemency from Obama. We're joined by the acclaimed actor and narrator Peter Coyote, a long-time friend and advocate of Peltier. Coyote is a politically engaged actor and writer as well as an ordained Zen Buddhist priest. He recently narrated the recent Ken Burns mini-series, "The Dust Bowl."
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It is not an issue of a " delusional thought" Peltier is innocent and when an innocent man is incarcerated we ALL LOOSE!!!
Peter rocks on!
Leonard was set up. He never killed anyone.
How can this country continue the holocaust that is the Indian Removal Act...that act was horrible yet the Justice system continues to keep Leonard In prison. No trust or respect for this system or this country for that matter of fact. It is with tears that i write this. I am 1/2 Cherokee Indian and proud to say that I am but sad to say I am an American and that Leonard is still in prison (41 years now). May those who lied, connived and withheld evidence die a painful death.
Good interview Many moons have passed since Wounded Knee,as a young ittinerant hippie pioneer.I travelled a lot from the east coast to the west , The 60's hippie Gringo's were tripping on Peyote and learning about the NAM and their struggle's with the Fed's The other part of it all was the spiritual teachings and faith in the Native American tribal leaders.Leonard has shown us the truth with his courage.Good poems spoken with the heart Bless you all with peace
Peter you are amazing,you did good with "THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL PARKS IN AMERICA" what a beautiful movies. congratulations.
The actual shooter has admitted the crime. FREE PELTIER!!!
Freeeeee him freeeeee him come on dame
Leonard Peltier sent me a message through Tom Waits sister Terry. He had seen my photo in a Socialist paper. It had been taken on Mayday, and I was holding a huge FREE LEONARD PELTIER banner which I had painted for the L.A. Mayday parade on Broadway. I was followed by guys in suits and sunglasses and the LAPD goon squad for several blocks. Nothing happened but it would have been an honor to get my ass kicked for supporting Leonard. She-it yeah.
I find all this interesting and been looking onto it alot more. The only confusing part is Lenard himself changes his story several times. It went from being woke up to gun fire to shooting at them but knows he didnt hit them. Then not seeing the bodies to yes I saw them. Or the fact when interviewed he was asked, "IF you had shot them would you be sorry?" his reply....."NO I would not be sorry" and why not demand a new trial instead of clemency? if the facts support his innocence lets get it all out in the open, the supposed real shooter admitted, same guy also said Lenard was there.
A new trail would not help Leonard because new evidence against him would be brought in concerning the Anna Mae Aquash murder. The prosecution might also bring in these quotes:
"This story is true.”
Leonard Peltier, assuring his supporters that a mysterious Mr. X shot the FBI agents, with what his lawyer, Mike Kuzma, later admitted was a complete "concoction."
“Peter, you put my life in jeopardy and you put the lives of my family in jeopardy by putting that bullshit in your books. Why didn’t you call me and ask me if it was true?”Dean Butler, chastising Peter Matthiessen for including Peltier’s lone alibi, Mr. X, in his book, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. An AIM member, David Hill, reportedly played the role of Mr. X in a video aired on American television.
“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 Peltier, standing over the bodies of Jack Coler and Ron Williams moments after their heads were blown off, commenting on Joe Stuntz wearing Jack Coler’s green FBI jacket taken from his car trunk, as quoted in Peter Matthiessen’s, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.
“I didn’t think nothing about it at the time: all I could think of was, We got to get out of here!”Leonard Peltier, reacting to Joe Stuntz wearing Jack Coler’s jacket, from In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Peltier could hear the chatter over the FBI car radio from other agents who were racing to the scene and attempting to re-establish contact with Agent Williams in response to his calls for help.
"I heard the bullet go whizzing by my head."
FBI Agent Dean Hughes, describing Joe Stuntz shooting at him after being repeatedly warned to stop firing at responding law enforcement officers. A BIA officer returned fire and killed Stuntz, an ex-con who had volunteered to stay behind and help Peltier escape from the murder scene, as quoted in American Indian Mafia.
"The circumstantial evidence presented at the extradition hearing, taken alone [without the Poor Bear affidavits],
constituted sufficient evidence to justify Mr. Peltier's committal on the two murder charges."Anne McLellen, Canadian Minister of Justice, in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno, October 12, 1999.
“The two witnesses testified outside the presence of the jury that after their testimony at trial, they had been threatened by Peltier himself that if they did not return to court and testify that their earlier testimony had been induced by F.B.I. threats, their lives would be in danger.”United States v. Peltier, 585 F. 2d 314, U.S. App. Decision September 14, 1978.
"This story that the government admitted they don't know who shot the agents comes from an out-of-context quote from prosecutor Lynn Crooks. Let me tell you something. I know Lynn Crooks, and there is no one on the planet more convinced of Peltier's guilt than Lynn Crooks."John M. Trimbach, American Indian Mafia
"There is no doubt that in June 1975 Leonard Peltier put a loaded gun in my mother's mouth during one of her interrogations and that six months later, other members of the American Indian Movement carried out my mother's torture, rape and murder. Leonard knows a lot about the people involved but even today, after all these years, he refuses to cooperate in the on-going murder investigation."Denise Maloney, daughter of AIM murder victim Anna Mae Pictou Aquash (Mi'kmaq)
"When all is said and done, however, a few simple but very important facts remain. The casing introduced into evidence in fact had been extracted from the Wichita AR-15. This point was not disputed."Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Feb 1986, finding of fact that the shell casing found at the murder scene was ejected from the AR-15 carried by Peltier.
“The motherf---er was begging for his life but I shot him anyway.”Sworn testimony attributed to Leonard Peltier, boasting in the Marlon Brando motor home about shooting Ron Williams, as heard by Dennis Banks, Ka-Mook Banks, Bernie Lafferty, and (soon-to-be-murdered) Anna Mae Aquash. According to the autopsy report, Ron Williams died with his right hand held up in front of his face; there were powder burns on his fingers.
"... the greater probability is that you yourself fired the fatal shots... It would be unjust to treat the slaying of these F.B.I. agents, while they lay wounded and helpless, as if your actions had been part of a gun battle. Neither the state of relations between Native American militants and law enforcement at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation prior to
June 26, 1975, nor the exchanges of gunfire between individuals at the Jumping Bull Compound and the law enforcement agents who arrived there during the hours after Agents Coler and Williams were murdered, explains or mitigates the crimes you committed...Your release on parole would promote disrespect for the law in
contravention of 18 U.S.C...." Leonard Peltier’s 1993 Parole Board, commenting on his aiding and abetting conviction.
“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.”Peltier’s statement to supporters, Feb 6, 2010.
Parole may be granted when the offender's "...release would not depreciate the seriousness of the offense."DOJ policy statement on parole.
to see all together only those who hate Natives would agree he should remain there all because the men in ""power"" are little boys who can not admit their mistakes!! to see all the evidence and to see how unjust our government has been?? shows how brutally unjust our government is!!Leonard deserves to be FREE NOW !! I would love to see someone in govt with a brain to have enough booyah to release him as they KNOW he should have always been!!
Well done to Peter Coyote for trying to do something.
The Bible Warn's of the Treatment of His Chosen Tribe's. God will Curse those who Curse God's Chosen Tribe's and God will Bless those who Bless God's Chosen Tribe's. Read Genesis 12:3
King James Bible
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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Please learn the facts of this case before running your mouth like that. This is far from a black and white, certainty of guilt case.