Leonard Peltier is a 49 year-old Chippewa/ Sioux Indian serving consecutive life sentences in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas. A member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), Peltier was convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI agents during a fire fight on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation during the summer of 1975. It has subsequently been shown, through the FBI’s own documents, that incomplete and inaccurate ballistics evidence was deliberately presented at the in order to “establish Peltier’s guilt.” As early as 1980, Amnesty International concluded that even the most the most elementary standards of justice require that Peltier receive a new trial. Prosecutor Lynn Crooks has since admitted the government “has no idea” ? who killed the agents, and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has formally acknowledged that the original case against Peltier no longer exists. Still the court has declined to reverse Peltier’s conviction, expressly because the problems involved in the case result from a clear pattern of “misconduct on the part of some FBI agents.” To order the matter back to trial would, the judge’s correctly observe, “impute even more impropriety” to the Bureau, a step to profess themselves “reluctant” to take. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice refused to hear Peltier’s appeals. No reason was stated on either occasion. Peltier, of course, remains in prison. Only in this hypocritical nation could a government have the nerve to keep Peltier locked up. After butchering the American Indians And stealing their land this government is still slaughtering what is left of the Indians. From forcing Indians into polluted reservations to harassment of the American Indian Movement, the bloodshed has yet to see an end.
source- Rotten Propaganda zine
