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Obama Pardon Leonard Peltier in 2009!

Whereas, common sense dictates a Presidential Pardon to Mr. Leonard Peltier, the American Indian who has been wrongfully imprisoned by the u.s. government for over 30 years, and

Whereas, on June 26, 1975, two FBI agents stormed (guns a-blazing) onto private property of a private home and were shot under the rules of basic, human, self-defense by friends of the homeowners. A group of American Indian Movement (AIM) members - including Leonard Peltier, were present that day to defend the traditional-minded Lakota ‘Sioux’ elder residents, Mr. and Mrs. Jumping Bull. The Jumping Bull’s spoke their ancient Lakota language and practiced their old Lakota way of life, and their lives depended upon the requested, protective presence of AIM and Leonard Peltier.

For years government policy dictated criminalizing anything traditional, such as Lakota customs, religion, language, etc., in order to steal and occupy Lakota land, water, resources, and gold. Traditional people were targets, during the mid-1970’s, by vigilantes of the tribal council of the Pine Ridge Lakota Indian reservation.

The Lakota people are of the northern plains region whose homelands surround the He Sapa or Black Jagged-Rocky-Mountains (often called the "Black Hills") of present day South Dakota, and whose Lakota territories include western South Dakota, eastern and central Wyoming, and northwestern Nebraska.

The Lakota are of the understanding that the original creation of their race brought them forth from within the Sacred Wind Caves of the He Sapa. These are the people of the Indigenous hero, Tasunke Witko ‘Crazy Horse’, the famed Lakota Master Hunter.

Tasunke Witko was assassinated by u.s. government agents in 1877. His forces defeated the greatest u.s. army general in history - Custer and his 7th Cavalry, in the first, last, and only fair fight between the u.s. and Lakota on June 25, 1876 at the Little Big Horn Battle in southern Montana.

Custer was on direct, sure course to becoming the next u.s. president - ahead in polls by a staggering 85% over his challenger, incumbent Grant. This was until, however, Grant quite conveniently ordered the main and largest group of soldiers who were to assist at the Bighorn, to hold back that fateful day - leaving Custer in the unfamiliar, fair battle.

Later after his death (the poor guy), the embarrassing battle would find Custer continually discredited and even demoted by history writers from his reputation of top (Colin Powell-ish) General-Of-The-Day. At the current rate of such writings, Custer may soon be known in the books as a mere private in command of twenty men with rusty pocket knives.

Prior to this battle, the u.s. army habitually attacked peaceful camps of Lakota women and children, brutalizing and murdering thousands. This strategy culminated with a re-established 7th avenging the 1876 Custer defeat on December 29th, 1890, with a massacre of 453 innocent Lakota along Wounded Knee Creek in the heart of what is now called the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Lakota were previously disarmed six miles away the day prior near Porcupine Butte amid media propaganda that the Indians were crazed with a ghost dance cult - lowly government information in attempts to justify the murders.

Tasunke Witko died fighting to protect the sacred Black Hills from illegal gold mining, theft, and occupation by the invading u.s. government in violation of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie. Crazy Horse was a citizen of the Lakota Nation, of the large Nakota Nation of peoples whose citizens include the people with the language dialects of the Nakota, DaNakota, Dakota, and Lakota.

The Nakota Nation is signatory to the 1851 Treaty, and the Lakota refer to it as the Treaty of Long Meadows. The 1851 Treaty is an international agreement between the government of the United States and eight Indigenous Red Indian Nations of the northern plains region of Great Turtle Island (the western hemisphere). These Indigenous homelands include portions of present day Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming.

The necessary female aspect for the authorization of this Treaty was secured through the ancient Oyate Omniciye or Circle Meeting of the Men and Women of the Camp for years prior to the Treaty, as the wise Lakota needed to get something signed on paper in the way of the white man so that the future generations of today could hold the document up for honoring.

