Posted on 02/18/2025 1:16:02 PM PST by DFG
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison Tuesday morning after former President Joe Biden commuted his life sentence for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, a decision that elated Peltier's supporters while angering law enforcement officials who believe in his guilt.
"Today I am finally free! They may have imprisoned me but they never took my spirit," Leonard Peltier said Tuesday. "Thank you to all my supporters throughout the world who fought for my freedom. I am finally going home. I look forward to seeing my friends, my family, and my community. It's a good day today."
For nearly half a century, Peltier's imprisonment has symbolized systemic injustice for Native Americans across the country who believe in his innocence. The decision to release the 80-year-old to home confinement was celebrated by supporters.
"He represents every person who's been roughed up by a cop, profiled, had their children harassed at school," said Nick Estes, a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe who has advocated for Peltier's release.
Peltier was denied parole as recently as last July and wasn't eligible for parole again until 2026.
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I give those lefties credit. They made enough noise for me to have heard about him back at U of Chicago in the mid-80s, and they never let up.
Don’t look over your shoulder, Lenny.
That’s not a grizzled retired FBI guy behind you with a scoped aught-six.
Served a very long stretch.
“...I give those lefties credit. They made enough noise for me to have heard about him back at U of Chicago in the mid-80s, and they never let up...”
He was only their second-greatest cause célèbre. Their biggest one was always Mumia Abu Jamal.
He’s been replaced with Luigi Mangione.
No judgement but why did it take a whole month to get him processed out?
Now that we realize what the FBI really is, I am wondering if I can have some sympathy for the guy.
Then I remember he was pardonned by Let’s Go Brandon...
How about “convicted cop-killer who murdered two FBI agents?”
Can’t loathe the media enough.
What are we going to do with all those bumper stickers???./sarc.
Thunderheart, directed by Michael Apted
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QoOv_-iKYFo&pp=ygUUVGh1bmRlcmhlYXJ0IHRyYWlsZXI%3D
DMW.
The commies who regularly post on our commie news outlet declared him innocent, it was never proven he killed anyone, and was a political prisoner. He is up there with Mumia Abu Jamal.
I knew him at Leavenworth, he painted a lot and got tons of fan mail. Clinton was going to pardon him in 99 but he got a visit from 300 FBI agents that told him every skeleton in his life would rise up to get him and he decided against it.
My wife's brother and his wife voted for Obama/Biden.
I haven't heard how they feel about that.
“’He represents every person who’s been roughed up by a cop, profiled, had their children harassed at school,’” said Nick Estes, a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe who has advocated for Peltier’s release.”
The source CBS News Minnesota reporter Jason Rantala chose to cite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Nation
The Red Nation is a Native American advocacy group that focuses on decolonization and Marxism as means to liberate Indigenous peoples. . .The Red Nation is a group of Native American activists and scholars, including co-founder Nick Estes. . .The group advocates for the abolition of borders. . .
Now that the LEFT owns the FBI (until a month ago), they have no problem using it in a FAR MORE abusive manner than Hoover or anyone on the Right did.
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