Justice Is Blind...Injustice Not!

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"We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty."
Leonard Peltier , Prison Writings

You know we have a million stories to tell
I'm just one of a million or more stories that could be told

Sacrifice your freedom
Sacrifice your prayer
Take away your language
Cut off all your hair
Sacrifice the loved ones
Who always stood by me
Stranded in the wasteland
Set my spirit free

My name is Leonard Peltier
I am a Lakota and Anishnabe
And I am living in the United States penitentiary
Which is the swiftest growing
Indian reservations in the country

I have been in prison since 1976
For an incident that took place on the Oglala-Lakota Nation
There was a shoot-out between members of the American Indian Movement
And The FBI and the local Sheriffs State Troopers
Two agents were killed and one Indian was murdered

Three of us were charged with the deaths of the FBI agents
My co-defendants were found not-guilty by reasons of self-defense
My case was separated and I was found guilty before a jury of non-Indian people
The prosecutor stated that they did not know who killed their agents
Nor did he know what participation Leonard Peltier may have played in it
But someone has to pay for the crime

There's a lot of nights that I lay in my cell
And I can't understand why this hell this hell and this terror
That I have been going through for twenty-one years hasn't ended

Sacrifice your freedom
Sacrifice your prayer
Take away your language
Cut off all your hair
Sacrifice the loved ones
Who always stood by me
Stranded in the wasteland
Set my spirit free

But yet I know in my heart that someone has to pay sacrifice
To make things better for our people
The sacrifice I have made when I really sit down to think about it
Is nothing compared to what our people a couple hundred years ago
Or fifty years ago or twenty-five years ago have made
Some gave their lives
Some had to stand there and watch their children die in their arms
So the sacrifice I have made is nothing compared to those

I've gone too far now to start backing down
I don't give up
Not 'til my people are free will I give up
And if I have to sacrifice some more
Then I sacrifice some more

listen > Sacrifice by Robbie Robertson

Leonard Peltier is an imprisoned Native American considered by Amnesty International,
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Congress of American Indians,
the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
and Rev. Jesse Jackson, among many others, to be a political prisoner who should be
immediately released.
Learn more about > Leonard Peltier's case  and > Free Leonard Peltier 2009

Incident at Oglala is a 1992 documentary by Michael Apted, narrated by Robert Redford.
The film documents the murder of two FBI agents, Coler and Williams, on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation in 1975, and the legal case surrounding the subsequent trials of
Robert Robideau, Darrell Butler, and Leonard Peltier.
Watch it >  Incident at Oglala

Read about > Chronology of Oppression At Pine Ridge Reservation 1973 - 1976   


Written statement submitted by the International Indian Treaty Council,
a non-governmental organizations in special consultative status
A document from United Nations Archive dated 24 January 2002
read > CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS,INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS OF:
TORTURE AND DETENTION; RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE


Free Peltier by sh4vo    Free Leonard Peltier by AriannaSage     Leonard Peltier by ericambros
PrisonSilence can be a gun.
Silence makes up these four walls.
Silence is my only friend, yeah,
And he's my only weapon.
I'll use to my advantage.
A whisper speaks louder than a scream.
Slowly dying inbetween these passages,
What is the difference between life
When you've no dream?
Freedom is not in the blue skies,
Nor the darkness of space.
It's in your own mind.
They can break you down all they want,
But they can never take what's inside.
I pass the time,
Oh, I pass it just fine.
With just my thoughts and my pen
To keep me company sometimes.
One day you will see.
See what injustice can be.
One day you will see.
See what it's like living lonely.
Silence can be a gun.
Blow a hole right through the sun.
Silence makes up my prison,
These bars don't hold nothin'.
Silence is my only friend, yeah,
My only friend in here.
So I'll make him my weapon
Maybe then you'll hear...
   My Life is My Sun Dance by colt51    A Letter From Leonard PeltierGreetings my friends and relatives,
I want to start off this statement or speech or whatever you want to call it by saying again as I’ve said before thank you thank you  thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting me and for standing up for right wherever you are.  I can’t express to you in words how extremely grateful I am not just to the people of America but to the people all over the world who have supported the cause of Indian people and myself.
I know a lot of you have given up a lot to help so many in my predicament.  Daily I am made aware of political prisoners around the world.  Many who have been killed or tortured or who knows what for trying to right the wrongs in their area, country or nation.   I have been asked to make statements in support of other movement people around the world from time to time, South America, Europe and other places.  People who love freedom, people who love the ear
   
Leonard Peltier by reddartfrog   :thumb42590054:     Free Peltier by 13VAK    
Leonard P - Framed by alfredartbyME    leonard peltier by AtreyuDean     Leonard Peltier
Prisoner of a bygone war
Injustice in a system of corruption
A symbol of a defeated people
We hear the cry for change
Yet this man remains behind bars
No evidence,a private Guantonamo
Parole,seemingly unlikely
When will our people truely be free
Throw us away to die
Kill us with poverty
Pretend that we do not exist
Your churches say suffer the little children
You cry out for the worlds injustice
Look inwards,look at your own heart
See the history that you wrote
Set Leonard Peltier free!


"Innocence is the weakest defense.
Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it."
Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies."
Leonard Peltier , Prison Writings

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Thanks for spreading the word.