I wasn't expecting the hatred that's been shown on here by some folks. It's quite upset me to be honest, although the far more positive views have helped to balance it out.

This man has served over 36 years. THIRTY SIX YEARS. And they are still treating him so inhumanely.

As eanjay states above, there have been *many* miscarriages of justice over time. I think though that his is the very worst I've ever come to know about.

I would say it's filled with racism and hatred against the AIM and against all American Indians, who, for so very long have been treated like shite in their own country.

Were this happening in another land...as it now is in Brazil, to a lesser extent though, then many Americans would be up in arms about it.   

Sadly, it seems they refuse to see their own Indigenous People in the same light. They refuse to stand up, as a country, and admit that what has happened to the American Indians has been beyond belief, beyond comprehension...and it is STILL going on today.

Obama is making some headway, but nowhere near fast enough and that in itself is insulting.

America, in my opnion, will never be a civlised nation until it has an American Indian President, with American Indians serving in high numbers within Government.

To this day, so many of them live in squalor on reservations, forgotten, shoved into the wilderness....derided, verbally abused..grossly high unemployment, horrendouly high suicide rate etc...

Leonard Peltier, in my opinion, is purely the most major victim of racism against his People...and that bastards who've done this to him will get their comeuppence, either in this life, or the next.

I think the American Justice System is archaic and appalling. The American People should be out on the streets about it, because it is filled with racist bastards who have been given a freehand to behave however they want, twisting and spinning to their own ends, whilst feeding their fat white faces with the enjoyment of seeing yet another 'black' or 'indian' go down....

I do not understand....

It would not happen in my country because over here we at least have the guts to say "Yes, we were wrong" and deal with each case appropriately...but over in the USA this doesn't seem to happen.

It is barbaric.

And they dare to highlight the treatment of people in the Middle East, when in their own country they lock people up for near on 40 years, treat them appallingly throughout that time, or murder innocent black men, despite the world standing up and saying "NO!!!!!"

The American Justice System is rotten to the core...absolutely rotten...