The sacred Canunpa (misnomer Peace Pipe) has its origins with the Nakota Nation, with the DaNakota as care-takers of the sacred Red Stone Quarries from where the pipestone is harvested in southwestern Minnesota. The so-called Peace Pipe, famed in movies and known to common, american school kids, was labeled a religion, its ways outlawed by the u.s. government. Use of it by the Lakota went underground as they were forced onto concentration camps called reservations.

The Canunpa was also falsely misunderstood to hold marijuana or other mind altering herbs and is often alleged by the government and media as a vessel for getting ‘high’ - although the sacred usage of the Canunpa is simply to give sober thanks to Grand Mother Earth and Grand Father Sky through the ceremonial smoking of Willow Bark and Tobacco during most special occasion.

The traditional Nakota understand that they are not superior to Animals, Trees, Rocks, and Nature in general, and are thankful for all of Nature and its provisions (the only way to achieve true happiness). They did not harbor ‘beliefs’, nor did they believe in a god, a devil, or other objects of the human imagination. In fact, to take the life of a Tree would require great ceremony and would require the offering of Tobacco and thanksgiving to the root of that tree.

The original White Buffalo Calf Canunpa which maintains the Seven Great Ceremonies of the Nakota was present during the Treaty of Long Meadows signing during September of 1851. At the Treaty gathering, over 50 thousand Indigenous people of the eight Red Nations were in attendance, along with the authorized Treaty representatives of the u.s. government, led by D. D. Mitchell.

The affair was one of the largest gatherings of Indigenous peoples in recent times. The camp was so immense, the thousands of Tipi%u2019s had to be relocated three times during the course of three weeks, with the Treaty finally agreed upon and signed on September 17, 1851, along Horse Creek in what is now western Nebraska.

The 1851 Treaty was the most important and last, final legal Treaty between the u.s. and Nakota Nation. Years later in 1868, however, a unilateral, illegal fake-treaty was concocted by u.s. agents in 1868 utilizing a few paper chiefs in attempts to hide the 1851. But the 1851 Treaty of Long Meadows was forever to be protected from violation through Article VI of the Unites States Constitution, which states, Treaties made with Indian nations shall be the supreme law of the land, with the judges in every state bound thereby.

American Indian tribal councils were set up by an illegal act of congress in 1934 to more or less remove women from the Indigenous governing process and to begin the final step of Indian termination (making Indians into simply poor Americans or minorities, with no land base). The American Indian Movement - of which Leonard Peltier was an active member - prevented termination, which now allows Indians to practice Life Renewal ‘Sweat Lodge’, Sun Dance, and other previously outlawed ceremonies.

In 1975, the harassment of traditionals was a u.s./tribal council puppets attempt to thwart awareness of the quest for resources such as uranium, the main ingredient in nuclear bombs and nuclear radiation waste contamination. Today, we see this same type of resource theft and puppet governing implanting occurring in Iraq, where the labeled savage, uncivilized, bad Iraqis need to be dealt with, while, quite conveniently, the government also secures the oil wells as this Iraqi Problem gets sorted out (which will never happen until the oil is all stolen). Current media/government figures are as of yet unavailable as to how many trillions worth of the Iraqi people’s black gold has been spirited from Iraq oil fields and into the hands of Exxon Mobil and Halliburton since the Bush invasion.

Over nine TRILLION dollars worth of Lakota Black Hills gold currently sits as stolen property in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Should oppressed Sioux Nation peoples be allowed to think freely, via practicing their ancient ways and the subsequent ascertainment of the old Lakota wisdom and common sense understanding, the occupation of their lands and resources would become most evident to them, and

Whereas, this knowledge, therefore, could allow exposure to these unknown, unspoken facts regarding the government’s unknown, unspoken Indian Problem. This exposition might then, at great harm to the u.s. governments hidden genocidal scams, policies, and actions, penetrate into the awareness of the mainstream American people (voters and church-goers). This continued oppression and anti-god behavior against American Indian people may not serve government interests well, and

Whereas, the two FBI agents, 34 years ago, entered the Jumping Bull property in an unmarked vehicle - guns blazing - and were killed by Indigenous patriots protecting their relatives grand children and homes and was purely in self-defense. But a courtroom defense was not even allowed to be claimed by Peltiers attorneys in the racist federal court in North Dakota.

