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Thread #143785   Message #3321191
Posted By: GUEST,Bluesman
11-Mar-12 - 04:19 AM
Thread Name: Pete Seeger & Leonard Peltier
Subject: RE: Pete Seeger & Leonard Peltier
I accept your point 999, but the evidence against him convinced a jury, that I accept.

He has become the object of leftist adoration because he is an American Indian activist who was convicted of the execution-style murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams.


Peltier has some dubious supporters, in the form of the black hate-preacher, Jeremiah Wright, who was for many years Obama's spiritual adviser, until the media exposed him as an anti-American hate-merchant.


In 2009, Thomas J. Harrington, FBI Executive Assistant Director in the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, testified in opposition to parole for Peltier, saying, "The intentional and vicious attack by Mr. Peltier was not simply a blatant attack on two FBI special agents; it was an attack on law enforcement as a whole—an attack on the rule of law. The inevitable haziness brought on by the passage of time does not diminish the brutality of the crimes or the lifelong torment to the surviving families. Those surviving families extend beyond the Coler and Williams' to the entire FBI family. Moderation or lenience in terms of Mr. Peltier's sentence can only signal disregard and disrespect to the law enforcement community as a whole, and to the families of Special Agents Coler and Williams."

By the way, is this Lizzie is back ? I thought she left.