Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.
After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
As detailed by “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse”, Peltier’s trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.
On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier’s application for clemency.
“You must understand…I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn’t modesty. This is fact. Maybe you’re ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary.”
- Leonard Peltier
An Interview with Leonard Peltier
Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”
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God I feel awful. I can’t even explain what I’m feeling. It’s not pain, it’s not sadness. It’s just… too much something. Idk what to call it it’s so weir.d
Ennui?
That’s fuckin sick
ok i pull up
Howdy
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I will delete my account around this week. While I had the best time on here with this account so far, I am beginning to feel the serotonin kick turn into addiction. I also don’t wanna become a famous poster, for a host of reasons. I will return eventually, but it’s best to end this run and say goodbye for now.
From poster to post-er. See ya space cowperson
I loved u bye vomit sounds
That offer for me tracking down textbooks is still open and will remain so indefinitely. Not to stoke the internet addiction or anything but if you ever want me to go digging for a textbook, just create a burner account and send me a DM anytime.
Farewell!
Leonard Peltier did nothing wrong (he was framed and the FBI was caught fabricating evidence several times). But even if he had killed FBI agents, that would have only made him cooler.
Found some quotes from Jeremiah Wright in 2008 when he came under fire for his God Damn America sermon:
“They are unfair accusations taken from sound bites and that which is looped over and over on certain channels,” Wright said. “I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?”
“[Barack] had to distance himself because he’s a politician,” he said. “He said I didn’t offer any words of hope. How would he know? He never heard the rest of the sermon.”
The sermon was actually sick, from what I remember.
It was incredible. He spoke pretty extensively about how Americans have coopted the message of the Bible and claimed to speak on God’s behalf, all while enslaving and murdering people and stoking global war.
it fucking rocks and every american christian should be forced to watch it every day until they repent from their worship of mammon
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c/indigenous is at 300 subs
One of my friends is starting to talk like a redditor IRL
When they talk about movies do they say stuff like “You have made an error in watching the movie only once. Upon the fifth viewing…”
tips fedora
The narwhal bacons at midnight!
what did they say?
“absolute specimen” among other things
Me laughing at this vs remembering I’d probably be saying “yoooo poggers dude” on the regular if I had any IRL friends
Im with my family because my grandma died and I just feel entirely alone on this planet. My dads a racist trump guy slob. My sister is highly neurotic, has zero self control and is always trying to pick fights and be ms know it all. My mom has mental issues and is way overmedicated. I cant find love here, i want to just abandon it all. I hate that I went to college and I saw how weird and fucked up my family is.
I feel like my escape (music) is not really a escape but just a reminder that I am an idiot, born to idiots and my position in life is to be white trash. I still want to keep going though, I just wish there were more people supporting me. My partner is the only good figure in my life and that scares me.
Families are pretty dumb.
:,)
If I had a partner, I’d just forget my horrible family even exists.
But I don’t think I can ever get one, despite being a regular straight cis person
I think if i didnt go to school i wouldnt be as lucky as i am in that department. It definitely is a challenge
Not even halfway through Blowback and I’m more convinced than ever that “America bad” is more valid that most ideologies
Using mid to compliment women because the average woman is beautiful.
wombat wasn’t kidding, it IS september 12. wtf
I like upvoting the comments that people deleted to make them think it was seen by others, hoping that it was something they were embarrassed by
fuck landlords
fuck carsit is september 12 and stalin saved the world from fascism