Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier is Up for Parole This Month. Please support his release.

[Peter Lemkin]

Leonard Peltier will die in prison because the war being waged by the United States of America against the tribal peoples of this continent is an ancient, Manichean, pitiless spiritual war.

To release my brother Leonard is to admit to the lie.

The lie upon which this abomination has been erected.

Until we confront this reality, all the parole hearings from here to eternity will not free his body.

His great soul, however, soars as an eagle soars.

Hoka Hey!

Hoka Hey! There are SO MANY injustices in the USA and in her prison gulags, but this is one of the most agregious. I'm afraid Charles is correct - they intend to offer this innocent man NO justice - just as they offered none to all the Native Americans; broke every treaty; killed them and moved them from rich lands to barren defacto concentration camps - even used biological warfare on them. It was the first War [unjust offensive and Genocidal one!] on the land now called the USA, and to admit it is to question the legitimacy of the 'country' and all that has followed. It personally pains me greatly this innocent and wonderful man and writer/thinker is behind bars when the real criminals live in luxury on the backs of most of their fellow citizens and the World. I used to have on my car in the USA a bumper-sticker that said, "If you're not a Native American, you are an illegal alien" Surprisingly, given all the other strongly worded peace and justice stickers on my car, that one generated the most anger and even damage to my car. I think Hitler once cited the Native American Genocide as a model for his Jewish one.
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Encountering the American Holocaust - Ward Churchill
In the Nazi holocaust approximately 15 million Jews were killed; around 67 percent of their population. In 1892 the U.S. Census Bureau concluded that there were less than a quarter-million Native Americans in the country. At one point it was estimated that there were as many as 125 million Native Americans; which means their population was reduced by over 90 percent! And I thought Hitler was bad…

“The people had died in their millions of being hacked apart with axes and swords, burned alive and trampled under horses, hunted as game and fed to dogs, shot, beaten, stabbed, scalped for bounty, hanged on meathooks and thrown over the sides of ships at sea, worked to death as slave labors, intentionally starved and frozen to death during a multitude of forced marches and interments, and, in an unknown number of instances, deliberately infected with epidemic diseases”.

The American remains unmatched by any other genocide in history. It was by far the worst “both in terms of its magnitude and the degree to which its goals were met, and in terms of the extent to which its ferocity was sustained over time by not one but several participating groups.” The denial of this tragedy is uncanny. How can something this immense go on and not get more notice? It is “manifested in more-or-less equal parts at all points on the ideological compass of the dominant society.”
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Read Ward Churchill's book Native American Holocaust