Leonard Peltier: Time for Truth? Or Remain a Cause Celebre?

One of three folks who killed two FBI agents on 26 June, 1975.

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Tribal homeland.. Gosh, must have been why he was in Canada for so long, just trying to get home...

If you’re going to boast about the crime, you get to do the crime, that’s my viewpoint.

I am studying this case. I am not sure he did the crime.

JUNE 26, 1975 : (PELTIER & AMERICAN INDIAN ACTIVISTS AMBUSH FBI AGENTS WHO WERE SEEKING A SUSPECT IN A BEATING AND ROBBERY CASE — See SUPPORTERS ED ASNER, OLIVER STONE) On June 26, 1975, Peltier and other American Indian Movement activists ambushed Coler and Williams as they drove, in separate vehicles, on property that was part of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The agents were seeking a suspect in a beating and robbery, and had no knowledge that Peltier, who was wanted on warrants for the attempted murder of a Milwaukee police officer, was present. Peltier, who has since admitted firing at the agents, was joined by other AIM gunmen in opening fire with high-powered rifles and other weapons. The FBI agents, grievously wounded and outgunned, returned a total of five shots; there were more than 125 bullet holes in their cars — and more still in their bodies. .....The wounded Williams apparently removed his bloody shirt, crawled to Coler’s side, and wrapped it around Coler’s arm, nearly severed by gunfire. As they lay helpless, both were shot through the head at point-blank range. The shot that killed Williams passed through his upraised hand, as if he had pleaded for his life. At the scene were 114 shell casings, all later linked to Peltier’s rifle. .....” — by Frank Keating, WSJ 12/19/00 - ALAMO-GIRL’S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01

NOVEMBER 1975 : (OREGON : PELTIER IS STOPPED BY STATE TROOPER BUT ESCAPES AFTER EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE - IN HIS AND HIS COMPANIONS’ ABANDONED VEHICLES POLICE FIND A CACHE OF WEAPONS AND AMMO, INCLUDING THE REVOLVER BELONGING TO FBI AGENT COLER, WHO WAS KILLED IN AN EARLIER INCIDENT IN JUNE ) “..... In November 1975, when the fugitive Peltier was stopped by State Trooper Ken Griffith in Oregon, he exchanged shots with the trooper and escaped on foot. His abandoned vehicle and a car driven by his companions yielded a large cache of ammunition: 14 handguns, nine grenades and Coler’s service revolver. It was in a paper bag, under the driver’s seat, that bore Peltier’s fingerprints. ...... — by Frank Keating, WSJ 12/19/00 - ALAMO-GIRL’S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01

FEBRUARY 1976 : (CANADA : PELTIER IS CAPTURED BY MOUNTIES) In February 1976, Peltier was captured by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on an Indian reservation where he had been hiding since his flight from Oregon. — by Frank Keating, WSJ 12/19/00 - ALAMO-GIRL’S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01

Just another murdering windbag hiding his guilt behind a “Great Cause.” Not all that different than Osama bin Laden.

* LEONARD PELTIER & THE NCPPF :

The NCPPF has acted as a legal-aid office of sorts for members or alleged members of a wide variety of terrorist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the Basque ETA separatist group of Spain, the FALN of Puerto Rico, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Shining Path of Peru, and for Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of the 1975 murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. --------------"Undermining war on terror : Muslim groups weakening fed laws under guise of protecting civil liberties," World Net Daily, March 10, 2003

Who else is associated with the NCPPF?

