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Thread #140816   Message #3270179
Posted By: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish
07-Dec-11 - 08:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Petition to Free Leonard Peltier
Subject: RE: BS: Petition to Free Leonard Peltier
And just so's you know, it is my opinion there is inherent racism in the FBI. The wrongful imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, who'd they'd been after for some time anyway, him being a leader of the AIM, isn't just about him. It's about the continuing racism that is out there every day against America's Indigenous People.

By keeping Leonard locked up they are keeping their message out there loud and clear, the message which keeps so many American Indians down, depressed and despondant....

If you want me to talk about The American Holocaust, which far outweighs that of the Jewish People in numbers, just ask..If you want me to tell you about the continuing Genocide that is being carried out against them, albeit far more covertly these days, just ask....or better still, find out about it yourselves, for that at least would show you care just a fraction....

America is a country that kills its' prisoners sometimes, even when the evidence is shaky..even when MILLIONS of people shout out to try to stop this from happening, as in the recent case of Troy Davies...It's Justice System is fooked up badly, rotten from the inside out, in many cases...where again, racism reigns..

They took the sacred mountains of the Sioux and carved faces into them of 3 men who had given the orders to have so many Indians killed...Roosevelt just happened to be the President the desigener of Mount Rushmore wanted to impress at the time, but that man was in the KKK....and to this day, that eyesore stands as a National Monument when in reality it is the loudest message ever to the American Indians that their land, their lives are no longer their own...

It's sick..and Mount Rushmore should be stripped of its name and have those faces blasted off, and be given back to the Sioux, along with recognition of all that has happened, plus a National Apology from President Obama to be aired on every radio station, every TV programme, in every school and every shop and office in the Land. Then, FINALLY the American Indians may dare to let themselves believe that true remorse is finding it's way out to them at long last....

That Apology starts with Freeing Leonard Peltier...and until Obama dares to do it, ANYTHING he says will not really come from his heart..