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de Zausel - 08.09.2008, 11:51News
The case of Leonard Peltier requires extensive discussion
and examination. For seventeen years, we have relied on the
higher courts to overturn the lower court decisions owing to
irregularities we felt were inconsistent with a fair trial in Fargo,
North Dakota. Yet the Supreme Court denied the final appeal
which terminates the legal avenues of Leonard's chance for a
new trial. And so, we have to now take it out of the legal arena
and bring it into the Executive Branch, asking President Clinton
for Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier. We must begin to
approach the freedom of Peltier as an issue of morality, an
issue of clemency.
First we must look at the issue of clemency as one of right and
wrong as opposed to legal or illegal. There were many wrongs
and irregularities which occurred during the trial. The prosecution
has admitted that the FBI had indeed fabricated and withheld
evidence which would have been beneficial to the defense.
There were also wrongs that happened prior to the actual trial
including how Myrtle Poor Bear was used to gain extradition
of Leonard Peltier from Canada.
The other issue is clemency itself based upon some hard facts
of the case, i.e., the admission by the federal prosecutor,
Lynn Crook, that the government does not actually know who
killed the agents. However, over 18 years ago, he told the
jury hearing the case that Peltier had in fact shot the agents
point blank. The conflict arises from the scenario that the
prosecution painted to a jury from an area of North Dakota
that has been historically biased against Native people.
Another consideration is the fact that the FBI went
"judge shopping" to find a court that was willing to appease
the federal government and the FBI, a blueprint for conviction
and sentencing.
Peltier was also a member of the American Indian Movement
(AIM) which had been targeted and labeled by the FBI as a
terrorist organization. They had lost a major feild battle against
AIM at wounded Knee in 1973 and were intent upon destroying
the group and its leadership.
At the time of the shooting at Oglala, a camp of AIM leaders
and supporters, including women and children, were situated
at the Jumping Bull Ranch at Pine Ridge Reservation. Two FBI
agents allegedly had a warrant for a man named Jimmy Eagle
who was charged with stealing a pair of cowboy boots. They
drove on the Jumping Bull property supposedly following this
man in a red pickup. What followed exactly is unknown.
What is known is that gunfire erupted and those in the camp
were only aware that unknown assailants were firing upon
them. With women and children present, their response was
return of fire. Within a short time, the farm was filled with
200 FBI agents and federal police. People at the camp
escaped through the hills, escorted and hidden by members
of the local community. When it was all over one of our
security people, Joe Stuntz, and two FBI agents were dead.
No one has ever been charged with the murder of Stuntz.
The FBI then launched the largest manhunt in us history.
The FBI press releases portrayed AIM as a terrorist group
that had murdered federal agents. Peltier, Robideau, and
Butler were charged with the murders. Robideau and Butler
were tried in Iowa and found not guilty based upon the self-
defense theory. This showed that we did not know who was
shooting at us, and, not knowing that, the fire was returned
in self-defense.
Peltier was tried later after an extradition from Canada based
on fabricated accounts by Myrtle Poor Bear, who was coerced
by government agents. Peltier was not permitted to use the
self-defense theory preventing much of the evidence from
being presented to the jury. Other evidence was withheld,
lost, fabricated and misinterpreted. Not until the Freedom of
Information Act did much of the misinformation by the
prosecution and government become available.
And yet Leonard Peltier remains in prison. In a letter to Senator
Inouye, Judge Heaney of the Eighth Circuit Court outlines five
reasons why Leonard Peltier should be free. He concludes with
the statement that the healing process must begin. However the
healing cannot begin until the wounding ends. Peltier's
continued incarceration is the open wound that festers every
day.
WE DEMAND EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY FOR LEONARD
PELTIER, GIVEN NOT ON THE BASIS OF FORGIVENESS,
AS A PARDON WOULD SUGGEST, BUT BASED UPON
THE BELIEF OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG.
FOR PELTIER TO REMAIN IN PRISON IS WRONG.
EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY WOULD BE THE ONLY JUST
AND MORAL WAY TO HEAL THIS WOUND.
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