1997 : (SAMI AL ARIAN FOUNDS NCPPF) [Sami al-Arian's]... National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom poses as a watchdog for the Constitution, but he has focused his lobbying efforts on repealing anti-terrorist legislation.
... Al-Arian founded the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF) in 1997 as a reaction to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996. The coalition’s stated goal “is to help change the political climate to support due process and First Amendment rights by facilitating effective legal and political action.” However, it does not take long to connect the dots between NCPPF, American Marxists, and Muslim extremists apologizing for Islamic terrorism both here and abroad. ...
The NCPPF website simply reads, “We are a coalition whose members are organizations.” The organizations the NCPPF includes as members run the gambit from pro-Marxist Palestinian groups to anti-Israeli Palestinian groups, and from pro-Communist American groups to pro-Palestinian-terrorist American groups. ..--------------.Lobby for Terror Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/28/04 | Thomas Ryan

2000 - 2002 : (FL : SAMI AL ARIAN IS NCPPF PRESIDENT -- see TAMPA CELL ) From 2000 to 2002, the NCPPF (National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom) president was USF professor Sami Al-Arian. ...Sami al-Arian, of course, was a professor at University of South Florida who was arrested in 2003 – after an eight year investigation – for his involvement in fundraising for PIJ.-----------------"Undermining war on terror : Muslim groups weakening fed laws under guise of protecting civil liberties," World Net Daily, March 10, 2003

Who else?

Another member of NCPPF is the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). The CCR, which was founded by lawyer William Kunstler in 1966, is an advocacy organization that utilizes litigation in protest to what it deems are social injustices. Kunstler once stated, “The thing I'm most interested in is keeping people on the street who will forever alter the character of this society: the revolutionaries.” Kunstler’s Center follows this tenor, and the CCR has represented a number of revolutionaries with leftist, Communist, and even terrorist agendas. The CCR has litigated for the Armed Forces of National Liberation, which was responsible for more than 50 bomb attacks on U.S. political and military targets between 1974 and 1983. It has represented Basheer Hameed and Abdul Majid – members of the Black Panther Party convicted of killing two police officers. Other cop-killers the center has legally supported include the United Freedom Front, a violent, 60’s radical group that funded its homeland terrorism by conducting a series of bank robberies from Connecticut to Virginia, murdering policemen en route. -----------"Lobby for Terror," Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/28/04 | Thomas Ryan

and?

Also serving as a member of NCPPF is the American Muslim Council (AMC), whose founder, Abdurahman Alamoudi, like al-Arian, was arrested for his ties to Islamic terrorism. Aside from being the founder and executive director of the AMC, Abdurahman Alamoudi has been an Islamic affairs advisor for the Clinton administration; an official appointee of the Pentagon in charge of choosing Muslim chaplains; and was a State Department-selected Goodwill Ambassador to the Muslim nations. Alamoudi’s private life, however, was occupied with financing anti-American/anti-Israeli terrorist groups and nations: from the Libyan regime of Muammar Qadhafi, to Hezbollah and Hamas, to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Addressing a group of Palestinian-terrorist supporters in front of the White house in 2000, Alamoudi acknowledged, “I have been labeled…as being a supporter of Hamas. Anybody supporters of Hamas here…We are all supporters of Hamas...I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah.” -----------.Lobby for Terror Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/28/04 | Thomas Ryan

and?

Although al-Arian is the founder of the NCPPF, the current executive director is Kit Gage. Aside from her work for NCPPF, Gage is a longtime legal advocate for the proletariat, and has served as the Executive Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG).-----------.Lobby for Terror Front Page Magazine ^ | 4/28/04 | Thomas Ryan

I think they have the right guy. Peltier is murderous scum and there is no honor among any of these AIM numskulls. There was a battle between Progressives v. Traditionalists and the agents were just trying to do their jobs. Who should have been there or who was right or wrong in the main contention is so convoluted it is hard to say. Regardless, you don’t get to murder two men.

I try to be just and fair. I hold my people in contempt for the “Free Peltier” nonsense the same as I do those crying, “Free Mumia”. Any observations I ever made about Peltier led me to understand he was a murderer and that he had more mustache than I or any 5 other ndn’s together, could begin to grow.

He is one of three that was there. He might not have pulled the trigger, but he was there..

Hmmm. Funny how I encountered none of this from the media I searched. Excellent job, Piasa!