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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watching an MRE documentary. It would honestly work as radicalizing propaganda. The way everything is phrased they might as well call it “troop slop”. They know its all about doing the bare minimum to meet the caloric needs of a forced to fight by poverty less than what they see as a fellow human. disgusting.
I thought MRE were designed to last for a very long time and thats why they are shit
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Well, Ive had MRE though, theyre not that bad compared to the slop i normally eat, infact a lot of the shit inside MREs you can buy at a store anyway. Cheezits, peanuts, tuna, skittles just off the top of my head. Also they used to be way worse, the previous generation with the shitty 2x2 saltine cracker was dog shit
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Well yeah ofc it’s logistics on a massive scale, it’s all numbers not people
Def adds to the dehumanizing total tho