There was self defense deaths that June day but there was only one murder - the death of AIM member Joseph Stuntz. To this day his murder has been uninvestigated and no one has yet to be charged. The only other murder that may occur is if Leonard Peltier is allowed to rot in prison by whoever is president.

Former president Clinton had a perfect opportunity to pardon Peltier, but he decided speaking engagements were more important (the FBI said they would not protect him during his speeches if he freed Leonard Peltier).

Therefore Be It Resolved, that we require the new incoming President Barack Obama immediately offer a Presidential Pardon before June 21, 2009, to Mr. Leonard Peltier so that Leonard may join his children and grandchildren and continue the fight for Indigenous freedom.

Obama Free Peltier

Obama Pardon Leonard Peltier in 2009!

Whereas, common sense dictates a Presidential Pardon to Mr. Leonard Peltier, the American Indian who has been wrongfully imprisoned by the u.s. government for over 30 years, and

Whereas, on June 26, 1975, two FBI agents stormed (guns a-blazing) onto private property of a private home and were shot under the rules of basic, human, self-defense by friends of the homeowners. A group of American Indian Movement (AIM) members - including Leonard Peltier, were present that day to defend the traditional-minded Lakota ‘Sioux’ elder residents, Mr. and Mrs. Jumping Bull. The Jumping Bull’s spoke their ancient Lakota language and practiced their old Lakota way of life, and their lives depended upon the requested, protective presence of AIM and Leonard Peltier.

For years government policy dictated criminalizing anything traditional, such as Lakota customs, religion, language, etc., in order to steal and occupy Lakota land, water, resources, and gold. Traditional people were targets, during the mid-1970’s, by vigilantes of the tribal council of the Pine Ridge Lakota Indian reservation.

The Lakota people are of the northern plains region whose homelands surround the He Sapa or Black Jagged-Rocky-Mountains (often called the "Black Hills") of present day South Dakota, and whose Lakota territories include western South Dakota, eastern and central Wyoming, and northwestern Nebraska.

The Lakota are of the understanding that the original creation of their race brought them forth from within the Sacred Wind Caves of the He Sapa. These are the people of the Indigenous hero, Tasunke Witko ‘Crazy Horse’, the famed Lakota Master Hunter.

Tasunke Witko was assassinated by u.s. government agents in 1877. His forces defeated the greatest u.s. army general in history - Custer and his 7th Cavalry, in the first, last, and only fair fight between the u.s. and Lakota on June 25, 1876 at the Little Big Horn Battle in southern Montana.

Custer was on direct, sure course to becoming the next u.s. president - ahead in polls by a staggering 85% over his challenger, incumbent Grant. This was until, however, Grant quite conveniently ordered the main and largest group of soldiers who were to assist at the Bighorn, to hold back that fateful day - leaving Custer in the unfamiliar, fair battle.

Later after his death (the poor guy), the embarrassing battle would find Custer continually discredited and even demoted by history writers from his reputation of top (Colin Powell-ish) General-Of-The-Day. At the current rate of such writings, Custer may soon be known in the books as a mere private in command of twenty men with rusty pocket knives.

Prior to this battle, the u.s. army habitually attacked peaceful camps of Lakota women and children, brutalizing and murdering thousands. This strategy culminated with a re-established 7th avenging the 1876 Custer defeat on December 29th, 1890, with a massacre of 453 innocent Lakota along Wounded Knee Creek in the heart of what is now called the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Lakota were previously disarmed six miles away the day prior near Porcupine Butte amid media propaganda that the Indians were crazed with a ghost dance cult - lowly government information in attempts to justify the murders.

Tasunke Witko died fighting to protect the sacred Black Hills from illegal gold mining, theft, and occupation by the invading u.s. government in violation of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie. Crazy Horse was a citizen of the Lakota Nation, of the large Nakota Nation of peoples whose citizens include the people with the language dialects of the Nakota, DaNakota, Dakota, and Lakota.

