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Thread #143120   Message #3302282
Posted By: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish
04-Feb-12 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: Musicians for Leonard Peltier February 4
Subject: RE: Musicians for Leonard Peltier February 4
There is denial inasmuch as America hasn't apologised...and President Obama refers to their history as having had a 'few problems'...

More Indigenous People were killed in the Native American Holocaust than were killed in the Jewish one. Hundreds of millions of children know what happened to the Jews, but few know that Hitler based his concentration camps on the prisoner of war camps where they herded the Native Americans into. Few know of the Boarding Schools, the horrors there..the torture that went on. I was listening to Floyd Red Crow Westerman (now sadly no longer here, save for his words) telling how he, as a child, was forced to kneel on marbles or broom handles for daring to speak his own language..Few know of the relocation, the stealing of their land...

I've got to the stage now, where I feel it's my DUTY to spread the word as much as I can. Hell, I can't change history, none of us can, but there should damn well be a Museum to the Native American Holocaust too, for they have suffered in silence for WAY too long! It's preposterous that this continues to this day, and the genocide does too, just in a more covert way...

On Pine Ridge, the average age is 49 years old. If it were a country it would be the second poorest in the world, after Haiti...

As so many Native Americans say, carry placards stating, freeing Leonard Peltier is the first step in freeing ALL Native Americans..

That's part of why they keep him locked up of course...

And just recently, in the past few days, I've come into contact with Ed Woods, who runs the NoParolePeltier site. He's, allegedly, an ex-FBI agent,and he's dedicated his life it would seem to ensuring Leonard stays in prison forever.

I'd say he runs MANY sites on the internet, all twisting, spinning, lying etc..He's in Facebook too, and it's his pages that the resident anti-Leonard, anti-anyone not of white skin bloke gets his quotes from.

This man is NOT pleasant..Ed, that is.

I've got M Wesley Swearingen's book on order..he being an ex-FBI (legit) agent who wrote a book blowing open the FBI. He says that at least the Gestapo pretended to be nothing other than they were, whereas the FBI pretend to be America's Protectors...(you can read some of his book online at Amazon)

I've recently also found a letter from the FBI, a memo, sent out about Jean Seberg, who they decided to 'neutralize' after she dared to fall for one of the Black Panthers. They made her life hell, and the letter states how they should contact all forms of media to bring her into disrepute etc..Of course, the poor woman ended up committing suicide..

And then, there's COINTELPRO, of course, which Obama has, more or less, signed America up to, all over again..So many of the people those FBI *******'s locked away are STILL in prison to this day, as well as Leonard Peltier..

Found a great interview tonight, with Delaney Bruce, who helps to run the official 'Who is Leonard Peltier' site (google that and you'll find it)..these are the guys from the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, who do a wonderful job, working with Leonard himself, supporting him, keeping his Spirit up, focussed etc...

Delaney Bruce Interview - Starts just after 8 minutes in....


And this is just in, from a few hours ago, the Irish protesting outside the U.S. Embassy in Dublin today, on the International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier, which also marks the 36th YEAR of his imprisonment...tough day for him, which is why everyone is wrapping him up with Love and Hope.........

I hope the musical afternoon went well in Lincoln..and if anyone's out there who has some photos, I'll put them in here later.

Right, I'm away back to the Wall of the White House to kick their arses! :0) xx
IRELAND for LEONARD! :0)