OFF THE WIRE
Chief Sitting Bull
“I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows. We are poor…but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die…we die defending our rights.
Sitting Bull Hunkpapa_Sioux (Tatanka lyotake)
On June 26, 1975, two FBI agents entered private property in unmarked vehicles and wearing plain clothing. They did not identify themselves as FBI agents and must have believed that super-hero powers come with the FBI badge and gun, and that being FBI agents meant they could encroach on private property and disrespect the constitutionally protected rights of the residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
At the time, Pine Ridge was undergoing a serious problem with violence and the American Indian Movement (AIM), which Lenoard Peltier was a member of, was asked by the reservation’s residents to help work with the residents and find ways to help subside the increase in violence in their community. They were living in fear due to the violence in the community.
The FBI knew full well of the violence problems existing on Pine Ridge.
These two FBI agents “claimed” they followed a young Native American named Jimmy Eagle onto the reservation seeking to arrest him for the theft of a pair of cowboy boots.
These two FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ron Williams, were either too arrogant, too cocky, too self important, two racists, too drunk with power, or simply too stupid.
For them to think that two white dudes showing up unannounced and uninvited on an Indian Reservation, who’s residents were experiencing extreme violence problems, and then start (I believe) shooting and think nothing of it, is totally mind blowing and directly indicative of the level of arrogance and brutality of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its agents.
Not to mention their belief that they have the right to do what ever they want, when ever they want, to whom ever they want and they fully expect to get away with it.
Despite the absence of any real and tangible evidence that Leonard Peltier was directly responsible for the death of those two idiots from the FBI, he has remained incarcerated since 1977.
There were several shooters involved that day, including the FBI.
The FBI has no way of knowing who actually fired the shot(s) that killed the two agents that day, but wanted Leonard Peltier to pay for the arrogance, and down right stupidity of their two agents.
A young Native American named Joe Stuntz also died that day, shot through the head by a sniper’s bullet. HIS KILLING HAS NEVER BEEN INVESTIGATED!
The message the FBI sends there is: We can kill who ever we want, when ever we want, and who’s gonna stop us?
The case of Leonard Peltier is disturbing when one looks at the evidence. That’s because there is none, none at all that proves he killed anyone let alone two people thinking the mere fact they were FBI agents some how gave them Super Human powers.
What the U.S. Government was successful in doing in the Pine Ridge Reservation/Leonard Peltier case is: fucking over the Native Americans of Pine Ridge, yet again! Plain and simple.
Another disturbing fact about Leonard Peltier’s case is there are well over 500 VIPs and celebrities, and thousands of others, who have signed a petition in support of Leonard Peltier with the list including judges, politicians and scholars who agree he is innocent and should be released.
Yet the Feds ignore them. They ignore us, you and me and take the stance of: who’s gonna stop us?
Leonard Peltier is incarcerated due to the hate and vile within the FBI. Leonard Peltier is incarcerated purely to send a message that the death of an FBI agent, no matter his actions, will be revenged and paid for regardless if it is an innocent person that pays the price.
Justice has no place in the halls of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The shoot out at Pine Ridge Reservation on June 26, 1975 was NEVER about Native Americans taking on the Feds, as the Feds want us to believe.
It was about Native Americans being accosted, provoked and set upon by intruders forcing the residents of Pine Ridge to defend themselves from aggressive, violent, murderous trespassers, who did not identify themselves.
If this were a movie it would end with the good guys winning and the bad guys getting their just deserves. And if it were my screen play the movie would end some thing like this:
The Native Americans (the good guys) succeed in defending their property and lives (against the bad guys: FBI) at Pine Ridge, Killing all who trespassed on their land while threatening their property and lives.
Then, realizing the highest good for all peoples of America would be the complete cleansing of the entire Federal Bureau of investigation and the evil that resides therein, all whom have been victimized by the abusive and evil persons calling the shots within the agency, take up the good fight with our Native American brothers and sisters and storm FBI headquarters and offices throughout the land.
In the closing seconds of the movie, the viewer gets a glimpse of true justice: A shot of the President of the United States ordering the arrest of all FBI agents for violating the constitutional rights of all Americans.
The camera cuts away to show FBI headquarters and agents being led away in handcuffs, while stepping over the bodies of the agents they were too late to arrest.
Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese are you listening? I’ll write the screen play!
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