The Nakota Nation is signatory to the 1851 Treaty, and the Lakota refer to it as the Treaty of Long Meadows. The 1851 Treaty is an international agreement between the government of the United States and eight Indigenous Red Indian Nations of the northern plains region of Great Turtle Island (the western hemisphere). These Indigenous homelands include portions of present day Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming.

The necessary female aspect for the authorization of this Treaty was secured through the ancient Oyate Omniciye or Circle Meeting of the Men and Women of the Camp for years prior to the Treaty, as the wise Lakota needed to get something signed on paper in the way of the white man so that the future generations of today could hold the document up for honoring.

The sacred Canunpa (misnomer Peace Pipe) has its origins with the Nakota Nation, with the DaNakota as care-takers of the sacred Red Stone Quarries from where the pipestone is harvested in southwestern Minnesota. The so-called Peace Pipe, famed in movies and known to common, american school kids, was labeled a religion, its ways outlawed by the u.s. government. Use of it by the Lakota went underground as they were forced onto concentration camps called reservations.

The Canunpa was also falsely misunderstood to hold marijuana or other mind altering herbs and is often alleged by the government and media as a vessel for getting ‘high’ - although the sacred usage of the Canunpa is simply to give sober thanks to Grand Mother Earth and Grand Father Sky through the ceremonial smoking of Willow Bark and Tobacco during most special occasion.

The traditional Nakota understand that they are not superior to Animals, Trees, Rocks, and Nature in general, and are thankful for all of Nature and its provisions (the only way to achieve true happiness). They did not harbor ‘beliefs’, nor did they believe in a god, a devil, or other objects of the human imagination. In fact, to take the life of a Tree would require great ceremony and would require the offering of Tobacco and thanksgiving to the root of that tree.

The original White Buffalo Calf Canunpa which maintains the Seven Great Ceremonies of the Nakota was present during the Treaty of Long Meadows signing during September of 1851. At the Treaty gathering, over 50 thousand Indigenous people of the eight Red Nations were in attendance, along with the authorized Treaty representatives of the u.s. government, led by D. D. Mitchell.

The affair was one of the largest gatherings of Indigenous peoples in recent times. The camp was so immense, the thousands of Tipi%u2019s had to be relocated three times during the course of three weeks, with the Treaty finally agreed upon and signed on September 17, 1851, along Horse Creek in what is now western Nebraska.

The 1851 Treaty was the most important and last, final legal Treaty between the u.s. and Nakota Nation. Years later in 1868, however, a unilateral, illegal fake-treaty was concocted by u.s. agents in 1868 utilizing a few paper chiefs in attempts to hide the 1851. But the 1851 Treaty of Long Meadows was forever to be protected from violation through Article VI of the Unites States Constitution, which states, Treaties made with Indian nations shall be the supreme law of the land, with the judges in every state bound thereby.

American Indian tribal councils were set up by an illegal act of congress in 1934 to more or less remove women from the Indigenous governing process and to begin the final step of Indian termination (making Indians into simply poor Americans or minorities, with no land base). The American Indian Movement - of which Leonard Peltier was an active member - prevented termination, which now allows Indians to practice Life Renewal ‘Sweat Lodge’, Sun Dance, and other previously outlawed ceremonies.

In 1975, the harassment of traditionals was a u.s./tribal council puppets attempt to thwart awareness of the quest for resources such as uranium, the main ingredient in nuclear bombs and nuclear radiation waste contamination. Today, we see this same type of resource theft and puppet governing implanting occurring in Iraq, where the labeled savage, uncivilized, bad Iraqis need to be dealt with, while, quite conveniently, the government also secures the oil wells as this Iraqi Problem gets sorted out (which will never happen until the oil is all stolen). Current media/government figures are as of yet unavailable as to how many trillions worth of the Iraqi people’s black gold has been spirited from Iraq oil fields and into the hands of Exxon Mobil and Halliburton since the Bush invasion.

