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Originally Posted by Zeke
So, you bought the line? I mean, the extradition smells, but the trial was fine: GUILTY.
That's probably because, under scrutiny, the Natives and the American Indian Movement were at fault, not the FBI.
Wounded Knee II started as a power struggle between Russell Means and AIM against the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council and its duly elected chairman, Richard Wilson. The FBI had to restrain Wilson from taking care of AIM insurgents on his own terms in order to prevent bloodshed. In sum, the FBI actually protected AIM insurgents from Native Americans who, justifiably, wanted to take back their reservation.
Peltier isn't a political prisoner, he's a thug who hides behind his own bullshit.
You realize the other Natives there, that day, copped to what they did and were found "Not Guilty by Reason of Self-Defense?" All Peltier -- ever -- had to do was man up: then or now. But he's so behind the 8-ball on the myth of innocence that a cell is more attractive.
He's a brutish thug who can rot.  |
As I said, this is thirty odd years out of mind for me so I freely admit that I, along with Amnesty International, could be wrong. I do, however, remember a somewhat different interpretation from yours: that, far from trying to protect AIM, the FBI and BIA were actually helping Wilson rid himself of his rivals.
John