Over nine TRILLION dollars worth of Lakota Black Hills gold currently sits as stolen property in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Should oppressed Sioux Nation peoples be allowed to think freely, via practicing their ancient ways and the subsequent ascertainment of the old Lakota wisdom and common sense understanding, the occupation of their lands and resources would become most evident to them, and

Whereas, this knowledge, therefore, could allow exposure to these unknown, unspoken facts regarding the government’s unknown, unspoken Indian Problem. This exposition might then, at great harm to the u.s. governments hidden genocidal scams, policies, and actions, penetrate into the awareness of the mainstream American people (voters and church-goers). This continued oppression and anti-god behavior against American Indian people may not serve government interests well, and

Whereas, the two FBI agents, 34 years ago, entered the Jumping Bull property in an unmarked vehicle - guns blazing - and were killed by Indigenous patriots protecting their relatives grand children and homes and was purely in self-defense. But a courtroom defense was not even allowed to be claimed by Peltiers attorneys in the racist federal court in North Dakota.

There was self defense deaths that June day but there was only one murder - the death of AIM member Joseph Stuntz. To this day his murder has been uninvestigated and no one has yet to be charged. The only other murder that may occur is if Leonard Peltier is allowed to rot in prison by whoever is president.

Former president Clinton had a perfect opportunity to pardon Peltier, but he decided speaking engagements were more important (the FBI said they would not protect him during his speeches if he freed Leonard Peltier).

Therefore Be It Resolved, that we require the new incoming President Barack Obama immediately offer a Presidential Pardon before June 21, 2009, to Mr. Leonard Peltier so that Leonard may join his children and grandchildren and continue the fight for Indigenous freedom.

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# 156:
8:14 pm PDT, Jul 30, Sue P. Commanda, Canada
PRESIDENT OBAMA: PLEASE FREE LEONARD PELTIER
# 155:
8:43 am PDT, Jul 29, Tammy Schloemer, Canada
I believe the man is innocent, even if he did do it, he has served his time. Let him go, he is not a threat to society. Release Peltier!
# 154:
7:55 pm PDT, Jul 24, Jaimy Norris, Arkansas
# 153:
6:44 pm PDT, Jul 21, Kathleen Hefter, Florida
# 152:
5:51 pm PDT, Jul 20, Erin Maher, Maine
Leonard Peltier has spent the last 30 years wrongly imprisioned in Levonworth Federal Penatenary. I call on President Obama to pardon Leonard Peltier, a political prisoner, locked away because of America's fear of doing the right thing and owning up to injustice.
# 151:
11:40 am PDT, Jul 20, Scott Azure, Montana
Common sense and a brief study of the oppression of our people in the 70's tells us that Leanord has no business being locked up for defending his home land. If that is the case than we should all be sitting with him. Bde Hichiyapo Hau Mitakuye Oyasin
# 150:
8:35 am PDT, Jul 17, Mirjam Spenkelink, Germany
# 149:
7:31 am PDT, Jul 17, Kandi Bowling, Kentucky
Before my mother died, she was a huge supporter of Peltier. She even tried to get Montel Williams involved
# 148:
8:33 pm PDT, Jul 16, Rita Taylor, Kentucky
# 147:
9:36 am PDT, Jul 16, Jacqueline Bennett, Nevada
# 146:
12:55 am PDT, Jul 16, Wayne Watson, United Kingdom
# 145:
10:03 pm PDT, Jul 13, Victor Garrison, New Jersey
President Obama, Mr. Peltier has been wrongfully held. He deserves freedom now. He was imprisoned amid a heightened sense political turmoil, conflicting evidence and forced testimony.
# 144:
12:37 pm PDT, Jul 12, Ramona Hoermann, Germany
Dear Mr. President, I HOPE you listen to the chiefs of the Native Americans....... there has been sooo much injustice and cruelties. I am German and what Hitler did to the Jewish is just as bad as what happened to the Native Americans. First step to ask for forgiveness is to FREE LEONARD PELTIER - a humanitarian man that has accused wrongly of a crime he did NOT commit. Please, listen to the truth! THANK YOU VERY MUCH, Sincerely Ramona Hoermann
# 143:
4:05 am PDT, Jul 12, Derek Johnson, Maryland
I find it interesting that Treaties are the "supreme law of the land" only when the government deems them to be to support their own agenda, and disregarded when they don't. Ask any Lakota, Cherokee, or other Indigenous First Nation that has been oppressed by our Government.Regardless of Mr. Peltier's guilt ( which is in question ) 30 years in a cage is more than enough punishment for his alledged crime. Please Mr. President, pardon Leonard Peltier and end the racist brutalization of this man.
# 142:
7:04 am PDT, Jul 11, Al-fehaid Arthur, France
please mr president obama liberty mr leonart peltier thank you mr president
# 141:
11:36 am PDT, Jul 10, Marcia Tirocke, Maryland
This man has been held unjustly for too long already, please free him.
# 140:
11:28 am PDT, Jul 10, Andrea Kuehn, Ohio
# 139:
6:34 pm PDT, Jul 9, Adrienne Wonhof, Massachusetts
You, Mr. President, can right a wrong that has cost one man his freedom, and and millions of others their hope for change.
# 138:
11:56 am PDT, Jun 23, Harald Im Spring, Germany
Sehr geehrter Herr Präsident, ich schreibe Ihnen in Bezug auf den Fall von Leonard Peltier. Mr. Peltier ist zur Zeit im US-Gefängnis Canaan in Waymart, Pennsylvania wegen des Todes der zwei FBI-Beamten Jack Coler und Ronald Williams inhaftiert, die am 26. Juni 1975 auf der Pine Ridge Indianerreservation in South Dakota starben. Über Mr. Peltiers Fall wurde bereits in zahlreichen Fernseh- und Radiobeiträgen, in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften berichtet. Bis heute dauern die öffentlichen Proteste und die öffentliche Entrüstung an. Unter den Personen, die Mr. Peltier unterstützen, sind Kämpfer für die Menschenrechte wie der ehemalige Präsident von Südafrika, Nelson Mandela, und der Archbishop Desmond Tutu, der ehemalige Präsident der UdSSR, Michail Gorbatschow sowie das Europäische, das Belgische und das Italienische Parlament, um nur einige zu nennen. Mr. Peltier ist überall auf der Welt als hochangesehener Menschenrechtsaktivist anerkannt. Er wurde bereits mit mehreren Menschenrechtspreisen geehrt und wurde fünf Mal für den Friedensnobelpreis nominiert. Bei der Verurteilung von Mr. Peltier im Jahre 1977 übergab die Staatsanwaltschaft den Anwälten von Mr. Peltier 3.500 Seiten an Dokumenten. Erst vor kurzem entdeckten Mr. Peltiers Anwälte, dass das FBI im Besitz von insgesamt 142.579 Seiten an Material zum Fall von Mr. Peltier ist. Der größte Teil dieser Dokumente wurde Mr. Peltier und seinen Anwälten nie zugänglich gemacht. Bis zum heutigen Tage widersetzt sich die Regierung rigoros den Bemühungen zur Freigabe dieser Dokumente unter dem Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Mr. Peltier ist der Meinung, dass eine Freigabe aller dieser FBI-Dokumente ihn entlasten würde. Mr. Peltier hat immer seine Unschuld beteuert. Selbst der Staatsanwalt, der die Gerichtsverhandlung gegen Mr. Peltier führte, hat zugegeben, dass die Regierung nicht weiß, wer die Beamten Coler und Williams erschossen hat oder welche Rolle Mr. Peltier bei diesem Schusswechsel spielte. Im Jahre 2003 hat das 10. Berufungsgericht der Vereinigten Staaten festgestellt, dass "vieles am Verhalten der Regierung bzgl. der Pine Ridge Reservation und bzgl. der Verurteilung von Mr. Peltier zu beanstanden ist. Die Regierung hat Beweise zurückgehalten. Sie hat Zeugen beeinflusst. Dies wird nicht bestritten." s. Peltier v. Booker , 348 F. 3d 888, 896. Mr. Peltier wird am 12. September dieses Jahres 65 Jahre alt. Sein Gesundheitszustand verschlechtert sich, und er hat nunmehr 33 Jahre seines Lebens im Gefängnis verbracht, für ein Verbrechen, das er nicht begangen hat. Ich hoffe inständig, dass Sie Mr. Peltier begnadigen. Der Präsident und nur der Präsident hat die Macht, Begnadigungen auszusprechen. Diese Macht hat die Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten dem Präsidenten übertragen. Sie ist an keinerlei Bedingungen geknüpft. Bei einer Begnadigung geht es nicht um wahr oder falsch. Es geht dabei um Gnade. Herzlichen Dank!
# 137:
8:35 am PDT, Jun 23, Shawna Soney Poterek, Michigan
# 136:
8:54 am PDT, Jun 19, Anita Kerr, North Carolina
# 135:
4:51 pm PDT, Jun 18, Vera Renella, Sweden
DEAR MR PRESIDENT This is something u CAN do insde your world of power. Blessings vera Renella in sweden
# 134:
1:01 pm PDT, Jun 18, Renata Samusiewicz, Poland
# 133:
2:06 pm PDT, Jun 17, Name not displayed, Germany
# 132:
12:51 pm PDT, Jun 17, Gueguen KLer, France
How an innocent man can be stay in prison more than 30 years ? Possible in Usa ! Where are respect of human beeing ,there ?
# 131:
8:27 am PDT, Jun 17, Samuel Hale, Virginia
# 130:
12:50 am PDT, Jun 16, Silke Kuba, Germany
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# 129:
8:28 pm PDT, Jun 15, Leila Norgren, Minnesota
# 128:
7:48 pm PDT, Jun 15, Heather Norgren, Michigan
# 127:
7:45 am PDT, Jun 15, Name not displayed, Germany
Ich bitte um sofortige freilassung
# 126:
7:03 am PDT, Jun 15, Elisabeth Patzwaldt, Germany
# 125:
4:40 am PDT, Jun 15, William Nothing, Canada
# 124:
11:46 am PDT, Jun 14, Christian Rolf, Germany
# 123:
6:02 am PDT, Jun 14, Name not displayed, Germany
Mr. President, please give Freedom to Leonard Peltier... now and not later.
# 122:
3:55 am PDT, Jun 14, Vasconcelos-Valente José, Germany
Dear Mr. President Obama, Please do the right thing and free Leonard Peltier!look into this case and do not be intimidated by the FBI.
# 121:
3:06 am PDT, Jun 14, Danela Charles, Germany
Freedom for Leonard Peltier as soon as possible!
# 120:
2:28 am PDT, Jun 14, Christian Jenni, Germany
# 119:
2:25 am PDT, Jun 14, Marlu Flesch, Germany
# 118:
2:00 am PDT, Jun 14, Andrea Krause, Germany
# 117:
1:37 am PDT, Jun 14, Frieder Manz, Germany
Frieder Manz
# 115:
6:37 pm PDT, Jun 13, Name not displayed, Minnesota
# 116:
6:37 pm PDT, Jun 13, Name not displayed, Minnesota
# 114:
1:01 pm PDT, Jun 13, Tony Nicoletti, Israel
Free Leonard Peltier.
# 113:
12:47 pm PDT, Jun 13, Wolfgang Schaefer, Germany
FREE PELTIER NOW, PLEASE
# 112:
11:00 am PDT, Jun 13, Katherine Moore, South Carolina
I've studied this whole entire movement and action. How can you American's (when I say this I mean prison guards, judges, attorneys, etc) do something so shameless and degrading? As an American citizen I have no faith at all in our law system. To have the proof that he was not the one to shoot that gun and still indite him on homicide choices is unexplainable, unthinkable, and down right unimaginable. I sincerely hope the people responsible for holding Leonard Peltier accountable for these accusations rot in hell.
# 111:
12:37 am PDT, Jun 11, Jason Bosch, Colorado
Please end the travesty that has been the Peltier case and release him.
# 110:
11:37 pm PDT, Jun 10, Emily Van Dyke, Washington
Of course there are many sides to every story, but Leonard Peltier's story (in his own words and those of his trusted lawyers) deserves to be told and re-told and re-told again until he gets the chance at justice that any man who was forced to make choices like these ought to have. In the meantime, could we please not kill him slowly by preventing him from having adequate care for his diabetes?!?
# 109:
6:57 pm PDT, Jun 10, Abigail Peltier, Minnesota
Leonard is my second cousin and I find he needs to be released. I am young but am very pasionate about this issue. He is part of my family and please President Obama set what was wrong right.
# 108:
9:14 am PDT, Jun 10, WINCHINCHALA VON DER VOGELWEIDE, Massachusetts
This petition seems futile. Countless others have been sent, signed by thousands of people around the world. So why send another? Well Mr. President, last year in 2008, you were adopted by Hartford and Mary Black Eagle of the Crow Nation, and named, Awe Kooda Bilaxpak Kuuxshish, “One Who Helps People Throughout the Land.” Right? Therefore, you are the first “Native American” president to receive our petition, not that you would be more partial, just that it is, as most things involving you: Historic. Also, recent events in N. Korea motivate my signing this one; two female American journalist were arrested, detained, tried and sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp. We citizens of the United States know nothing about their activity, their “crime” or the evidence against them. To defend our own, we just blindly raised our arms at the North Koreans’ communist dictator and demand justice and fair treatment, even though they play by different rules. That is what we as Americans do because we believe a person is supposed to have a fair trial, the evidence is supposed to be untainted, the jury unbiased and an innocent woman or man should have “avenues of redress” to defend herself or himself on a charges. We do not feel that Leonard Peltier was given that chance Mr. President. The thousands of us who have signed petitions for the past, almost three decades, are not alone. Many people have him on their minds, though he is out of the mainstream media, no longer newsworthy. If you Google, Leonard Peltier; no less than 460,000 pages come up. There are a half a dozen books and a few films. Amnesty International feels he is a “political prisoner” and “International recognizes that a retrial is no longer a feasible option and believes that Leonard Peltier should be immediately and unconditionally released." Desmond Tutu wrote that “I would hope that the campaign to have him freed will succeed. I certainly support it very passionately .... Because it is a blot on the judicial system of this country that ought to be corrected as quickly as possible." These are intelligent, objective perspectives. Yet the powers that be in the U.S. do not seem to hear. powers that be in the U.S. do nothing. Why? Leonard Peltier has now he has spent 28 years of his life in a federal prison, and is now ill. He may die there without even a real chance. What is it going to take Mr. President for you to have a look at Leonard Peltier? Five other presidents have been petitioned, and they did nothing: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton and George W. Bush. In fact, it was written somewhere that former President Clinton was actually afraid to deal with this case. Afraid? Really? Please say that is not true. We implore you to have this case examined, and if you do, you will see that your next move will be a presidential pardon for Leonard Peltier. Thank you. A'ho http://ipoaa.com/case_of_leonard_peltier_statement_of_fact.htm
# 107:
6:17 am PDT, Jun 10, Angela Castaneda, Massachusetts
# 106:
6:09 am PDT, Jun 10, Katy McDonald, Florida
Release him.
# 105:
12:55 pm PDT, Jun 9, Alan Duryea, South Carolina
# 104:
9:52 am PDT, May 31, Duane King, Iowa
We stole this whole goddam country from the Indians.
# 103:
1:21 am PDT, May 26, KENNETH J. HERMOSILLO, California
Leonard Peltier must be freed! It is time to right the wrong!
# 102:
6:51 pm PDT, May 25, Ben Hughey, Florida
To free Mr. Peltier would be the right thing to do.
# 101:
5:12 am PDT, May 25, Kenneth Andersen, Norway
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